St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
CASUAL CHATTER.

Judge Brewer adjourned the United
States circuit court yesterday afternoon
until Sept 10, when Judge Shiras, of
Iowa, will preside on the circuit bench
Il will sleep all day Tomorrow" said
his honor, land have a good rest. Mon
day will hear an application at Leayen-
worth for the appointment OF receiver
for the Missouri. Kansas d Pacific rail
road. and Tuesday will begin the regu-
lar term of court at Kansas City. Judge
McCrary. my predecessor, communicates
to me that he has an importont patent
case, in which an injunction is asked.
Thursday the Iowa I'M junction case will
come up. Justice Miller has gone
East"
The failure of Wetmore & Baker
was widely discussed yesterday in st.
Paul, and gave use to some ugly ru-
morS. One was that heavy financial
crash was imminent in the city.
A leading counselor of st. Paul was
reported to be in possession of the facts,
and was waited upon by representa-
tive of the GLOBE.
No." said he. 81 cannot give you any
information. All | know is strictly con-
fidential, and, as the danger is likely to
be averted. it would not do to make it
public. Besides, | do not know the de-
tails"
A prominent commercial lawyer un-
burdened himself as follows:
81 do not know and cannot tell you
anything. There will probably be more
claims ON Wetmore 81 Bakers estate
than was originally anticipated, but
none of them are st. Paul people,"
Are there likely to be further fail
ureS?'
''None; L think not.'
Representative 81. ii. Bingham, one
of the members of the Philadelphia
congressional delegation. and who is
known throughout the country as the
letter carriers champion at Washing
ton, was entertained by Emerson Peet
at the Minnesota club yesterday after
noon. Covers were laid for fourteen
guests, and among those present were
Messrs. j. j. Hill. Joseph Wheelock, E.
W. Winter, Col. A. +. Rockwell and
Maj. Bates, u. s. A.: Crawford Living
St0n, Senator Sabin, andCoi. Lam born.
During his terms in congress, Gen.
Bingham has successfully aeitated the
eight-hour lrw in the interest of the
letter carriers, as well as an annual
leave of absence of fifteen days with
full pay. He is member of the COM
mittee on postoffices and post roads, land
under Republican rule was chairman OF
that committee.
Assistant Postmaster O'Brien gives
out the rather amusing information that
about 1,S00 lette;S are received at the
st. Paul postoffice every month from the
old countries, principally Norway and
Sweden, without the postage being pre-
paid. He stated that a gentleman who
is well posted on the characteristics of
the people across the water told him
that they send their letters, 10-cent let
tiers, unstamped, thinking the United
States government would take all the
more pains to deliver them in order to
collect the postage due.
There was time when a letter ad-
dressed to Canada, over weight, and
with only 2-cent United States stamp
on it, would not be delivered, but it is
different now. Still Canada is slightly
behind the times. In the United States
the register fee is cents, but in Can.
ada they have reduced it to 2 cents. The
consequence is that registered letter
sent from Canada to the United States
first goes TO the Canadian dead letter
Office, then to the United States dead
letter office, and finally the party tt
whom 1t is addressed gets it after about
a months dalay