Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-15
CITY GLOBULEs

The base ball business stands: Providence,
IS; Chicago, S5.
Bids for the completion OF the state capitol
building will be opened at the governors
office to-day.
Dr.. K. o. Sweeny went down to Red Wing
yesterday to attend the funeral OF DR.. W. w.
sweeny of that city.
Workmen are making the dirt fy for the
new block of e. F. Drake on Third street, op.
posite the Merchants hotel.
Last evening hack was dragged across The
bridge BY runaway team and considerably
battered up, but no one was injured.
The board of equalization was again strug-
Cling with The taxes. finally reducing the assess
ment OF the digerent building associations so
as to make them the same as last year.
The sheriff returned large number of un-
collected personal taxes yesterday into court
for the clerk of the court to proceed with
Those who desire to save cost must hurry up.
Yesterday horse attached to milk wagon
with a small boy In the vehicle, ran away in
West st. Paul, having been frightened by an
elephant, but was fortunately stopped before
the boy was injured.
A suit was brought in the district court
yesterday by the Second National bank against
j.. W. Babcock of Kasota, to recover the $500
obtained by him of the bank, as explained in
the Sunday issue of the GLOBE.
| Col. Smith, architect in charge of the i'm
provements at the custom house, yesterday
let the contract for the addition and repairs
to the heating apparatus to J. L. Fox & Co.,
Of this city, for the sum of $40. This is the
beginning.
Hon. James Smith, Jr., president of the st.
Paul & Duluth road: Gen. J. II. Baker, rail
road commissioner, and W. W. Braden, state
auditor, left for Duluth last evening to at
tend the canal convention to be held In that
city to-day.
The only business at the chamber of COM
merce yesterday was the appointment OF
seven delegates to attend the canal convention
at Duluth to-day. Messrs Peter Berkey,
Thomas Cochran, q. Greve, j. NJ. Gilman, J.
W. McClunga nd f. j. Barney were selected.
James Flanagan, who kept "a boarding
house on the corner of Sixth and Minnesota
streets, died Sunday evening. He was one OF
the old settlers in st Paul, and leaves large
family, including several grown sons. He
will be buried from the cathedral at a. m.
| tO-mOTrOW.
The Canadian Press Association meets at
Toronto on the 22d of this month, and will
start Oh the same day for st. Paul, and after a
day here they will visit Manitoba. There will
| be seventy or eighty of these gentlemen. AS
| st. Paul allowed the Wisconsin editors to
pass unnoticed 1t would be we'll to give this
party some attention.
| An officer from the Rochester insane asy.
lum arrived in st. Paul yesterday for the pur.
pose of getting J. W. Babcock of Kasota,
who obtained $40O of the Second National
Bank of st. Paul last week; The particulars
were fully explained in the Sunday GLOBE.
Mr.. Babcock escaped from the asylum at
Rochester, and obtained from the bank this
sum OF money through mistake. Mr.. Bah
cock succeeded in keeping out of sight, and
up to late hour last night had not been
| found.
Albion 3. Smith has presented his COM
plant to the district court and asked that in
stitution to release him from the legal bands
that bind him to Mary II. Smith, his wife.
Albion says he is forty-t two years old, while
Mary is twenty-seven that it was in the leafy
month of May, 1876, about one century after
| the great American revolution, that he and
Mary were tied up in a double bow. knot at
Sank Rapids; that they lived together as hus-
| band and wife till 1879, when Mary slipped the
knot and disappeared and has ever since kept
| away from him. He, therefore, asks to be re-.
| lieved from the disagreeable bonds.