Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-19
CITY aLoBULEs

J ket house.
All the railroads were clear of obstruction
yesterday, trains were moving on time and th
railroad men were correspondingly happy an
busy.
Geo. L. Farwell has begun moving from hi
old stand on Third street, near Sibley, to hi
new building on Fourth street, near WI
couta.
John Scanlan has been arrested as one of
gang of sneak thieves who have been commit
ting depredations in the West Wisconsin rail
| road yards.
= Clerk Kiefer yesterday completed the return
of vital statistics for 1880, showing the mum
Der of deaths for the year in st. Paul to hav
been 1,970, and the number of births 700.
Mrs. Cressey, her daughter, Rose Cressey
and two other disreputable characters, wsr
arrested last night by Officer O'Keefe, whil
enjoying an orgie at the house of coloret
barber on Cedar street near Fifth.
Mr.. E. W. Conway, of Dublin, was OK
amned for admission to the bar, yesterday
| and, having passed creditable examination
| he was duly admitted. The examining com
| mittee were Messrs Warner, Blaine and FREQ
Allis.
About O'Clock last night suspicious
looking fellow was caught prowling around
in the rear of Mr.. Myron Browns residence,
corner of Fifth and st. Peter streets. He was
collared in the woodshed and yanked to the
cooler.
Encouraged by Vennor's prophecy of milder
weather, to beginiyesterday and continue into
February with an interruption of one cold
snap) the carpenters resumed work yesterday
in placing the roof timbers of the Union
depot.
Champion lodge No. 19, Knights OF Pythias,
give the last of their first series of parties at
College hall tomorrow (Thursday) evening.
Those who have attended the former parties
under the same auspices, will require no guar
antee Of its complete success.
An action for divorce has been commenced
by Franciska Meucek against her husband,
Franz Meucek, on the grounds of drunkenness
and cruel and inhnman treatment. The par.
ties were married in Austria in 1878, and the
union has resulted in two children.
The last will and testament or certified
copy thereof, of the late Warner II. Dean, was
filed in the register of deeds Office yesterday
forenoon. The deceased, who died in Mower
county, bequeathed all his property, about
s75,0 600, real and personal, TO his wife and
children.
A highly entertaining andinstruciive lecture
was given at Odd Fellows hall last evening by
DR.. Talbot Jones, lecturer on physiology and
diseases of children, in the st. Paul medical
college. The lecture was under the auspices
of Eureka lodge No. Q, but the members and
friends of the brother lodges were present in
large numbers.
Thomas McCann, small boy, was before
hizzoner yesterday charged with making it
uneasy for another gossoon named Albert
Drake. He bulldozed the latter and winded up
by slapping him. The court pictured the re-
form school, the doors of which yawned for
boy he was discharged.
An action was commenced in the district
court yesterday by Dawson & Co. against Cos
tain & Clary, to enforce payment of $4,000 on
a note. The complaint asked that a writ of
attachment might be issued against the
property of the firm, which was wanted. The
unexplained absence, the bank deeming it the
part of prudence to protect itself
The district court was engaged yesterday in
trying the case of Clement Vandall against
Henry G. Charles,in in which action was brought
for 81, 900 damages. Mr.. Pierce appeared for
the plaintiff and Mr.. j. D. O'Brien for the de.
fense. The action was brought for damages
alleged to have been sustained from an as
saulf The testimony was submitted and the
charge to the jury will be given this morning.
The familiar face of Nancy Davis appeared
at the police court yesterday, after long, and
it was hoped, lasting absence. She was quite
as active and chirpy as ever, and was arraign-
ed on the old charge of too much bulge.
Her husband, who is respectable appearing
man, testified that she had indulged in fear
full spree, and that she refused all restraints.
She was sent to the women's home for ninety
days.
A magnificent specimen of physical man.
hood, named Bernhard Holm, came to the
police court, yesterday, and swore out a war
rant for the arrest of Edward A. Boyd, a farmer,
in New Canada township. tits alleged by the
former that on the 18th inst. Boyd ordered him
to build fire, and, not complying quick
enough to suit his ideas of haste, he knocked
Holm down., stamped on his stomach and
fearfully maltreated him. He claims to have
been laid up ever since.
The only decent offender, for vice has its de-
grees in crime, at the police court yesterday,
was a broth of boy named John O'Neal, who
had gazed too often upon the frisky tanglc-
foot His poor head became all in whirl,
and stars were as plentiful as bugs in poke
berry time He had been on it longer than a
government mule and was fined SO for the
toot Being out of coin, he promised not to
get drunk any more if given a chance, and
sentence was suspended.
A voluminous memoranda was filed at the
register of deeds office yesterday, representing
an agreement between the Minneapolis & st.
Louis railroad company of Minneapolis and
the st. Paul & Duluth railroad company of St..
Paul After calling attention to the road
operated by the party of the first part, the OBJ
ject of the agreement is stated to be for the
purpose of uniting in the construction of a
road for the common use of both parties to
Taylors Falls. The road is the one already
built via Center City.
Like sheep in the shamblcs they were steered
into the police court yesterday, as sorry a
looking set of tramps as the eye could gaze
upon. They were an even half dozen-men
who exist because the world owes them liv-
ing-dirty, unkempt, reckless, depraved and
rascally. Their names are immatedal for the
reason, strange to say, that pride, the strong
est attribute of the human mind, still whispers
to these miserable wretches that they must
conceal their identity Chief Weber stated
that they were nightly visitors to the City hall
and that all of them had been up before. They