Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-25
Sergeant Signal Corps, q. s.
ToEDAY'S WEATHER,
CITY GLOBULEs.
Merry Christmas.

merry ChriSLinas.
How did your stocking pan out?
The police court will hold short session
TINS morning.
Yesterday was the liveliesb Christmas
ever seen in st. Paul.
Sixtytwo prisoners will take their turkey
at the workhouse to-day.
Judge Brill has appointed Caroline Pill
grim as guardian I'D dten, of Ida and AL
bert T. Pilgrim.
The St. Paul Gas Light company pre-
scented each of the men in their employ
yesterday with turkey and oy sters.
Samuel ID. Lord filed suit agains t
Kerzia Bacon ct al, in the district co urt
yesterday to quiet West st. Paul land
title.
Secretary Young is sending an unusual
large amount of Minnesota statedescriptive
matter across the water to parties apply ing
Tor the same.
The secretary of state is sending ont the
usual stack of birth and death blanks for
their annual returns to the several clerks
of the district courts of the state.
An action in equity has been commenced
in the United States circuit court by James
Glib against Andrew g. Todd, in which
property to the extent of $4,000 is in
volYed.
Oificsr Getchell alighted upon "John
Manbelow" for convenience, but N. r.
Dunbar, Sin fact" last night and lodged
him in the bsstile for stealing a lot of
tools from q man in t. g Sixth ward.
The city treasurer received cancelled
coupons on city bonds from New York
yesterday to the amount of $10,045 A,
and cancelled coupons on board of educa-
ton bonds to the amount of $492.50.
Among the contributions to Uncle Sans
exchequer yesterday was the sum of
$3233o paid by the Smith Brothers, of the
st. Louis, as duties on bonded goods, the
same being an invoice of choice Canadian
whiskies.
Messrs. Crownquest g. Peterson desire
it understood that the statement published
in an unreliable morning sheet to the eff
feet that they interferred with the police
during the recent fire at their establish
ment is false and incorrect.
There was quite family rumpus at q
Sherman house, east Sixth street, last even
ing, in which one of the women was hit
stunning bloig over the head by coon,
which drew blood. No arrests.
john Hussey, evidently being DESTROYS
DIGGING into the junk business on other
peoples capital, despoiled the Fairbanks
scales of John Blom, on the corner of
Broadway and Seventh streets, last night
of aundry weights and trimmings and with
his spells was landed at the city hall by
Officer Pippin.
by telephone last evening as roaming
around like mad lion, endeavoring to
break into the house of his recently d.
vorced wife, near the Lincoln school house
on Dayton bluff. Word was sent to the
officer on that distant picket to rout this
enemy to the peace of that neighb orhood.
VIM. Butler was brought into the bastile
last night raging drunk and disorderIy,
hugging quart bottle having evidently
held the vilest brand of gin in the state,
which he chung TO, Though empty, with
fierce desperation. After preaching g
sermon and quoting several pages of
scripture he dropped off into Christmas
doze.
Late at night the drunken boy Heating
confessed that ne sold the little lying Dis
patch and with three other boys stole into
Henry Gutsche's saloon on Third street.
where one of them lifted" bottle of rum
and concealed it under his papers and
leaving the saloon the bright trio ad-
journed to q back yard and poured the
madness down their juvenile thorax.
John Swanson and John Peterson were
accused by Gust Lyon, who came in late
to the city hall for lodging last night, of
stealing SIS and watch from him at the
Seventh street bridge, after having played
game of pool with him and found he
was from the country, was green, and had
money. He said he worked for Jim DON
ahue, a farmer near Saltwater, and his
case is to be looked up to-day.
The property owners along the streets
where public improvements are going on
are getting quite up on their dignity and
will not allow shoyelful of public earth
thro~n upon their premises and if sloping
iSSh lOI bSekcI uSuduQ THAT earth
banks be cut square down to the street
levels and retaining walls built. A $780,
600 contract on Rice street is quite par
ticulsrly meeting with difficulties of this
descrip tion.
very large circle of friends will regret
to learn that the household of City Engin-
Ger Somers has been again darkened by the
shadow of death. Yesterday evening, after
an illness of several days, there was taken
from them their youngest daughter, a
bright and winsome child five years of age,
This makes the third death in the family
withio the past few weeks, and the family
have the sympathy of many friends IN
their affection.
Among other we'll known citizens seen
on the streets yesterday was William 81.
Bradep, looking greatly improved in health
bs his short visit to the PALMYRA Springs
Sanitarium. His health broke down some
two OF three years since and he has been
an invalid ever since. About December