St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-19
CAPITOL NOTES.


visit to the Saltwater penitentiary on Fri
day.
Requisition papers were obtained from
the governor by County Attorney Egan
Yesterday for the arrest of some criminal
who has fled the state.
c.. E. Lindberg, prominent citizen. and
H. P. Starke, postmaster of Grove City,
Meeker county, called on friends at the
state house yesterday.
The state library was in receipt yesterday
of volumes rs, II and rs Of the Reports of
the Supreme Court of Virginia and volumes
y. ID and IA of Missouri Appeals Reports.
State Auditor W. W. Braden returned to
the city yesterday from a weeks visit to
his old home in Fillmore county and re-
ports the season so backward there on ac-
count Of the slowness of the melting off of
the heavy SHOWS of the winter and the late
heavy rains, that seeding has not yet COM
menced.
Gov. Hubbard received from the general
land office, department of the interior. at
Washington, yesterday, a transcript of
1851 $1,000 acres of selections of land in
the Redwood Falls district. 2. 84S 15-1OO
acres in the Fergus Falls district, and 3, 1922
400 acres in the Benson district.
MEETING OF BOILER INSPECTORS.
The newly-appOinted board of state
boiler inspectors met at the executive rooms
at the state house yesterday morning. The
oath of office was administered to them bv
Mai. Victor HjOrtSberg, assistant secretary
Of state, and they afterwards organized by
the choice of T. A. Scott of ST. Paul as
president and G. A. Seley of Duluth as
secretary.
The day was occupied by outlining the
duties to be transacted by the board and de-
Gliding upon the necessary blanks and forms
necessary for transacting business. The
permanent headquarters of the board will
be located at the state house, and Inspector
J. f. Cushing of that city says they expect
in about ten days to hold a session in Min
neapOlis to examine applicants for the office
of chief engineer.
AGAINST THE BONDS.
At a special election held in the several
townships and wards of st. Louis county on
Saturday, April II, on the proposition sub
mitted by the st. Paul, Brainerd q North
western Railroad company to bond the said
county in aid of its construction, the vote
stood yes 3, no 2,046, or 2,O43 majority
against the measure. The Second ward of
Duluth gave the proposition / vote of the
received, and the town of Breitung 2.
THE STATE LUNACY COMMISSION.
The lunacy commission of the state, COM
posed of G. Weston Wood, w. III. Leon
ard and G. II. Boardman, report, April II,
that there are 1852 men and 284 women under
treatment at the st. Peter insane asylum.
From October, 1884, to March, 1885, there
were admitted 1913 men and 62 women.
During the same period 80 men were dis
charged and 100 women, of which
a large proportion were transfers to the
Rochester hospital. During the same months
there were forty deaths-eighteen males
and twenty-five females. Only three pa
tientS are relapsed and only two are under
restraint. Not less than 80 per cent. have
been employed during the winter, and in
one of the most unruly wards there are
siXty-seven women, twenty-six of whom
have been found capable of some occupa-
ton. The fire department of the institution
is in good order and the building is in a
good fre-proof condition. The service in
the Institution is generally commendable.
The commission detail the homicide in
the st. Peter asylum in which Mrs. DeWyse
killed Mrs. Johnson, and say it was one of
those happenings among the insane which
are unavoidable. In this instance Mrs.
DeWyse seems to have been irritated by the
of Mrs. johnson, crushed in her
skull with piece of chamber furniture,
and then jumping into bed feigned sleep.
The two women had been inmates of the
same ward ever since the commitment of
Mrs. Johnson, three years previous, Mrs.
DeWyse having been an inmate for thirteen
years. The commissioners advise the sub
stitutiOn of rubber i'll place of earthenware
utensils, to guard against repetition of
such an occurrence.