St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-20
Notes About Town.

L. Wiklund, photographer, has moved
| from his old stand to the gallery over the
postoffice
The steamer Bro. Jonathan arrived yes
| terday from Lyons, Ia, and left during the
afternoon with a raft for Dubuque, la.
Grace Hawthorne, the American actress,
appears on Friday evening at the Grand
opera house in a new play entitled
| 'Queena."
The civil docket of the municipal court
yesterday was rather heavy, but very few
cases were heard, they being either contin-
ued or put over term.
Kate Claxton, who is well and favorably
known here appears at the Grand opera
house on Thursday evening in ''The Two
| Orphans" The box office is now open.
Hans Hanson, cooper employed at the
| factory of Dowd & Son, at the st. Cloud
mill, had the tips of couple Of fingers of
the left hand cut off yesterday, while at
work in the mill.
w. II. Chick, G. l.. H., business mana
ger for A. O'Leary, NJ. D.. is at the Pitman
house. He has made arrangements for a
lecture on Physiology at Music hall on Fri
day evening by DR.. o. eary.
Prof. Stoeving of st. Paul was in the
city yesterday. He has many friends here
among the music-loving, who are always
pleased to see him as well as to hear some
of his wonderful playing on the violin.
Yesterday Jacob Bean sold l, ZOO, 900 feet
of logs to Ira Stockwell Of the Lyons Lum-
Der company, Lyons, Ia, and SANDY,
| Tozer & Pennington sold him 400, 900 feet,
making his total purchases for the day over
| four RATS.
Yesterday Mr.. Ira Stockwell, president
of the Lyons Lumber company, Lyons, Ia,
purchased from Isaac Staples 2,10O, 900
feet of logs. Mr.. Staples also sold to other
parties 700, 900 feet. Everything tends to
a rise in the prices of logs.
Mr.. w. D. King of King Bros, drug
gists, returned yesterday from Missouri,
where he was called OH account of the fatal
accident to their father. His mother re-
| turned with him to MankatO, their former
home, and remains for the present with her
daughter.
MI. L. B. Wadleigh of the Clinton Lum-
Der company, Clinton. Ia, was in the city
yesterday for the purpose of buying logs.
He speaks very discOuragingly of the lum-
Der market outlook, and that the demand
for lumber is less and money harder to get
than he has ever found during any May
since he was in business.
Private Lewis Carter was brought yester-
day to the state prison by Lieut.. Tully of
the Twenty-fifth infantry and sergeant
from Fort Smelling, where he was found
guilty of aggravated rape and will serve a
term of thirty years. His sentence by court
martial was ninety years, but was COM
muted by the commanding officer to thirty
years. He belonged to Company c, colored.
Yesterday while parties were blasting on
South hill for cellar they did not take the
necessary precautions to cover the blasts with
timbers, and stones weighing upwards Of a
pound were thrown distance of four
blocks, endangering the citizens in that Sec
ton. Means should be taken to put an end
| to such a dangerous work.
Mr.. j. N. Searles went yesterday after
noon to Hudson, Wis, to file an answer to
the injunction asked for by j. S. O'Brien
and others against A. G. Hospes, surveyor
general. He will also apply for an order
requiring the plaintiff to show cause why
the injunction and order preventing HOspes
from scaling the logs of the plaintiffs in the
st. Croix lake should not be dissolved.
Now that the close season is past the dis
ciples of Isaak Walton are out with their
| fishing poles and tackle. The success, how