Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
CITY GLOBULEs.

take place Monday evening.
Bishop Foss, of the N. E. church, will dedi-
cate the new Bates avenue church this after
noon.
One commission house, that of Hoxie d
Jaeger, shipped $50 saddles of venison to
eastern cities, yesterday.
The second p homemade reception of the St
Paul guards, will take place Friday evening,
Dec. 16, at Sherman hall.
City Treasurer REM, on yesterday, paid off
the street and sewer force, S2,S36.7S to the
former, and $307.54 to the latter.
The great derricks used for hosting the
blocks of stone used in the walls OF the Mann
heimer block were taken down yesterday,
Public rumor says that Chas. F. Sibley, OF
the First National bank, will succeed VIM.
H. Oxley, resigned, as first lieutenant of the
st. Paul guards.
A gray team attached to buggy was found
wandering about the streets last night The
police took it to the Metropolitan stable,
where it awaits an owner.
Yesterday, Mrs. Beach, sister of Pat
Conley, slipped and fell while coming down
the sixth ward hill toward the city. The acci-
dent resulted in the breaking of an arm in two
places.
The stone and brick work on the Mannhei
mer block, is nearly completed, and even with
the present cold snap, only the work of few
more days will be required to put the block
safely under roof.
In the suit of Mortimer L. Hall ct al. vs..
James n Granger, administrator, ETC., Judge
Wilkin yesterday appointed Chas. E. Otis
guardian ad ilitem of John c. Hall, minor
and one of the plaintiffs.
minnesota Congregational club will eel
citrate Forefather's Day, the Goth, in st. Paul,
with appropriate ceremonies at Plymouth
church. Delegates from abroad will be enter
tanned by the home congregation.
DR.. J. Fl. Stewart was engaged yesterday
forenoon in vaccinating the prisoners in the
county Jail, about fifty in number. One of the
prisoners refused to come out in the corridor
to receive treatment, and had to be brought
out by force.
A stipulation of the dismissal of the suit
of G. T. Fish against the Pioneer Press COM
pany for $4,000 damages for alleged libel,
without costs to either party, signed by Gil
man & Clough, attorneys for plaintiff, and
Young & Newell, attorneys for defendant, was
filed in the district court yesterday, said suit
having been settled.
A suit was begun in the district court yes
terday by William Zollman & Co. against
Bridget McGill, NJ F. Cummings and others,
for $254. so, for labor performed and materials
furnished in the erection of a dwelling on lot S,
block 8, Vanderburg's addition to Hoyt's ad.
dition to St. Paul. The plaintiffs pray that
tho prarnisps NAV he sold tn SatiafV their lien
At meeting of the committee on property
in the board Of education last evening, bids
were opened for the proposed new school
building in the Sixth Ward, but after brief
discussion involving the advisability of chang
ing the original plans SO as to construct the
front part Of the building first, instead of the
rear, the whole matter was postponed to an
other meeting of the committee.
Messrs. Dawson and Smith have commenced
excavating for new business block, on the
northwest corner of Seventh and Robert streets.
Onlydthe ground size of the block has as yet
been seeded upon, the height, three or four
stories, and other questions of constructions,
being still under consideration. It is, how
ever, to be first class block, in keeping with
the business blocks erected in the heart of the
city this season.
Reynolds, a prisoner IN the jail from Wright
county, who participated in an assault on a
fellow prisoner week or so ago, and was
ordered to be confined to his cell for twenty
DAYS, Yesterday wrote note to Sheriff Richter
pleading to be allowed the freedom of the
corridor, as the close confinement was telling
upon his health, and promising to strictly
observe the rules of the Jail in the future.
His request was granted.
The Hon. T. P. O'Connor, M. P, the dis
distinguished Irish statesman and patriot, was
expected to arrive in st. Paul from Chicago
Yesterday afternooa but was delayed and
will not reach the city I'M
til this morning. The committee on
reception appointed by the Central Land
League, were at the depot yesterday afternoon
to welcome the distinguished visitor. Mr..
O'ConnOr will address a mass meeting of the
friends of Ireland, at the Opera house this
evening. The Emmett Light Artillery, Capt.
Mccarthy, and the Knight of St. Paul, Capt:
will escort the distinguished speaker from the
Merchants to the Opera house.
The board of fire commissioners held a
meeting yesterday afternoon, commencing at
4 O'Clock, but very expectedly nothing in con-
nection with the engine purchase squabble was
brought up, the bushes of the meeting being
tuUIGlJ u6fOtCO " luC lOuoiuO WIN Va eAO
department.. As to the merits of the existing
controversy, their powers in the matter, etc,
the board, as individuals are collectively de-
clined to say anything excu sing themselves
on the ground that it was time for them to act
when the question was brought before th3m
officially.
Chief of Police Weber will leave for Chi
cago Wednesday, the 18th, to attend a meet
ing of chiefs of police of theu eontry, called
to meet,in that city on the evening of the
18th, by VIM. J. McGarigle, general superia-
tendent of the Chicago police, and president
of the United States Police association. The
meeting is called for general consultation, and
is held at Chicago as being the most central
point, and also as affording visiting MEM
bers an opportunity to inspect the workings
of the telephone police system operated with
so much success in that city.
The grand master of the Odd Fellows of
Minnesota has issued a proclamation recon-
mending to the lodges in this state to hold
memorial services for the late j. L. Ridgely,
grand secretary of the order. on the last meet
ing in this month. He is little too slow
with his proclamation ss far as the lodges in
St. Paul is concerned, as they had all arrange
ments made before its receipt, to hold union
memorial services on Wednesday evening next.
A memoir of Mr.. Ridgely will be read, and ad-
dresses delivered by Rev. J. Malvin, DR.:
Wechsler and other members. ACCOMPANIED