Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-23
CITY GLoBULEs.


mon council will meet at 2 o'clock this after
noon.
The bankrupt stock of Henry Haas was sold
by Sheriff King yesterday to Leopold Bros,
of Chicago, for $3.50.
The charming Christmas story, "Widow
MelvilIe's Boarding House, by Dillon O'Brien,
Esq, is having large and rapid sale.
The cornice for the splendid block of Lin
deke Bros, Warner & Co., corner of Fourth
and Sibley streets, was being placed in position
yesterday.
Collector Bekell received S72 yesterday as
an internal revenue tax on matches imported
by A. G. Haugan from Norway. The luci-
fers were taxed at the rate of one cent per box.
The alarm of fire from box No. 12 at 4:35
o'clock yesterday afternoon was occasioned
by chimney fire at Armstrong; building,
No. 66 West Third street. No material dam.
age was done.
Two young fellows named Green and Brady
indulged in knock down on Third street last
midnight, and while the affair was picnic
more than anything else, they were both put
under arrest
The Minnesota educational association will
meet in the hall of representatives, at the
capitol, ON Tuesday, the 2sth inst, instead of
in the High school assembly room as hereto
fore announced.
Officer Waterhouse was suspended yesterday,
on the charge of inattention to the orders of
superior officers, and neglect of duty by visit
ing saloons while on his beat. The charges
will be Investigated to-day.
young sneak thief visited Smiths tropical
fruit stand on East Third street shortly before
10 o'clock last night and cabbaged frncy min
ature ship and cradle He was detected in the
act and handed over to Officers Newall and
DeCorsey, who brought the thief and booty to
the station
A stranger. named James Jelly complained
to Officer Rouleau yesterday that his room
had been entered at the Warren house during
Tuesday night and the sum of $50 taken from
his trousers pockets. Two men are suspected
of having committed the robbery, but they
have not yet been captured.
Robert J. Diamond, former proprietor of the
noted Half Way house, sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary from the 24th of February
last, for keeping house of prostitution, whose
sentence, less his good time, would have ex-
pired month hence, has been pardoned by the
governor, thus restoring him to citizenship.
A tough looking customer named William
Jackson was up yesterday charged with the
larceny of a pair of pants from Third street
clothing house, and an undershirt from in
front of q clothing house on Jackson street.
He was arrested by Officers DeCorsey and
Hanft, and, on being searched it was found
that he wore seven or eight undershirts. He
didn't have much to say for himself, and got
fifteen days in the bastile.
Quinn was before Judge McGrorty yesterday
charged with assaulting young man named
Thomas Bernhard The latter testified that he
had been employed by defendants mother to
do teaming, and that when defendant came
home night before last he invited him to set
tie, and gave him two minutes to leave the
house. Not leaving with the required alacrity
he attacked and beat him. Quinn was sent up
for fifteen days
Another abortive attempt at a snow storm
was made yesterday. In the early morning,
the fiat, broad tleecy flakes commenced falling,
with favorable climatic accompaniment-the
direction of the wind and atmospheric condi-
ton were both right-but as the day advanced
the temperature lifted, the snow flakes began
to grow small and smaller, until at nightfall
the splendid morning promise of big snow
fall, and veritication of Prof. Tice's prophecy
of the biggest snow storm of several seasons,
had entirely disappeared. Tice ought to re-
move to st. Paul and make it the base of his
observations.
Owners of rOadsterS are commencing to eX-
ercise their nags of afternoons on the ice in
front of the city, from Sibley street up to the
bridge. Owing to the light fall of snow and
the even freezing of the surface of the "Father
of Waters" no scraping or surfacing work
has been required, the whole river surface af-
fOrding an even, elastic and every way favor
able drive. A straight away drive of three
quarters of mile has already been marked
out, affording, SO the horsemen say, one of the
finest ice tracks ever made by jack Frost, aided
by human wisdom, and it is probable the next
three weeks will witness some exciting and
satisfying speed tests between the roadsters of
the city.
Old settlers of ST. Paul and vicinity will be
panied to hear of the sudden illness of Mr.
Ans. Northrop, a veteran of the veterans of
the old times of Minnesota. Mr.. NorthrOp on
Monday, with his son, went to Cottage Grove,
Washington county, to buy potatoes for the
boarding house they have at Fort Smelling. At
the time Mr.. Northrop was suffering from
rheumatism, and the exposure incident to the
trip aggravated the disease, so that Monday
night he suffered excruciating pains. Tuesday
morning finding him no better, he was brought
into the city and located in apartments at the
Merchants, where, attended by DR.. Murphy as
his physician, and the watchful care of his
wife, who was summoned from Fort Smelling,
he is slowly, but the doctor says surely, recov-
ering.
Nor Boarders for saltwater.