Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-18
CITY GLOBuLEs.

CITY GLOBULES.
A back pension allowance of $1,000 was
relieved at the adjutant generals ofics
yesterday.
City Engineer W. a. Somers, who lost q
child by diphtheria last week, has another
child lying at the point of death with the
same disease.
The business transacted at the st. Paul
posto,fce during thirteen working days of
the present month amounted to $9,48013,
as compared with $685.. 43 for a CORE
spending period in December, 1882, the
increase being $644.70.
Adjutant general Hawley received no
tee from Washington yesterday that the
commissioner Of the pension bureau al
Washington is about to publish the name
ana postofice address OF every pensioner
on the rolls Of the United States.
The wife Of D. @. Horn, &c West Tenth
street, retired to rest On Sunday night
evidently IN good health and was found
dead in her bed yesterday morning. The
physicians pronounce the cause of her
sudden death TO have been heart disease.
G. Z. McCray, sheriff of Swift county,
passed through the city yesterday TO lock
O'Eare, sentenced to one years hard labor,
and Oliver and Thomas Hill, sentenced
each for three years, to the same ineti
tuition.
There are protests on The part of prop
ehy owners in regard TO paving with oe-
dar blocks St. Peter street from Third to
Martin and Broadway from Third to Min
nesota, and the board of public works are
taking time to determine whether this
feeling is q majority one or not.
The famous driveweII suits came to q
sudden termination in the United States
circuit court yesterday when Judge Nelson
entered decree of dismissal in the case
of VIM. d. Andrews and others against
Royal D. Gone. An appeal was taken by
plaintiffs to the supreme court of the
United States.
Yesterday afternoon dapper little lady
very we'll dressed and intelligent as to sp
pearance, hustled into Chief Clark's Office
and wanted to get a warrant for the arrest
of her husband. j. R. Hanley. She said
he had assaulted her, but she bore no evil
dence of having been abused. She was
referred to the police court.
couple of very small, but very bad
boys, named Pat McDonough and John
O'Maly, were arrested yesterday after
noon on the charge of forging the name
of j. N Granger, the lawyer, and collect
ing SO on the same. One of the lads
was formerly an offico boy for Mr.. Grang-
or, and neither is over fourteen years of
age.
The annual sele of sittings in Plymouth
Congregational church took place last
night, the pews being disposed of without
bidding or com petition. A majority of
the congregation retained their old seats,
bonus of $25 being given in most in
stances for this privilege. Several pews,
with the bonus, brought 1925, while a few
sold as low as $15.
Chief Black was busily engaged yester-
day in removing the furniture and effects
of his Office to the new fire department
headquarters, corner of Eighth and Mime
sofa streets. BY evening he was fully in
stalled in his handsome new quarters as
hitherto described in the GLOBE, and last
night he and the commissioners were "at
home" to quite a number of callers.
The members of the fire commission
and the council committee on fire depart
ment met Yesterday morning and formally
inspected the new fire department head
quarters, corner of Eighth and Minnesota
streets. The handsome building was duly
accepted. Besides the Office of Chief
Black, which is situated on the third Hosr,
the building contains the chemical engine,
hook and ladder truck No. 2, and the sup
ply hose cart.
Attorney General Hahn has given an
opinion to Public Examiner b. M Knox
that owing to the expiration of the term
of Office of the present county treasurers
January instead of March L and by the
incoming of the newly elected treasurers
on January the counties will have to pay
both the outgoing and incoming treasur-
srs's salaries for January and February in
order to get the new constitutional amend
nent over the dead centre.
President Delano, of the board of gfre
commissioners, has decided that the new
department headquarters should be inaug-
urated by an old-fashloned house warm
ing, and it is understood that he intends
setting 'em up for few of the boys and
the members of the commission about
January l. The programme is not fully
matureo, but ali who know the efficient
president Of the board appreciate the fact
that whatever is undertaken will bein good
style.
The set of state standard weights and
measures by which, according to law, each
county of the state must test and thereby
establish for itself standard weights and
measures, were burned IN the old capitol
fire and the state has been without such
until few days since, when State Treas
urer Kittelson, who was in Washington