Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-18
CITY sLoBurEs.


VI. Higgins has commenced suit against
q. g. Dale to collect slsS on promissory notes.
The sdjutant general yesterday received no.
tice of the restoration Of an invalid pensioner
to the rolls, with q back allowance of $207.SS.
The Liederkranz singing society have arran-
esd for private picnic to be given tomorrow
st White Bear lake. A huge time is sntioi-
gated.
The fine of Edward Wright. who was COM
mitted last Monday in default of $50 for as
ssnlting Ike Evans, was paid yesterday and
the prisoner released from the county jail.
giddy youth named Michael Kuhn was be-
fore hizzoner yesterday charged with taokling
too much of the festive bug juice. he con-
iessed 70 haSing been budged and paid three
coins for the bender.
Chief Weber, who is attending the Druid
convention in New York, has been elected
grand srch of the grand grove of the United
States o. A. o. D., that being next to the
highest Office in the order.
William johnson. the gem'men deck hand
who was sent mp for twenty-five days on the
charge of holding up passenger, was released
Yesterday Tor exemplary DSndFiOIs nnNiuk sois
Cd twenty days of the sentence.
While at play on Rosabel street yesterday
morning, lad named Charles Lapp fell into
an excavation and sustained painful wound
On the left leg, caused by fragment of broken
aless. The wound is not considered serious.
The city council undertook to hold its regu-
la, semimonthly meeting yesterday afternoon,
but only six aldermen answered to their names.
No quorum being present, the council adj
jurned until Tuesday, the Gath inst, at P. N.
The absence of over one hundred and fifty of
the leading business men of st. Paul, who are
At Chicago attending the grand conclave of the
Knights Templar, leaves quite void in BUSH
ness circles, but business goes on just the
same
Prairie chickens are becoming quite plenty
IN the market. Our st. Paul sports men are
having excellent luck-so they say. The
GLOBE reports the latter item on hearsay and
, does not wish to be held responsible for its
truth.
granger from Iowa, named Adolph Knauft,
was picked up on Minnesota street by Officer
crKeefe last night helplessly drunk. He was
surrounded by several supioious looking char
scters and would have been "held mp by
morning.
Last night Constable John Linstead en-
deavored to eject female tenant who occupies
part of his house on Seventh street. He used
considerable force to get her out and she COM
, plsined to Officer Mcmahon, who put Linstead
under arrest.
Major A. B. Brackett, deputy United States
a prisoner named Trifty Abare, of Brainerd,
tn
: Abare will have hearing before Commissioner
Cardozo to-day.
Yankee Sullivan came to the front at the
police court yesterday on charge of drunken
ness. He was yanked from the slums and pre-
scented a very delipidated appearance. When
brought before the court he was Just as plaus-
ible in his promises to reform as ever, but he
was given fifteen days in the dry dock to soak
the whisky out of him.
An interesting decision was rendered in the
municipal court yesterday by special Judge Nc
Groty. The decision was that where the amount
defendant was entitled under the statute to at
teaat six days notice and that in order to give
snch notice both the day of service and the re-
turn day must be excluded in the compensa-
ton.
; James Kennedy WAS at the police tribunal
Yesterday, charged with obstructing the side
walk. James is the proprietor of fed, white
and blue barber pole, upon the apex of which
10 q lamp intended to indicate the spot where
the hirsute customer may be accommodated
with scrape. The police got their eye on
the sign and he was given till to-day to yank
10 down.
a domestic named Josephine Franks called
ST the police court yesterday and swore out a
warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Hatfield, resid-
ing on Minnesota street. Complainant states
that she was in the employ of the latter and
that q dispute occurred yesterday, during which
she was attacked by Mrs. Hatfield. who gave
her the grand bounce. The hearing will take
raecs to-day.
An express driver named Frank Kenney was
at the police court yesterday charged with
eending to grass another expressman named
Henry Goodson. The knock down took place
on the levee last Monday and arose from dis
pute as to their relative efficiency ii manipu-
listing trunks. Hard names passed between
face to settle a fancied insult. The defendant
was fined $10 and costs for taking the law into
his own hands.
A smooth tongued tramp, named Thomas
Fitzgerald, was up yesterday, charged with the
tdfVcuJ VI o OOuv 1LOA CnMOlL UICWCIJs LII
stated that in passing the brewery yesterday
be picked up the coat, under the Impression
that it had been left, and he advanced the
theory that discarded property belonged to
anyone that had q mind to gobble it. The
owner stated that he had worn the coat two
years. and that it originally cost four dollars.
The evidence was shaky and the defendant
was discharged.
There passed through this city, yesterday, a
notorious burglar, highwayman and thief
named J. Pierce, in the custody of Sheriff A.
O, Breckenridge, well known official of
southwestern Ohio. Pierce is wanted for num-
esous depredations committed in that section
Of the State, but wanted particularly for an ex.
tensfve burglary, committed few months
fince at Norway, Ohio, about fifty miles east of
Dayton. He was arrested about ten days ago,
ut Jordan in this State, by the sheriff of Scott
county, and has been confined in the Shakopee
jail. fBherif Breckenridge and his prisoner
who is heavily chained. left on the noon train
yesterday for the east.