Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-23
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULEs.

The Zouaves will give dress parade drill
this evening.
The grand jury will conclude their labors
and make their final report this morning.
The German society Frohsin gave we'll at
tended masquerade at Turner's hall last even
ing.
Charles Greer, indicted for shooting his
wife, will have his preliminary examination
to-day.
Two DRINKS were before Judge Bailey yes
terday morning, and in honor of the day were
discharged.
The banks and public schools were closed
yesterday and the day was generally observed
as holiday.
The funeral services of the late John Chris
tian will be held at st. Marks church this af-
ternoon at $50 o'clock.
Secretary Sturtevant says P. C. Mitchell is
about to start six column daily paper with
Associated Press dispatches.
A meeting will be held at the parlors of the
Nicollett house tomorrow evening, to make
arrangements for the organization of canoe
club.
No business at the probate court yesterday,
the judge holding that the statute could not
allow of the transaction of any probate bust
ness.
James c. McNaughton, who obtained about
81 200 from j. F. Jackman under false pre-
lenses, was indicted by the grand jury yester-
day.
The eight year old daughter of Benjamin 7.
Rockwell was reported missing from her
home, No. AZ Twelfth street south, last even
ing.
Mrs. I. w. Honeycomb, 623 Twentieth av-
enue south, attempted to commit suicide yes
terday by poison. She took an overdose, and
beyond being very sick for time nothing Sc
rious resulted.
On Saturday last a divorce was granted
Bertha Custom, from her husband, Thomas
Bagley, and granting her the custody of an in
FAINT child. Yesterday the court gave Sophia
Custom the right to adopt the infant.
G. W. Robbins, police marshal of Fishers
Landing, was in the city yesterday hunting for
man named C. M. Setherman, who skipped
from Fishers Landing with sum of money
and tickets belonging to the station agent
there.
Friends of Fred Matthews, an insane pa
tient confined in the county Jail, are exerting
themselves to raise funds to send him to
friends in Maine. The county board was asked
to appropriate 500 and responded with an $S5
appropriation.
An Indictment was returned by the grand
jury yesterday against W. W. Brown, the
proprietor of the variety dive on First avenue
south, for keeping q disorderly house. Brown
was arrested last night and will be arraigned
this morning,
A laborer named Andrew Sloci, employed in
the excavation of the new canal, on the East
side, was struck in the eye with a piece of
earth. The injured man was taken to DR..
Rogers office and the physicians opinion is
that member may be saved.
An alarm of fire from box IS, situated at
the mills, drew the entire department and
nearly all the residents to the platform, yes
terday morning. The fire was caused by the
overheating of stove in small shanty on the
platform, and was eXtinguished before much
damage was DONE
DR.. Eli Small, indicted for manslaughter in
the fourth degree, was arraigned yesterday.
By consent of the county attorney the case was
Small gave bonds in the sum of $4,000 for his
appearance, Edward Harrison and Thomas
Ohm becoming his bondsmen.
A lumberman named John Taggett, who has
been on a spree for the last two days, had a
friend who CHANGED to meet him on Monday,
arrested yesterday. Taggett charges the
money, but under the circumstances the police
decided not to hold him without more ev-
idence.
An application was filed in the district court
yesterday, for the appointment of commits
sioners to condemn lands for the right of way
of the new line to be built by the NJ. & st. L.
road. The proposed road begins from point
near the st. Louis hotel, and crossing Carson
bay passes through Excelsior, and running
along the lake terminates at point on the
Carver county line.
A party of six men, claiming to be railroad
men, went into the Bismarck saloon, kept by
man named Miller, on Washington avenue.
After several drinks one of the party, named
Clark, engaged in fight with one of his COM
rades. His antagonist drew knife and
sashed him fearfully. He has seven cuts on
the head ana the little finger on his left hand
was nearly cut off DR.. Owen dressed the
wounds. The men decamped, and as Miller,
the saloonkeeper, refused to tell who the
man was who did the cutting, no arrest was
made.
The county board are Clicking" at the action
of the Tribune, which after being appointed
as the official paper, at an exorbitant bid, de.
lay publishing the proceedings until
three weeks after the meeting. One
of the company stated to. the
board yesterday ''that we have been so crowd
ed by the reports of the legislature for the
past two months that it has been impossible to
find room for the proceedings at the time they
ought to be published" The chairman of the
board asked if they received 40 cents per inch
from the legislature, at which the representa-
tive seemed somewhat disconcerted and said
he would report to the editor.
The trial of Banks Reed indicted for assault,
with intent to kill Thhomas Prescott, occu-
pied the attention of the district court yester-
day. The evidence shows that Reed accom-
panied a woman to whom Prescott was paying
attention, coming from strawberry festival
last summer, Prescott followed the pair, and
met Reed after he had left the woman. They
had few words and then fight, in which
Reed shot Prescott in the head. Counsel for
defense endeavOred to have Prescott's testi-
mony ruled out, on the ground that few
days ago he was adjudged insane, but the
testimony was admitted, and the case will be
given to the jury this morning.
The Society of st. Jean Baptist held its an