St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-20
Attention Paid the White and
Ray Cases, but Unfavor-
able.
Several Police Court Cases Of
an Unique and Interest
ing Character.
Some Political Gossip Of a
Lively Charaeter--Spring
Elections.

The declining sun threw a few gleam-
ing rays into the dingy council chamber
at O'Clock yesterday afternoon, where
the ineandescent lights glimmer.d half
heartedly. Shadows flashed fitfully
along the walls and in the darkling cor
nerS. The busy hum of traffic arose
from the street. the muffled roar of a
great city, SOftened to dirge-lilxe mo-
notony by the distance, penetrated to
that awful chamber. But nobody
Needed. A gloom, the deep, impene-
trable gloom of death, filled the room
and bulged out into the hall. Five SOL
emn strokes Of the bell in the tower of
the postoflice building fell upon the
clrcumambient atmosphere of sorrow.
The brazen tones sounded
knell and a command-the knell of the
dying council and the command to
divers ana sundry aldermen to
go forth into the market place
and hustle, unprotected by the
breech-clout of aIdermanic dignity.
1Wenty-siX men who had for two long
years upheld the dignity and honor of a
great city, as pulling infant would SUP
port upon his brawny shoulders the
Guaranty Loan building, were to pass
OUT or that chamber where they had SO
oIten cooked their feet upon desks and
eXpectroated small rivers of rich.
brunette tobacco juice. Four of them
were TO return, and their sorrow was
not unmlXed with eXultatiUn; others
mad long since become accustomed TO
The application of the, metaphOrically
speaking, unpadded bed Stat and thew
did not weep; but to Adams, to Phillips.
10 EuStad, to BrueShobrr. that hour was
fraught with pain. They have all gone,
put they are not forgotten, nor will they
De; for while the world continues to
revere and RENE mber ability will the
oratory OF Matchmaker, the fine sar-
caSin OF DOWnS, he earntStneSS of Han
sen, the Misunderstanding Staie-cheese
smile of confidence and genialitv that
ever illumned the face of Sterling, will
DE remembered and discussed around
bohemian fiat firesides. The eighth
wonder OF the world, the Minneapolis
council OF lSS9-9U, is dead. Peace to it's
ashes. The only peace it ever enioyed
on earth was piece of the puollc's
mind last November.
lHere were thirty-one aldermen pres
ent, and before the council convened
wiz commotl0n was caused by some
one starting the story that President
ie'o 0lopdICllcU messenger
for 81 box of cigars, but the rumor
was promptly proven false, and when
The gavel fell there was not sound
heard except the wild shreks emanat-
ing from the moSaicS encasing Aid.
FarnSWOrth'S neither limbs. The meet
ing was an unusually noisy one, there
being several spirited contests without
rules or gloves. One of them was over
the removal of an electric light from
Fourth avenue, Twentieth and Thirty
fourth streets to Thirty-eghth street.
Several yards of bargain counter ora
tory We're disposed of during the fight.
Whlle IN the midst of brilliant perora-
tlon, Aid. Hansen uttered these memura,
bic words:
"You might as well know that I am
not committeeman. don't believe
tn at the business of our city should be
done In committees. 1t is a dishonest
way of doing work.
- Nobody disputed the Eighth ward
DemOStheneS.