St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-07
THE CITY.
CITY GLOBULES.

In 1888 st. Paul had 165 lawyers, which in
1884 have increased to IFS, net gain OF So
The crops in Reserve township are being
harvested and large yields are reported all
around.
John Lewis, of Goodhue street, was arrested
by Officer Wright yesterday afternoon on
Che charge of abusing his wife.
A fine crayon portrait of State Auditor w.
w. Braden was delivered at the state capitol
yesterday, and will adorn the walls OF that
department.
The entrance to the abstract office is now
changed to that fotmerly leading into the
rooms just vacated by the probate court in
the court house.
The clerk of the United States circuit
court was engaged yesterday in taking depo-
Bitions in the case of Geo. j. Desnoyer
against Dennis Ryan and others.
An action was begun in the United States
circuit court yesterday by VIM. II. Clark
against James G.. Brown and others, to en-
force the payment of a judgment for 50, 493
Judge Brill refused a new trial yesterday
in the case of o. NJ. Woodward VS.. Stephen
S. Glidden, the jury having given 5000
verict against the latter for false imprson-
ment.
The state examining board, consisting OF
the governor, attorney general and secretary
of state, gave State Treasurer Kittleson call
On Tuesday afternoon, finding the state &C
counts in apple-pie order, with nice little
balance Of 1896, 795. Oh in the treasury.
About 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon a
Swede named j. Oleson, employed in haul
ing sand adjacent to the lower terminus OF
Mississippi street, was attacked by several
men supposed to be in the employ Of one OF
the railroad companies, and robbed OF S6.5O,
all the money in his possession.
In rowing across the river yesterday, OPP
posite the elevator at the foot Of Wacouta
street, Frenchman picked up the fetus of
a male child apparently eight months old.
1t had evidently been in the water some
time. Coroner Quinn ordered it sent to the
undertaking rooms at Eighth and Wacouta
streets.
Loo Sing is the chief engineer Of washee
establishment in lower town and doing bust
ness ON a strictly cash basis, he has no use
for Chalk. He was arrested yesterday after
noon ON Il search warrant which charges him
with keeping back a bundle Of linen left by
customer. He said, the 'melican man 'say
chalk hin! down Johnnie, but Chinaman him
no chalaie; chalk played out" He was re-
leased on SO bail.
The flooring Of the reception room Of the
state auditors department at the
capitol was found to be so badly
dry-rotted yesterday as to cause re-
laying, it being originally Of Norway pine
and having been laid hardly two years. The
secret Of the rot was discovered to be a sur
face covering Of cenoeom and the location
of the historical vaults directly beneath the
flooring which completely shut out ventila-
ton.
On Tuesday night the council granted
Building Inspector johnson the privilege of
purchasing safe for his office, and yester-
day he called on c. C. Miles, the agent of
the Detroit Safe company, and had $40
safe moved to the building inspectors rooms
at the city hall at once. This is a very proper
procedure, as there are now great many
papers in this Office that should be preserved,
and the lumber piles and other combustible
materials that half surround the city hall
render it very liable to destruction by fire.
About noon yesterday Detectives Kenally
and Ahern took into custody Thomas Graham
and Chas Bryant on the charge of swindling
passenger on the Northern Pacific railroad
out of $50 by means of the bogus check or
confidence racket. The victim was green
German, and an account of the transaction
appeared in yesterdays issue of the GLOBE.
The men answer the exact description of the
rascas who turned the trick and they are
recognized by the police as two veteran con
1idcncc workers of Kansas City, Mo.
An action tor 81 900 damages, on the
grounds of false arrest and Imprisonment,
was begun in the United States circuit court
Yesterday, by Richard NJ. Bruno against
John Bowling and Daniel Sullivan, of Fergus
Falls in this state The complaint alleges
that while a passenger on the Manitoba
railroa d on the 9th day of last July the
plaintiff was taken from a sleeping car ut
Furgus Falls and imprisoned in a common
Jail for period Of three hours. He claims
that the arrest was made without warrant
and that his good name and credit was
damaged to the extent named.
For all bodily ailments, aches and pains,
st. Jacobs OIL the great pan-cure, is unsur-
passed, and all for fifty cents.