St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-09
SrIL.LW TEf' SAYINGS.
A Watch of NeVysY .sOies from the
risna Clty--Rhe Ontario Ian
Eseing TALKED Up--A Narrow Es-


| A Watch of NeLysy .sOies from the
risnn City--The Ontario Ian
Eeing Talked Up--A Narrow Es-
cape From Death.
| Two men, employed by the Saltwater
! Electric Light company, had a narrow escape
| from instant death last evening. They were
engaged in putting up new wires on lower
| Main street, when the full current was turned
on from the namo room on Myrtle street
| A dependent wire fell and struck the snow
! covered ground. and a flash, accompanied by
loud report fol owed. The men. who were
clnging to the poles, felt the shock
and instinctivel, grasped the poles and hung
on for dear life. Each of them felt the shock
severely, but no serious injury resulted. An
electrician explained the situation by sa ing
that the snow acted as nOn-conductor,
otherwise the men would have been killed.
The wires they were putting up were unin-
sulated
The council of this city is seriously consid-
ering the Ontario plan for assessments
for local improve 1ents At the Tuesday
evening session C. the council a committee
was appointed to investigate the scheme and
report at the next meeting, and to also re-
port upon the advisability of simplifying the
city charter in the matter OF ordering i'm
provemerts The Ontario plan is accepted
with great favor here, and there is but title
doubt of its adoption in the immediate future.
A convict named William Hoy, liberated
from the penitentary here yesterday, after
serving three-yearS sentence, got on a hill
arious drunk and was run into the city Jail.
Hoy, by good department saved a consider
able amount of money during his term of inn
prisonmeut. Before bis incarceration he
was addicted to strong drink, and the 1ndul-
gence in old habits yesterday seemed to craze
him. He will be arragned in the municipal
court to-day.
John Newquist and ". II. MaunseIl re-
turned last evening from a deer hunt on
Moose lake. They shot eleven deer in one
week, Maunsell carrying off the prize with
buck which weighed 1S6 pounds. They
shipped 825 pounds of venison home.
The 395 convicts in the state penitentiary
here will be given a royal dinner on Christ
mas. Already, boxes containing delicacies
have begun to arrive from friends. Christ
mas is made special feature in the way of
entertainment at the prison. New Years
day is not observed.
Hugh Hall has returned from Gull River
hale and hearty. He says that his mill on that
stream cut 20, 900 600 feet of lumber du ing
the season. also l6.00O.000 shingles and $780,
600 lath. all since June l.
The athletic Dung members OF the Young
Mems Christian association propose to give
an entertainment in the roller rink soon. in
which go-as-you-piease races will be the
features.
The Woman's Relief corps, auxiliary to
Mueller Pest No. l. G. A. r., will give an old
fashioned New EngI nj supper in the Uni
versast church this evening.
1.-The Little Tycoon Comic Opera company
drew fair sized audience to the Grand opera
house last night. The performance was fairly
well given.
The Gothic club gave b first of a proposed
series of entertainments last evening. 1t
was very successful ball at the B. & L.
hail.
The toboggan club here win probably reor-
ganze the latter part of the present week.
In the municipal court yesterday Alex
Erazier paid SIS for drunkenness ~