Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-06
CITY GLOBULES.

CITY GLOBULES.
Steamer No. 4 is out of service, owing to
some repairing that is being done upon her.
George Menu has sold two lots in Woodland
park addition to Elizabeth Wright for s1,l5o.
Steamer No was occupied portion of the
day yesterday in filling cistern in the sixth
ward.
This is the last day of grace. Pay your
water rent and save per cent. The office will
be open until p. m.
The clerk of the court is engaged in prepar-
ing the calendar for the next term of the dis
trict court, commencing next Tuesday.
An action was begun in the district court
yesterday, by R. Mcdonald against the Mer-
chants National bank of st. Paul, to enforce
the payment of 81, 626.66, alleged to have been
placed with the bank on deposit.
The directors of the aims house and hospital
met yesterday and issued fifty-two orders for
wood and provisions. Two paupers were sent
down the river to friends and twenty appllca-
tions were made. for relief which will be in
vestigated.
Albrecht, Lamphere & Finch are engaged
In moving from the temporary quarters they
have been occupying for several weeks past,
into the splendid five story building built for
them by H. P. Upham on Fourth street, be-
tween Jackson and Sbley streets.
Frank Rollin was before hzzoner yesterday,
charged with having cabbaged shawl from
Nick Klinger It turned out that defendant
is one of those amusing fellows known as
practical jokers, and that he merely took the
article in jest. He was discharged.
J. G. Geary was before Judge Burr on two
warrants yesterday, charging him with selling
liquor to minors. The defendant is the pro-
prietor of the saloon where the fight origin
ated that resulted in the beating of officer
Morarity. The case was continued to the 18th
inst.
Frank Avery got full of tanglefoot ruin
night before last, and swore that he could
whip any two coppers in Ramsey county. He
was seized by an officer and jerked to the tower,
on the way to which he showed feeble resist
ance. Yesterday he went to the quay for 80
days.
Mr.. W. B. Castle, will throw open his new
skating rink to the public Oh Wednesday even
ing next. The rink is bounded by Cedar, Min
nesota, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets and
good time may be expected on the opening
night. Music will be in attendance and 1t is
the intention of the proprietor to give weekly
concerts.
Secretary Young, of the state board of i'm
migration, has in the past four and half
months sent off some 81 ,OOO of the new edition
of $4,000 Tin all languages) of the immigration
pamphlet, all but about $500 of which were
sent through the postoffice to actual address,
es furnished by correspondents in other states
and in foreign countries.
An alarm of fire was sounded about o'clock
last evening from box 81, lower town, but
when the steamer reached the place where the
fire was supposed to be, on the corner of
Eighth and John streets, it was found there
was no work for them to do, as the inmates
of the house had extinguished the flames that
were found in some of he bedclothes. How
the fire got there is a mystery.
And now that the arrangements are fully
completed for the policemen's ball to be given
at Market hall tonight, the gallant coppers
should be accorded rousing turnout. The
sale of tickets has been large and the prospects
indicate royal good time in all particulars
The jealous guardians of the peace will DEM
onstrate their capacity for doing q social oc-
casion of this magnitude full justice as they
shake the light fantastic to as lively fiddle
music as ever discoursed linked sweetness in
this city.
The case of NJ. j. Cosgrave against c. C.
Berkman for 5000 damages alleged to have re-
suited from an assault, came up for trial by
jury, in the municipal court yesterday after
noon. The plaintiff claimed that defendant
entered his house on the night of December
10 and wrongfully and without warrant pro-
ceeded to beat him. The answer of defendant
denied the assault and set forth that on the
evening named he was summoned to plaintiffs
house by cries of help, and that he found the
latter beating his wife. The testimony show
edno ground for complaint, and verdict was
returned for defendant without the jury leav-
ing their seats.
The case of the city against j. Graham, Ed.
Buckley, and John, Michael and T. O'Brien,
charged with being concerned in the villainous
assault on Officer Moriarity on Christmas
night, was called for hearing in the police
court yesterday morning. The testimony
showed that the officer had visited q saloon
kept by one Geary, having been attracted by a
series of shots fired by a drunken hoodlum
named Mcguire. The latter was put under
arrest, when the rest of the gang interfered
and beat the officer. Owing to the general
character of the melee 1t was difficult for the
officer to swear positively from whom he re-
ceived the blow. The boys, M. and T. O'Brien,
proved an alibi and were discharged. Buckley
was fined $40, and Jack O'Brien went TO the
cooler for thirty days.