Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-06
CITY GLOBULEs
Typhoid fever and diphtheria are not as prev
alent as they we're few weeks ago.


The pile drivers, in operation daily on lower
Third street, preparing for the foundations o.
new buildings, attract small crowds of curious
people at all working hours.
/ Officer Keneally visited Minneapolis yester
day and recovered one of the coats stolen from
Myers at the time of the burglary. pair ol
pants was also recovered in this city.
There will be services appropriate to "Ep
iphany, the Feast of Lights" at the Church
of the Good Shepherd, this evening at 7:3O
The Rev. Mr.. Thomas will be the preacher.
Application for the release of Peter Morgan
on bail was to have been made by writ ot
habeas corpus, yesterday, but, as the court
was not ready to hear the case, it was con.
tinued until O'Clock to-day.
The handsomest sign in st. Paul was raised
over the entrance to the store of the new firm,
Leonard & McKelvey, the artists, and success
sors to Frank Grout, sign and ornamental
painters, 389 Jackson street.
| Early yesterday morning news carrier
named Charles Polk ran across stray cream
colored pony attached to a cutter. Pony
and cutter were both badly demoralized. They
can be found at the Kinney's livery stable.
Mr.. Mann, clerk of the United States circuit
court, was engaged yesterday in taking testi-
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad
| company, in which action is brought to set
| aside foreclosure.
Strong, Hackett & Co., having completed
their removal to their new Fourth street build
ing The double store on lower Third st. vacated
by them, is being fitted up for P. R. L. Har-
denberg & Co., who will move in about the
middle of the month.
Night before last sneak thieves entered the
boarding house No. 1S3 Jackson street, and
got away with black beaver overcoat belong.
ing to a boarder named VIM. Bush. At the
same place they also cabbaged a gray benjamin
belonging to man named Engles The first
can be identified by plaid trimmings.
Between and 9 O'Clock yesterday morning
cutter occupied by nephew of Sheriff
Richter overturned at the corner of Fourth
and Wabashaw streets and spilled the young
man out. The spirited young nag took the
bit in his teeth and started for dash up
Wabashaw street, being captured at the end
OF that thoroughfare. No particular damage
was sustained.
Last night Chief Weber received telegram
from the sheriff of st. Vincent requesting the
arrest of man named T. Green, stopping at
the Chippewa house. Green was put under
arrest, and was apparently very much sur
prised, asserting that he was not conscious of
having done anything wrong. 1t is thought
that he is wanted for being implicated in o
dubious horse trade.
The Anchor Manufacturing company, of st.
Paul, has contracted to furnish the Close Bros,
of LIE Mars, with 100 houses, to be set up early
next spring on lands selected for English fam
lilies, who are coming out in February and
March to locate in Southwestern Minnesota and
Northwestern Iowa. The material will be all
prepared and fitted here and sent on by rail,
marked and packed, SO that they can be set up
and made ready for use in a few hours.
Otto Lindahl and Peter Sundahl, an account
of whose arrest appeared in yesterdays issue of
the GLOBE, were at the police court yesterday
charged with drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct They were arrested at the corner of
Fourth and St. Peter streets while engaged in
a drunken fight. Lindahl claimed to have
been robbed of $s5 and accused his chum of
taking the money. There was no evidence to
substantiate the charge and they were each
fined So. Sundahl paid the coin, and the other
man, having no money, sentence was sus-
pended
About these days look out for the industri-
GUS and thrifty sneak thief. He is abroad to
very considerable extent and is. plying his ne
farious wiles with a success that all honest
people most heartily despise. Night before
last one of these gentry crept up to dummy
in front of Herzog Bros. store on Seventh
street, and, notwithstanding the nippng cold
and the danger of such shameless eXposure,he
stripped it of dark overcoat, black vest and
a pair of darK pants. That dummy didn't say
anything, but it was the sickest looking wood
en- head in town.
He is young hopeful and he gave the name
of Smith, the illustrious Smith, surnamed
Henry. What an ark of safety this patro-
nymic is in time of trouble; how like q Good
year stocking it stretches to meet the require
ments of any emergency. When the trump
sounds poor Smith will have more to answer
for than all other names in the book. Yester-
day he was up for being on tOot. He had
been drunken than billed owl and his hair
pulled a thousand ways for breakfast. He
looked collapsed, cleaned out, all "broke up"
He promised never to drink any more and SEN
tence was suspended during good behavior.
The case of the State against James Ahern,
charged with the larceny OF $500 from a man
named Maurice Delaney, was called for hearing
in the municipal court yesterday forenoon.
The small court room was densely packed with
a molly gang of onlookers, whose presence did
not enhance the healthful influence of the
place. Complainant testified to having been
approached by Ahern as described in previous
issue of the GLOBE. A cloud of witnesses
were sworn for the defense, the testimony go
ing to .hoH that complainant was strongly ad-
dicted to drink, and that while in liquor he
was not responsible for his actions The de-
fendant was discharged.
The strange conduct of x-policeman Water
house during the past few days has led to the
impression among his friends that he is suffer
ing from arrangement of the mind or mental
hallucination. Recently he has conducted
himself in the most unaccountable manner.
Day before yesterday he visited Dawson's bank
and tried to cash note for several hundred
dollars. Failing in this, he called on nearly
all the prominent business men on Third street
Besides this, he imagines that his house has
been haunted and yesterday he related to sew
eral friends how he had killed two of the
ghostly visitors, and he pleaded that the
county physician be sent to his house to re-
move the bodies.
About 8 o'clock last night sneak thief
named Louis Keigher was arrested by Officer
Mcmahon, on Eagle street, in the act of steal
ing a valuable wolf roye, from one of Judd's
rrio 0oc Ho hror1 chit f0 tho cifv hall