St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-27
IN AND AROUND DULUTH.
4 Prisoner Who Tries to Escape Al
most Frozen to Death.
\ 100000 LAND COMPANY.
Rev. Thomas Baldwin Defines His Past
Relations With the Church He
Has Left.

DULUTH, MARCH Io.-lu0y lcll oil
amusing story about the experience of
criminal recently confined in the
station house at Tower. Twas a very
cold night and along about midnight a
couple of village officers arrived at the
Jail with drunken prisoner. But one
of the pieces of furniture in the par
ticular cell occupied by the prisoner
was an AK. The officers had no sooner
left the place than the culprit seized the
ak and destroyed not only the window
in his cell. but the door and every win
dow in the station house. On account
of the heavy iron grating outside the
sash and glass, he could not make his
escape. When the officers returned to
give him his breakfast in the morning,
he was frozen stiff and apparently life
less. He was removed to house near
and thaWed out and is now out OF
danger. But for several hours it was
thought that this was his lastetlrunk; as
it is, one of his limbs may suffer ampu-
tatiOn.
REV. THOMAS BALDWIN'S POSITION.
Rev. Thomas Baldwin, who preached
his farewell sermon at the Second Bap-
IlSG CuuICl ytSl6Iudy, ICpllCo w eilO
stories circulated about him by certain
members of his parish. Among the
things in refutation of these claims he
exhibits piece of paper upon which is
written the following:
Received and paid to the pastor since
the last audit, Dec. %, 1887, the sum OF
s2011, leaving a balance due Rev.
Thomas johnson of 1924 up to date
April l, 1888. D. L. La BARR,
Treasurer Second Baptist Church"
Mr.. Baldwin says the whole story
grew out of a present given him., A
lady of the congregation secured a
purse and instead of buying him pres
ent, gave him the money to invest him
self. He afterwards inadvertently re-
ported the amount of the purse and
made it less than it was by 81 or So.
From this fact grew the statements that
he told falsehoods about money re-
ceived. There were. he said, two or
three diSgruntled trustees who wanted
him to vacate the parsonage and he,
rather than do this, with his wife i'll as
she is now, offered to forgive the society
the 1924 due him, provided they would
let him occupy the parsonage till June.
To this they aSsented.
THE CITY IN BRIEF.
Three members of the regular paid
fire department and two volunteers
were dismissed to-day for purloining
$40 in silver and bills at the recent
Longtin fire. An old trunk was thrown
down stairs, this money fell out and the
fremen implicated claimed that they
took part in the general scramble to
prevent bystanders from getting the
money, which they did not altogether.
as outsiders secured some money and
did not return it.
At meeting of the city council this
evening $500 were appropriated for Com
pany K, Second regiment. M. n. q. A
resolution was passed widening Superior
street, east of Fourteenth avenue, to 100
feet, and opening Railroad street to
Rice.S point.
Detective Benson has notified George
Siddons. the feather, weight, to get out
Of town or be arrested under the vagrant
ordinance. The detective says George
is light-fingered as well as a light.
weight.
Articles of incorporation of the Yer
million Iron d Land company, of Duluth,
II. HOlgate, G. w. Johns and w. II.
Smallwood. Their capital stock is
placed at 81, 100000.
will. build branch road to Portage
entry Stone quarries, one of which is
third in Importance in the United States.
Instead of the customary sixty-pound
steel rails, the new Hinckly-Duluth
rails and ties propOrtionately heavy.
John Roswell and Matilda johnson.
who have occupied the local court for
low W
married by Judge Martin Saturday.
The Duluth Natural Gas company to-
night raised money to liquidate all its
Indebtedness, and resolved to push the
search for gas right along.
The annual report of the fire depart
ment shows that the total loss on build
ingS for Duluth for the year has been
$l7,340, contents $4,000.
Agent Menderhall, of the Wisconsin
Central, has returned after a four
weeks trip to Montana, the land, he
says, of early spring,
Money was subscribed to-day to pay
off the debt of the Gas Boring company
and work will be commenced on the
well again tomorrow.
Contractor Tranor, who has charge of
the construction of the new hotel St.
Louis is in the city and says work will
be pushed rapidly.
Paddy Mcdonald and j. W. Curtiss
will give an exhibition in Cloquet next
Friday night.
II. P. Jones & Co., of Baraboo. will
open new clothing house on Superior
street.
Eight new men will be added to the
police force within two weeks.
Spirit Lakes new hotel will be ready
for business April Is.
Persons with money to invest will do vel
70 turn their attention to Duluth and Supel
tor NJ. 3. uarrision, Coz Duluth National
bank building Duluth, has a large list of