St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-19
GATHERED IN SALTWATER.
The Bluff City Preparing to Royalty
Celebrate the Fourth.
Talk of Electric Ltghting--A Woman
Gored by Cow.

The committee in charge OF the Fourth of
July celebration is doing good work. IF ar
engagements can be made there will be
parade of the military and civic societies.
| About ST. 900 will be raised for the celebra-
| ton. The racing program is about COM
pleted For the bateau race there will be a
| purse of $3.50, divided in sums of SIS, $40,
S25 and $40. For the four-oared bateau there
will be purse of $150, divided into sums of
| $50, $40, $35 and SO. For the four-oared
| skiff race there will be purse of $T5, di-
vided into sums of $40, $40, $l0 and So. For
| the single skif race there will be q
purse of $50, divided into purses of S25,
| SIS and SO. There will be a iog-rolling
contest the winner to receive $40. In foot
| racing there will be q free for all race for
purse of $50, divided into sums of SIS, S12. So
| $3.50 and So; race washington county pro-
| feSSionals barred) for purse OF $40, divided
| into sums of $50, $3.50 and $3.50; a race for
| boys under IL for purse of $15, divided into
sums Of IS, ST and So: races for Saltwater
| policemen, newspaper men, fat men, dry
| goods men, clothiers, grocers, druggists. car
company employees, bankers, and colOred
men for purses of $40 each, divided into sums
| of SIS, So and 81. There will also be potato
and sack racing for purses of SIS, divided
into sums of SIS, 81, 81.
| There is a prospect Of Saltwater being
| lighted by electric light. The chairman of
the light committee has offered the Electric
Light company here the sum of $4,000 per
year for ten years to furnish forty arc lights.
Capt. L. T. jerks, president of the Electric
Light company, has the offer under considera-
ton, and it lie believed that he will accept it.
He has already offered to furnish smaller
| number of these lights at $4,000 per year.
La Crosse, town considerably smaller than
Saltwater. pays 600 per year for sixty of
these lights.
Robert eastman, administrator of an estate
in which Henry II. Bggs. from Pautucket, r.
l., is interested, writes to the county clerk,
asking if any such man resides here. He
says that Briggs wrote from Saltwater to
friends in Providence in 1882, at which time
he sent picture of lady he had just mar
ried Mr.. G. A. Bennett the clerk, says that
no such license was ever issued, but that he
knew Walter Briggs who is carpenter by
trade, and who was here some years ago.
Capt. S. S. Hanks steam motor power, which
has been improved in many ways, was tried
yesterday and works to perfection. This ma
chine, the captain says, will pillow forty acres
of land day without a doubt. He says he
will organize company and begin building
machines as soon as possible.
The steamer Jennie Hays now runs an ex-
cursiOn to the big jam the six week days,
leaving saltwater at a. m. Fare for the
round trip, $150. Tomorrow the steamer
Cleon with barge will run an excursion to
the jam. leaving at o'clock. Fare only
SLIPS.
Mrs. Carlson, residing with her son, John
A. Carlson, on Fifth avenue, was gorsd in the
left hand and back by COW and thrown into
the air. When she fell, the enraged amin al
made at her and stamped her. Her hand was
lacerated, and she was otherwise badly used
up.
Capt. A. T. jerks is having incandescent
lights put in his residence, corner of Pine
and Fifth streets. These are the first in the
city. Other citizens contemplate following
suit.
On and after Sunday, on the Omaha the
train now leaving Saltwater at 8: 20 a. m will
leave at a. NJ, and the train now arriving
at $50 a. m. will arrive at 6:25 a. m.
Is The appeal cases of Hanna P. Greeley and
Menerva McKusick from the municipal court
regarding grading, were argued in the dis
trict court yesterday and submitted.
Log sales: O'Neal Bros. to the Hershey
Lumber company, 100,000,000 feet; Sauntry
& Tozer to Lindsey & Phelps Of Davenport,
one raft.
Large numbers of Saltwater people will
visit the big jam tomorrow. There will be
excursions by rail and water,
James Durose left yesterday for the Sol
diers' Home at Leavenworth, Kan, to spend
the remainder of his life.
DR.. Van Waters leaves today for Chicago
and other cities and expects to be gone
week or ten days.
The fight between Keefe and Mellen, in
Minneapolis Or Saltwater, will take place on
July 20 or 80.
Hon. E. W. Durant and wife returned yes
terday from Cleveland and report an excel
lent time.
An elegant altar, the gift of John Karst,
ST., was placed in the St. Michaels church
yesterday.
RED Riding Hood will be presented at the
Grand tonight for the benefit Of Mrs. Stella
Baker.
Fred Jones for larceny, two years, was re-
ceived at the prison yesterday.