St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
SAINT PAUL.
CHIT CHAT CORNER.

IhOre was rumOr III the city ldSI
evening of rising among the Indians
in Dakota, and that troops had been de-
tailed to put them down. Gen. Ruger,
commander of the department of Da-
kota, stated that there was no truth in
the story. Two troops of cavalry had
been sent by him to scout for some In
dians who had left the reservation and
were visiting friends. The troops were
sent merely to secure their return to the
reservation, This probably gave rise to
the rumor of an outbreak.
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"Death cannot rob the world of a
human soul possessing more exalted IN
tegrity, disinterested patriotism and
unselfish devotion than were conSpicu-
ously portrayed in the life of my dead
friend, Col. George Gibson, OF the Fifth
Infantry" said Gen. Thomas NJ. Vim
cent yesterday. "He was ever at the
: post of duty and danger. and his serv-
Ices to the army have been OF inestim-
able value. In the bloodiest battles of
his country. as we'll as in her greatest
triumphs, he bore distinguished part.
His death leaves gap in the army
which his military aptitude and skill,
coupled with his noble Christian char
acter, will render it hard to fill"
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81 learned to-day by letter from his
wife that the colonel had requested her
to curtail her sojourn in the East and
Join him at Las Vegas, n. NJ, whittier
she arrived on the Sd inst. Col. Gibson
met her at the train with his usual
bright and cheerful greeting, and was
apparently as well as he ever was. Next
day. the 4th inst, he drank couple OF
glasses of cold water, which brought on
his old complaint, and was Immediately
followed by collapse. In less than
twenty-four hours he was dead. He
died at $50 o'clock on the evening OF
the evening of the 9Th inst. Mrs. Glib
son was detained four days at Las
Vegas owing to the illness of young
lady in her charge, when, accompanied
by Maj Mcclure and conveying her
husbands body, she started East, reach
ing Carlisle, Pa, on Tuesday OF last
week, where the funeral took place."
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Thomas Brennan, the well-known
lumberman. entertained number OF
his friends yesterday with pleasant
picnic excursion. The party left the
city in two busses at 10 a. m., going first
to Fort Smelling and afterwards to Min
nehaha. Here a rest was taken, and
when all had enjoyed the beautiful
scenery surrounding the falls lunch was
spread OH the greenSward and parIaker
of with a relish. After luncheon the
party drove to Minneapolis and took in
the sights at the sister city. Those in
attendance were: Thomas Bremen
and wife; ex-Mavor O'Neill and wife, Of
Milwaukee; z. Donnelly, of Milwau
kee; jeremiah Pendergast and wife
Lawrence Brennan and wife, JohI
Brennan and wife, John Caulfeld anc
sister, j. q. Donnelly, B. II. Cox. p. NJ
Hennessey, Mr.. Agnew, Thomas Howard
and daughter, 2. T. Kavanagh and wife
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There is trick which many of the
street sprinklerS possess which shonlo
be put stop to, and that is they make
it point when passing street crossings
if they see some nice young man coming
along with a patent leather shine Oh
his boots and who must pass directly
in the rear of their carts, to turn the
hose on and wet him from head tC
foot. Of course, is always accidental
so they say, but it is happening 81
often of late that an effort should b.
made to call them down and apply
such "a punishment as will fit th
crime.
An unusually large audience ATTENDED
the Rice park concert last evening ant
listened to one of the most pleasing con
certs the Great Western band ever gave
Among the eight numbers given wa:
the familiar and ever welcome overture
os'Martha, ''Suppe's Journey Through
Africa" the Grown Diamonds" over
ture and delightful clarionete solo b.
Charles Hubbard. Mr.. Seibert is EN-
gagged in securing several new musi
clans for his orchestra, one of which i
Chris Rodenkirchen, the celebrated sol
cornetiSt of Chicago, who will be intro
duced to ST. Paul audience Saturda
evening, Sept. 1.
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S. Lee Davis-I have not been doin
much in real estate this week. l had
little private business to attend to whic
took me out of town. | went out on tn
Manitoba road to look after matter c
business and l found lots of them. S
far as l observed the chickens fly highe
this year than they did last season, bu
they are in splendid condition, and al
very plentiful.
The employees of the West Publish
ing company picnicked at Forest lax
yesterday, there being about 200 person
present. The day was spent in til
enjoyment of sports of various kind
There were two games of base ball, bt
sides foot races and running and juml
ing contests. Addresses were delivere
by MeSsrs. Ames and Greenwood. A
together the occasion was most el
joyable one. A vote taken on the trai
on the way to the lake regarding eac
ones preference for president I
suited: Cleveland 100, Harrison 40
SPRINKLING ASSESSMENTS