St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-17
THE CITY.
CITY GLoBULES.
The sleighing is superb.
Thie &c mining ueafhar

taxes yesterday.
A case of diphtheria was reported on Rea-
ney street yesterday.
The city schools close next Tuesday for
vacation until Jan. -, 1885.
The only marriage license issued yesterday
was to Peter Erickson and Hannah D. Jen-
sen.
A jury brought in verdict for the city
railway in the suit for damages of Lizzie
Crosby.
The mercury in the little glass tubes rus
Heated at eighteen below early yesterday
morning.
A writ Of attachment was served on T. c.
Nicolai, the Third street wall paper dealer,
late yesterday afternoon.
The sum Of 5000 was paid by Messrs. Ken
nedy & Chittenden yesterday as custom
duties on an importation of Havana cigars
John Anderson and Frederick Frederick
son, the right name of the latter being Caper,
were taken to st. Peter yesterday by Jailer
Rowel aud brother Of the first named lun-
attic.
The case Of John Dillon against Lyman G.
Dayton and wife to clear title to valuable
land on Dayton's bluff was submitted in
Judge Wilkins session of the district court
yesterday.
The ladies of st. John the Evangelist
church are requested to meet at the church
this morning, promptly at 10 O'Clock, to work
at Christmas decorations.
The alarm OF fire from box No. 21S at 1918
O'Clock yesterday afternoon was occasioned
by chimney blaze at Fifth and Maria ave-
nues. There was no damage.
Anashensky Bros, clothing dealers and
gents furnishing goods, 81 East Seventh
street, assigned TO E. Bohrer in favor of their
creditors yesterday. The liabilities and as
sets are in the neigh5orhood of 81, 800,
The many friends Of DR.. Davenport will be
grieved to learn that he is lying dangerously
i'll at st. Luke's hospital. His sickness is
owing to a complication Of kidney troubles.
John Bladenmore was arrested at the cor
ner of Third and Jackson streets, by Officer
Boerner yesterday, for doing song and
dance act on the street. He was loaded with
booze.
The cold snap yesterday succeeded in
driving Slim Jim out of his summer office
coat, and. to declare in favor of Jack Frost
Cd the first round, much to the merrment of
callers at the Office of the clerk of the dis
trict court.
An action was begun in the United States
circuit court yesterday by Samuel W. Mairs
and others against j. NJ Williams and H. R.
Denny, to restrain the sale of lands in
Stearns county levied upon by United States
Marshal Denny to satisfy judgment.
The rattle for the elegant upholstered horn
chair in the box Office of the Grand last
night was won by Mr.. Robert Scott, the as
sistant treasurer of the Grand. The chair
was afterwards purchased by Capt. Albert
Ames. The affair was conducted by Mana
ger Scott, of the Grand, and it passed off
spendidly.
About one O'Clock yesterday afternoon
horse attached to a cutter and belonging to
the Pfeifer lumber company, became fright
ened on College avenue, near Third street,
and ran away. The driver was thrown out,
but escaped injury, and the horse was stop
ped, after running two blocks, by collision
with lamp post.
Aid. Van slyke and City Attorney Murray
were busiiy engaged yesterday in making the
final arrangements for the transfer to the city
of Merriam park which is to be hereafter
known as Lafayette square. The last deed
was passed upon yesterday and the title is
now cleared up. The property cost the city
$4,000, of which Aid. Van Slyke raised
ST, 600 by subscription.
The sudden change of temperature pro-
duced the effect to drive down the mercury,
the thermometers registering 20 degrees
below zero Tuesday morning. At Fort
Smelling the mercury halted at % below
zero. The day Tuesday was sharp and cold;
at noon, the warmest hour of the day, the
register was at zero, and 1 a. IN. Wednesday
morning 81 below.
lively runaway occurred on East Fourth
street about 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
the effect being to badly demoralize load of
furniture. AT that hour frIsky colt attached
to an express wagon, on which was loaded a
couple of dozen chairs, became frightened
and ran away, the chairs being scattered in
all directions along the street. The animal
was stopped after running few blocks and
no particular damage resulted from the esca-
pade
The case of Edwin Gribble VS.. the Pioneer
Press company, for $4,000 damages for
libel, was called in the district court yester-
day morning, but at the request of the de-
PENDANTS counsel, who plead pressing bust
ness in the United States district court. it
was postponed to Monday, December 90, the
struck jury being excused until that date.
This is the last of the jury cases on The Sep
TENDER calendar, and Judge Brill also ad-
journed his court to that date.
An alarm was sent in on box All at 2:46
yesterday afternoon caused by the burning to
the ground of the shanty of John Ludden,
$50 Thomas street, which turned family of
a wife and seven caildren into the street
homeless, none of their furniture being
srved, The loss on the building was esti-
mated to be $50, and on its con-
tents from $50 to 500, neither of
which was insured. The case is
sad and calamitous one for the poor laborer
and his family, and calls for aid and sym-
pathy on the part of the public.
Mr. VIM. Buckley, the energetic and enter
prising editor of the Minneapolis Hotel
Gazette has decided to cultivate a milder
field than heretofore covered by his bright
and newsy paper, in the establishment of
new Sunday Hotel Gazette devoted to general
information, society gossip the drama, sports
and literature. The new paper will be placed
on subscription basis, and it will be COM
prehensive and newsy in the broadest sense
OF the term. The paper will be frst-class in
all particulars, and judging from the brilliant
mark made by its prede cessor, successful
future is in store for it. The initial number
will appear January 4, or IL.
The union meeting announced by Mr..
Moody at his closing service, to follow I'D the
interest developed during the Christian con-
vention, was held last night at the House of
Hope Presbyterian church. The service was
conducted by II. F. Williams state secretaru