St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-11
DISTRICT COURT BRIEFS.


Yesterdays Criminal Suits-A Good-Si=ed
Damage Suit-1ssets and Liabilities.
A. B. Jackson ana G. R. Palmer bring suit
against William Badger to recover SIS, 900
damages for breach OF contract. Feb. 10
the defendant contracted to sell to the plant
ifs the southwest 4 of the southeast u sec
ton IS, town 29, range %, but March gave
notice of refusal to comply with the terms of
the agreement. The plaintiffs claim that the
property was worth $40, 900 and that they
have been damaged to the amount asked for
by the defendants breach of contract.
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
Schedules were filed in the assignment Of
Peter Arnoldy showing that the assets
amount to 81, 100. 80, consisting of stock and
fixtures. The liabilities amount to 81, 649.97,
the Minneapolis creditors being Adolph
Winquist, S7S6s; Christcna Lessman, $500;
Peter Demonds, $500; Littlefeld 81 Co.,
S29.S0; D. F. Hallett 800; Lucy Arnoldy,
5000. Arnoldy ran secondhand store on
Washington avenue south.
THE USUAL DIVORCE.
Maria H. Nyborg, 80 years old. asks the
court to grant her divorce from John Fl.
Nyborg aged Ga. They were married in
1853 in 1858 in Norway, and lived together
until 1881. He was habitual drunkard
and squandered all his earnings, so that for
twelve years she was compelled to support the
family by hard labor. With his consent she
emigrated to America, and they have never
lived together since.
CRIMINAL MATTERS.
James Norton, indicted for larceny from
dwelling located at 243 First avenue north,
changed his plea of not guilty to guilty OF
simple larceny. He was sentenced to ninety
days in the county Jail.
John Miles was indicted for entering Henry
Schuler's saloon, 112 North First street, aud
stealing $50. a marked English shilling
was found upon the defendants person,
claimed to have been part of the missing
money, and this together with other circum-
stantial evidence constituted the case against
him. The jury thought him innocent, and
promptly returned verdict to that effect.
Herbert D. Stanley plead guilty of obtain
ing money under false pretenses by mort
gaging horse belonging to Danforth & Son
for S35 as his own property. He was tried
also upon an indictment for stealing horse
and buggy from Danforth & Sons livery
stable, was found not guilty by the jury and
ordered discharged.
james Casey, who picked Officer Joe Lau-
rence's pocket in Huntington & Mayors
saloon, had his trial Yesterday and was found
guilty. He was remanded to await sentence.
James Martin, who stole horse and buggy
from Woodcock's stable, was found guilty
Monday and was sentenced by Judge Koon
to three years in the penitentiary.
FUNNY FIRE.
The Raroc a Hurting Fiue Created in a
Female Seminary.
Between and O'Clock last evening an
alarm of fire was sent In from a box on
South First street. AS general proposition
a fire alarm in Minneapolis attracts but little
attention, but this one started perfect ava
lanche of humanity tumbling in that direct
ton. 1t may have been because it was near
the mill district, or the cause may have been
different, but at all events the crowd
went. In a stately mansion, No. 221
South First street, the fire fiend was
at work, but what lent interest and excite
ment to the occasion was the fact that the
house is a Young ladies' boarding school, pre-
sided over by Miss Hattie Mcbride. The pupils
of the institution were al their evening meal,
when fumes of burning wood began to per-
wade the room and presently the announce
ment came from the kitchen that the roof
was on fire. The scene that followed baffled
description. The young ladies ran about in
the widest disorder, some wringing their
hands helplessly and hopelessly and others
making frantic efforts to crowd their numer-
Gus evening toilettes into their trunks and
throw them out the windows. By this time
the fire department was on the scene and the
gallant fighters of the flames applied them
selves, half to extinguishing the fire and the
other TO comforting and reassuring the tmid
and frightened young girls, in which irk-
some task they were assisted by numerous
volunteers from the crowds in the street.
The fire was easily subdued. A flame from
the fue had crept under the rafters and the
slight blaze which followed was readily ex-
tnguished.' 1t was no easy task to restore
confidence in the bosoms Of the ladies and
long after the fire was out some Of the voiun-
teers were still there engaged in the irksome
duty.
THE CnTRTS