St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-24
SET IN The Street.
Two Families Forcibly Moved
Out on a Bitterly Cold
Day.
The Year Proves to Have
Been a Good One in
Flour.
J. C. Oswald Takes a Punch
at the Sleepy Board Of
Trade.
Marriage Under Difficulties
at the Court House,
City News.

1t Is not necessary to go as far as Ire
land or the islands off the coast of Scot
land 10 see an eviction. There was one
yesterday right III Minneapolis, and
Deputy Sheritfs Wall, Sirais and Weir
took the place of the brutal bailiffs,
tales of whose cruelty are waited across
the broad Atlantic. But the Minneapo-
lis evlctorS were not brutal. Tney did
what theysshad to do, but did it gently.
Down on the Bohemian flats, where
the river in ages past has washed out Il
narrow channel between the white sand
rock bank, several thousand of Mime
apolis' emigrant labor classes have
SQuatted and made their rude homes.
Bohemlans, llungarians. Connemara
lliSh and Sprlnkling and mixture of
nearly every other European nation are
huddled together III an irregular fashion
in this un-American village within the
city. Some of these sQuatterS. by vir-
tue OF the homestead act, have become
owners in fee of the soil upon which
their humble Shanties have been built.
But the great majority are simply ten
ants at will. paying small yearly
rental to the lord of the manor
for the privilege of making a
home upon his waste estates. In this
case the lord of the manor is none other
than Senator W. ID. Washburn. The
rents charged his tenants is small, run
ming from S25 to $50 per year, but some
thing must be charged or he could not
read his title clear to the riparian do
main. Fred Robohn and Frank An
brect had failed to pay their rent, al
though every opportunity had been
offered them for settlement. They
maintained that they didn't have to pay
rent, and that they couldn't be put out
in the winter anyhow.
The inhabitants of the flats are not
the most peaceable people In the world
when outsiders invade their territory,
and the deputies anticipated trouble,
so they took couple of police officers
with them as assistants. But no viO-
lence was necessary, although the APP
pearance OF the officers created no little
commoiiOn and comment unfavOrable
to the minionS of the law. In the An
brech household there werehalf a dozen
children and the father was at home.
Seeing that the officers meant what they
said this time he clustered around
considerably, but finally asked leave
to try and raise the money, and
so the job of putting him out was de-
ferred until afternoon. Robohn works
III the Milwaukee shops, and was not at
home. The wife, little. low-browed
woman of Polish nativity, Hurried
around and still insisted that the Off
GERS had no right to put her out. When
they began on the chairs and bed, and
piece after piece vanished out the door
and over the paling to be neatly stacked
in the street, she changed her mind,
and leaving her baby with neighbour,
went off up town to consult her lawyer,
upon whose assurance they had chung
to their home The cradle and baby
carriage were dragged down out of the
garrett; the potatoes and sauerkraut eX-
umed from the cellar; the stove was
taken down and carefully set outside;
the clothing was piled in the chests and
removed; the stove wood tumbled over
the front fence, until not thing was
left TO hold possession. The evicted will
suffer naught from the advent of the
cold wave, as tsey will he taken care of
by their nelghborS until such time as
they secure new quarters.