Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-16
CITY GLORULFs.

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council will NEST at 5 O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon.
Chief Black will remove his Office TO the
new fire department headquarters to-mor-
row afternoon.
Chas Ross-not the long lest little Char
leland John Wagner were locked up for
vagrancy at the city hall last evening.
James Cotton was arrested yesterday
afternoon and looked up at the city hall
for obtaining goods on false pretences.
Last Friday over $4,000 outgoing letters
passed through the st. Paul postofhoe.
This is the biggest days work on record.
The evergreen Christmas tree trade has
a large lay out of goods in the vacant lot
north of the Cathedral school on Waba-
shaw street.
The grand and petit jurors for the next
term of the district court were drawn yes
terday. The grand jury commences its
session Jan. s.
Nicols & Dean filed suit in the district
court yesterday to recover judgment for
$I,s81.42 on a promissory note given by
Oowing & Brown.
The saw mill and portable engine be-
longing to the post at Fl. Smelling were
destroyed by fire early yesterday morning.
The damage was $500.
Peter Pfeifer gave a complimentary
ball on the new dancing floor of his hall
last evening, which was attended by a
large concourse of his friends.
The city engineer has completed the
specifications for the Seventh street via
duct, and they are being inspected by q
large number Of prospective bidders.
Diphthecia is very prevalent On the ele-
waited ground in West St. Paul, and this
disease, with typhoid fever and scarlet fe-
yer, Is quite general in all parts of the
state.
On motion of Il. T. Stevens, Esq, IN the
district court yesterday morning, F. s.
Fitzpatrick, Esq, was permitted to practice
in the courts Of Minnesota, having pre-
sentad q certificate from the circuit court
of Virginia.
Ole Goldberg and Chris Larson, alias
Hans Olson, were ordered committed to
ST. Peter for insanity, by Judge McGrorty,
of the probate court, yesterday, and Louis
Ray was discharged, not proving TO SO de-
ranged in mind.
The members of the fire commission,
the committee en- public buildings and
the city architect will meet st 10 O'Clock
tomorrow morning End inspect the new
fire department headquarters at Eighth
and Minnesota streets.
james Lee, of Sherbourn county, was
before United States Commissioner Car
dozo yesterday, on the charge of selling
liquor to minors. Il is alleged that he sold
liquor to boys by the quart, and he gave
$500 eecurity for his appearance at the
June TORN Of court.
Judge McCrary and jury in the United
States circuit court, were engaged yester-
day in trying the case of William r .
Mitchell against tho Burlington & Cedar
Rapids Railroad company, in which action
was brought for $4,000 for alleged per-
sCnal injuries. The case was given the
jury al 5 o'clock.
An alarm of fire was sent in from box 10
yesterday at 5:15 p. 70. The blaze was
caused by the carelessness of a girl, who
dropped a lamp and set fire to the second
story of the two-story house, 1856 Third
street, and occupied by j. Q. Haas. The
fire WIS smothered by the chemical, infict-
ing a loss Of about $50 all told.
He was discussing the cause of diphthe-
ria. and put its unusnal prevalence at the
threshold of double windows and ooal
stoves. why" said he, more than ff-
teen people week in st. Paul 60 to bed
shut up in houses with double windows
with their coal stoves at full blast, and
wake up and find themselves dead in the
morning"
The new courthouse commission was
to have met yesterday, but in the absence
of a quorum the meeting was adjourned
until Tuesday afternoon at O'clock. Five
bids were received from parties DESTROYS
of having hand in the removal of the old
court house and of making the excava-
tions, bat fol the same reason as noted,
they were not made public.
Since the opening of the Union Pacific
railroad the postoffice authorities have
been puzzled over letters addressed "Day-
ton, w. t." and as there is town by this
name in both Wyoming and Washington
territory, it is impossible to tell for which
place the mail as above addressed is in in
tended. The senders of mail for either
point should be more explicit.
On account of the absence of the
beautiful snow" a great number of per-
sons VINO would otherwise be employed at
this time of year in the forests numbering,
are in the Minnesota cities and towns
shifting as best they can for food and
shelter. In StsPaul the workhouse and
poorhouse, helped on by this condition of
things, are uncomfortsbly crowded.
Samuel A. Beeoher filed a petition,
bond and order in the district court yes
terdey, for the removal of his suit against
James A. Dove for $4,000, for breach of
contract, to the United States circuit
court. The action is brought by the
plaintiff for being ousted as agent for de-
PENDANT in the disposal of certain patented
dental Improvements in Minnesota and
Dakota, on which portion of the royalty
was to accrue to plaintiff for their intro
ductiop.