St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-10
SAINT PAUL.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Scarlet fever prevailsat 259 Sherman street.
Bank clearances yesterday were $685.
Do. %.
MYRTLE Leaf club will give its eleventh
social hop at Lucker's hall tonight.
G. Hunniford, of South st. Paul. returned
yesterday from visit TO Duluth anu gu
perior.
Sixteen births, five deaths, and two mar
riages were recorded at the health office
yesterday
The calendar carnival of the Central Park
NJ E. church young people last week net1eu
them SI25.
Henry Mavhew, prominent business
man of Grand Marais, was Il visitor yester-
day at the state auditors department..
Capt. John Monaghan, inspector of hulls,
and Capt NJ. F. Chalk. inspector of boilers,
arrived ut the Merchants from Duluth yes
terday.
Prof. Eberman-To-day 1 heard several
ladies discussing who was the governor or
Minnesota. They decided upon John ..
Pillsbu.y as the man.
Theodore E. Parker-To day, the 9th OF
May, completes my tenth year IN the once
of the corporation attorney and the eleventh
year I'll begin in the new court mousse
An exhibition of work done by the chill.
dren in the manual training department. or
the high school will be held Nay 81 and
June l in the chamber OF commerce
The explosion of a can of gasoline, upset
nv Numbers in the basement of the Breck-
man block near Sixth and Franklin streets,
called ont the fire department yesterday at
noon. No damage.
A meeting of the directors of the Bethel
association win be held at the chamber OF
commerce this afternoon at o'clock TO make
final arrangements authorizing the erection
of the floating Bethel home.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Joseph Lacrosse and Sophia Frundt, George
Baar and Annie HOFFMAN,, Peter Jensen and
Gertie Olson NelS Nelson and Annie john
son. Seth Oster and Rebecca Peterson.
The national conference of gentlemen in
terested in state boards of charities and cor
rections will be held In August in California.
Secretary Hart. of Minnesota is preparing
paper on the utility and scope OF these
boards.
From a letter received yesterday from
Dairy Commissioner Ives, the Owatonna
5000 pounds Of milk per day, which is
equivalent to manufacturing 800 pounds OF
cheese.
Henry E. Wood assistant district attorney,
in view of his retirement as such. has en-
tered into a copartnership with P: j.. Nc
Iaughlin, q prominent attorney OF Dakota.
The new law firm will open its Office i'll the
Drake block.
Thirty school districts throughout the
state made application to the state auditor
for the usual loans. The largest loan asked
for was $4,000 from Gladstone, the others
ranging from 500 to 500. The loans ag-
gregated. $4,000.
Next Friday evening 18th inst, the Ivy
Leaf Dancing club gives the last OF its popu-
lar sociables for this season at Locust nall.
The parties given by the club before the
Lenten season were more largely attended
than those of any club in the city.
The anniversary of Norway's independence
will be celebrated the 18th inst, at Herman,
Mimi. Attorney General Clapp has con-
scented to deliver an Grafton appropriate to
the occasion, and Prof. Allison, lecturer OF
the Farmers alliance, will also speak.
Secretary Bertran, of the Dairy Commits
sion-We have licensed fifty milk sellers in
St Paul A month will be given the rest Of
the dealers to take out their licenses, and
then-well, we will come down upon all
evaders of the law with an iron hand.
The board of public works yesterday
awarded contracts as follows: Sewer on
Fuller street. between Rice street and sum-
nit avenue Gus Molin, .250; sewer on
Edmund street between Arundel and Macku-
sewer on Lincoln avenue, between Avon AID
Victoria streets, Gus Molin, S775.
Ex-Sheriff Richter is on his way home.
He has enjoyed the medicinal springs of
months, and i'll q letter says that he is much
improved in health. He will be in st. Paul
by the-1Jth inst, and after his arrival Will
embark upon commercial enterprise III
this city. which will be OF no mean proper
ton.
The steamers Ruby and Mike Davis were
INSPECTED in the hoof Yesterday by Capt.
Hayes. They were found all right and will
ply the waters of the Mississippi. The cap
tain reports the river to have risen four
inches since Wednesdays rain. The ont
look for a river traffic was never better. and
the business will be a profitable one this
season.
There has been trouble at Merriam Park
for some years, arising from the postoffice.
Petitions for and against free delivery of
mails have been sent in, and it was ditfiC ult
to tell how the majority of the people felt on
the subject. An investigation was maze, re-
sulting i'll report favoring the free delivery
system. Supt. Hardacre has since made
personal investigation, and has come to the
conclusion that 80 per cent OF the people
favor the free delivery system. He expects
that the postotfice, as at present run at Mer-
RAM Park. will be abandoned by June 1.
Company D of the First Regiment NJ. $. N.
G., was inspected at the armOry last night.
The militiamen stood as fine an inspection
as could be demanded. and when the report
is submitted. will prove to have ranked
agreeably close to perfection. SiXty-eight
men answered the roll call. The manual was
excellent and the arms as clean as the
school OF the soldier prescribes. The spec
tators present were highly pleased with
short exhibition drill after inspection, i'll
which the company did its old time clock
work drill and step.
About $50 last night the telegraph and
telephone wires on the north side of Fourth
current, which played sad havoc with The
low tension wires. Over 200 yards of wire
belonging to the telephone company was
burned out, several instruments were
scorched, and two poles at Minnesota and
jackson streets were set on fire. The fire de-
partment was called upon to extinguish the
flames. a number of linemen were put at
work to repair the damage last night, and
Manager Joyce hopes to have the service fully
restored at an early hour this morning.
gentleman who lives on Seventh street
returned to his home pretty late a few nights
ago, and OH going to his room found young
man lying fast asleep with his wife. The
husband woke the unsuspicious slumberer
up by swearing. The IT, S. on waking sized
the situation up accurately, jumped for the
husband smashed him in the neck, seized
his coat, pants and boots and rushed out of
the house. He reached the street in his shirt
tail and proceeded to dress. A policeman
asked him what he was doing. Dressing"
replied he, and disappeared. What husband
and wife said to each other is one of those
things that even the reportorial telescope
eye could not penetrate.
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