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Minnesota Tales

The St. Paul Daily Globe, July 9, 1884, p. 8

BENEATH MARKET HOUSE CLOCK

Penitentiary Bird Caught - A Lawn Mower From Minneapolis.

Too Much Jehuism - Pulling John's Beard, Et Cetera.

W. Ryan, the malicious thief who skinned the aged Duluth citizen on Minnesota street, waived examination in the municipal court yesterday, and was held to the grand jury. He is a sleek looking greaser, and the penitentiary is as hungry for him as a rock bass for the first summer horse fly.

Aggie Daily confessed to pulling the amiable Michael Corcoran's beard because he was so undude like, and paid $10 for the barberous feat. Georgie didn't stir a hirsute hair on the old mans chin, and was let off.

F. Blair, a gallant fireman of No. 6, took his girl out to ride on Sunday and to show what a charioteer he was run his equines. He will answer for too much jehuism to-day and Mary Ann will prefer ice cream lunches to Sunday racing after now.

H. Pecket, Detective Dan O'Connor's first moose, for stealing an open faced watch too openly, went up to the workhouse for a thirty days vocation.

Ed. Powers, the lad who didn't break a trunk but while thinking whether he could crack it, had a miniature earthquake opened in his juvenile forehead by the owner, will be heard to-day.

Ed Morau, who stole a Minneapolis lawn mower to come down to St. Paul to shave the face of Mother Nature for dimes, raised a law question which he thought would give his honor the bulge. He asserted that Hennepin county had alone the right to sit in judgement upon his lawn arrangement. The motion was granted when he turned tail and wanted to be tried in Ramsey when Officer Cloose had the telephone rubber in his hand to summon a Minneapolis copper to minister to his desires.

Charles Walton for whooping it up in a Sixth ward tenement, and A. Jackson, for war cries in the Arlington Hills, will be salted down to-day; Thomas Logan for keeping the Monte Cristo open after midnight paid a quarter of a hundred with the promptness of a national bank teller; W. Doherty and Ed Canon, two piping hot disorderlies drew a prize of fifteen days at the retreat for disorganized freemen; while James Doherty, George Harvey, H. Allers and George Dates, four roadside daisies were sent out of the city and spent the night in disturbing the dreams of farmer's dogs between the metropolis and Hastings.

Thomas Carroll, the slippery-fingered, will answer for larceny to-day, while W. Fanning, with his summer day cognomen, was bunched to weed out the Ramsey county public lettuce for fifteen days for looking too steadily in the glass which inebriates.