St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-04
THE CITY.
CITY GLoBULES.

VIII ODO1@G
Six deaths were reported yesterday.
Seventy-three saloon licenses were issued
Friday and Saturday.
Diphtheria is reported in the family OF M
E. Snyder at Banholzer's park.
County Commissioner elect DR.. Konontz,
took the oath OF office yesterday.
Ouly two DAYS remain in which water bills
may be paid without the 3 per cent. extra
penalty.
L. W. RoweTl threw up his position as turn
key at the county jail last evening haVlng &C
cepted a position on q railway.
The annual report OF the building inspec-
tor is nearly ready for the printer, who VIII
put it into the hands of the public in a lew
days.
It's an evidence of very hard times when
skating Kinks give away that Pillsbury A hour
sacks are getting fashionable for nndergar-
ments.
County Attorney Egan commences 10
make up his cases for indictment to-morro"
to be in readiness for the grand jury oil the
January term.
Matt Konzer. the ianitor Of the jail and
court rooms. vacates his position to-morro"
morning toSake the position Of ~janitor Of the
Offices in the court house offices.
Mr.. VIM. Il. Burns, the efficient aide de-
camp to health physician DR.. Hoyt, has re-
turned from a pleasant visit to bis home In
Wisconsin and is at MS old post again.
Mr.. A. H. Eppstein has submitted to the
building inspector plans for a refrigerator
building on the upper levee. 1t IS 10 be d
frame structure, two stories high and MY
feet square.
Candidates for the several sinecures at the
ensuing session of the legislature, were
getting in their lace work around the hotels
YESTERDAY. They are as thick as heas on a
goats back.
The state capitol flag, although somewhat
tattered, will be flung from the masthead on
Tuesday. but if the wild winds prove to much
for it Gov. Hubbard will purchase q new one
to replace it.
Matt Pratz was acquitted Of selling liquor
on an Indian reservation BY Judge Nelson,ol
the United States court, yesterday, and let
out Of the Ramsey county Jail after six weeks
confinement.
y. A.. Peterson, Of Mora, was before
AlaLEA tlAlIo CDul lllAn1lCIhA 49, @
day on the charge Of selling whisky TO In-
dians. He gave bonds for his appearance AZ
the next term OF court.
The final deposits OF 800 each were made
Yesterday by the hackers of Morris Hafey and
&. \. c. Smith, who will fight TO a finish, at
Fergus Falls, tomorrow evening, Prof.
Barnes being the stakeholder.
Some indians claim 10 have lost money in
the fail and United States Marshal Bracket
is to investigate it. The day they were com
United Turnkey Joseph Davis was absent and
therefore no suspicion fails upon him.
A colored lady laboring under the idea
thai she has lost diamonds having, as she
said, put her case into the hands of Special
Officer Nugent, was frantlcally sent to the
city hall by a wdg yesterday afternoon who
reported 10 her that James had struck their
trail
The social meeting at the Temperance
union rooms last evening, was well attended.
Miss Robbins favored the audience with two
piano solos; Mr.. F.. Sephton gave an interest
ing reading, and brief addresses were made
by Hon. j. B.. Brisbin and Mr.. Geo. W.
Woolsey.
A meeting will be held at the chamber Of
commerce room on Monday next, al 4 p. m,
to consider the plan Of charity organization
to be reported by the committee appointed by
a former meeting. 1t is hoped that all the
charities in the city will be represented. All
interested in the subject should attend.
At the Third street fire yesterday, Henry
Ashley, Of truck No. 9, while ascending a
ladder in the rear OF the building lost his
hold and fell twenty feet into the snow be-
meath, spraining his wrist and receiving two
small cuts on the face and nose. II was q
lucky escape for Henry who had an axe in
one Of his hands.
MI. Adam Rack, the popular head waiter
at the Clarendon hotel, draws solid comfort
I'm whiting the fragrant weed from "A unique
and valuable meerschaum pipe. IL was pre-
scented 10 him AS a New Years gift by the
boarders at the hotel, aud he was agreeably
surprised aud appreciative.
The smoke was so dense in the telephone
rooms at yesterday fire that Chief Black and
his boys bud a terrible time living in 1t and
had to break out the front windows to save
themselves. The telephone wires in the
cupola were melted together In one mass and
the Instruments badly broken by attempts to
remove SOM OF them by the operators. The
loss on the building is set down at g.. 900 and
10 the silver plating and telephone machinery
at 81 600. The fire department are unable
10 trace the cause of the fire which originated
in the plating rooms.
Bids were opened yesterday for the elabor
ate furniture aud fixtures TO be placed in the
new National German American bank rooms.
The bids were as follows: johnson Il Hand,
Minneapolis, S5,423; Andrews Manufacture
ing company, Chicago, 1880; BONN Manu-
factlring company, st. Paul, 81, 400; John
son Bros. d Loomis, 81. Paul, 50, 100; ST.
Paul Furniture company, So, 400; Corlles,
Chapman Il Drake, st. Paul, SS,21l. The
contract was not awarded as some changes
have been made in the specifications. 1t Is
significant that the lowest bids were all from
81. Paul manufacturers.