Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-01
CITY GLOBULEs.


This evening the land league will hold a
meeting to determine upon the reception
of Mr.. Sullivan.
There were sixteen alarms of fire during
the month of September, of which thir-
teen were fires and three false alarms,
against eight alarms for the correspond
ing month last year, of which six were
fires and two chimneys.
Geo. w. Benedict, Sank Rapids, once an
honored member of the tart preservative"
but seduced into the government service a
few years since, is seeking consolation for
his weakened moral tone by visit to the
friends of auld lang syne in st. Paul.
The grand jury reported number of
indictments to the court yesterday, and
then retired to consult further. The names
of those indicted were not made public
No bills were found against II. NJ. Sour
wine, Larry O'Brien, w. Hartman and Ed
ward Barrett.
A number of gentlemen in st, Paul are
anxious to organize a cricket club in this
city and propose to hold q meeting on
Tuesday evening next, at 7:3O, at the drug
store of Lambie & Bethune, on the corner
of Third and Wabashaw streets, to see
what arrangements can DO made, and what
encouragement will be given toward the
movement.
The committee Of the board of educa-
ton met at o'clock yesterday afternoon
and officially inspected the Garfield school
building, and 1T o'clock in the evening to
consider tho plans proposed for heating
the high school. The reports in both cases
regulsr meeting to be held Tuesday even
ing next.
Captain James Starkey, the well-known
contractor of the Sixth ward, returned
from Fargo yesterday, where he has a
sewer contract, for Sunday at home. His
Fargo contract, which is now nearly COM
pleted, is for sewer on Second avenue
south, 1000 feet in length with an average
depth of excavation of eighteen feet, the
| discharge being int the Red river.
It appears that soulless and unesthetic
| vandals, have commenced breaking off
pieces of the wonderful petrifed stump,
| from the famed Yellow stonevalley land also
pulling up and destroying the flowers in
| Rice park. The police have been in
structed to keep an extra lookout for the
miscreants, and if caught, the full extent
of the law will be imposed.
B. S. Hayes, Esq, portrait painter re-
Gently from Indianapolis, exhibits in the
window of Stevens & Robinson, East 3rd
| street, as the first work of his brush in
this vicinity,a portrait of Mrs. Benz. Wood
vuifo Of tho
intendent of Midway Park. The portrait
is highly spoken of by connoisseurs for its
! artistic merits, while parties acquainted
with the original, pronounce it an admit
rable ikeliness.
| At a meeting of the plat commission
yesterday afternoon, all the members pres
ent, the plat of brakes second addition was
| approved, being the south half of the
southeast quarter of the south east quar-
ter, section 80, town 90, range %, contain
ing 1872 lots. Also Stinson's subdivision
of block 36, Arlington Hills addition, con-
tanning 80 lots; also block A, same descrip-
| ton, IL lots. Also Stinson's subdivision of
block 70, of Lyman Dayton's addition,
containing 80 lots.
Mrs. Callahan, wife of David Callahan
| grocer, Pearl street, died at o'clock yester-
| day morning, after an illness of some four
weeks. About two weeks ago Mrs. Gala
han underwent an operation for an abscess
which apparently resulted most favorably
steady improvement following, but on Fri
day .moring while sitting up in chair she
| had sinking spell, from which she never
rallied, dying as above. Mr.. and Mrs
Callahan have been residents of St. Paul
for the past twenty-five years, and had an
extensive acquaintance among tho old set
| tiers, as we'll as many residents of later
years, all of whom will most sincerely
sympathize With Mr.. Callahan in his great
bereavement.