Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-08
CITY GLoBULEs.

The city treasurer disbursed 81 900 yesterday,
payment to contractors for work done.
Bricklaying has been commenced upon the
Schultz block, corner of Wacouta and Fourth
streets.
The new street car stables corner of Fourth
and St. Peter streets, are rapidly approaching
completion.
The city treasurer paid off the street force
yesterday, for, May. The lower district re-
ceived sS7S.9O and the upper district force
$77S.86.
The Putnam Clifford combination go from
St. Paul to Duluth, leaving this morning at
o'clock by special train, on the St. Paul d
Duluth road.
Alderman Grace has the foundation Tor the
new Davidson block, jackson and Sixth streets,
nearly completed. He is making a handsome
and substantial piece of stone work.
There are $50 dogs entitled to a legal exist
ence in this city, according to the license rec
ord. And the number entitled to summary
extinction under the law can't be reckoned.
contract has been made between Owen Sui
Ivan and Joe Rittmaster for walking match
at Red Cap Park, on Saturday, June 14th, at 8
o'clock P. NJ, for $50 side. Distance Is miles,
go as you please.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road had
an extra train on with Manitoba emigrants
yesterday afternoon. The party went forward
to their destination over the st, Paul, Mime
apolis & Manitoba road in the evening.
The directors of the Southern Minnesota
extension railroad company have filed with the
secretary of state their acceptance of the pro-
visions of the act # the legislature OF 1879,
granting to the company certain lands In aid
of the construction of the line of road OF said
company.
The amount of young blood being imported
into the Northwestern country this season, as
compared to the heads of families, is something
wonderful to contemplate. A day or two since
an emigrant party of rs adults passed through
this CITY, in which there were AZ children un-
der years of age. .45.F.. y
Gen. J. W..Bshop, general manager of the
St. Paul & Sioux City railroad, who returned
from the front yesterday, reports work on all
| the three branches of the road-The Wlnnebago
City, Luverne and Heron Lake-progressing
vigorously and satisfactorily. He also says
crops were never looking better.
The annual convention of the Catholic Tenn
perance societies meet in Minneapolis on the
| 18th inst The Rosemount. Temperance
| society, as also the Father Matthew Temperance
society of this city and the Knights of ST.. Paul.
have beeu invited to attend, have accepted and
will be present in body in uniform.
Messrs. Butler and Hyndman, banner SOULS
men of the Minnesota Boat Club, will partici-
pate in the amateur national regetta to take
| place at Saratoga on the eight and ninth OF
next month. Both gentlemen are in good
| trim, and their ell-knrwn ability oarsmen
make the club hopeful of carrying off the first
prize.
He might have been Prussian, an Italian
or Pole, but when committed for three days,
| for being drunk, yesterday, John Nichols dis
closed his identity by muttering something
about the way Justice dispensed in the
blawsted Northwest compared with the
! article as given in her majesty's parliamentary
court.
| Lewis Demo, lad of Is or 10, was detected
in Warmers aution store, yesterday, by one the
clerks, in the act of stealing jack-knlfe.
Domo was detained until officer Bahe could be
called in, when he was taken to the station.
The young man claims to come from Ogdens-
burg, and has been doing work in this city
''off and on" for a month.
Peter Kelly, of Rush City, charged with
selling whisky to the Lac Court Oreilles
Indians of Wisconsin, examined before
q. 8. Commissioner Cardozo, yesterday, and or
default of 5000 bail was committed to jail
The business isn't new to Kelly, he having
been arraigned and find $3.50 for a similar
offense about three years ago.
Tho ancient Order Of United Worknaen, is
the title of monthly publication just issued
by John J. Lemon, St. Paul. 1t is devoted to
the interests of the order whose name it bears
and will be found of great interest to members
of the organization. 1t contains eight pages, il
beautifully printed and literally crammed with
Ancient Order information and literature.
The telephone. at police headquarters was
agitated at IL o'clock last night by message
from Kingsbury & Draper's store to the effect
that Mr.. Kingsbury had been inadvertentl,
locked in the store at the closing hour las
evening, and requesting that policeman b
sent to No. 40 Exchange street for the key t.
the store. Officer Lowell was summoned, blu
before the key had peen procured Mr.. Drape
appeared and released imprisoned partner
The matter of the appointment of thre
commissioners to condemn land for depot
and traffic grounds for the Northern Pacif
railroad company, came before Judge Simon
| yesterday, who appointed Mr.. r. w. Smith
John Steele and M. J. O'Connor, to oficiate a
, such commission. The land to be condemned
lies in the vicinity of the lower part of Fourth
Prince and Brook street, and is part of Kilt
sons and Brunson's addition to- St. Paul.
The demoralizing, even disastrous effects O
cutting down the wages Of the fire depart
ment, has thus early received a most startling
r exposition in the birth to one of the marrie
g men Of the force IF child weighing but thre
: pounds. The child, though small, is full o
1 vitality, but the loss of weight shown, if con
tinued, must in time operate to the seriou
detriment OF the department. The counci
should consider this question of salaries in tn
!, new light furnished by this three pound Incl
u dent. t&s .t
/. Messrs. Sargent & Sullivan, of Concord, n
H., have just placed upon the lot of Major W
4 j. Cullen, in Oakland cemetery, family mon
t ument which will be one Ct the most consp
nous in that city Of the dead. 1t is compose
/. of Concord granite, twenty four feet high az
:, weighing sixteen tons, and will mark the rest
: ing place of the deceased members of tn
: much honored family whose name it is designe
!, to perpetuate. 1t is hoped by every one tina
Il it's scroll will not be recruited by new name
for many years to come.
. Last Thursday, John La Fonde, Of Bel
Prairie, met with painful accident. which hs
:, deprived him of the use of one of his eyes
He was hammering piece of steel when
particle few off and found a Judgment in h
eye. Severe pain and aggravated inhamm,
ton set in, and no relief could be given hin
, He came to this city yesterday to consult D1
= Atwood. An examination showed that
!. Fonde would have to lose his eye, and yeste
- day DR.. Atwood performed the delicate ope
u alton of removing the entire eye. 81
). Elice Paulsen fled complaint in the distri,
II court, yesterday, asking for divorce fro,
Hans Paulsen, which is model and indulg,
u in none of the usual self laudatlons of bein
/ q superlative good woman, wife, etc. She col
cisely states That she has been resident .
Is Minnesota for four years. that she's fort,
| hat on,
u 9th day of September, 1867, they were marie
)L in Chicago: that ON the LAT daY of Santan h.a