St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-16
THE CITY.
CITY GLOBULEs.

The condition of police officer Casey was
reported as improved yesterday.
Judge Burr returned to the city yesterday
and occupied his old place ON the bench.
An increase pension of from 81 to So was
received at the adjutant generals Office yes
terday.
The city has advertised for bids for the
construction of stone, wood and brick side
walks for 1884.
Ex-Ald. j. G. Mccarthy was bitten in the
, right hand by pet dog couple of days ago
and he carries the injured member in a
sling.
The cornice on the building occupied by
Whitman, Frye & Co., on lower Third street,
is in a dangerous condition, and should be
attended to by the building inspector.
A small boy named Mat Coustans was
caught yesterday in the act of 'pinching'' a
pair of slippers from Warmers store. He
was put in dungeon cell for while and
released.
Bids will be received at the postoffice up to
April for carrying the mail from st. Paul to
New Canada, three deliveries to be made per
week. The new arrangement will go into
effect July LIST.
Patrick Clancy, a railway hand, became so
drunk and boisterous while spending his
months pay for liquids on Mississippi street
last evening that Officer Wright cooped him
up in the city hall.
Building Inspector johnson granted per-
nit yesterday for the erection of the $4,000
Forepaugh block on East Seventh street, and
for the erection of two story frame parson-
age on James street.
A little six-year-old waif whose father is in
the workhouse, was found on the street in
West st. Paul yesterday, suffering from
diphtheria. The child was taken in charge
by kindly disposed persons.
A defendant of Moses called at the police
court yesterday, and said that he had lost his
religion. It appeared that he went to
sleep in saloon and some one stole his
bible. No warrant was issued.
Dan Anderson, very fat Swede, was
found couched out on the sidewalk for the
night last evening and run into the bastile
for drunkenness, but becoming sobered up
was afterwards let out on SO BAIL
James Hansen has begun suit against j..
c. McCarty for SAB. IS, balance due for
work done on a sewer contract held by Nc
Cartha Albert Scheffer and G. II. Lienan
as McCarthy's bondsmen, are made parties to
the suit.
Mr.. A. P. Wallich has opened wholesale
fruit and commission store at No. 119 West
Third street. Mr.. Wallich has arranged to
handle the most extensive stock of fruit ever
brought to St. Paul and his well known bust
oo,4, l. I; @,oI
VIM. Brown, tramp, was found lying on
the sidewalk near the Metropolitan hotel last
night with sprained ankle, and was aided
20 the city hall by two officers. Fully one
third of the tramp dodgers came into quarters
last night filled to the brim with intoxicants.
Pieces of cloth thrown into an ash box be-
came ignited, at half past two O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, and fired wooden building in
the rear of Horan's store, corner of Seventh
and Rosabel streets. The flames were dis
covered and extinguished without calling out
the department.
About twenty men in the employ Of Con-
tractor Cody, and who have been at work in
excavating a cellar in the Fourth ward, called
on Chief Clark last night and complained
that they had been at work over two weeks
They struck and vowed vengeance.
The county auditors Office is to remain as
it is in the county jail building, but the as
SCISSORS and county commissioners are to oc-
cupy the new room being fitted up just to the
east of it on the same floor. The apartments
now occupied by the assessors, by the tearing
down of a partition, are to be thrown in to
enlarge the register of deeds' Office.
Mary Morgan, dapper colored matron,
swore out warrent yesterday for the arrest
of sister named Sis Peoples. 1t seem that
the ladies met by chance and quarrel arose
over tea set which Mrs. Morgan had drawn
at a fair. Sis called her hard names and
tried to throw her down fight of stairs, and
in order to protect herself Mary caught. her
by the hair and held her until she cried
enough.
suit for divorce was begun in the district
court yesterday by Lena Stone against VIII
liam R. Stone, the grounds being cruel and
tnhuman treatment. The parties were mar
RED in Sioux City in October, 1874, and
shortly after the defendynt began drinking
to excess, and abuse of his wife naturally
followed. Things went from bad to worse,
and the complainant alleges that her hus-
band beat her cruelty in bed when she was
in an advanced stage of pregnancy. The
plaintiff asks decree of absolute divorce,
and the custody of the two children.