Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-02
CITY GLOBULES.


The regular monthly meeting of the board
of county commissioners will be held to-day
at 10 a. m.
Gen. Flower, inspector of steam vessels for
the district, left last evening for Grand Forks,
to inspect the steamer Selkirk.
The board of equalization met again yester-
day and considered the assessments made
against the wholesale dealers of the city.
The committee on decoration for the schuet-
zenfest earnestly request every person having
flag or flags to put them up this morning.
The dwelling house on the Selby place was
being rapidly taken to pieces yesterday, to
make place for the mansion which Commo-
dore Kttson is to erect there.
Notice was filed with the secretary of state
yesterday, of an amendment to section 5of the
articles of incorporation of the Anchor Man.
ufacturing company, of st. Paul, vesting the
management in board of directors OF seven,
instead of five as heretofore. ,s-.--
Two almost simultaneous loud and heavy
explosions, heard about 1:15 O'Clock this
morning, were located by people who were on
upper Third street at the time, in one of the
Sixth ward stone quarries, where work is be-
ing carried on day and night.
The body of the boy named ASHER, Who was
drowned in McCann's lake on Sunday, had
not been recovered up to yesterday afternoon.
The father of the lad is poor and stated to the
coroner that he could not afford to search for
the body. The authorities will look after the
matter. st-....-
Sheriff Du Toit, of Carver county, came
down yesterday with warrant for Hank
Kief, charging him with an assault with a
deadly weapon committed within that county.
Kief was taken before Judge Burr and sur
rendered to the custody of Sheriff Du Toit,
who took him back to Chaska yesterday after
noon for trial.
There was a regular field day in the munlci
pal court yesterday, and both Judge Burr and
Clerk Fairchild had their hands full of bust
ness from a. IN. to p. m. There were
thirty four criminal cases disposed of, and the
city gathered in $500 in the shape of fines. It
was the biggest day workever done since the
court wasestablished.
If the State of Minnesota, having the Mar
ket house free of rent, cannot afford to sprin-
kle about the building to save the executive
offices and court and library rooms from the
clouds of dust now daily drifting into them,
the city should make its donation complete
not more than IS week.
Mr.. o. Dalrymple, the great wheat farmer
of the Northwest, was in the city yesterday,
and left last evening for his immense wheat
fields near Fargo. He informed a GLOBE re-
porter that he should commence his 10000
acres of wheat to-day, august 81 and further,
that it would be the most profitable crop he
had ever raised in his six years experience in
the Red River valley.
young lad, IA years of age, named Gov
ernore Morris Decker, was before Commits
soner Cardoza yesterday on charge of rob-
county. Owing to his tender years he was
remanded to the custody of Sheriff Richter for
safe keeping until the return of Judge Nelson,
when he will have hearing and be sent to
the reform school.
The Hastings Driving Park association has
arranged trotting matinee with several good
races, for tomorrow afternoon. At the solic-
itation of the officers of the association, Capt.
Bart Atkins, of this city, has consented to go
down and act as starting judge. Capt. Atkins
occupied this position for the association at
their meeting last fall, and SO well did he fill
the position, in his prompt and impartial de-
cisions and in his courteous manners, he will
probably be called upon for like services for
the society as long as he will consent to serve.
A number of our citizens, with their fam
lilies, are in the habit of spending portion of
their summer weeks at Lake johanna, one OF
the beautiful lakes within an easy drive of st.
Paul. This lovely lake ought to be free from
the inroads of loafers and rowdies, but it is
not On Sunday last two young men, whose
names are known, visited the lake, and by
their obscene and profane language, and
other outrageous conduct, made it very un-
pleasant for respectable people who were
stopping there. Due notice is given, that if
the offense is repeated, they will not only be
complained of, but arrested and dealt with
according to law.