Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-22
CITY GLOBULES.

phy, PLAIN QrunKS, palC INES OF % edcn
in the municipal court yesterday morning.
The earth was being prepared yesterday
for the reception of the row of trees that
are to be set out around Rice park inst
outside the sidewalk.
The State Firemen's Life association
yesterday paid 1891 to the parents of the
late Albert Item, former member of the
st. Paul fire department.
Mr.. 4 B. WiIgus is not a candidate for
alderman in the Second precinct of the
First ward as has been reported, but is a
candidate for school inspector.
City Treasurer Refs yesterday dispensed
$4,000 to city contractors, the Fort street
and sidewalk contracts absorbing the
greater proportion of the amount.
The capitol grounds have been raked
clean of the accumulated debris of winter
and of building. Three bids have been
made forthe job of grading and swarding.
The plat commission were in session for
a short time yesterday afternoon, and
adopted the plat for Chas. Weide's rear
rangement of block 81, Arlington Hills adj
dition.
The Sohmer piano from Mrs. NC. Thay-
er's establishment, used at the st. Luke's
hospital entertainment Wednesday even
ing, was purchased by Rev. DR.. Thomas,
rector of ST. PauIs church.
Mr.. VIM. Berlandi, for several years past
manager of the Pioneer Press Autograph
ing rooms, has severed his connection with
the institution, and will soon commence
business for himself corner Of Fourth and
Wacouta streets.
Mary johnson, colored woman, stole
tlerce of lard from McIntoshs butcher
shop on Robert street last night. She was
yanked to the cooler, and will have to ex-
plain to Judge Burr tomorrow how she
came to be so slippery.
The firm of Hersey, Bean & Brown,
Saltwater, have commenced suit in the
Ramsey county district court, against the
Church of Our Lady of Kildare, (Catholic,)
for $137.50, for labor done and material
furnished the organization.
The work of ornamentation of the resi-
dence grounds of Com. Kittson has COM
menced, under the direction of A. M. Butz,
landscape architect and gardener. Those
of Messrs. Auerbach and Forepaugh and
of Mrs. Pascal Smith are also under his
charge.
The three teachers institutes which
closed on Friday last showed an increased
attendance over last year and an increased
general popular interest. That at Elk
celsior numbered an attendance of 101, at
Benson forty three and at Lac qui Parle
thirty-four.
Capt. Clark yesterday recovered a num-
Der of the pieces of cheap jewelry stolen
by Fox and his pals from the store of KraI
& Buchta on the night of the 9th inst
from colored man working in Robert
Cody's saloon, East Third street, to whom
Fox had sold it,
Fred Windorf, John Fox, Joseph Conallin
and Frank McManus, the four burglars
and sneak thieves, so handsomely caught
Friday by Capt. Clark and Detective
O'Connor, waived examination in the mu-
nicipal court yesterday morning, and were
held to the grand jury, going to jail in de-
fault of bail.
He was quietly going down Third street
yesterday afternoon clad in the Mclean
mans shoes and hat, when one of those
elevating gusts of wind swooped up from
the river and lifted his felt into the center
of the street, and uttering an oath in the
tea-chest language he furiously chased it
muttering ''damme old hattee, gottee all
muddee, too much washee, too much
windee."
Fanny Frisbee has commenced proceed
ings in the district court for divorce from
Rossel Frisbee. The parties were married
in ST. Paul Aug. 1, 1881. Plaintiff alleges
L 10, lot Oh he
after her marriage, her husband COM
menced drinking and remaining out late
at night, which he has ever since contin-
ued to do, neglecting her support, and
abusing and beating her, for which she
asks that the marriage contract be an
nulled.
Morris Roche, one of the parties accused
of being connected with holding up man
at this corner of Ninth and Cedar streets,
in the month of November last, in the trial
of whose case the jury disagreed, was re-
leased from the county Jail yesterday upon
$1,000 bail, his father Michael Roche and
J. G. Donnelly, going upon his bond. G..
F. Diamond and Milton Gray, accused of
participating in the same robbery, are
still in JAIL
The Manitoba house, lower East Third
street, was the scene of a lively serape
about o'clock last evening, in which John
Herman, the proprietor Adam Snider, his
bartender and John Fallon, boarder, par
ticipated. The trio were arrested and es-
corted to the station house, but Herman was
released upon depositing $50 for his ap-
pearance Monday morning. Snider. in
addition to the charge Of drunk and dis
orderly, will be called upon to answer to
resisting the officer.
A genteel-appearing colored man named
Lycurgus Thornton was arrested yesterday
morning by Officer Gibbons upon a tele
gram from Eau Claire, Wis, charging him
with the theft of $500 from man for
whom ne worked in that place. Thornton
denied the charge, and explained that the
man for whom he had worked had been on
spree, and ne had taken his money to
save it, and exhibited an express receipt as
proof he had returned it. Later in the day
telegram was received stating that the
money had been received all right and
Thornton was discharged.
Diamonds, first class gems set in tasteful
1nountings Also largest assortment of fine
rings at Geist the jewelers..