Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-16
CITY GLOBULEs.

from G.. Willius to Geo. Benz, conveying lot2,
block 81, Rice s. Irvine addition, for $4,000.
Mr.. W. W. Erwin, counsel in the Willet
murder case, returned yesterday from Still
water, the trial having been continued to
July 18TH,
The case of the city against Louis Lagree,
charged with cabbaging box of beer, was
tried yesterday afternoon by jury. They ac-
quilted him.
Three suits were commenced in the district
court yesterday against Thomas Knudson, of
Hennepin county, by Holl & Paar, for 1888,
Leopold Bros & Co. for 1854, and G. Gotzian
for $144.
A heavy blast adjoining the court house on
Fifth street where new gas pipe has been laid,
yesterday afternoon, shattered the glass in the
windows back of the register OF deeds office,
This funny business should be stopped.
A chronic vag named McDermott was SEN
fenced to fine of $50 or ninety days yesterday,
with the opportunity to leave town instanter.
Not having the ducats and bearing no friend
ship for the quay, he got right out OF town.
Tuesday night the undertaking establish
ment of Leigh g. Co., on West Third street,
was flooded with water, caused by the over
flowing of a hydrant on the floor above.
Several caskets were moistened before their
time.
Two plats were filed the register of deeds
Office yesterday, one of Grace's addition to st.
Paul, being forty three lots north of st. Mary's
academy, and the other of Grace's sub-divi.
sion of block No. Q, being sixteen lots near
the Bohemian church on Fort street.
Carl Lilger, charged with the larceny of $50
each from two Swedes, named A. P. Nelson
and Osterberg, was arraigned at the police
court yesterday afternoon. He was first tried
on the charge of Nelson, and no case was
made out. The other case will come up to-day.
A despicable wretch named Henry Meyer,
was arraigned in the police court yesterday
morning, charged with beating his wife and
children. He pleaded guilty to the base
charge, and as a slight penalty for the ofense,
he will languish in the bastile for thirty days.
A sly knave named Hughes tried to play the
innocent dodge on hizzoner yesterday, but the
game would not work. He was up for va
grancy and had been there before. The court
said he would have to send him over and he
accepted a thirty days sentence without
smile.
About noon yesterday, farmer named Jerry
Sweeney, sold quantity of butter at the Met
as he supposed, in his vest pocket. Proceed
ing few blocks he missed his pocket book.
The finder will be rewarded by leaving it at
city hail.
A farmer named John Learsen, residing
about four miles from st. Paul, drove up to
city hall last night with sick man named
Andrew Sternberg, who was picked up on the
roadside almost dead. The man IS very sick
and is said to have lain on the roadside since
Tuesday. He was sent to the hospital.
John Nierke and Andrew Salvinsh had
both been lugged in on the drunk cart. The
former was found asleep on the custom house
steps and Salvinski was arrested on Seventh
street by Officer Palmer. It took four able
bodied meu to yank him to the cooler. They
went to the roost for five days each.
After vainly endeavoring to find some one
to adopt the child deserted by Edward Gal
agher and his alleged wife, Mrs. Lye, the
nurse, called upon Bishop ireland, and he
promptly arranged for securing it home,
and Yesterday the Sisters took the waif in
charge. The laws need amending to punish
such desertion.
The sweet bells rang merrily last night in
honor of the marriage of Mr.. VIM. B. Dix, OF
the land office of the st. Paul & Sioux City
Railroad Company, and Miss Susan B. Rich
mond, beautiful and accomplished belle OF
New Jersey. The ceremony was performed in
the presence of few friends at the residence
of the BRIDES cousin on Dayton Bluff. A
pleasant reception followed, and the happy
couple were tine recipients of many golden
wishes.
Two patrons of the sign of the one quart
near the Eagle street brewery, named Tom Hill
and Madden, were up yesterday charged with
being chronic drunkards. They have the
appearance of men who did not remember
what it was to draw sober breath. Having
been up before, Hill was sent over for twenty
days, and the other bum was let down with
five days. stretch.
Michael Casey is so tall that when under the
influence of the rosy his head doesn't know
what his legs are doing. He imbibed little
too much on Tuesday and his props became
entirely demoralized. Yesterday he was before
the court, and he remarked that he was
stranger in foreign land and would like to
be set down light He was given 25x3O SEN
tence, and the same was suspended on con-
dition that he leave.
Mr.. j. H. Hause was in st. Paul yesterday
in the interest of the Lake View House, Upper
Lake Minnetonka, with which he is to be con-
nected for the season. The new proprietor OF
this house, Mr.. T. B. Carman, has fitted the
place nicely for the season, and proposes to
serve next Sunday, for the benefit of those
who cannot come at other times, the first OF
series of Sunday dinners, which will add
greatly to the attractions of an excursion to
the upper lake.
At meeting of the Boat club held last
night, it was resolved to proceed at once with
the work of filling up and otherwise improv-
ing the island. A committee was appointed
to take charge of the matter and push things
to completion at once. In view of the regatta
on the ''Fourth," and the approaching fete, all
delays were voted out of order, and ways and
means provided to make Boat House Island as
pretty spot as it was before the flood.
There is nothing that shows the substantial
prosperity of st. Paul to SO great an extent as
the healthy activity or demand for real estate.
It is the artery which feeds the other branches
of trade. In st. Paul, the activity in real es-
tate is not She growth of day, nor is it mani
tested in fabulous or speculative prices.
Rather there is a brisk demand for property
wherever offered at reasonable figures. This
is shown in the number of big transfers daily
recorded in the GLOBE. Yesterday j. Ham
Davidson purchased from the Chamberlain
estate, lots 13 and IA, of block 10, Robert q
Randall's addition, the price being $4,000:
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