Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-24
CITY GLOBULES.

State Treasurer Kittelson invested $780,
600 in preferred railroad stock yesterday
for the state school fund.
City Treasurer Refs has received interest
coupons to the amount of $11,905, which
were paid last week in New York by the
financial agent of the city.
An action was begun in the district court
yesterday by g. T. Brainerd against John
A. Weide, to collect $202.61, alleged to be
due on a promissory note.
The st. Anthony Hill nine played a
game of base ball with a Fort street nine,
ST. Paul, Sunday afternoon resulting in
victory for the former by a score of
twenty to six.
The lectures of Prof. W. H. Payne at
the summer school of the state university
at Minneapolis, are given at $3.50 a. m. and
100 p. m. On each day of the present and
next week. There are now IT'S teachers
enrolled.
Secretary b. H. Hart, of the state board
of corrections and charities, made visit
of inspection to the Minneapolis Jail yes
terday, which was found to be in very bad
shape, as the sewer pipes therein which
we're burst last winter are only just being
repaired.
There is law against driving teams
over or upon the sidewalks of the city not
spanning street crossings, and teamsters
are getting so obliviou5 to the fact that
there is talk on the part of the authorities
of making examples of its enforcement
that will secure its observance.
The board of equalization met yesterday
at the auditors Office and went through
the First ward. Last year the Street Car
company was assessed $4,000. This year
that organization returned $4,000 and the
board raised in to. $150,000. No other
business of Importance was transacted.
Mayor O'Brien received letter yester-
day from q rattle-brained fellow in Ma
con, Mo-, in which reference was made to q
reported dispatch in the Chicago Times,
relative to alleged outrages by negroes in
the south, and comparing the same to the
Tewksbury scandal in Mass. IncIossd was
piece of tanned "Nigger Skin" The fell
low is evidently insane.
The preliminaries are being arranged
for glove contest to take place in this
city next week, between John Donaldson,
of Minneapolis, and Capt. Dalton, of Chi
cage. The match will be in four rounds,
and some exceedingly fine and skillfuI
sport is anticipated. The stakes and ex-
act date on which the contest will take
place have not yet been decided upon.
An unaccountable mystery surrounds
the matter of the whereabouts of foreman
Powers jack and other planes which were
left on the scaifelding of the state house
dome on Saturday afternoon, and of which
on Monday morning there could be found
no trace whatever though the premises in
Guiding the capitol yard were thoroughly
searched. For lack O. o.her information
one person asserted hat they must have
been caught up by the stroGg bie..h OF
Saturdays cyclone, which he judges was
presumably strong enough at that altitude
To lift kit Of carpenters tools.
Washburn & Moen, of the manufactur.
ing company of Worcester, Mass, and
Isaac L. EIlwood, of Dekalb, Ill. pro
prietors of the ''Giiddeu wire fence pat
emit" have filed in the clerks Office of the
United States circuit court, in St. Paul. d
complaint against KnatvaId Brothers. OF
Albert Lea, for an infringement on their
patent II the manufacture and sale of wire
fences, asking for $4,000 damages and the
amount Of gains and profits accrued from
sales made by Kuatvald Brothers. The
proPrietors ask for a restraining order pro-
hiblting the further sale and manufacture
SuhpoeHas have been issued requiring
KnatvaId Brothers to appear in st. Paul on
the first Monday in September to show
cause why the restraining order should not
issue, etc.