Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-05
Sergeant Signal Corps, O. s.
TO-D.y'S WEATHER.
CITY GLOHCLES.

Il Crookston there was a slight snow.
which drifted badly.
The regular monthly meeting of the
board Of education Will be held this
evening.
dog-skin robe. found on ST. Anthony
by the owner.
Quite party Of land hunters from Wis
consin left last night for various points in
the Red river valley.
s brisk runaway took place On Fourth
street yesterday forenoon, which resulted
III the wreck OF handsome cutter.
Hereafter the coffee house On Third
street. will be kept open at all hours Of the
night as well as day. Gcod-the coffee is
meant.
The December term OF tie Z. S. circuit
court Will commence its session in this
city on Monday next, Judges McCrary and
Nels presiding.
Tie many friends Of ". P. Payte, the
we'll known civil engineer ard old settler
of st. Paul, will regret to learn that he is
quite dangerously i'll.
The funeral of Maj. john Kennedy, late
postmaster at Hastings, took place on
Sunday. and was attended by large mum
be- from this and other cities.
The Omaha train that was due here at Il
O'Clock yesterday, got off the track just
above the Wabashaw street bridge, and
was delayed about an hour. No one was
hurt.
Yesterday was pension day, and both
the ). erik of the supreme court and of the
district court, were kept busy filing out
and attesting blanks for the pensioners
who called.
An unknown man fell down in fit on
Bridge square shortly before II o'clock
last night. He was taken in charge by
Sergeant Morgan and Officer Babe and
conveyed to the city hall.
The contract for furnishing the new fit
tings for the st. Paul postofice desks, dis
tributing tables, ETC., has been awarded the
st. Paul Furniture company, they being
the lowest bidders. The award was for
about $4,000.
i,ovas - ,~.;5sa12us Cfnccor CT
bons picked up very timber drunk on the
COIGtE OI OuTln anu CdChSOu SUr0eCS, ana
gave him sleigh ride to the city hall. He
may be sober enough this morning to give
his name and pay for the attention paid
him.
Bob. Brown and Jerry Manning got into
a wicked fight at Temples about 9 O'Clock
last evening, during which Brown infict-
ed bad cut with some kind Of an instru-
ment on Manning's head. Officer Cook
took the belligerents into custody and
landed them in the lookup.
Col. Taylor, state librarian, has made
valuable contribution to the library, in the
contribution of a volume Of proceedings of
the convention of Virginia, which adopted
the state organic act, held in I829-30, and
presided over by James Madison, aseicr-
wards president of the United States.
A number of gentlemen representing
prominent bridge building companies Of
Council Bluffs, Chicago, Cincinnati, Mil
waukeee, Detroit and other cities, are il
ST. Paul prepared to bid for building
the three spans of the Wabashaw street
bridge, or for that matter, BID for building
a bridge across the Mississippi river every
ten rods from the head of navigation to
the Gulf of Mexico.
Officer Pottgeiser had little experience
last night. Out on Marshall avenue where
the avenue is lost in the prairie he found
big strapping fellow in a hole in the
ground. He had dug hole in the form
of a cross in one arm of which he had
built a fire, while in the other he was sleep
ing as soundly as ever a person did on a
feather bed. The gentleman was
given a place in the lock up.
Mr.. John A. Waite and John Deorth of
Worcester, Mass, with their families ar
rived in St. Paul yesterday. Their ulti-
mate destination is the Red river valley,
but on CONSULTATION with the emigration
department., they will remain in st. Paul
this winter. They will be fol lowed IN the
spring by many others. These gen.
tlemen have letters Of introduce
ton from S. L. Warren, the gen
eral eastern travelling agent of
the st. Paul & Manitoba road, in which,
Mr. Warren says: 'These gentlemen are
from the old Puritan stock of New Eng
land, just the class Of people that we are
glad to take by the hand, and welcome to
our homes in Minnesota"
An INTITlTION ACCEPTED.
Miss IenOra AuS.in Accents the T:,yifsfio ion