St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-27
AFFAIRS IN THE NORTH
Judge Mcdonnell Going Through sn
Enormous Calendar at Remark
ably Rapid Rate.
An Important Suit in Which Many st.
Paul, Milwaukee and Chicago
Merchants are Interested.
Bitter Feeling Against Mr.. Engle in
Grand Forks For His Structures
on MIR. Mccormack.
The People of the North Expect an
Eastern Man to be Made Terri
torial Governor.
Special to the Globe.


GRAND FORKS. OAK, Nov. 26.-District
court, presided over by Judge Mcconnell,
has been in session here for a week past,
and some heavy cases are being tried by the
young Democratic judge. whose capacity
for hard work none dispute. He is holding
court day and evening. commencing court
at S:45 a. M, adjourning an hour for din
ner, an hour for supper and continuing
until late at night. With a calendar of 1e3
civil cases, twenty continued criminal
cases and about ten newly found
indictments the need for diligence
! is obvious. Among the indict-
ments found by the grand jury are num-
Der against money lenders for charging q
higher rate of interest than the law per-
mits. One defendant is prominent Lara
INQUIRE banker, and another is leading
society man of this city, who is exemplary
in all his relations and owns fine farm or
two in Minnesota. The anmus of the
prosecutions is supposed to be rivalry or re-
venge, or both. A case of signal import
was on trial yesterday. in which large
number of st. Paul. Milwaukee and Chi
cago merchants have more than fanciful
interest, especially if the plaintiff should
win. Readers of the GLOBE will remem-
Der that among
THE HEAVY CRASHES
in the early winter of 1888, caused by the
contraction incident to the unprecedented
snow and blizzardy atmosphere, doubtless,
was the ST. Paul store nominally sailing
under the name of j. K. johnson & Co.
Before the sheriff of this county closed the
store on attachments sued out by Sweet,
Dempster & Co.. julius Stein & Co. and
some twenty others. they indemnifying
him. j. K. Johnston, Michael j. Men
delssohn, Harry Boas and more perhaps,
under the name of j. K. Johnston & Co.,
entered into chattel mortgage to Seymour
S. Titus, cashier of the Citizens National
bank, in, $4,000, and when it
became rocky" the bank, with
the consent of Johnston, took pos
session under the mortgage and
had only been liquidated to the tune of
$40 when Sheriff jerks stepped in and
turned out the mortgage, sold the goods
for $4,000. and hence this suit. If the
plaintiff RECEIVERS, he will get the full
amount of his mortgage, and those who
Unidentified the sheriff will want to assign
quickly, if they are still in busineSs-at
least if the supreme court says SO, too
for the case is likely to go there in any
event. There are three cases in which the
same question is raised and the lawyers are
lighting hard. BOsand & Corlss and Gen.
Wellington, of Iowa, being for the band,
and Noyes & Moves and Bangs & Bangs for
the sheriff. Thus far but few cases have
been disposed of. owing to, various causes.
The business of the court here obviously
requires
A RESIDENT JUDGE,
and no delay should be tolerated by con-
gress. Annent the question of territorial
officers much feeling exists here among all
classes of citizens against George S. Engle.
of a berdeen. for his injudicious attack on
Secretary Mccormack. We all know that
the capable secretary himself does not pre-
tend that he is a polished Greek and Hebrew
linguist, but he is successful business
man, wthal polished gentleman in his
manner, and man of mature judgment,
besides an excellent and honest Democrat
He was born in Minnesota. not
great ways from st. Paul. He
was but youth when he came to Grand
Forks, and he grew up with the city to
competence. In all his dealings and trans
actions he has commended himself to his
neighbors. SO that they delight to honor
him. Although he may not be able. like
his fiery assailant, to find the hypothenuse
of right angled triangle, the base and per-
pendicular being given. he has had good sense
enough to know when he has an Office and
how to fill it with credit. AS to Pierce's
successor, it is highly probable-if a secret
may find room in the GLoBE-that he will
be an Eastern man. The late elections
disappointed number of great Democratic
statesmen beside Speaker Carlisle, who
wants to come to Dakota, and it is definitely
known hereby carrier dove-that the
names OF some of these able Democrats are
even now being proposed to the president.