St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-10
AN IMPECUNIOUS LOT.
The City's Workhouse at Como Filled
to Overlooking.
Bad Air and Strange Insects-A Medley of
Accusations.
Tramptown and vagrantville-A Dairy
Product Trouble.

The fun OF cutting up a prank in the
streets of st, Paul after the poultry has gone
to roost and the suburban dogs have COM
menced their nocturnal serenades is thor
oughly played out as far as the romance. OF
being brought up in the morning to answer
for such peccadilles to his honor
before crackers and coffee. Yesterday
morning as the GLOBE representative was
pursuing his investigations in the spacious
court room Clerk Faifchild brought his fist
down upon the California mahogany of his
desk and made the echoes ring with the
stentorian exclamation: ''In all my ex
perience in this court this month caps all
periods for the ragged, shiftless. squalid,
moneyless, ill-visaged, ill-begotten crowd
that has poured in these doors for hearing.
The workhouse has accom- modations for only
sixty sinners, and during the past two weeks
up to Tuesday we have swollen its registry
ia eighty-four, and to-day sent them cargo
of ten more. When and where this state of
things is going to head up the devil only
knows"
All this while officer Choose, armed with
starch box full of bug powder, was running
tim tube insect-slayer over the hemp mat
ting to cruelty the Forepaugh menagerie of
creeping things which had fallen from the
garments of the tramps, and sprinkling
camphor gum in spots to sweeten the atmos-
phere soured by the fetd breaths of the days
squad of impecunious visitants.
Ed Powers, the juvenile trunk viewer, was
let off from term at the reform school on
guarantee that he would go out of the bust
ness; Taylor 81 Craig paid 50 costs for OBJ
structing the kings highway, (these mon
archs being the people, having cleaned up
their litter; N. Blair paid ten spot for his
Sunday dash on the turnpikes with his best
girl and much abused span of livery horses
who couldn't strike back; r. Provier was
returned TO his soli.ory cell in jail to see if
any OF his larceny swag would tumble up
against him by Saturday, while the case of
|. Redding for larceny was dismissed because
the weary copper on the night beat who ar
rested him failed to leave his couch to ap-
pear with his charges.
+. Johnson, scooped in on the telling
count of being drunken vagabond, was
hoisted into workhouse bondage for thirty
days; John Doherty, a seedy drunk with
frizzlcd hair, caught on to five days in the
same institution, while G. Fromm, from no.
body knows where, a dead broke tramp armed
with secondhand revolver, was given
similar ticket.
smile Of satisfaction stole over the face
of the court when J. Jrubel, a Fort Smelling
colored veteran, pointed up So bill for hay
ing been too intimate with old Bourbon, but
tad l. IA.
negative uncoated with collection, when NJ
Arnson, for the same offense, couldn't find
a nicklc in his old vest, and was ordered to
spend a week at the county work house.
The delegation from Tramptown and Va
granville were ordered to stand up in row,
and would have scared hedgehog into an
apoplectic fit had they met him rod away
from his hole. S. B. Sherborn, detected in
trying to unlock dwelling house without a
night key, was sent up for thirty days, and
j. Thompson, A. Scherwin and F. Miller
took similar trip for ten days each.
G. Walton, wild Sioux from Dakota av-
enue, was given job for twenty days at the
workhOuse for disorderly conduct, he having
become chronic fighter and growler and
being as touchy on apartment rights as q
Mauch Chunk coal miner.
The case OF +. X. Brosseau who, after let
ting 3. Baker see the amount of tactical
fluid, sweet, sour or butter mixed he was
handling, and how the hens of Ramsey
county also matched up to the cows to make
profitable his business, sold his milk depot
to him on Wabashaw near the corner of Sey-
enth street for $4,000, of which amount $500
was in II promisory note, was continued to
next Monday. Baker had f. X. arrested on
warrant for obtaining money for his depot
under false representations that he sold ten
cans Of cream, 100 gallons of sweet milk
AM three cans OF butter milk per diem, and
eggs an infinitum. +. X. however will de-
fend by contending that Baker is trying to
blackmail him for that part of the purchase
money us represented in the note of $500,
and both the cream and the yolk of the
transaction seems likely to be turned into
something not as palatable as ice cream at
the hearing.