Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-28
CITY GLOBULES.

lions upon 1nlru slreeG yesterday.
The school teachers will be paid their
monthly salaries to-day, aggregat1ng about
$4,000.
The flower vases with which Rice park
is to be ornamented are being placed in
position.
The fish commissioners are still dlstrib-
uting carp all through Minnesota, Mon
tana and Dakota.
The receipts at Collector Bickers Office
yesterday, were about $4,000 from licenses,
and $1,000 from the sale Of stamps and
other sources.
The gang of exca vators for the Seventh
street paving commenced work yesterday
upon the square between Wabashaw and
st. Peter streets.
Joseph Cook had an overGowing house
Iast evening at Mortified, with excursion
trains run from Faribault and Cannon
Falls that brought up goodly delegations
to hear this celebrity.
A Lafayette avenue and seven corners
steet car broke an axle yesterday forenoon
and came down upon the roadbed with a
crash, which shook the vehicle and the load
of passengers up in earthquake fashion.
W. w. Warren, the young man from
Minneapolis, who undertook to play the
change racket upon Brown, the Wabashaw
news dealer, was given twenty days in the
workhouse by Judge Burr yesterday morn
ing.
Commencing with May 1, a railroad
postoffice will be put on the Worthington
& Sioux Falls railroad, distance of 168
miles, and increasing the service on the
Omaha system west of st. Paul to 231
miles.
The continuation of the setting of the
trance of the state house, has been COM
menced and the work of grading and
swar3ing the grounds has been contracted
for and will be rapidly pushed forward to
completion next week.
Where was JOHN Hinkle and his sprink-
ling carts when Wabashaw street was
famed into the air yesterday, deluging
stores and Offices and filling the lungs OF
occupants and passers by, with the dust of
the refuse that has gathered on the street
since the freeze up of last fall?
The latest war in Connemara was settled
by Judge Burr yesterday morning, who dis
missed Mcclure, put Tierney under bonds
to keep the peace, fined Foley SO, which
he paid, and sentenced Mrs. Foley and Mrs.
Tierney to the Woman's Reformatory, but
suspending the sentence during good be
havlor.
All members of the Minnesota National
Guard are respectfully invited to appear III
uniform, at Pfeifer's hall this evening, on
the occasion of the grand ball given by the
First Regimental band. It's going to be Z
frst-class ball and it is to be hoped the
members of the guards will every one of
them be out.
The biggest real estate boom of the
season on Wabashaw street was yesterday,
when the transfers were continuous from
morning until night, filling the air so thick
with it that the unfortunate pedestrian
could see or breathe nothing else as it was
moved from one point to another by the
strong wind which prevailed throughout
the day. And not street sprinkler ap-
peared upon the scene.
Fl IN. Alex. Logan, ex-mayur; J. D. Muir
ray, chief of police; j. D. Johnston, fire
marshal and building inspector; A. J.
Colquhoun, j. NJ. Ross, w. j. O'Conno1
and G. K. Tuttle, of Winnipeg, visiting St
Paul, escorted by Chief Black of the fire
department and Chief of Police Weber,
paid a visit of inspection to the different
engine houses yesterday, during which
they were given an exhibition of quick
- work by the company manning the Hayes
truck, and also hitching up by the sew.
eral companies.
The rooms of the Y. NJ. G. A. were
crowded last evening at the entertainment
given by the literary class. The singing
was excellent, especially the 'Wood birds
song" by Messrs. Helmick and Swift. ana
the piano solos by Mr.. Grin Caldwell. The
class paper edited by Miss Barwise. an es.
say by Miss Bowie, Rotations by Miss
Gould, Messrs. Swift, Berg and Everett were
all well given. Miss Henrietta Haas, re
cited 'The Maniac" in a highly artistic
manner. The entertainment throughou
was excellent.
W. r. Thompson, general superintendent
of the postal service, calls the attention O.
postmasters and business men, by genera
order No. 129, dated April "a, to the fac
that samples of fertilizers, paints, inks
powders and other unavailable articles
1.re being sent through the mails from
many of the larger Offices, in violation O.
3-her regulations, and directing division
SIP erintendents to institute more rigit
Inspection of fourth class matter, to pu
N end to the mailing of such matter here
after.
State Insurance Commissioner McGil
has his quar- oers at the state house YER,
neatly fitted up with the recent addition
thereto of a. elegant bookcase and othe
necessary furniture. The private desk anC
the most magnificent pair of antlers tina
ever shot out from the caput of a dee
stag graces the apartment, and will b.
remembered by his many friends as one
having graced his quarters in the old stat
house, but which were snatched Just il
time and very fortunately from the Jaw
Of the devouring element at its coming
Y. M. G. A., 366 Wabasha street, unto,
teachers meeting to-day at 4:30 p. M, con
Quoted by Rev. r. r. Riddell, D. D. Yount
Mems meeting this evening at 1870 p. N
Services Sunday as follows: devotiona
meeting at $50 a. m; bible study at 2:3
M, led by Mr.. A. Nash; gospel meeting