Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-29
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CITY GLOBULEs.

A regular meeting of the board of
education will be held Monday evening.
A lodge of Select Knights is to be in
structed this evening at the A. o. q. W.
hall.
G. B. Wodison was arrested at the fire
last night on the charge of being disor-
derby.
Judge McGrorty examined Nels Olson
yesterday, whom he found insane and Or
dered his commitment at St. Peter.
A meeting of the Democratic county
committee IS called to take place at the
mayors Office at o'clock this afternoon.
The committee of the city council was
TO have held meeting last evening, but
the members failed to appear and no
meeting was held.
Yesterday Superintendent jenkins, of
the fire department, placed i'll position
box No. CO, located in the st. Paul i Du-
luth railroad shops.
Chief Clarks Office at the city hall is
mads comfortable by a new stove. New
heaters have also been put up in other
Eoouls of the rookerY.
Mr. Kavanagh, the auctioneer, will sell
this morning, at auction, at the corner of
Cedar and Fifth streets, four government
mules and two horses.
Sudlow, the fireman injured in the Du-
Iuth accident Thursday, was brought to St.
Paul yesterday and taken to his home. His
injuries are not regarded as dangerous.
The Office occupied by City Clerk Prem
dergast is undergoing thorough renova-
tion. The lightning calculator says it is
going to be the tony Office of the tower.
Chambers, the Duluth counterfeiter,
will be brought to st. Paul to keep his
confederates company. Sheriff O'Gormsn
says the jail is large enough to hold the m
all.
The new Opera house is taking on some
very beautiful colors ct the present time,
and the work on all parts of the building
is being rushed forward as rapidly as pos
sible.
Yesterday the city engineer was engaged
in testing the foundation of the Seventh
street viaduct, the object being to ascer-
tain how much weight of piling it would
stand.
Sheriff Alexander Morton, of Isanti
county, lodged Benjamin Porter Lyon in
Saltwater prison yesterday, he having
sentenced for nine mouths for the crime
of larceny.
Last midnight Officer Cunnif arrested
young man on Rice street, who insisted
on calling out ''fre," murder" etc. He
is evidently crazy and he was locked up
for safe keeping.
Chris. Justinson reported at city hall
yesterday that his grip sack containing
several shirts, ETC., had been cabbaged by
4. II. Cummings, and the police are after
the latter with long pole.
The clerk of the weather got up little
surprise party yesterday for the benefit of
the summer tourists now sojourning in
this glorious climate eff Minnesota. The
novelty was in the shape OF snow storm
and it was merely arranged to show that
rs a summer resort St. Paul can have just
THAT she pleases.
Hopewell Clark has placed some fine
specimens of potatoes grown at Aitkin,
in the rooms of the State Immigration de-
partment at the capitol. They weigh all
the way up from ten to thirty one ounces,
and the largest one nearly pulls down thu
scales at two pounds.
A verdant young man from Saltwater
reached the metropolis Thursday night
and chartered hack to take in the sights
of the town. He became so disguised
with what he didn't see that he became
blind drunk. The hackman also became
disguised and he took the s. y. m. silver
watch, the latter having gone to sleep in
the back. The affair was reported yes
terday.
For the past week or two the citizens
having business at the Market house have
been annoyed by the solicitations of lit
tie mendicant who represented that she
wanted money to aid her mother who was
sick and poor and had no means of sup
port. Secretary Hall, of the relief society,
investigated the matter and found that
the little beggar is gross imposture. Her
mother was found to be we'll, and she has
healthy robust father, and they own the
house they live in.
Gen. James h. Baker has just finished
harvesting the crops on his farm at Rapi-
dan, Blue Earth county, as follows: Three
acres of blue stem wheat yielded 761S
bushels, or 2511a bushels to the acre; is
acres of fife wheat yielded 1,026 bushels,
or twenty and seven-ninths bushels
TO the acre; 1,775 bushels of oats yielded
SO bushels to the acre; and seven acres of
fax turned out an aggregate of 70 bushels
of seed. A field of IS acres of corn har-
vested poorly, having been partially ruined
blythe frosts.
The case of o. P. Lampher VS.. Margar-
ct Brisbine, in which action was brought
to recover S45 for goods sold; came up be-
fore Judge Burr and jury yesterday
afternoon, and as one of the counsel re-
marked it was suit for blood and not for
money. The plaintiff occupied house
owned by the defendant, and while the
debt was not denied, the answer was set
forth that he had agreed to pay for storm
aoacs put up by the defendant. For the
glaintiff was G. D. O'Brien, mayor, the de-
PENDANT being represented by Judge Elan
draau while the case was heard nv sevaraJ