St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-19
THE CITY.
CITY GLoBULES.

taxes yesterday.
Plymouth church rents its pews Tor the
year to come next Tuesday evening.
Evergreens are becoming very abundant
now and show that Christmas is coming.
The gas lights all over the city were dim
med by the intensity of the frost last even
ing.
The Merchants hotel yesterday put in slid
ing doors between the Office and the reading
room.
The board OF control met yesterday and
issued over fifty orders for wood and provis-
ions.
Moses the Jurisprudent, new lecture by
Hon. John B. Brisbir at Plymouth Congre-
gational church this evening at O'Clock
A young boy was brought into the city hall
last night in an inanimate state Of intoxica-
ton, from which he did not revive for hours.
1t Edgar A. Smith, of Minneapolis, com
pany II, First regiment, Minnesota National
guards, resigned yesterday on account OF
Illness.
a Quite a number Of persons froze their I'm
gers in rolling out wet baled hay at the shirk
81 Abbey livery stable fire on Wednesday
evening.
Michael Waldo, an escaped prisoner from
he workhouse, serving out sentence OF
ninety days, was rearrested by the police yes
terday morning.
Driver Mulllgan, of No. 6 hose cart, froze
his ears in driving over the Wabashaw street
bridge in answer to the second fire alarm on
Wednesday evening.
An increase claim from So to s14 month
was received at the adjutant generals office,
yesterday, for pensioner in Carver county,
carrying with it S122, back pension.
There will be a meeting of the West Side
Citizens union this evening at Bircher's
hall. The committee urge all interested TO
attend. The chair will be taken at 1880.
The cold snap is terribly hard on hundreds
of poor people who are out of employment.
This was evidenced by the crowds of needy
persons who besieged the poor Office yester-
day.
A little eight year old boy named Becker
was found by an officer on the corner Of
Martin and Rondo streets, on Wednesday
evening, with both ears frozen. He had
been running to the fires.
The following deaths were reported yester-
day to the health officer: Matthias H. Men
ger, lightweight years; Ivy May HadIey,
eighteen months; Hulda E. johnson, two
years; NJ. Franciska, six years.
The committee of arrangements for the
late ircmen's ball passed in a check of de-
post of ST, s67.26 to the treasurer of the
Firemen's Relief association last evening at
a meeting of the association at No. / engine
house last evening.
Charles Cook and Louis Lason got into
frst-class alteration in Third street saloon
early last evening, and were arrested by the
police and taken to the city hall, where each
gave bail in S25 for their appearance before
Judge Burr this morning.
Gen. Shields is taking up a subscription
for the relief of the Ludden family, who were
burned out last Tuesday. They lost their
shanty and all its contents, the children not
even having any clothing. They are deserv-
ing subjects, and should be assisted.
Hon. John B. Brisbin will deliver his new
lecture on Moses the Jurisprudent, at Ply
mouth Congregational church this evening
at s o'clock, for the benefit of the Gospel
Temperance union. No one should fail to
hear this eloquent and time houored citizen.
The papers to be read at the First NJ. E
church lyceum tonight will discuss the great
battle of Waterloo. A feature of the enter
tainment will be pen pictures Of the battle
field by one who has been there. Music and
rotations, as usual, will relieve the more
substantial part of the programme.
The tramps have evidently got on to the
fact of the recent accommodations for 220
persons at the workhouse, and have dropped
off nearly one-half in their demand for
lodgings at the city hall, where but twenty
six were registered last night, the number
being accommodated this month being 632,
an average of thirty-fve per night.
Mr.. Littell, the superintendent of the street
car track, complains that the street car track
near the fire on Wednesday evening, on
Fourth street, was unnecessarily flooded with
water. He set men at work at II O'Clock to
cut out the ice and completed the Job at
O'Clock in the morning, when the fremen
again flooded it. Besides this the firemen
drove through the torches that the men had
to work by and put them out.
The piece of ground in lower town, known
as Merriam park, which was purchased for
$35, 900 some time ago by the city of st.
Paul, is now subjected to a hitch, but whether
it will be sufficie ntly serious to prevent the
completion of the sale is a question to be
settled The trouble is, that since the sale
was first made, but before it was really con-
summated, taxes became attached to the
property which some of the sellers decline to
paw. Thus the matter hangs for tho rrasao+