Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-25
CITY GLOBULEs.

CITY GLOBULES.
The United States circuit court has ad-
journed until Tuesday morning.
Inspector of Steamboats, Gen. Flower has
gone to Bismarck, on business connected with
his Office.
Judge Brill rendered a decision yesterday
overruling the demurrer to the complaint, in
case of A. s. Holcomb against John Green.
Over $50 head of cattle were received at the
northwestern stock yards in the last seven
days and the sales of the week were about 325
head.
The firm of Corliss, Chapman & Drake has
commenced the erection of a sash and blind
factory on Eagle street. They will also erect
ten tenement houses for their hands.
Yesterday morning Judge Nelson denied the
motion of c. D. O'Brien to discharge Arnold
Bertram, the ex-postmaster arrested for NAL
feasance. The bail was fixed at $500.
package containing pair of kid gloves,
hose and so forth, was found on Third street
Yesterday by a lad named Willie Mcdonald.
They may be Identified at the city hall,
Eliza Born is welded to man, or apology
of the same, whose brutal pastime consists in
beating her. He will be up Monday and
may have reason to wish he had never been
born.
George Gauhier became boozed Friday even
ing and made himself disliked by smashing
the windows of saloon at Seven Corners.
Yesterday morning he accepted ten days
sentence for raising the racket.
If the party who borrowed copy of Ten
nyson's poems from the GLOBE editorial
rooms will return the same he will render a
great favor, as the book is priced for personal
reasons far beyond Its intrinsic value.
A burly boy, with shock of extraordinary
red hair, named John Mcdonald, was before
the court yesterday for abusing his STEP
mother and carrying off household goods.
He was tried and committed to the reform
school.
Fl. D. Dean, the street car driver who swore
at his cranky steeds and was yanked in for
being obstreperous, was discharged yesterday
on the grounds that the offense charged, dis
orderly conduct, did not come under the stat
ute. He will be brought up on the charge of
profane language.
During the storm Friday evening, lightning
struck small one-story house ON Iglehart
street, occupied by James Cooking and wife,
stunning the old couple badly. They We're
knocked down but sustained no other injury.
The roof of the house was badly torn from
the chimney down both sides.
Poverty stricken and bowed with age,
Thomas Mcdonald should have found better
use for his change than blowing it in for bad
old booze. He was before Judge McGrorty
yesterday, charged with drunkenness. Mr..
Murray said that if there ever was occasion
for man to get drunk, it was such day as
Friday. He promised to leave town, and was
allowed to 60.
The new hose carriage intended for the build
ing in course of direction on st. Anthony hill
was received from Chicago last evening. It
was manufactured by E. B. Preston, anu in all
respects is the most handsome and substantial
hose cart in the city. Its carrying capacity is
1000 feet of hose, the ordinary cart only car
rying 600 feet. The new cart has but one de-
ficiency, that is its being far too heavy for one
horse to draw, and as the order was for shafts,
no pole came. 1t cost $500.
Not possessing the instincts of a sc ntleman
when sober, the true and repulsive character OF
John Morgan gains the ascendency when its
possessor is fired with whisky. Friday night
he drank liquid fire until his head reeled, when
he proceeded to insult ladies on Seventh street.
Selling one lady serious consequences might
have resulted had not Officer Bresseau collared
the wretch and yanked him to the cooler.
Yesterday he went up for thirty days.
Among the prisoners at the police court
yesterday was German named Otto He'll,
charged with threatening the life of one John
Dietz, and the man was fined SO, and in de-
fault of payment he was sentenced to ten days
in the county Jail. He refused to bulge an
inch and it was observed by his mild actions,
that the wretch was out Of his head. It re-
quired the combined muscle of bailiffs Dow
Ian and Clouse to take him to Jail.
The Rev. j. s. Akers delivers his celebrated
scenic lecture on the ruins, mysteries and
wonders of the East, at the First Methodist
church of this city, on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday evenings of next week. They
consist of magnificent scene paintings, dis
played by the dazzling splendors of the Drum
mond lights. He displays the wonders of
Egypt and 1.-THE Nile valley from Philae to
Cairo land through Mount Sinai and the ruins
of Moab and the Holy Land. The entertain
ment is said to be very fine.
The examination of Litta Boals and her son
Stephen, and Eldrich Woodbridge, the chicken
thieves, an account of whose depredations ap-
peared in yesterdays issue of the GLOBE, was
resumed before Justice Hoyt, in Rose town
ship, yesterday forenoon. Litta Boals and the
two Woodbridges, father and son, were found
guilty and sentenced to ninety days in the
county jail. Young Boals was sent to the
reform school. The above is only one of
number of cases to be entered against them.
The case of R. o. Strong VS.. James Burns
commonly known as the rooster case, was
called for hearing in the police court yester-
day morning. All the parties were in court,
as was the bird-his oostership-looking as
though he would not moult feather for all
the fuss in the world. After the prosecution
had stated their case, the lawyer for defendant
moved to dismiss on the grounds that defend
ant had taken the bird from compliments
yard in full view of several witnesses
under the impression that it was his own
property The motion was granted and
Burns carried the rooster off in triumph.
It is positively asserted that Mrs. Langtry
will appear on the American stage during the
present season, and will be under the manage
ment of either Brooks & Dickson or Henry E.