St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-30
Sti[l,cuter Notes.

Saltwater Notes.
Thomas Warren and family, of this city,
have gone into camp at Mahtomedi.
The Rev. T. McClary leaves to-day for
Clear Lake, Ia, to lecture on ''The Struggle
for Homer
Miss Ella and Miss Lizzie Powble, of st.
Paul, have arrived at Mahtomedi to spend
their vacation
Messrs. Durant & Wheeler yesterday sold
large raft of logs to Knapp, Stout & Co.. of
Dubuque, Iowa.
No cases were ready yesterday for the dis
trict court, and Judge McCluer adjourned
until this morning at 10 o'clock.
The Meta Durant is expected to arrive to-
day from Clinton, Iowa, where she has been
with raft of logs to the Clinton Lumber Co.
Mr.. Matt Clark and family have returned
from their outing at Lake Minneton ka.
Mrs. Isaac Staples also returned with them.
Mr.. A. j. Trimple, insurance agent of st.
Paul, was in the city yesterday adjusting the
insurance of the foundry, which was burned
last week.
The Ladies' aid society of the M. E. church
will meet in the church parlors at 2 p. M,
on Thursday, and the Woman's foreign mis-
sionary society will meet at the same place
on Friday, at 8 p. m.
The water fell an inch the past twenty-four
hours. Water is getting very low. In the
upper portion of the lake large proportion
of the logs are aground ands cannot be
moved until fine wafer rises AGAIN
Mr.. I. E. Staples and family sailed for Liv
erpool on Saturday from Boston, on the
steamer Scythia, of the Cunard line. Mr..
Staples has stood the journey so far very well,
and the ocean voyage will rest him.
On Sunday next the Saltwater First nine
base ball club will play the Lake Elmo Ever
Ready club at Lake Elmo. For amateur
mines they play excellent games, and no
doubt there will be large crowd to see them.
The shipments still continue to be made
from the Northwestern Manufacturing and
Car Company as rapidly as they can be made
OF threshers, engines, and horse powers.
Several car loads leave daily for the west,
northwest and southwest.
Yesterday the Saltwater base ball club left
at II 40 for Quincy, where they play to-day.
The Grand Rapids club left on Monday even
ing by the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad, as they required this time to get
home to meet their opponents to-day.
The Jennie Hayes yesterday morning at
tempted to take two barges of stone at one
trip to the new bridge. 1t wvs something
more than she could manage, as the channel
was not wide enough for the steamer with a
barge on each side. She left one some dis
lance above the bridge, and went up with the
other
The enquiries in reference to the case of
incendiarism is inceasing, and as your rep
resentative is supposed to know everything,
he is besieged with questions. AS soon as
the case comes up for investigation, he
trusts to be able to satisfy through the
GLOBE the most inquisitive. A full report
will be published.
The Saltwater base ball team which left
yesterday, was considerably changed from
what it was whilst here. Hiram and Roach
have been released, and Quinn is laid up
with his arm. Yarnall left here with them,
and Graves, formerly of the st. Paul team,
joins them on the way at St. Paul. They
went south on the Minneapolis s. st. Louis
road.
Yesterday there were large party of
visitors at the state prison. They were com
posed of party of the Missouri veterans, ac-
companied by their ladies. They spoke in
the very highest terms of the hospitality of
the people of Minnesota, and will never for
get the pleasant visit to the north Several
of them were from Kansas City. They were
much pleased with the sight in Saltwater.
Prof. Eaton struck the bell at 3 O'Clock at
Mahtomedi yesterday morning, and called up
those who wished to see Saturn and Venus
A good many students were at the telescope,
and enjoyed the pleasure of seeing the rings
of Saturn and the crescent form of Venus
robed with rainbow splendor. Clouds drfted
along the sky interfering with the views,
but now and then the planets could be seen
in the clear morning sky.
Very few logs will pass through the bridge,
there being only one brazil, and that will
come through in day or two. The greater
part of the logs on either side of the river
above the bridge, belongs to either Anderson
81 Co., or the Schulenberg, Boeckler Lumber
Co., and which they viii require for their
summer cut. There are a number of RATS in
the upper portion ready Tor shipment, but it
is not known when they may be sold. The
logs have been great nuisance whilst com
ing through the bridge, which has had to be
kept open some times for hours on their ac-
count We know that Mr.. McLeer and his
assistants are pleased they have about all
gone.
At the corner of Laurel and Fifth street
church has been going up for some time with
about as little din as such place,,can be built.
1t is now so far advanced that the plasterers
begin their work to-day, and in about four
weeks it will be ready for occupancy. 1t is
being erected by the Grace Congregational
church, and will be a large and well APP
pointed edifice, although it is intended, after
the congregation has gathered more strength.
to use the part now being erected as a Sun
day school and lecture room, and to erect in
front very fine structure, second to none
in the city. The Rev. Mr.. Rocker and his
congregation are to be commended for their
spirit.
What was supposed to be burglary oc-
CURED ON the second day of February last at
the store occupied by F. Whitman as Jew
elry store, and f. Scott, with drugs, as J. B.
Leyscy, who was clerk for Scott, and who
slept in the store, reported in the morning
that burglar had entered the store and
stolen his watch and chain, and on his firing
at him couple of shots from his revolver,
he had decamped, taking nothing else that
he knew of. The case was reported to
Chief Shortall, who has been ON the watch
-,
pleased with the action Of Leysey that he gave
him credit OF $40 ON the watch and chain,
on which there was an amount owing.
Lately rumors, not complimentary to Leysey
began to circulate, and Chief SbortalI wrote