St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23

ings of this company. The house is two
stories at one end, in which the offices will
be located, is of frame yeneered with brick,
with corrugated iron roof, and is 40 feet
in length by 80 feet in width. 1t is
located along Ducas street running south
west from Indiana avenue. The roof is
held by trusSes such as are sometimes used
in bridge building. and thus there are no
posts in the way of shifting freight which
comes into the house. Mr.. A. J. Wheeler
is pushing the work towards completion, and
has force of twenty-three carpenters at
work on the building.
w. +. AIirick, known in ST. Paul as
"AnOka" and ''Grasshopper," has been
taken TO Minneapolis pending his trial for
the shooting of Peter Gross at Anoka.
Mirick, when questioned, showed consider
able emotion and said: Il had been drink
ing hard since June 90. Previous TO that
had drank very little for year past. and had
been entirely sober for some time. That
day went 10 a picnic at Lake MinnetOnka
and got drunk. This was enough TO start
me, and | have been filled with booze ever
since. The stories about my wife bothered
me. and made me wild. This and the
whisky were too much for my head. and L
must have gone crazy. AT any rate. ! don't
remember shooting Gross, or even seeing
him. l don't know him, and had nothing
against him whatever. L wish to God
had been killed rather than an innocent
man, who had done nothing wrong"
\. j. Wheeler, boss carpenter in charge
of the improvements on the new Minnesota
& Northwestern railroad, is hustler when
ne gets down To work. Under his super
vision the passenger depot of the road in
West st. Paul was completed in ten days
time. Lake all the company's buildings, the
depot is first-class.
The roundhOuse of the Minnesota e
Northwestern railroad is completed with
the exception OF hanging the doors, and
only i've carpenters are now required. The
house has ten compartments and will ac-
commodate corresponding number of en-
gines.
There is a large force of men and teams
at work Oh the improvement of Dakota
avenue in West ST. Paul. Mains have
been distributed along the thorOughfare,
and when the work of laying begins employ
ment will be furnished 10 a number of men.
Thursday was the twentieth anniversary
of Henry Hentin's formanship of the Mani
tOba shops. The employees of the black
Smithing department observed the occasion
by presenting him with a silver tea set.
A great deal of interest is manifested
among workingmen in the picnic to be
given on Monday, Sept. z. at White Bear
under the auspices of the St. Paul. Mime
apoliS and Saltwater trades assemblies.
Charley Curran, brakeman on the Man
itoba road, fell and broke his leg in at
tempting to Jump on the footbOard of a
pony engine ON Friday evening. lie was
taken to ST. Joseph's hospital.
Fifteen men - carpenters. briczlayers
hOd carriers and plaSterers-are finishing up
the Marti block and its neighbor on the OPP
posite corner of Dakota and Fairfield ave
nues.
j. Donnelly, a water inspector, stopped
a runaway team on Third street last Friday.
preventing collision with a carriage in
which were lady and child.
L. f. Hourihan. a well-known and jolly
plumber. has charge of the work in his line
at the remodeled express company building
corner Fourth and Wabasha.
Gus Dignella formerly president of the
cigaTmakers' union of this city. has gone
into business for himself and opened a
cigar store on Carroll street.
The st. Paul plumbers will send dele
gate 10 the International Plumbers assOcia-
ton, which cOnvenes in Cincinnati about
the middle of September.
Fifty laborers and a large number of
teams are hauling dirt for street grading
and taking out sand from the river bottom
above Raspberry island.
The excavation and foundation for the
new business block on Dakota avenue near
Chicago gives employment to ten labOrerS
and four stonemaSons.
A regular army of track men are putting
in switches and grading for Sidings in the
West st. Paul yards of the Minnesota *
Northwestern.
Johnnie Kennedy and James Palles, two
of the GLOBES cOmpoSitOrs, have gone on
a weeks vacation in pursuit of prairie
chickens.
Ed Il. Harroun. a well-known printer
has taken the agency for a brand of plug
tobacco and is actively engaged in the new
line.
4 number of ladies are at work in the
operating room of the Western Union Tele-
graph company.
Starkey street is being graded, and
twelve men compose the force engaged
thereon.
Ten truclmen and other laborers find
work at the Minneapolis d st. Louis freight
house.
y large number of laborers are engaged
on the grading of Fillmore avenue.
Women do nearly all the work in the
lamdrieS of the city.