St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-25
CITY GLOBULES.

There have been twenty-nine fire alarms
this month.
The state capitol grounds were thoroughly
slicked up yesterday.
Col. Taylor, of the state library, received
the 109th United States supreme court re-
ports yesterday.
A horse being driven to wagon dropped
dead ON Robert street, between Seventh and
Eighth, last night at II O'Clock.
Cloudy Graft, busted Montana miner on
the homeward stretch for st. Louis, took
lodgings at the city hall last night.
The Burnside Rifles will be here in June,
and number of military companies will
enter into a competition drill with them in
st. Paul.
The state Horticultural society was in re-
ceipt yesterday of forty-fye volumes of the
reports of the forty-seventh congress of the
United States
F. j. Leavitt, No. z, Saltwater st., picked
up ladys shopping satchel yesterday after
noon on Seventh street, which owner can
have by calling.
Mr. Reuben Warner was yesterday appoint
ed fire commissioner by Mayor O'Brien in
place of Mr. T. Kenney, who was not con-
irmed by the council.
NJ. j. Edsell received yesterday morning
dispatch, informing him of the death, at
Fort Wayne, of his infant son, and he left in
the evening for that city.
The Royal Route will carry peoples to
Saltwater and back tomorrow to enable
TEEN to see the base ball game there for
$1.00 for the round trip to Saltwater and
back.
The dust rose in such dense clouds in the
lower part OF the city yesterday and also in
the Sixth ward, that 1t must have made resi-
dents sigh for the old time sprinkling assess
ments.
In the United States circuit court yesterday
in the case of Judge Bros, against w. L..
Anderson, making application and motion
fora Judgment in default, decision was
filed sustaining the plaintiffs.
The legal profession of the city are called
upon to take particular notice of the fact
that next Saturday is the last day for fling
court notes Of issue with Clerk Bell, of the
district court for hegeneral May term of 1884
The famous National Rifles, of Washing
IOI, Will GHCdlup dG McGh,
commencing June 10Th, and the st. P. NJ. d
M. r. r. have perfected arrangements for a
competitive drill. Company D of this city
has already entered.
Officers Walsh and DAILY snapped up four
suspicious looking Migrants early last even
ing named Thomas Burk, James Gaffney,
Charles Miller and Charles Kline, who were
found sneaking about in the vicinity Of the
levee and put under lock and key.
Two men who gave their names as H.
Clark and James Turner were arrested about
10 o'clock last night, on charge of trying
to get into No. AT Robert street. near the
Revere house. Both men had large amount
of yaluables on their persons, consisting of
gold watches and drafts to the amount of
several thousand dollars. They were let out
on bail.
The supreme court decided to give the st.
Paul & Manitoba railway new trial in its
appeal from the Hennepin district court de-
cision in the case of Chas. A. Fraker, a
switchman in the Minneapolis yard injured
in the hand in coupling damaged car to an
engine. In this case the court holds that
such employees take their own risks in the
detail handling Of cars when the company
have proper safeguards and rules and regula-
tons.
An inquest was held yesterday noon on the
body of the man supposed to be ]. G. Ben
nett, at Leigh & Co.'S store on west Third
street The only witness who knew anything
about the case was Mr.. F. Flanagan, the
yard master of the st. Paul & Omaha road,
who testified that he found the body about z
'clock Sunday morning lying between the
tracks, with the head and arm crushed. He
supposed that he must have laid down with
his arm ON the rail and his head on his arm,
and being run over when freight train was
being made up the night before. The body
seems to have been moved about ten feet
The jury found that death was occasioned by
accident and that the railroad company nor
any of its employees were responsible. The
victim was buried yesterday afterwards.
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