Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-02
CITY GLOBULEs.
The city treasurer disbursed 81 500 yesterday
in payment of January salaries.

| CITY GLOBULES.
The city treasurer disbursed 81, 500 yesterday
in payment of January salaries.
Next Tuesday the prisoners convicted at the
term of the district court will be sentenced.
The city employees received their monthly sti
ponds yesterday, and each individual yisage
was wreathed in smiles.
The German society will give their first mas.
querade ball of the present season at the
! 1t 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. II, 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.
regular meeting of the council committee
! on claims 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. man of mauy
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 overlooked lands, selected as inuring to
Minnesota, under act of Congress-, in the dis
trlct ST1hiact tn sale at
| 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, a motion for 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
they are maintained Simply as a health pro-
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 30. 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..
| ksvanagh, commission auctioneer, got through
| his labcrs on the Chambers stock last evening.
The honse 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 i,
! Mr.. kavanagh sold in one end of the store and
his salesman, MIR. 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 ct least CSC
| persons present.
The coroner's inquiry into the death OF
Patrick Larkin, a 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 voune
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.
''sheeny George who was indicted by the
late grand jury. was heard of yesterday,
Sheriff King received a letter from M. E. Dick.
son, the Cook county sherif's clerk, saying
that George Freeman, alias ''Sheeny George,
was good for term of twenty years there
Then Mr.. Dickson. who formerly showed a
iaclle Faber on the Tribune gets in his work by
| facet1ously remarking that at the expiration of
that twenty years Sheriff King will have retired
to the shades of private life !; revered grand.
pa, and wouldn't, if he could, make any troubI
about sheeny George.
| William Smith is 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 errinp
| William, and Judge Flint will settle the case
| 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 .he val idity OF
the patent on the American midlings purifier.
a machine about the proper ownership Of which
! there has been a number of extensive and
complicated lawsuits. The decisions will be
exceedingly important, inasmuch as they will
4 affect the use of the patent in half the States
/ OF the Union. The cases are sec for hearing on
| the 10th inst, and will be heard in 6anc by
Judges Treat, Dillon and Nelson, the decisions
being individually rendered for their respective
| districts.
I An important ruling was made by Judge
Nelson of the United States circuit court yes
i terday, which has direct bearing as to the
validity of lien on all real property through
1 out the State in which Judgment has been
i docketed in the United States circuit court.
l The question at issue was, as to the necessity
!, OF filing q transcript of 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-
/ deciding in effect that the Judgment docketed
| in the United States circuit court constituted a
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 Oh ronicle several serious and two fatal
Academia caused by runaway teams. Inquiry
| into the origin of the accident attributes each
one to the carelessness 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
Tor moment. How utterly this is dis
regarded can be seen in numerous instances
4 every day our streets Wagons are driven
l the sidewalk