Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-22
CITY GLOBUL ES.


two days out of the week.
The committee on legislation of the council
will meet at O'Clock this afternoon.
Employees of the American Union Telegraph
company were engaged yesterday in putting up
their wires.
Psychologically speaking, as George Francis
Train is in the habit of saying, the grand
jury will make its quietus to-day.
A decision was rendered by Judge Simons
yesterday, overriding taxation of costs in the
case of H. F. Blodgett vs.. s. Sibbinson and
Others.
A noisy individual, brim full of the roseate,
was arrested by Special Officer Patrick Glib
bons, last night, on the levee, and landed in
the tower.
Mr.. Michael Cummins desires it stated that,
contrary to report, he was not around on
Thursday in quest of warrant for Mr. Dono-
van, or any other man.
4 12-year-old lad named Joseph Gutman,
while skating on Goodrich street day before
yesterday, fell and broke his right arm. The
injury is only temporary
Should the day be reasonably pleasant a
goodly number of Minneapolis trotters will be
on the ice track this afternoon to try conclu.
sions with our home stock.
The gentlemen invited to a private confer
ence at H s. Fairchild's Office should remem-
Der that this is the evening. The meeting is
to be held at his new office in Davidson block,
corner of Fourth and jackson.
Matilda Fletcher will lecture at the Opera
house tomorrow evening on the subject of
''Faith, or Woman's Answer to Mans
Questions" The lecture is intended as
reply to Ingersoll and will attract q large
audience.
A meeting of the property owners of the
Fourth ward was to have been held at the en-
CINE house last night to consider proposed
improvements, but owing to the stormy
weather action was postponed until Tuesday
next at $50 o'clock.
Yesterday Judge Brill appointed Messrs. c.
D. Kerr, J. D. O'Brien, and c. j. Thompson,
as examining committee for the ensuing year,
TO examine applicants for admission to the
bar. Applicants for admission will be exam
med on the oath proXimO.
About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
fence in front of dwelling on Franklin street
near the House of Good Shepherd, was dis
covered to be on fire, having caught from live
Goals in an ash barrel, Chief Strong CHANGED
TO be driving that way and squelched the blaze.
A wayfarer and stranger, named John Bell,
was at the police court yesterday, charged
with tackling nore of the old stuff than his
limited capacity could carry. He acknowl-
edged the corn, was fined S. and paid the coin
like gentleman from the blue grass region,
by blank, sir.
Prof E. s. Morse, late professor of zoology
in the imperial university at Toxic, Japan,
will lecture this evening at Unity church on
the manners and Customs of the Japanese"
These lectures have attracted unusual interest
wherever delivered and are commended as both
entertaining and instructive.
a young stalwart named William J. Ander-
son, was up yesterday, charged with disorder
ly conduct, which consisted in discharging
firearms in the street Night before last he
got Ion toot, and while going the rounds he
amused himself by shooting at dogs. He
was yanked to the cooler by Officer DeCorsey,
and the advertisement cost him $40.
The jury in the cases of Henrietta and Louis
II. Haas, in which suit was brought against
the city for damages of s., 900, for injuries al
legged to have been caused by falling into an
excavation on Fifth street, retired yesterday
forenoon. They returned in a short time with
al NtIulCG III dcotoslDg IlC udluuStS
of Henrietta Haas at $500 and the damages of
Louis II. Haas at $S42.50
An action was begun in the district court
yesterday, by Lucien Warner against NJ. B.
Farrell, to enforce payment of an order for
1882. 1t is alleged that plaintiff received an
order on Comptroller Roache for the money,
10 be deducted from amounts due or coming
due defendant on work done under contract,
for the city. That Mr.. Roache has refused
to honor the'o order. Hence the suit.
hleck Harrington is young man whose
thirst for knowledge sometimes gets consid-
erably the best of his Judgment. Yesterday
morning he was detected by Mrs Mcfarland
in the act of cabbaging her brother-in-law's
morning paper When brought before the
court the gentle youth with adhesive fingers
was asked why he did it. He replied that it
was only Pioneer Press; this settled it. The
giddy youth was at once discharged.
A wife-beater named Michael Hoban was
before Judge Brill yesterday charged with
abusing his much better half ana making life
torment to his entire family. Last Thursday
he was engaged in moving stove, when one
of the legs fell out, which so enraged him
that he vented his spleen by whipping his
wife. He was put under $500 bonds to keep
the peace and not being able to furnish secur-
ity he was sent to Jail not to exceed sixty days.
II was a sad story of liver-colored woe and
blighted affection. The defendant was Luke
Worries, gemmen of repute who lavished the
treasures of his heart on damsel named Ma.
tilda Adams, all because she was sweet on him.
Time, which tests all things, provsd that she
wasn't so sweet on him as for fellow named
Washington Green, and when Worries heard
that she had gone back on him for a vulgar
moke, he raised fuss. His former sweet
heart had him arrested and yesterday he was
before the court for threatening to spill blood.
He said he was only fooling and was dis
charged during good behavior.
letter was received yesterday by promi-
nent St. Paul gentleman from Fort Brown,
Texas, bearing date January 10, in which the
writer speaks Of the ravages of small pox, at
present SO fearfully prevalent in that State
The writer states that Fort Brown still re-
mains under strict quarantine and that the
plague is on the increase. The authorities of
Brownsville are slow in taking measures to
avert the contagion. A large percentage of
the population are Mexicans, who are preju-
diced against vaccination, and the office hold
ing incumbents are afraid to enforce sanitary
measures for fear of losing the Mexican vote
at the next election. The weather is the cold
est experienced for years.
An interesting suit in the district oonrt Gonna