St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-22
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULEs.

Rev. E. S. Williams lectures at Minnehaha
this evening.
Bank clearings yesterday, $50, 40. SIS :;
for the week, 81, $50, 4S1.S6.
George Helm. a printer. well known In
Minneapolis, is dangerously Ill.
The city schools closed yesterday for the
holiday vacation. They will reopen Jan. 2.
The two new engines, recently received by
the fire department., were tested and found
to work perfectly.
f. s. Webster, brakeman ON the 500 road
is at st. Barnabas' hospital with two fingers
off of his RI h. hand.
A permit was taken out yesterday for the
construction of the new city hail and court
house, to cost 81, 100000.
Sol Smith Russell will close engagement
tonight in "a Poor Relation" "Bewitched"
will be presented at the matinee.
A boarding house at 1870 Third street
south was damaged about 800 by fire last
evening. The roof was burned nearly off.
There have been 57.726 miles of sidewalk
ordered for 1889. at a cost of S1S7, e64. %.
of this amount 45ls miles will be of plank.
The Anti-Poverty society will hold its
meeting Sunday evening at 1880 in Window
hall Members and others are cordially In
vited to attend.
The county and city building commission
failed to get quorum yesterday, and the
letting of the contracts for the foundation is
again put off.
Parker Devereaux. who fell through the
Manitoba railroad bridge, and struck on ice
thirty feet below, is resting easily at st.
Marys hospital.
The advance sale for the last performance
of the Lights o. London at the Pence to-
night has been very large, and the play will
undoubtedly close its week with packed
house.
The sale of seats for Frederick Warde's en-
gagement was opened at the Grand opera
house Yesterday Much interest is centered
on the production of the new plays to be
presented here.
Lou Davis the keeper of a house of ILL.,
fame ON South First street, was arraigned
Yesterday, and pleaded not guilty to an in
dictment charging her with selling liquor
without a license. She was allowed to give
bail in the sum of $500.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday TO
Lewis E. Holmquist and Margaret WickIund,
Christian Tallakson and Hannah Hopp, Gus
tay Coiman and Clara Anderson, Andrew P.
Engstrom and Augusta Estlund, William II.
George and Catherine Ebert.
The Peoples theater thermometer recorded
the following variations in temperature for
the past twenty-four hours: a. m, 10; g
a. m, 6; a. m, 6; II M: IA; p. m, 10:
6 D. m 16; 10 p. M, ID; maximum, 10;
minimum, g; daily range, 13.
Joel Stubbs, farmer from Long Lake,
came into the city yesterday. He hitched
his team attached to a covered wagon, on
First avenue north. near Washington, and
when he went to get il an hour later he
found il gone As the hitching strap was
left. it is more than probable that the horses
broke away and went home.
Lawrence Petschel, arrested on a charge of
robbing Paul Sehmedemans saloon, was ar
raigned in the police court yesterday. He
waived examination and was held to the
grand Jury. William Riley was sent to the
workhouse for stealing an oyercoat, and
George Peterson, charged with stealing S45
from George Lax, had his case continued.
The body of James Mahar, the Minneapolis
4 ST. Louis engineer killed in the collision at
First street north Wednesday evening, was
taken to Eau Clare. Wis. at 2:20 yesterday
afternoon. panied by delegations from
the Elks and the Free Masons. The dead
mans father, mother. brother and two sis
tiers. who arrived in Minneapolis Thursday
morning, also accompanied the body home.
The funeral services will be held at Eau
Claire to-day.
The Coolidge Fuel and Supply company,
of Minneapolis, and the j. p Gribben Lum-
Der company, of st. Paul, have united in the
organization and incorporation of the Michi-
gan Cedar company, and proposes TO do a
big business in cedar. Some 10. 600 acres of
timber land IN Michigan, on the 500 road.
has been purchased, and saw mill will be
built here, where all kinds of cedar will be
turned out The new company now mas a
large force Of men at work IN the woods.