Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-19
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs.

MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETS.
The Reform club will meet in Harrison hall
this afternoon.
The flour market weakened somewhat in
price yesterday.
The Temperance convention met in Harrison
hall last evening.
One physician is now attending fourteen
cases of typhoid fever.
A meeting of the Land League will be held
in their respective halls this evening.
Get your Sunday dinner at ihe popular Bos
ton Restaurant. Oysters in every style.
While coupling cars at the Manitoba yards
yesterday Michael Doyle, brakeman, had his
hand badly crushed.
The committee on claims from the board OF
county commissioners held session at the
court house yesterday.
1t is stated that during yesterday forenoon,
over 400 pupils applied for and drew books
from the public school library.
A break in the water main on First Avenue
South, the centre of the street has settled SC
that the motor is unable to pass it.
Frank Miller, a brakeman, who had leg
broken while coupling cars, is now at the col
lege hospital, and is reported gaining.
To morrow Houston, the would-be robber,
and Suits. the forger, will be taken to quarters
in the State penitentiary at Saltwater.
The members of the Womans Christian
Temperance union purpose opening a public
coffee house in a central portion of the city
During Thursday night the boarding house
at No. 427, Nicollet avenue, was entered by
burglars, and about $40 worth of jewelry was
takea.
The case of VIM. WOODBURY. Us. W. P. Bur
aett and Cauvet 81 Reid, an action for DANA
ges for falling into an excavation, was decided
by the jury in favor of defendants.
In the matter of the estate OF Geo. H, Nor
rison, deceased, letters of administration have
Morrison, who gave bonds in the sum OF
$124, 1000.
The charter for the new Catholic society
The Catholic Knights of America, has arrived
and this evening a meeting will be held by
the charter members in Catholic association
hall to perfect an organization.
Kate Norstrom wants a divorce from hel
husband, Swan Norstrom, and has made ap
elication to the courts for the same, Swan ii
The notorious vag who spends most of his
lime on the rock pile at the county jail.
During the past fiscal year the city water
works have pumped 1,140,322,9 1881 gallons Of
water, against 1,12O, 976, 2s9 during the yeal
preceding. The cost during the past year was
$4.6S1z per million gallons or Sl.Ol1a less than
for the year preceding.
On Friday Edward Chamberlain was ad.
judged insane. Yesterday it was decided that
his insanity was principally owing to illness,
and as it was thought that if health could be
regained, sanity would follow as a natural re.
suit. The patient was sent to the College
hospital for treatment.
Mr.. Asa Weeks, who has been reported by
the house committee at Washington, bill In
favor of paying him S., 700 per annum, for his
services as superintendent of the construction
of torpedo boats, and the applications of GER
tain machinery, invented by him, was former
Iy resident of Minneapolis.
The Journal place Scrap Iron Bill. the hard
hitting temperance speaker, in some what
compromising situation. It asserts that
Scrap first called upon the immaculate and
brilliant Loring and pledged himself to do all
within his power to oppose the nomination of
temperance candidate for the office of mayor
in opposition to Lorlng, who is the repub-
lican candidate in embryo. Then afterwards,
it says, Scrap paid like visit to DR.. Ames,
the probable democratic candidate, and made
Involuntary pledge to support him in the pro-
hibltion convention. Scrap should explain
this accusation of double play
very sensational affair has just come to
light in this city. On certain morning the
sheriff of Kandiyolia county came to this city
and called upon j. E. Ofstie, prominent
clothier of Henuipin avenue, and served upon
him q warrant Tor his arrest upon charge of
bastardy. The warrant alleged that Miss Annie
johnson, now Of Willmar, while engaged in
his store as clerk had been seduced by Ofstie;
that Ofstie had sent the com laining witness
to Chicago, at which place child was born
unto her; that from and after that time Ofstie
had entirely abandoned her, ETC.; that Illicit
relations had been maintained from July 4,
until last autumn.
Ofstie was taken to Wilmar and
4 preliminary examination held, resulting
in binding him over to the grand Jury on
March 1. Bnt it seems that since the eXami-
nation OfstIe's attorney has been to Wilmar
and effected a compromise with the girl by the
payment of $4,000. Other Developments in
volving other leading business are predicted.
A young girl named Emma Parker, and
aged about Is years, became displeased with
her sister, whom she alleges ill-treated and
poorly clad her, and, being sent shopping
with SD, took the money and left her Chi
cagO home and came to Minneapolis, where
her father lives with second wife, Diligent
search was made for the runaway girl by the
deserted sister, and, it being thought that she
had been abducted, an Italian of being the
abductor. The Chicago Herald has the
following in regard to the matter:
''The child was seen at the depot on the night
OF her disappearance, in company with young
Italian woman. The pair were Joined shortly
by man, whose description closely resem-
bles Biogiotto's, and they departed together.
Two days later he was arrested. Had she
been in his company all this time the purpose
imputed to him might have been accomplish
ed. The child under the care of the Italian
woman, who perhaps kept concealed until thu
prosecution made it appear, that they were de-
termined TO sift the matter to the bottom,
when the little one was suddenly shipped to
her father, in order to save the Italian
from the penalty OF his alleged offense.
The police have the matter in hnnd,
and are giving it the fullest investigation. u
In Minneapolis it seems the girl sought out
lady named OsgoOd, residing just outside
the city limits, in the neighborhood of the
Layman cemetery, where she has since been
stopping On Friday, however, the girl Emma
had free fight with another girl and in the
fracas Emma bit her antagonist very severely