Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-23
CITY GLOBULES.


Gen. II. D. Flower is confined to his
residence with a severe cold.
The board of trade yesterday adjourned
till tomorrow on account Of Good
Friday.
The case of Thos. G. White, charged with
embezzlement, viii be tried in the munich
pal court to-day.
The funeral of Miss Wells took place
from the residence of her parents, in the
Sixth ward, yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday Jennie Bateson paid an even
century, 500, that being the amount fixed
as her fine for keeping house of lll-tame.
A decision was filed in the district court
yesterday, modifying the judgment of the
probate court in the matter of the guardi-
anship of Benjamin Illingworth.
Fred Kofmaker was before hizzoner yes
terday charged with trying to regulate his
cranky son-in-law, whom he gave trounc-
ing. He gave 800 bonds to keep the
peace.
Mr.. F. R. Delano, who was appointe ed
member of the board of fire commission
ers at the last meeting of the council, on
yesterday qualified by taking the oath of
Office.
To-day being Good Friday legal
holiday in Minnesota, the banks will re-
main closed and services will be held at
the Catholic and Episcopal churches. The
postoaice will remain open as usual.
Dr. Wharton bought the Espy block, on
Robert street, next to DR.. Mintzer's block,
the price of which is not made public and
the contract was hardly concluded before
he was offered a check for $1,000 for the
contract.
Mr. Edward Bazille received word yes
terday of the death of his former foreman,
B. @. St. Germain, who was killed recently
by the falling of a tree in lumber camp
on the upper Mississippi.
The state auditor has issued certificates
authorizing the Bank of Glencoe, at Glen
coe, Mcleod county, to commence bust
ness with capital stock Of $4,000, and
also the Nicollet county bank to open
at S.. Peter with a capital of $4,000.
Dick Pierce called at city hall yesterday,
and left the brass chain and charm found
on the railroad track, and Supposed to
have been taken from him at the time of
the picnic of January l. On leaving it
he remarked that he never wore brass.
An unfortunate girl named Agnes Cole
man was before Judge Burr yesterday
charged with vagrancy. Her friends
turned her out of doors, and the misera-
able waif was sent to the house of cOrrec
ton for ninety days as an act of mercy.
George Miller and Peter Brown engaged
il q free-for-all fight in the Sixth ward
Wednesday night, and they were botf
waited before the court yesterday. They
were fined ten bills each, and sentence was
suspended until to-day, IN order to give
defendants a chance to produce wit
nesses.
John Tilman, so to speak, is placed be
tween two fires. He was before Judge
Burr yesterday on the complaint of dam
sci named Minnie Grounke who is in
verr delicate condition and when his wife
appeared in court it was hard to tell which
was which. 1t is indeed sad state of af
fairs. The hearing will take place to-day
The funeral of Bertram Scheffer vii
take place at P. N. to-day, from st
Paul's Episcopal church. In addition to
wife and three daughters, Mr.. Scheffe
leaves three sisters, Mrs. Lansing of Sal
Francisco, Mrs. Knight of Detroit, Mich.
and Mrs. Du Bots of Hudson, n. Y. H
died on the birthday of his father
March q.
The small, one story brick residence o.
the southwest corner of Wabashaw an,
Ninth streets-the first brick buildin,
erected on the street-has fallen a victim
IN he of bov hoo
torn down yesterday to give place in tim
to an elegant four story business structur
to be built by Mr.. Charles II. Sherman
owner of the Sherman block, Wabasha1
street.
When the case Of G. Mcdonald, charge
with assaulting j. Welch, was called for th
third time in the justice court yesterda
morning, the court wa1ed warm as til
complainant refused to appear and prose
cute An attachment was issued for hin
and he was brought in and fined $40 fl
contempt. Not possessing the lucre,
was committed for twenty days. Jude
Burr intends that there shall be no funr
business in his bailiwick, not if the cou
knows it.
The man who persists IN writing TIL
dandelions are to be the blossoms that g:
quisltes will craze over this year, viii
every time one gives out a slugglshly r.
firing winter hits him with polar thru
in the countenance, and the noise of vince
ings, coughing and sneezing of his fello
citizenship, would if automatically sun
med together, reduce the warblings of
first class minstrel band to a whisper, mu
be another Wilde gone wild.
A householder stopped herculean cc
ored knight of the whitewash brush {
Third street yesterday afternoon and i
quired when he would report and brus
over sundry ceilings and decorate his ga
den fence and grape arbor with the iqr
fed rock purified by fire. "Wall, DO;
dat's Just what I'd like to know" said Sal
DO. ''You see we's all waitin' for o
Lucinda-Kate to scale the fggers. We
up to der times out heah, boss"
About a quarter to o'clock ycsterd
afternoon horse attached to buggy, a.
belonging to Mr.. Brooks Henderson, bro
away from hitching post on West Thi
street and ran away. The animal II
down Third street to st. Peter and start
out the latter street. On reaching -Four