Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-28

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The expenses of the board of directors of the
aims house and hospital for the month of Feb
ruary amounted to l,4lS.
The gross earnings of the Northern Pacific
railroad for the year 1879 are reported to the
| railroad commissioner at $1.3Sl,93 upon
which the tax paid the State is 1927, 9Sl.
Mr.. ]. B. Rice, assistant superintendent of
the st. Paul & Manitoba railroad arrived home
yesterday from Kalamazoo. Mich, from at
tendance upon the funeral of his brother.
Nicholas Klinger was before Judge Flint on
yesterday, charged with the larceny of hide
from store on Eagle street. The testimony
was conclusive, and the defendant was COM
mitted to the cooler for sixty days.
Articles of Incorporation of the 'MinneapO-
lis Evening Journal Company" were filed in
the Secretary of States Office yesterday. The
incorporators are Charles H. Stevens Frank
E. Curtiss and ClarenceA A. French.
A man named John Rivers arrived from Bis
marck yesterday morning in pitiable condi-
ton, his right foot being badly frozen. He sat
around the police station all the afternoon, and
will probably be sent to the city hospital.
The examination of Patrick Egan and Mich
ael Daily, to have been resumed in the munich
pal court Yesterday morning, was postponed
until next Friday, owing to the illness OF the
defendant, Egan. who injured himself by fall
ling from building.
A horse attached to a wood wagon owned by
West & Co. got on the rampage yesterday fore
noon and started to run down Third street.
The flying rig reached the neighborhood of
hIr1 md laHo frno yphn y yUac
by Bailiff Mullins. No damage was reported.
The concerts given at Pfeifer's hall Sunday
afternoon by the Great Union band are attrac-
tive features of the day. The music is excel
lent and best citizens of the city throng the
hall. 1t is an admirable entertainment, and
the more it is known the greater the popular
favor.
Frank Memo, a cook at tho Nicollet house,
Minneapolis, was lodged in the county Jail,
last night. charged with bastardy, the COM
plant having been preferred by Anna Patter-
son, formerly employed at the Merchants
hotel. The case will come before Judge Flint
this morning.
Suit was commenced in the district court on
yesterday by Mary G. Allis against E. x. Wane
and James 81. Davidson to recover an insur-
| ance policy valued at $4,000 which plaintiff
claims was taken from her in September, 1878,
since when it is alleged to have been fraudu-
lently retained.
Mr.Adna Anderson has been appointed to the
position of chief engineer of the Northern
Pacific railroad made vacant by the resignation
OF Gen. Rosser Mr.. Anderson was formerly
Connected with the Toledo, Wabash 4 Western
aud Erie railroads, where he won an enviable
reputation engineer. He is expected in
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sume his new position.
An ex-waiter of Magees restaurant named
George Webb was arraigned at the police court
yesterday morning charged with stealing a
quantity of clothing from fellow emplove
named Emil Constance. The theft took place
on yesterday evening when Webb cabbaged an
overcoat and suit of clothes from Constance's
room on Third street. The articles were valued
at $50, and Webb was held to the grand jury
aud con- mitted in default of bail.
Gen. Terry's visit to Washington is made
under orders from the war department. He is
one of board of officers to take into consid-
Grafton the matter of contracts for military
supplies. The other two members of the board
are Gen. NJ. G. Meigs, quartermaster general
United States army, and Gen. Robert Macfeely
commissary general of subsistence, United
States army. The board will be in session for
three weeks or more.
Yesterday United States Commissioner Car
dozo finished hearing testimony in the claim
case of the Northern Pacific Railroad company
against the United States. The claim is for
$3S. QUO ON contracts for the transportation of
government supplies, the governments refusal
to pay being based on the law referring to land
grant railroads. On the evidence the case
| will be taken before the United States court of
claims at Washington.
letter received by Adiutant General Van
Cleve Yesterday informed him that the first
regiment of National Guards of Kansas are ar
| ranging a grand reunion of the National
| Guards of the country the coming summer at
| the Garden of the Gods" Colorado Springs,
at the foot of Pixies Peak fifty miles south of
Denver, on the Denver & Rio Grande narrow
gauge railroad, at which the Kansas people and
| the National Guard of Minnesota will be rep
| resented.
| When Judge Flint ambled into the bench
yesterday morning he was confronted by a
young man named Charles Wright, charged
with ransacking the apartment of A. II. Scott,
| boarder at Gross hotel on Fort street. The
| room was entered by young Scott after the
manner of a thief in the night, and he succeed
ed in getting away with a coat and pair of
| pants. The articles were not valuable enough to
constitute state oHense, ana the prisoner Was
committed for thirty days.
| They toll not. neither do they spin, yet
verify the lilies of the field are not arrayed
| like unto one of these. So even has mankind
fallen in these degenerated days that the
| beautiful scriptural smile ia made applicable
to a life of Incidence and vagrancy. OF this
| genus is James Callahan, who was before his
honor on yesterday charged with having no
visible means of support. He was Indifferent
about work, and declared the seditious senti-
| ment that toll was made for serfs. In view of
this he was sent to the cooler for thirty days.
Mr.. BazilsW. Armstrong secretary and bust
ness manager af the Cleveland Plaindealer, and
a son of Hon. Albert Armstrong, of this city,
was married at Minneapolis on Wednesday
evening to Miss Maude Murphy daughter of Mrs.
Edward Murphy, of No. II Grove Place. The
| ceremony was performed by the Rev. DIR.
| Knickerbacker and at it's close reception was
| held at which the bride and groom received the
congratulations of their many friends. The
| presents were numerous and costly, and testi-
| fed the esteem in which the young people are
| held.
| The funeral of the late Charles F. Schroeder
occurred from his late residence, 1876 Fort street,
Yesterday afternoon. The services were under
the management of Concordia Lodge No. 5, of
which the deceased was a member. The re-
mains were followed to the grave by the mem.