St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
GATHERED AT SALTWATER
Great Temperance Demonstration in
Honor of Father Nugent.
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY
Given to the Distinguished Priest Fires
Still Raging in the
Forest.

The Grand opera house was filled in
eVery nook as never before on the Occa-
sion of the great demonstration last
evening in honor of both the temper
ance cause and its pre-eminent apostle,
Rev. Father Nugent, of Liverpool,
though the good archbishop of the do
eese was no less welcome guest and no
less honored for his own work and per-
sonal sake. The distinguished guests
arrived on the 5:35 Duluth train, and
we've entertained at the residence of
John OBrien, president of the Arch
diocesan Total Abstinence union. until
sion, including the Father Mathew.
Crusaders and Cadet societies, formed
on South Third street, in front of st.
MichaePs church, the Cadets bearing
torches, and the three organizations
acting as escort to the speakers, who
occupied carriages. The procession,
headed by a band of music, moved
down: Third street to Myrtle. down
Myrtle to Main, and thence to
the opera house, where Mayor
Durant called the vast asSemblage to
order, and in few neatly termed SEN
fences presented Father Nugent, on be-
half of the municipality, with the free
dom of the city,. Following this incl
dent, President John O'Brien, in behalf
of the union of which he is the eXecu-
tive head, presented to Father Nugent
handsomely engrOSsed address of well
come, first reading its text, which in
general terms reviewed the work of The
distinguished divine as temperance
worker during the past forty years, and
expressed sentiments of fraternal re-
gard toward the League of the Cross,
the great English Catholic total absti-
nence organization. Father Nugent re-
sponded fittingly, and proceeded to his
evenings address, which was delivered
with an effect and power that seemed to
OverWhelm the auditors. Archbishop
Ireland followed in his characteristic
ally eloquent and impressive style. so
that beyond mere fOrcible temperance
exnOrtatiOns, the occasion was an ora
tOrical and literary feast.
The seventy-tive elect convicts were
taken in two coaches over the Omaha to
st. Cloud yesterday morning att o'clock,
all but the odd man being handcuffed
together in pairs, and being accOmpa-
MED by Acting Deputy G. S. Randall
and Guards Alexander, Bordwell, Rowe,
Flannery, Brannan and Jenkins. They
embarked opposite the prison. most of
them smiling and many of them laden
with canes, baskets and trinkets made
at odd times in prison. Two or three
dropped a tear over the severance from
Old associations.
Ed st. John reports a probability that
the great stores of lumbermen'S hay in
the Mission Creek country above Hinck-
ley are being destroyed. When he left
Pine City yesterday morning fires were
raging north of Snake river, and at Pine
City the smoke was so dense as TO
eclipse the locomotive headlight fifty
feet away. The GroundhOuse timber
destruction, heretofore reported, is said
to be still in progress and only rains
can check it.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company, plaintiff filed notices
in four eases yestert a. of appeals from
the order of the court of Sept. "a, Sus-
tanning the demurrers of E. w. Durant.
X. F. Hersey and j. G. O'Gorman, as
receivers of The property Of Seymour,
Sabin d Co.; the Union Depot Street
Railway q Transfer company, E. l.,
Hersey, Isaac Staples.
The remains of Rev. John Benson.
who died yesterday at the age of eighty
one years, will be removed this mOrn-
Ing to Wells, Mimi, for interment.
Funeral services. conducted by Rev. j
NJ. Bull. of the First Methodist church.
were conducted yesterday afternoon.
Supt. Otar had everything creased to
give Tom Lowry an electric railroad
ride over the Sprague system that he
would remember, but the railrOaders
faii d to come over from Minneapolis as
anticipated. They are expected to-day.
Patrick DOnahue came down yester-
day from the pineries with a severe
scalp wound and other injuries inflicted
by the falling limb of tree.
The Daisy left with logs yesterday,
and the Ravenna cleared from Winona
with the restored half of her lumber
raft.
Charles Hesse, sentenced for murder
to life Imprisonment, was received at
the prison from Carver county yester-
day.
The attendance at the state teachers
institute yesterday was sixty-One, con-
siderable increase over the previous
day.
r. M. Anderson, III. J. McKusick,
Henry Heisel and Louis Wolf nave re-
turned from their hunting trips.