St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-28
MINNEAPOLIS GLoRELETs.

A temperance meeting was held in Avery's
hall yesterday afternoon.
The Parker Gun club is arranging for a
pigeon shoot to occur soon.
Thomas G. S%innott, the well known foul
broker, has returned from Europe.
The Father Mathew T. A. S. held a large
meeting last evening at their hall
The Irish National League held a large and
very interesting meeting last evening.
The new high altar of the Church of st.
Elizabeth was blessed yesterday with impos-
ing solemnity.
William Daniels, one Of the champion rol
Ter skaters of the United States, viii arrive in
the city this week.
The Augsburg male quartette sang yester-
day at the temperance meeting in the Seventh
street Swedish church.
The meeting of the Reform club was
largely attended yesterday and the exercises
were unusually interesting.
The water board will hold a meeting to-
morrow evening and it is hoped a quorum
will be present to transact business.
The saloons appeared to be Theoretically
sealed yesterday and it was fortunate for the
thirsty that there was no dust on the streets.
Among the decorative features of the
coming Grand Army encampment viii be an
arch hung with portraits of thirty Union gen
erals.
j. W. Traer, Cedar Rapids, president of
the Winona, Alma 81 Northern Railway,
passed through the city yesterday on his way
home from La Crosse.
j. Randall Brown, the celebrated spiritual
medium of the "Hub,'' assisted by Lille
May Brown, gave supernatural () manifesto
tons at Pence Opera house last evening.
President Hill, Of the Manitoba road, is
not to be surpassed in munifcence by c.. A.
Pillsbury or w. D. Washburn. He has con-
tributed 81, 900 to the National Encampment
fund.
The Ida Siddons' Mastodons will open
their weeks season at the Pence Opera house
this evening. The dudes and the bald-head-
ed gentry will all be there, and a crush is
anticipated.
The streets were nearly deserted last night,
and the work of the police department was
confined to patrolling their respective beats
and conjecturing on the weather for to-day.
1t was dull; no news-nothing.
A grand baby show, under the auspices of
Coup's Chicago museum and theater, will
open at Market hall on May 5. Premiums
a~ggregating $500 will be distributed among
all kinds of babies, and the handsomest
mother will get an elegant diamond ring.
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At the meeting of the industrial institute
at Harrison hall last Saturday evening a GER
tain lawyer who signed the constitution was
asked whether he worked in iron or wood.
Before he had time to answer a voice was
heard to say, "He works in brass,'' and the
entire house went into a roar of laughter.
A fight occurred Saturday on Cedar avenue
nnder peculiar circumstances. Is seems a
man claimed a bill from another, and falling
to collect the money, proposed to fight it out.
At first the other assented, but finally backed
out and fought him by proxy, the proxy prov
ing ''the better man, to the Disagreement
of his opponents eyes and face.
The NemS Letter says: 'Now that the
nationality question is up in this municipal
ity why don't the poor Americans demand
something? Americans in the United States
are treated the same as the Irish in Ireland.
They apparently have no rights under the
law until the other nationalities have been
looked after"
Alexander Sullivan, president Of the Irish
National League of America, will lecture this
evening at Market hall. Mayor Pillsbury
will preside, and Mons. Baker and the Misses
Sullivan and Burke will give vocal selections.
The lecture commences at s O'Clock and the
hall should be packed full in honor of the
distinguished nationalist and the cause he
represents.