St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-08
SAINT PAUL.
CHIT CHAT CORNER.

Yesterday. Speaking OF MI. SWelgert
Insurance Commissioner Shandrew re-
lated an incident which occurred at the
convention that nominated him. The
office of state auditor had been called
and various candidates placed in nomi-
nation. When the nominations had
about closed. a tall man, almost giant
in stature, with face beaming all over
with good nature, arose from his seat,
and, reaching over two or three seats,
grasped the astonished Mr.. Sweigert III
vice-like grip and placed him on mis-
shoulder. "Gentlemen of the cOnven-
tion," he remarked, ''here is the man
we want-this one-armed soldier" HIS
words acted like magic and Sweigert was
nominated by acclamation. The speaker
was Long John Wentworth, formerly
mayor of Chicago.
Mayor Silk and the council of the
city of South st. Paul are after the st.
Paul Sanitation company for depositlng
street sweepings, night soil and gar
bage in the river near that place. The
company has been in the habit of cart
ing the city refuse over to West st.
Paul. and hauling it down the river to
the Mintzer farm. where it is dumped
into the water. Four thousand inhabi-
tants of the city of South st. Paul au-
thorized an attorney to begin an inJunc-
ton suit, and papers were filed yester-
day. Judge Kelly granted tenn
porary injunction, and set the hear
ing for to-day at 10 a. IN. If the
company is enjoned it will be necessary
10 cart the refuse further down the
river or sell it to the farmers. Speak
ing on the subject of cleaning the
streets, gentleman said: 81 think it
would be a good idea to scrape this
mannre up in piles and let the market
gardeners haul it away early in the
morning"
G. W. Hall-The gentlemen uwho had
that stand pipe here and exhibited 1t,
about week ago, said they did not have
half enough water in the wholesale dis
trict for their needs, and could not, with
500 pounds steam, do justice to their
machine. 1t was blowing wind from
the beginning of the experiment to the
end. Had it not been for this there
would have been a smooth, solid stream
coming from the nozzle.
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Ed Bean, the well-known captain of
the crack Company D, was around
among the boys yesterday shaking
hands, and he aVowed himself candi-
date for sheriff. He doesn't intend to
let the grass grow under his feet be-
tween now and Nov. 4, and the captain
is so used to coming out ahead in mill
tary matters that such thing as defeat
has never occurred to him. From indi-
cations. however, this is going to be a
bleak, cloudy year for the grand old
party. and if the doughty military leader
is wise he will get under cover before
the storm comes.
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SiXty-fve applicants for government
positions, under civil service regulations,
presented an interesting spectacle in
the circuit court room yesterday be-
tween 9 a. N. and p. M. Scratching
of pens and of pencils were the only
sounds audible, and the scene was very
suggestive of school examination, as
those present framed answers to a list
of questions submitted to them. Messrs.
O'Brien, Hardacre and Marooney super
viSed the work of the class, in which
there were three ladies and a colored
man. Positions in the classified postal
service were the objects of the competi-
tive examination, and the papers will be
taken up by the examiners at their leiS-
ure aud ten or twelve days may elapse
before the results of the examination
are promulgated.
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Major George Hardacre, the Superin-
tendent Of mails, said yesterday after
noon that the eight-hour law would go
into operation here as soon as practical
BILE, and that when the thirteen addi-
tional carriers were appointed it would
be necessary to cut all the delivery dis
trictS down.
The new clerk recently appointed on
the fast mail will begin distributing by
the first of next week. He will go down
on the 'Dutchman" and meet the No
Milwaukee train. Then the carriers
will deliver from the union depot at
7:30 a.. instead of from the postoffice.
That, of course, will make quite a diff
ference in the time of the morning de-
livery, and will be of great benefit to the
business quarter.
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= A band of twenty-five Cheyenne In
dians have reached Fort Keogh. Oh a
visit. They are, as usual, almost naked
and without means of subsistence. The
post commander has directed his COM
missary officer to issue to them three
days rations. 1t is observed that these
s'visits" are becoming rather frequent
at posts in Montana and Dakota, and
that each succeeding band of visitors is
numerically larger than the one which
preceded it.
Wv. S. Thorne, who took part in
the lawn tennis contest at Minnetonka,
last week, looks somewhat sunburnt.
He reports that they had a very large
attendance throughout the tournament,
and all seemed to take great interest in
the struggle. The hotels were all over
crowded with guests, and on the last
Gay Hotel Lafayette was filled with
cots at night, and great many people
were compelled to take the midnight
train TO st. Paul to get place to sleep.
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Information reached st. Paul yester.
day, through a telegram to Mrs. George
Bell, whose husband is an officer of the
Third infantry, stationed at Fort Smell
ling. that her uncle. Col. George Gibson
Fifth infantry, died Sunday at Fort
Bliss, Texas, from wounds and disease
contracted during the war. To the Off
GERS of the department Of Dakota