St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-21
THE CITY.
CITY GLORuLKS.

u case OF olphtherla was reported yesterday
from the corner of Park avenue and Arch
street.
Judge Wilkin heard quite a list Of real
and personal taxes cases in the district co urt
yesterday
red plush cushion was stolen from g
cutter in front of the Pioneer Press building
Friday night
The sum of $4,000 was disbursed by the
city treasurer yesterday, in payment OF
school teachers salaries for December.
S Elmer was picked up thoroughly full Of
benzine last evening, by Officer Hanft. while
trying to wake the seven sleepers with his
yells.
The sheriff of Mclean county, Dakota,
passed through the city yesterday en- route
for the asylum at Yankton with an insane
person.
Notification Of an increase OF pension Of a
Red Wing veteran, from IS to Sl2 pei
month, was received at the adjutant gen
erals office yesterday.
Franklin Meyer was before U. S. Commits
sioner CarGoza yesterday on the charge OF
selling liquor without having paid the special
taxes. The case was settled.
An action was begun in the United States
circuit court yesterday by the American But
tonhole and Overcoming company VS.. Thos.
3 Mcdonald, to collect debt Of 1879.
The cathedral choir will have a rehearsal
OF the Christmas music at the school house
this Sunday afternoon at o'clock sharp.
A full and punctual attendance is requested.
In view of the demands of the times the
Peoples Ice company have begun operations
to harvest their supply of pure lake ice at
Lake Como, with large force of men and
teams.
The Sportsman's club dance at the Leip
house, White Bear, on Thursday evening.
was a highly enjoyable affair, forty couples
Drawing the cold weather TO participate
therein.
A meeting will be held at the Court house,
Monday evening, of the insured members
belonging TO the Firemen's Life association,
for the purpose of electing directors for the
ensuing year.
Patrick Fory, drunken vagabond lodging
at the city hall for the past six weeks. was
arrested violently tipsy on Seventh street last
night, and will be sent over the road TO the
workhouse tomorrow.
The following marriage licenses were taken
out at the clerks office of the district court
Yesterday: Frank E. Noble and Minnie
J. Cook; E. A. Niles and Emily A. Lewis :;
Noah Morault and Rosa De Roster; o. G. w.
Umn and Matilda Peterson.
A certificate of amendment to the articles
Of incorporation of the Brainerd Water COM
pany were fled by Chas. f. Kindred, presi-
dent and 0. H. Hayil, secretary, with the
secretary Of state yesterday increasing the
capital stock from SIS, 900 to $4,000.
Adiutant General MacCartby will review
The several militia companies in Duluth JAN
uary u, and at st. Cloud January 13, for ad-
mission into the Minnesota National Guards.
the one showing up best in ompettive drill,
10 become Company X, in the Second regi-
ment.
4 fine specimen Of old bruin was displayed
in front of Pottgiesers meat market on Wa
bashaw street yesterday, around which a
crowd of gainins were constantly gathered in
the study Of natural history. Lovers of bear
steaks will cut out this item and paste it in
their caps.
John Plumm stole dressed sheep hang
ing outside the meat market of Geo. Markert
q Son, 562 Wabashaw street, early last even
ing and was making swift tracks to escape
with his ill-gOtten mutton, when he was
Oyerhauled by Officer Phil Gibbons and with
his booty landed at the city nall.
\. McGinness undertook late last night to
crowd past the Waterman and gain entrance
TO the ST. Paul Furniture factory, on Fifth
street, and the door being shut and locked
on him, kicked it in. The Waterman called
Officer Rupp who closed in with the desparado
and landed him at the city hall.
A telephone alarm sent Chief Black and
chemical No. l over to the Pioneer Press
office at O'Clock last evening to a small
blaze in the woodwork of the pressroom, which
was suppressed without the use of the appa-
ratus, and as effectually suppressed from by
islanders congregated on Third street.
The building inspector has refused to
grant permit for the rebuilding of the livery
stable on East Fourth street, burned out
Thursday night and occupied by Shirk &
Abbey The old building was standing
menace TO the adjoining property. and re-
building OF it would raise the insurance rates
Of the neighborhood.
Yesterday Judge Brewer and Jury in the
United States circuit court took up the case
Of J. c Jaynes against J. Z. Haywood and
Peter Smith, in which action was brought for
$4,000 damages. The defendants conduct
hotel at ST. Cloud, and on the night of
August l, 1888, the plaintiff fell into an ex-
rayation on the premises and received seri-
Gus injuries. The case is on trial.
The office of City Attorney Murray is
adorned with several illustrated maps, Civ
Ing views of st. Paul as it existed in 1852,
l649, 1854, 1867 and 1883. He also has the
original plat Of st. Paul, drawn by Ben
Brunson in lS49, and the first map of the
city, which was gotten up by S. P. Folsom in
1854. The maps and views are very valua-
bic, and could not be bought for love or
money.
City Attorney Murray on yesterday picked
uD couple of homeless waits, who had been
biacking boots and as they were orphans
without means of getting along, he sent them
20 the reform school until other arrange
ments could be made. They are both smart
boys, and to-day, while the Christian public
are taking up subscriptions for foreign mis-
Eions, the city attorney thinks it would be
well to have thought of the wolf at our own
door. II all were as charitable as Mr. Muir
ray, there would be much less want and suf-
9ering in the city.
The contract when the steam heating ap-
paratus was placed in the state capitol called
Tor maintaining heat up to seventy degrees
by the thermometer, when the registration
without should stand at forty degrees below
Zero. With double windows on the structure
and late costly alterations made in the appa-
Fatus, sixty degrees of heat is not com mon
in any department in the building in any
weather, while forty degrees is the average in
many of the rooms.