Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-01

than that, subscribers should report at the
GLOBE office. We have reason to believe that
there has been systematic purloiuing of the
GLOBE from subscribers, and ii failures to re-
ceive it are reported it will enable us to detect
and punish the guilty parties.
CITY GLoBULEs.
sThe Offices in the custom house will not be
| open to callers to-day.
The postofIice will be closed from 9 A. ". to 6
p. NJ. to-day New Year's).
literary and secret society at Carleton Col
lege, Northfeld, has filed articles of incorpora-
ton with the secretary of State.
The United States circuit court adjourned
yesterday until tomorrow at 10 o'clock NJ.
The federal authorities wish to observe the
day.
The value of animated mule flesh was shown
by the sale yesterday at Hankey's stock yards
of seven span from st. Louis the whole lot
going to Glyndon purchaser at $3.50 per span.
Last night while Stees Bros wagon vas
standing at the side door of their furniture
store, on Minnesota street, some thief nipped
wolf robe out of the wagon. No clue to the
property or depredator has been discovered.
Officer Cook saw stranger yesterday near
Reaney's warehouse conducting himself in a
frantic manner. On approaching him the Off
Ger found he was in crazy spasm. He sue
ceeded in pacifying the demented creature and
took him to the station for safe keeping. The
man had almost stripped himself.
Sheriff Johnson, of Saltwater, passed
through the city yesterday with the three
Langdon burglars. They were examined be-
fore Squire Scofield, OF Newport, and held to
answer before the grand jury. 1t turns out
that Patterson, st. Clair and Cunningham are
| professionals.
| W. T. Jordan, an employe on the st. Paul &,
Pacific railroad, in attempting to couple, cars at
the shops Monday evening, had his collar bone
broken, and hand and arm badly bruised by
| being caught between the cars and tank. DR..
| Murphy set the bones and dressed the wounds,
and Mr.. Jordan will be out again in four or
| five weeks.
party by the name of Mckinley was admit
ted to the hospital yesterday. He wore his arm
in sling, and it was weighty with load of
buck-shot. He was engaged at wood chopping
| near Duluth, when some amateur sportsman
took him Tor deer, and discharged the con-
tents of breech-loader shotgun into his right
arm. His mi uries are not dangerous.
State Auditor Whitcomb is having his re-
\ fSAe ~SA"ySA ny SAO OS1iAHuCuClcS VI COUNTY
auditors in making their returns. Though q
large number were tardy until within day or
two all have now been heard from except LIE
Sueur and Murray. Perhaps those counties
Will come IN during the winter, and enable
the auditor to issue his report in the spring.
Messrs. May and Hill, of the Merchants ho-
tel, entertained their friends last evening in q
handsome and substantial manner at their
rooms, l2S Robert street. The elegant apart
ments were tastily decorated with evergreens,
and the carpets covered with canvas for dane
ing. The festivities closed with wine supper,
which embraced every vintage known in the
| market.
An aged mother was at police headquarters
yesterday in search of her boy. She lives in
Minneapolis, and gave her name as Mrs. Gun
dron. She reports that her boy, James, aged
~, left his home Tuesday night without cause.
| she IS tearTnliy anxious to recover her blue
eyed son, and asks that all good people look
around for o blue-eyed youngster, big for his
seventeen years.
| Chief Weber received a letter yesterday from
James Monroe, Clarksburg, West Virginia, max
ing inquiries of one Charles NJ. Runyan. Run
| yam left Springfield, ILL.,, last August for this
city or Minneapolis; since that time nothing
has been heard Of him. Any information re-
| gardlng his whereabouts will be gratefully re-
ceived, and may be communicated as above or
| at police headquarters St. Paul.
Last evening there was one of those quiet
presentations which are especially ENJOYABLE
because they are an expression of regard which
| Is genuine and heartfelt. The occasion was
presentation by the proprietors and employers
OF the lV,nde,ea' of handsome book case to
Mr.. 3. Fassbind the editor of the paper. Hon.
u. II. MILLER made the presentation in few
! appropriate remarks. and Mr.. Fassbind re-
turned his most sincere thanks for the sub
stantlal compliment.
grand possum supper will be given to-
night at the African Methodist Episcopal
church. II anyone knows how to give such a
supper it is the colored brother. He serves it
up with all the accompaniments; toothsome
| corn-bread lots Of s'sop,'' and the greatest
arlaaat of jollity and great outbursts of good.
natured laughter. The supper is given for the
benefit of the church, and will also result in q,
renewal of the grand old times Of them agon-
l3ing slavery days. when occasionally such
jolly gatherings were allowed and hugely en-
joyed.
The GLOBE rejoices with the owners of fast
horses in the city, that sufficient public interest
has been shown to lay out splendid trottipg
course on the river. The track was completed
yesterday and will be dedicated by trotting
matinee this afternoon, which will undoubtedly
he largely attended by the horsemen of the
of mile in length, and has a top dressing Of
about an inch and a half of snow. The track
is reached from the foot of Sibley street, where
bridge of easy grade has been stretched from
the bank to the shore.
Yesterday Olef Roos case came up in the
municipal court. As the time has been so
often postponed, perhaps the public doesn't
know who Olef Roos is. He was CHARGED with
knocking l. RAINING down a flight or stairs
and breaking him up generally at Mrs. Peter
son den, on the corner Of Fourth and Rosabel
streets, about six weeks ago. Raining, yester-
day, swore to having had four ribs broken, and
That Roos tried to drag him into cellar to rob
him. Then Roos said it wasn't SO, etc. w. W.
Erwin did little talking to the jury for Roos.
The jury went ont, and came back with YER
dict of acquittal.
Since the 9th of December elevator has
token in from the cars, run through the cleaner,
anc shipped out 100000 bushels of wheat for
one Of our buyers, besides handling large
amount OF wheat and other coarse grain for
other buyers, SO that there is in store to-day in
the elevator about 100000 bushels. It is sig
nlhc7nt fact that some of our BUYERS are now
purchasing freely along the line of the st. Paul
q Pacific and that farmers and merchants
along that road are storing in elevator rather
than sell to millers or buyers at present prices
Buyers and producers along the Northern
Pacific are also applicants for elevator room
AND shipments from that section to ST. Paul
Will commence as soon as Superintendent Tim
norman can give them room. And yet but a
few years ago those parties in St. Paul who
advocated that it only needed elevators to
make wheat market here were ridiculed as
lunatics.
Internal Revenue Collection,
The collector ri intor11a1 royanr,o W.