Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-02
CITY GLOBULES,

CITY GLOBULES.
! The city treasurer disbursed 81, 800 yesterday
in payment of January salaries.
Next Tuesday the prisoners convicted at the
te, m of the district court will be sentenced.
| The city employees received their monthly sti-
| ponds yesterday, and each individual visage
was wreathed in smiles.
The German society will give their first mas
J querade ball of the present season at the
Athen@um on Monday evening, the 10th inst.
It cost 81, 400 to clothe, feed and keep warm
the poor of st. Paul for the month of January,
against $4,000 for the corresponding period
last year.
The second annual ball under the auspices Of
Lincoln Grove No. IL, Ancient Order of Druids,
will be given at Armory hall on the evening of
the 2lst inst
The board of directors of the aims house and
| hospital held their usual monthly meeting yes
terday afternoon, audited the customary num-
Der of small bills and adjourned.
A regular meeting of the council committee
on claims was held yesterday afternoon, at
| which the usual number of bills were acted
upon, following which the meeting adjourned
John Woodward, who died yesterday from
the injury received the day before, was gal
liant soldier in the Mexican war and again in
| the war of the rebellion. A man of many
manly qualities that drew to him warm friends.
Commissioner Williamson, of the United
States land department, has certified to Gov
| Pillsbury approved list Nc. 10 of swamp
and overhowed lands, selected as inuring to
Minnesota, under act of Congress-, in the dis
| trlct subject to sale, at st. Cloud, amounting
to IA, 7O2.08 acres.
The case of George Lautenschlager, who is
serving a life sentence for the murder of Mrs.
Lick, was to have come up yesterday in the
| district court, on motion for a new trial.
| For some reason the matter has been continued
! for two weeks, when a date will be set for
hearing the motion before the full bench.
The death is announced of Mr. John Wood
| ward, the victim of the unfortunate Third
! street runaway, chronicled in yesterdays issue
of the GLOBE. Mr.. Woodward expired at 8:45
o'clock yesterday morning instead of on Friday
evening, reported in yesterdays issue Of an
| alleged newspaper concern on Third street.
The new bowling alley, Opera House block,
is meeting with the success it deserves, being
! crowded nightly. The alleys are confessedly as
| near perfection as human skill can make and
Lu0J dIC WduGdlucu SIIuply DIS q health
| noting recreation, no liquors, cigars, cards or
| other money making devices being allowed on
| the premises.
! The tonsorial parlors of NJ. Leininger, No. rs
! Robert street, are gaining daily in popularity,
| and deservedly so. Neatness and artistic skill
| in serving customers combine to bring back
any one once touched with the keen razor and
manipulated by the artists he employs Be-
+! sides these accommodations, baths are fur
nished in all the requirements of cleanliness
and luxury. Go see for yourself.
| Closing scenes at the Chambers SALE P. T..
| Kavanagh, commission auctioneer got through
his labors on the Chambers stock last evening.
The house was well filled every day and every
night during the week, and goods were handed
out mighty lively. so much so that on Saturday
! it required double force to handle the crowd
| MIR. Kavanagh sold in one end of the store and
! his salesman, Mr.. Doherty, in the other with
| two sets of book-keepers waiting upon them
| The bidding was spirited and the sales were
numerous. There must have been at least 25i
! persons present.
The coroners inquiry into the death oil
Patrick Larkin, q complete account of which
appeared in Fridays GLOBE. was concluded
| yesterday afternoon at Mr.. Timme's store
corner OF Tenth and St. Peter streets. Several
witnesses of the accident were examined
among whom was Oliver Wilzbocher, the youne
man in charge of the team which caused the
/ accident. The testimony all went to prove
| that the accident was one which human fore
sight could not prevent or anticipate. The
| jury returned a verdict of accidental death, ex.
| oneratlng the young man from all blame.
s:Sheeny George" who was indicted BY the
late grand jury. was heard of yesterday.
Sheriff King received a letter from NJ. E.. Dick
son, the Cook county sherif's clerk, saying
that George freeman, alias ''Sheeny George, y
was good for a term of twenty wears there
Then Mr.. Dickson, who formerly showed a
facile Faber on the Tribune, gets in his work by
| facetiously remarking that at the expiration Of
that twenty years Sheriff King will have retired
to the shades of private life s s revered grand.
pa, and wouldn't, if he could, make any trou BILE
about Sheeny George.
| William Smith is a meek-faced lad with de-
| PRAYED instinct for other peoples property.
Observing repeater lying around loose yester-
day morning, he was seized with the burning
desire to become its possessor. He accordingly
pre-empted the watch, but colored namesake
| called Wesley Smith felt grieved at the scurvy
| manner in which he had been treated by the
sinful member of the illustrious patronymic.
and eased his ache by unloading his burden at
| the station. Officer Hanft arrested the erring
William, and Judge Flint will settle the case
I tomorrow.
Judge Nelson, of the United States supreme
court leaves for st. Louis the latter part of the
ensuing week for the purpose of hearing the
arguments on the question Of uhe val idity of
! the patent on the American midlings purifier,
a machine about the proper ownership of which
+ there has been number of expensive and
! complicated lawsuits. The decisions will be
exceedingly important, inasmuch as they will
affect the use of the patent in half the States
of the Union. The cases are set for hearing on
the 10Th inst, and will be heard in 5onc by
! Judges Treat, Dillon and Nelson, the decisions
being Individually rendered for their respective
] districts.
An important ruling was made by Judge
! Nelson of the United States circuit court yes
| terday, which has direct bearing as to the
validity of lien on all real property through
out the State in which judgment has been
| docketed in the United States circuit court,
| The question at issue was. to the necessity
of filing transcript of a judgment recovered
| in the United States circuit court, in the dis
| trict court in the county where the defendant
has real property, in order to constitute the
judgment valid as a lien. In giving his decis-
| ion the court held that it was not necessary,
deciding in effect that the judgment docketed
| In the United States circuit court constituted q
lien on all real property, judgment debtor,
within the State of Minnesota.
An Ounce of Prevention.
The GLOBE has had occasion within the past
week to CT ronicle several serious and two fatal
| accidents caused by runaway teams. INQUIRY
| into the origin of the accident attributes each
one to the careiessness and culpable neglect.
either in hitching or not hitching the horses.
| There's city ordinance requiring all teams to
be hitched by the driver when left even
| for q moment. How utterly this 10 die