St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

A bouncing girl came to stay at the
house of James Pye Of the Pray Mauufac-
turing company.
Nearly $50 men are hard at work on the
union elevator and the gigantic building
will be pushed along as rapidly as possible.
The Trades assembly will meet Friday
evening.
At meeting of the Knights of Labor
held Tuesday evening the project Of CO.
operative purchasing and operating farm
lands by colonization was discussed. In
due time the details of the plan will be
made public.
The Trades assembly contemplates soon
taking steps for the purpose of organizing a
movement which shall have for its object
the observance of the 1st day of September
rs a National Labor holiday in which all
the industrial organizations will participate
y program will be arranged which will in
clude an excursion, addresses, social amuSe.
ments, etc.
over 200 men are employed in preparing
material and in the actual work of erection
of the Union elevator on the Manitoba road
in East Minneapolis. 1t is expected that
the building viii be finished by the middle
of August. Over 1000 600 feet of lumber
and 3. 900 kegs of nails VIII be used III the
construction.
Thomas Lowry says the statement made
in a communication from stOne-cutter.
published in last Sundays GLOBE, does him
an injustice. No contract has been let for
the Stonework on the block to be erected on
tina site of the old Academy of Music, and
the plans have not yet been decided upon
While not stating EXPLICITLY that no prison
contract stone will be used. he says he shall
never go out of his way to injure stone
cutter or iaborer in any other occupation.
Just what this assurance amounts to re-
mains to be seen.
The Stonecutters' union at its meeting
Tuesday adopted a new constitution and
elected the following officers: President.
Fred .Ienkinson; vice president, George
Valentine; recording secretary. James
Myers; financial secretary. D. McCrea:
treasurer, L. McGriddell; finance commit
tee. George Wirth, Silas Chalner, Martin
MclIale; sergeant-at-arms, James Young.
The Minneapolis Plasterers' Protective
union elected officers Wednesday evening
as follows: Robert Clements, president;
Daniel Mccall secretary; Cornelius Craw-
ley, financial secretary; Michael Smith.
corresponding secretary; William Weir.
treasurer: James Williamson. sergeant-at-
arms. The union has already member
ship of seventy-tive, and cordially invites
all plastererS to join. The initiation fee is
only 81 now, but will shortly be raised to
SIS. The uDiop is to be a branch of the
PlaStererS' international union.
The boiler-makerS of the Milwaukee car
shops have organized 4 base ball nine to
play a nine from the boiler-makers of St
Paul ON the grounds at the South Mime
apolis junction. Decoration day. The Min
apolis players are r. Brophey, c.: NJ.
Lynch. p: Thomas Cummings. :. $: George
Adams. LIST b.; John Hicky. 2d b.: Joe Car
ter. Sd b., James Clare. |. f.; Walter Scott
C. f.: L. Watt, r. f.
James McGivern. secretary of the Inter
national union of boiler-makers. has been
appointed boiler Inspector of the Twenty
first district of Ohio
Thomas Williams, of the harvester works.
last week lost two children by diphtheria
John Hendricks. section boss on the Mil
waukee road. has gone East to visit friends
and relatives in Pennsylvania.
c. Z. Sibber at the harvester works lost
the two middle fingers OF his right hand by
the machinery on Wednesday.