Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-05

suit against M. @. Butterfeld, to collect s494,
alleged to have been withheld by the latter
while acting as their attorney. ga-.
William Peters was arraigned at the police
court yesterday charged with cabbaging lot
ing was continued until to-day.
An expressman named James Began was be-.
fore Judge Burr yesterday charged with over.
charging one of the West st. Paul sufferers.
he was fined Sl5 and put up the ducats.
Mr.. Victor Bergren, of Collector Bickel's Of
fee, passed around Partagas yesterday on the
strength of an heir apparent, who arrived yes
terdaY morning and tipped the beam at twelve
pounds.
About nightfall yesterday couple Of young
rowdies engaged in a fight at Rice park. Of
ficer Palmer attempted to separate them when
they turned On him.. They were both lodged
In the cooler.
Junius Brutus Booth, who takes the part of
DR.. Oliphant in ''The Galley Slave," now be-.
ing performed at the Opera house, is o son of
the elder Booth and inherits much of his dra.
matte ability.
When John Sig and VIM. Morris loomed up
at the police court yesterday it was easy to
discern from the dizzy appearance of the sports
that there had been an election. They had
both indulged too freely, and each went over
for five days.
Ten tramps were before hizzoner yesterday
and sentence was suspended to let them get
out of town. They were arrested in box
car and were sent to the city hall accompan-
led by a way bill with instructions to handle
them carefully.
Mrs. Fannie Smith Crocker, who will be re.
membered hereabouts on account of her prom.
inence in connection with Mrs.. Harris, the al
legged authoress, who was killed by runaway
team last summer, has taken 10 the lecture
field. "Cupid in Chains" is the title of her
lecture.
A fast young man named James Roche was
before the court yesterday, charged with forg.
ing his fathers name on an order for horse
and buggy. He presented an order at Nichols
barn and got the rig on tho plea that he was
going to funeral. The hearing was contln-
ued until to-day.
About 5 O'Clock yesterday morning fire was
discovered in the work shop of Haas, the
Third street. The department was called out
and the fire was promptly extinguished. The
fire caught among the remnants Of some
cloth. The damage was nominal.
An Anticipated youth named Ed. Lloyd was
before hizzoner yesterday charged with the
larceny of 81 from man named Damon, re-
siding on Eleventh street. Defendant was
formerly in the employ OF Damon d Co., and
the money was piached from bureau drawer.
He was committed for thirty days.
There was rumor around the Sixth ward
yesterday that Paul Martin, chagrined at the
result of the election, had committed suicide.
Though he had not been seen up to late hour
yesterday, there is little doubt but the rumor
was unfounded. At the worst he had only
crawled into his hole e'and pulled the hole in
after him.
A young sinner named John Needham was
arraigned at the police court yesterday, charg
ed with the larceny of buggy whip which
was stolen on University avenue. Needham is
hardened young rough, having been ar
raigned short time before on the charge of
to the Reform school.
, The water in the fiat at West st. Paul con.
tinued to recede all yesterday, and large part
of the district submerged last week was above
water at nightfall. People generally were en-.
gagged in moving back to their homes and re.
pairing the damage done, which was found
to be considera BILE in almost all ca ses. A
few days more will settle matters completely.
Mr.. J. II. Ross, of Auckland, the former
capital of New Zealand, passed through st.
Panl yesterday en- route west. Auckland Is
situated on one of the South sea islands, and
is 5000 miles from San Francisco. AS farm
ing and stock country it is unsurpassed, and
produces the finest wool in the world. The
climate is that of perpetual spring, and would
be extremely healthy were 1t more remote
from cannibal land.
About nightfall yesterday the attention Of
Officer Zirkelbach was called to the strange
actions ofa man who was attempting to drown
himself in the slough which skirts the rail-
road track On the upper levee. The fellow had
Jumped into two or three feet of water and was
pretty thoroughly soaked. He acted as If crazy,
and 1t became apparent that he was victim to
that terrible hydra Of drink, the JIM jams. He
was locked up for safe keeping.
William Henry commenced an action for
divorce yesterday against his wife Mary Jane
Henry, On the grounds of cruel and inhuman
treatment. He alleges that while he has been
good and faithful husband, she has been a
violent, Dl-tempered and abusive wife. That
Ou OiO OSSdoAOn ouC uCtdChCu Ailu uuu ulI LID
ear; on another she pounded him with o stick
of wood, and finally, that he had TO flee from
the house and live apart from her. Only this
and nothing more.
A gentleman of this city received letter
from London yesterday, in which the writer
speaks of a funeral card, with deep black
border, which has recently commanded a
large sale in London. On one side are the
ords; Sin memoriam,n and on the re-
verse the following inscription: "In memory
of Honour, the beloved wife Of John Bull, who
died in the Transvaal, and was inferred at
Candahar, March 1881, Her end was peace -