Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-02
NIINNEAPOLIs GLOBELETs.

cal Jokes
For oysters in every style try the Boston
restaurant. Open at all hours.
Temperance meetings were held in va
rious CITY churches last evening.
A meeting of the county commissioners
will be held al the court house this morn
ing.
The Journal has declared war upon the
saloon keepers in Minneapolis. That set
lies It.
Lycurgus will be done" up in one chap
Ter tomorrow. A better man will be the
occasion.
Special accommodations for late supper
parties at the Comique restaurant. Open
day and night.
The ". c. T. Z. will hold political pray
er meetings from . to IL a. m. and from 2
TO p. n. to-day.
The weekly meeting of the Father Meht-
.ew society was we'll attended at Catholic
Association hall yesterday afternoon.
The regular meeting of the city council
will be held on Wednesday evening, when
the official canvass of the vote will be
made.
Let US have parks, but for heavens sake
no robberies. Let the system be under
the control Of the city council, where it
should be.
Mayor Ames has nearly completed his
annual message to the city council and will
contain many practical and valuable
suggestions.
The Democrats of the Eighth ward will
hold public meeting to discuss the po-
i.tical situation OF the new ward on Mon
day evening.
The Ames zouaves will give their grand
annual masquerade ball on Friday even
ing in new Turner hall. The proceeds will
be devoted to the gun fund.
The Tribune is all broken up ever the
thought that Aid. Barrows consents u al
low his friends to use his name 10 Anoch
down a fanatic in the Second ward.
A party Of six young men came up from
St. Paul yesterday and while in the wash
room at the Nicollet house Il sneak thief
made of with an overcoat belonging to
them.
There is probably not a man in Mime
apolis who is opposed to the establish
ment of park system, but majority is
opposed to the cunning trickery of the
park bill.
A young man named Knought was kicked
in the head yesterday and dangerously in
iured by vicious horse. 1t is thought
that his skull was fractured and there IS
but little hope of recovery.
Our city council by virtue of the city
charter has power TO establish system of
beautiful parks in Minneapolis, and yet
the council does not have unlimited power.
Why not let the council do it, then?
The question of dressing the stone for
the new chamber of commerce building
by convict labor instead of by the honest
stone cutters of Minneapolis, is elicltlng
considerable excitement at present.
The prohibitionists are to have a grand
Joint rally at Association hall this evening.
Music will be furnished by the Reform
club choir and Wn. WEIGH, w. w. Satter-
Lee and others will address the meeting.
Make sure tomorrow that Capt. ]. n.
Gross, who is as partisan as is the Journal,
with all its profession, is buried beneath
an overwhelming majority, and so take
the board OF education out of politics.
At the Theater Comique Saturday even
ing, Alfred Christie, the champion clog
dancer, performed the unparalleled feat of
dancing forty consecutive minutes without
rest. On Friday evening next he will
dance for wager against time.
Gen. Nettleton, who stands at the helm
of the TrjjaHe,is a wonderful logician. In
one article he argues in favor of the park
system. and then III another urges that A.
D. Ankeny Is also in favor of the system,
and wants Ankeny defeated.
If the naturalization mill can accom-
plish it by manufacturing sufficient num-
Der of voters, Appleby, the Republican
candidate for alderman in the Sixth ward,
is determined to win the election. He is
coming down with the ''swag" to the boys.
too.
About o'clock a fire was discovered
making rapid Roadway in the new residence
Just finished for A. II. Hush, the brother of
the banker, on the corner of Third avenue
south and Nineteenth street, just opposite
Hetfefnger's fine residence. When the de-
partment arrived the flames had made sach
progress that it was impossible to save
anything and it was shortly after heap of
smouldering ashes. The building was
probably worth about $4,000 and was
partially insured.
1t is suggested that more electric light
towers be erected at proper distances in
the city, not forgetting to place one at the
brow of the hill near Mr.. Lawry's resi-
dence, so as to illuminate the popular
thoroughfare between the city and the
lakes, and SO aiding the mounted patrol in
protecting the people against the outrages
of the thugs which invest the city. One
should be placed at or near the junction of
Washington and Plymouth avenues, one at
the corner of Cedar and Tenth, one on
Franklin and Eighth avenue south, one in
Northeast and one in Southeast Mime
apolis.
The claim that Aid. Barrows is boltsr
is unfounded. he went into the RepubE-
can caucus for a nomination at the solicit
tation of his friends, but the young crank
Johnson packed the caucus and got the
nomination. to the dissatisfaction of ma
iority of the citizens of the Second ward,
and to the disgust Of all the better classes
of the people. As a result they called a
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