St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-12

1t is reported that ex-Chief Black,
aided by prominent insurance men of
the city, is moving for the organization
OF fire insurance patrol in st. Paul,
similar to that now in existence in Chi
yeagO, Milwaukee and most Eastern
4citieS.
J.. Chief Clark is in receipt of telegram
from Chief Janson of Milwaukee, re-
porting the arrest in that city of col
oored man named John Thomas, who had
I'm his possession a 42-inch sealskin
-saeque. supposed to have been stolen in
ST. Paul.
The funeral of Erasmus NJ. Deane
took place at o'clock yesterday after
noon from his late residence, 421
Laurel avenue. The funeral services
were conducted by Rev. DR.. Christie
iSanu the remains inferred in Oakland
{ cemetery.
3 A tough juvenile attempted to snatch
"a watch and chain from Miss Daisy Fol-
let, on Acker street, last night. The
attempt was unsuccessful. in that the
thief only secured portion of the
Hehain, which was of no value, the watch
remaining firm.
An attempt was made yesterday to
reduce the chaotic confusion of the
court house yard to something like Or
der. The work will occupy some time,
and probably months will elapse before
the stone pavementS are laid around
the new edifice and the building has re-
ceived the finishing touches.
A contract for the paving of East
Seventh street, from Hope street to At
lantic street, was yesterday awarded by
the board of public works to Louis E.
ShipleY at S34, 800. A contract was also
awarded to II. j. Cooper, at $50. $50, for
grading Rose and Geranium streets.
Frank earle, who was badly injured
yards, is still sying seriously ill at the
city hospital. His ultimate recovery,
however, is regarded by the attending
surgeons certain. The others in
jured are all at their own homes, and
are doing well.
The walks on the Robert street
bridge are in condition unfit for travel
by the thousands who traverse them
daily. The planks are in some cases
warped to a degree which leaves
space of about four inches for ladies to
drop their umbrellas through, two
cases of the kind having occurred this
week.
The Wide-awake men of st. Paul
Park have graded, at large expense,
street to the river. and established
cable ferry to the island opposite, which
is connected with the mainland by
government dam. Travel has already
set in, as the work on the west shore
does not interfere with it.
Ansel Oppenheim, president of the
st. Paul Union Stockyards company,
returned yesterday from three months
trip On the continent. He combined
business with pleasure while abroad,
and perfected some of the largest finan-
cial enterprises that have ever been
undertaken by representatives of the
Northwest.
A gllded youth who stood on the
steps of a Seventh street resort last
evening, making flip remarks to all the
ladies who passed that way, tackled the
wrong cherub at last. The lady had
friend in the rear who acquired the art
under the able tuition of Pat Killen, and
the flat-chested chappie Of the doorway
-'"got it in the neck"
a very risky and utterly fooihardy
action was that of a middle-aged man
who drove down Fourth street yester-
fday in a buggy. When the cable cars
1wefe less than half block apart this
gentleman. who risked the life of the
lady in his company as we'll as his own,
drove across the tracks between the
cars, one of which missed the wheels
'of the fragile vehicle by little more
Ethan hairs breadth.
!, One of the fiat boats which has been
mOored OH the south bank of the river,
near this city. since last fall, and oeeu-
pied by man named Andrew Lelsch,
5and family, east loose her moorings and
started, for st. Louis, yesterday MORN
ing Leisch expects to complete the
. trip in about two months, stopping to
work at the towns EN- route.
The following deaths were reported
at the health Office yesterday: Emma
Dahl, heart failure, thirty years old,
city hospital; Stainslaus Elias, three
years, diphtheria, SIS Lawson street;
Lawson street: Edmund Spates, twenty
five years, typhoid fever, 1887 Reaney
street; Marie Morris, three years,
nephritis, 305 Carroll street.
A wonderfully attractive model of the
Eiffel tower, which has just been built
in Paris, is exhibited at the Plymouth
clothing house. Seventh and Robert
streets. The original tower is 1000 feet
in height, mores than eleven times as
high as the Ryan annex, the latter be-
ing only about ninety feet high. Ac-
curately proportioned men and teams
give the sight-seers at the Plymouth an
idea of the exact dim tensions of the now
world-famouS structure of iron.
Robert P. Wilder, student of Prince
ton Theological seminary, who for two
years past has been visiting the colleges
and institutions of learning in this
country, in behalf of the foreign mis-
sion work, and under whose efforts such
a large number of young men and
women have consecrated themselves to
the work in foreign fields, will address
the young men of st. Paul at the rooms
of the Y. M. e. A. on Saturday evening
next O'clock, and on Sunday afternoon
at o'clock in the gymnasium.
An individual carrying tin growler
and prOboscis of lurid hue, stood on
the temporary wooden bridge crossing
the open cable bitches on Seventh aud
Cedar streets last night. He was the
victim of an insane deiuSiOn, imagining
himself tie be John l.. Sullivan. and he
swore as he backed up, swinging the
growler to emphasize his words. that he
could lick any man OH earth. An mad
Yerdent step sent him headlong into the
siX-foot hole in his rear. from which po-
sition he was rescued without an ounce
of fight left in him, and pretty badly
bruised.
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