Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-15
CITY GLoBULEs.

Only seventeen prisoners are confined in the
county Jail.
The trial of Oliver Peltier charged with
burglary, was postponed yesterday until the
18th inst.
The X. N. packet Red Wing left for st. Louis
at IL NJ. yesterday, loaded down with freight
and 9 iumber of passengers.
Those desiring to purchase a neat home
should attend Kavanagh's auction sale at II
o'clock to-day. See advertisements.
villain, or a man with viilainous name,
was fined Sc. 60 yesterday for brandishing
bowie knife in the vicinity of the German
church.
A decision was rendered by Judge Wilkin
yesterday, denying new trial in the case of
Henrietta Somerville vs. John Donaldson and
James w. Somerville.
The flood in the river has commenced sub
siding, the mark last evening showing ten
feet, decline of two inches the previous
twenty-four hours.
William Dabble, gaudy youth from Min
neapolis, was fined IS yesterday for dabbling
too freely with the beer kegs in front of
Third street temple dedicated to Gambrinus.
Louis Evans, the Owatonna postoffice thief,
was arraigned before United States Commits
sioner Cardozo yesterday. He waived exami-
nation. Bail was fixed at $500, but in default
Evans was committed to Jail.
MIR. Mill Kiefer parted with his leather while
returning home on Saturday evening. 1t con-
tanned about $5 and pass to Duluth, and the
Under will confer favor by returning the
latter to the district clerks office.
To date there is due the city $500 for uncan-
ce!ed licenses on billiard tables and such mis-
cellaneous affairs. Patience has ceased to be a
virtue, and the chief of police will collect the
amount this week or prosecute all delinquents.
The following is the finding of decision
rendered by Judge Wilkin yesterday, in the
case of Gay & Byrne VS.. N. J. Francis De-
PENDANT to appear before referee on the 18th
d OF July for further examination in sup
Elementary proceedings.
Governor Pillsbury, Attorney General Will
son, and Clerk of the Court Nichols, left last
evening for Crookston and Glyndon, where
they will spend the week hearing evidence re-
latlng to settlement u ION railroad lands. Last
week, at Sank Centre and Alexandria, testi-
mony was taken IN sixty-eight cases.
Sheriff King received 200 delinquent tax
lists on the assessments for 1878, for collection
yesterday accompanied by an order to show
cause why the taxes should not be at once
collectedr The law provides that anything
ay be seized to sstisfy judgment and those
owing back taxes will avoid trouble by an i'm
mediate settlement.
Officer Mcmahon did the good angel business
last night by rescuing an abused family from
the irate and drunken head Of the family
Much against Simon Cunningham's protesta-
Tow, Lor L -
street to the lookup There Cunningham was
given night of rest, and his family were
treated to the same at home.
To-day at 1870 o'clock Mr.. W. D. Rogers
will lead Mrs. Tarbox to the altar The cere-
in Christ church, Ep iscopal, the Rev. Mr..
Ten Brock officiating, and be witnessed only
by few intimate friends of the high CONTRACT
ing parties. May the ringing Of the wedding
bells be ever music to the twain.
Mrs. Prudhomme, residing out on Missis-
sippi street. reported at police headquarters,
yesterday, that her little girl had been badly
bitten by vicious dog. Officer Gibbons was
commissioned to do the DANTE business, went
out and slew the dog, belonging to Caspar
Schodt, groceryman, at the corner of Missis.
sippi and Glencoe streets.
The committee on schools OF the board of
education met last night to pass upon the
teachers to be employed in the public schools,
next year. The teachers at present employed
are numerously applicants for retention, and
as their ability has been tried, they will be
mostly retained. The recommendations of the
com mittee will be submitted to the board
within tn, week for final action.
The latest reports from the suburbs, out on
Summit avenue, last evening, were in effect
that the mosquitoes had taken possession and
were as thick as grasshoppers in this country
two years go. THE woods are full of them"
They maue more noise than the same number
of bees swarming, driving people from their
out door cool retreats to the inside under shell
ter and behind bars-musquito bars-to pro-
tect themselves from the varmints.
decision was rendered by Judge Brill yes
terday ordering judgment for 81, 1886. "a, with
interest, in favor of the plaintiff in the case of
The Farmers q Mechanics Bank vs.. The State
Agricultural Association. The decision is the
result of suit to recover the above sum loaned
the association on promissory notes in Decem-
Der, 1875, and the finding alludes to the fact
that the association had no right to borrow
money without the Endorsement of two-thirds
of It's members.
The man who remarked sit is hot'' was very
numerous yesterday. In fact it was one of the
warmest days experienced in st. Paul for years,
the thermometer marking from 81 to 50 de-
grees in the shade, according to locality and
situation of the instrument. While no case of
sunstroke has been brought to our attention,
quite number of workmen on excavations
and other heavy work thought it the part of wis
dom to knock off work for several hours during
the middle of the day. The fall of rain about
midnight was followed by cool winds from the
northwest, much to the relief of suffering hu-
manity.
The City or the Contractor.
meeting of tho council committee on