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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-27


The Fort Worth Gazette having re-
marked concerning standard oil
Payne's election to the senate, that he
never proved that he did not get his
place ~ the unlawful use Of money,
the Houston Age remarks:
The proposition, either in law or
morals, that man accused of crime
must prove himself innocent, is quite
original.
Original as it is, 1t is the rule that
obtained in this city in the examina-
ton just closed before Judge Heron.
Ell PAsO is preparing her prettiest
to take care of the editorial associa-
ton next week. Concerning these
preparation the Gonzales Inquirer
says:
1.-THE Texas editors are to see bull
fight, a Rloon ascension and view
the land g. Mortezuma during their
meeting in FL PasO. Whether they
can view the sight and live, remains
to be seem"
Does the Inquirer think that the
editors will say, like one of old LET
me depart in peace" having seen the
glory of FL PasO.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-27

NEW YORK is slaughtering the pole
and wire nuisance and cutting down
the poles after giving the companies
ample time to put their wires under
ground. That all cities of any con-
siderable magnitude will follow this
example in the densely populated and
closely built business streets is GER
tain, and when is only question of
time. There is quite demand made
in this city for the removal of the OBJ
structing poles on Commerce street,
between the plaZas, before the paving
is done there. The attention of the
council is directed to this matter as
something very necessary to be
done in view of the narrowness of that
street and the constantly increasing
number of poles erected there.
THE New England capitalists who
came to Denison the other day meant
business and they did their business
in a business way. They sent out
their agent who examined the prop
critics, both in Texas and Louisiana,
in which they proposed making in
vestment, and heard his report. Then
they put their check books in their
pockets and came on to invest if the
representa- ions filled the bill. Deni-
son paid the expenses of the trip con-
scious of her own advantages, and she
has her reward. That $4,000 will re-
turn her S1SO,OOO per year in added
taxes before five years roll by. 1t was
we'll and wisely done and San Antonio
could do as well any day after the
improvements promised these two
years past become visible to the
VISITORS eye.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
PERSONAL MENTION.

DR.. A. B. Oates and bride arrived in Mime
apolis yesterday from their wedding tour.
j. S. Porteous and wife returned to Mime
apolis yesterday from New York, where they
had been visiting.
Carl Wallace, the former treasurer at Har-
ris' theater, will be connected with the man
agement OF the exposition. A gold-headed
cane bestowed upon him by his associates,
was a token of their appreciation OH his
severing his connection with the Harris the
alter last Saturday.
AT THE HOTELS.
L. s. Champine and family are stopping al
at the Windsor.
E. C. Chaplin and wife, Lansing, are guests
the Holmes hotel.
Mrs D. Jones, of Seattle, W. T., is a guest
at the Nicollet house.
George s. Williams and wife, Muscatine,
TO- are at the Hotel Ardmore,
E. Gale Jr, of Omaha. and c. T. Holmes,
of Fargo, are guests at the Windsor house.
H. Melville Tenney, Grinnell. To-; C. W
Babcock, Kasota, are guests at the Nicollet.
Fly. Barrows, Fergus Falls, and Fred Day
ton, Fargo, are guests at the Hotel Ardmore
H. W. Robinson, j. C. Guyon and J. j.
Davis, Mankato, are registered at the Windsor
house.
OBJ. Bancroft and C. D. Campbell, James
town; j. j. Dow Faribault, are guests at the
Brunswick.
Frank H. Irons, Fargo; A. D. Thompson.
Duluth; j. E. Lowry, 81. Cloud, are registered
at the West hotel.
Walter s. Viele and wife and Charles
Morris of Evansville, form party stopping
at the Nicollet house.
H.W. Root, Sioux Falls; A. F. Wyhart,
Casselton, and W. D. Woym are guests from
Dakota at the Nieollet house.
Lewis E. Parsons, ex-governor of Alabama,
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs Jessie P,
Stevenson, are guests at the West hotel
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16

MINNEAPOLIS GLoBULEs.
Bank clearings Yesterday, ses9, $40


Advertising Car No. 1, of the Forepaugh
show, arrived in town yesterday morning.
The lamps on the suspension bridge have
been decorated with elegant gilt-tOpped
globes.
The Woman's Relief Corps Of Oliver P.
Morton post will hold services at the soldiers
home next Sunday afternoon.
The moonlight excursion of the national
drum corps to Lake MinnetOnka has been
postponed to Thursday. July Is.
1.-THE delegates from this city, who attended
the Christian Endavor convention in Phtla-
delphia, are expected home tomorrow.
The Union league met and adjourned last
evening, without tranSacting any business
but the electing of few new members.
The county board of equalization trans
acted no business at their meeting yesterday,
and adjourned until July 29th at a. m.
The state delegates, who attended the
Worlds Sunday school convention i'll Eng
land, Will arrive in Minneapolis during the
week.
The schedule of assets and liabilities of
Bragg & Phillips, filed yesterday, show as
sets amounting to S1,794. and liabilities to
S1,796.
to Gilbert Rokstad and 1ngeborg Westner,
John A. Clark and Maria Louisa eastman.
Daniel Swensen and Betsy Hanson, Bernard
Swift and Caroline Clements.
Members of the chamber of commerce and
the lumber exchange are to meet the finance
committee of the board of trade Thursday
afternoon at 4 o'clock to prepare for the re-
ception and entertainment of delegates to
the second annual convention Of representa-
tive bodies, which meets in Minneapolis
Sept. 3.
Picnic and excursion of chapter No. 8. o.
E. s. The Eastern Star picnic to Chapman s,
Minnetonka, postponed from July 10 will
ha ha1d fhn,, foi1 An
sion train on the Manitoba will leave Mime
apolis at 8: 55 a. M Tickets are on sale al
Mrs. Fairs store on Nicollet avenue, the
price being 81.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
GRAY WAS ON TO 1T.
The Portland Avenue Alderman
Wouldn't Be Fooled.

The Monday afternoon council COM
mittees did considerable business, be-
sides taking a lively interest in the
star chamber proceedings in the other
end OF the hall. Every reporter who
came into the council chamber was but
tonholed by some alderman and re-
quested to tell what the commits
sion had done. Aldermen saun-
tered up and down the corridor
and nagged the policemen who
had been summoned as witnesses, and
who in default of any provision for COM
fort by their masters. the divine COM
mission were obliged to stand in the
hall for four or five hours. Every half
hour or so Maj. Norton, who acted as
grand seneschal OF the police barons,
would appear and beckon another wit
ness into the interior, and the air OF
gloom settled on the anxious survivors.
Aid. Gray was one of the outside guard,
and with his usual frankness he threw
his opinions right and left. Some of
them were not complimentary to the
police commissioners. Neither did he
set up DR.. Kilvington as a model politi-
clan. Il knew about the deal by which
KilvingtOn was to be elected health Of
me with list of those who had agreed
to vote for him, and said Il suppose
may put you down, too"
No, sir, you may not replied.
He sat beside me in the council meet
ing and saw my first ballot cast against
him, and asked me to support him on
the second ballot, and l again refused.
don't like such deals and l did not
propose to be fooled as some of the
other aldermen WERE"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16

her his owneSt darling, his precious
little wife, etc. This settled the matter
right there, and the mother held all in
terview with her daughter, in which she
said that she did not care how soon the
girl married, but first she wanted to
know something of the man she was
going to marry.
This put the girl on her dignity, and
after a few words she put on her hat
and left the house, followed by her
brother, solid young fellow. who de-
termined to see the thing out. The girl
went directly to the young clerks room,
and there had an interview with her
lover, when it was decided to elOpe and
get married. Then the brother APP
peared and demanded that his sister ac-
company him home. She refused, and
he called in two policemen. Then he
said that if his sister did not make up
her mind to go home with him in i've
minutes he would have her arrested.
and that the clerk would not escape
either. The girl was undecided as to
what to do, but before the five minutes
were up announced her willingness to
go home.
"Yes, and l will take you home,'' an
! nOunced the clerk, as he put on his silk
hat.
'.Now, is that so?" asked the brother,
as he walked over to the clerk. 81
guess my sister will go home with me-.
She does not need your assistance"
After time matters were adjusted to
the satisfaction of all concerned, and
the girl went home with her brother.
Since then she has made no further at
tempt to leave home.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
BRAKEMAN EXONERATED. =.
Testimony That the Girls Step
Father Ruined Her. ~

The hearing of the testimony for the
defense was resumed yesterday morn.
ing in the municipal court before Judge
Mahoney in the case of Charles Blake
man, the young German charged by
Alma Nohr with being the father of
her unborn child. Mrs. Brakeman
testified that when the Nohr girl
worked at her home she discovered her
sitting in the lap of an old man. She
asked: "Why, Alma, who is this?"
and the girl answered, Its my STEP
father" Marks, the stepfather had
visited the girl several times a week
after this, always being drunk. Lizzie
Brakeman stated that Alma had adj
mitted to her that her step-father was
the cause of her being enceinte. At
the close of the testimony Judge Ma
honey dismissed the case, and young
Brakeman is thus declared innocent of
the accusation against him. 1t is quite
likely he will proceed against the per
SONS whom he claims caused his arrest
and prosecution with view to levying
blackmail,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
POLICE COURT NOTES.

Fred Mueller charge Frank W.Craw-
ford with keeping vicious dog. The
case will be heard to-day.
Nellie Pugh has caused the arrest of
George w. Pugh for the non-suppOrt of
his minor child, Josephine Pugh.
E. V. Schon, saloonkeeper at All
Washington avenue south, is on trial
for alleged violation of the Sunday clos
ing law.
Frank johnson, charged with stealing
milk from Dougnald McCollum's dairy
in North Minneapolis, will have his
hearing to-day.
Charles J. Fortier, an East side
butcher, was arralgned for peddling
from house to house without license,
and examination was continued.
George Gallagher, a youthful bar
tender of fifteen years, was arraigned
for selling liquor on Sunday in rooms
over Hannah u Gallagher's saloon on
Washington avenue south. EXamina-
ton was set for to-day.
Henry Ii. Wilson was held in $500 for
examination to-day upon the charge of
taking furniture valued atS113 from the
residence of Frances A. Petrie, at 1927
Holmes avenue. Wilson claims he had
bought the furniture aud had the right
to remove it,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
1.-THE Merchants'."

On or about July 20 Mr.. G. W. Saw
ger, the popular and well known dealer
in wines and liquors, will throw open
to the public the handsOmest and CO.
siest Cafe west of Chicago.
For the past six weeks extensive al
terations have been going on at No.
21416 Nicolet avenue. The click of the
work mans hammer, the artistic hand of
the artist, all have been employed re-
gardleSS of outlay to make this resort
for gentlemen the most magnificent
place in Minneapolis.
The cigar stand, which is sixty feet in
length, will be a marvel of beauty.
The fixtures are of massive, old-faSh-
Toned polished oak, rich in design and
finish. In this department nothing but
Acker. Merrill & Condit'S imported
goods will be sold, and in domestic CT
CARS all the standard brands will be
used.
Passing through the cigar stand you
will enter the Cafe"
The decorations here will be very
striking. Here the public will find a
place much needed. Other cities boast
of elegant resorts, why not Minneapo-
lis?
Mr.. Sawyer has been very lavish in
expenditures, but we know the results
will be satisfactory, as the public will
fully appreciate thoroughly tirst-clasS
resort.
Only the very best liquors will be dis
penSed. We predict a prosperous ca
reer for the Merchants.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
Won, THIS Is AWFUL!
The Directory This Year Shows 6
Decrease.

The compiling of the city directory
has nearly reached the letter T, and
pretty accurate estimate of its final
showing can be made. Last year there
were 74,35O names OH 1,243 pages, which
would be an average of about sixty
names to the page. The name of Aus
tine Secore this year occurs on the
977th of the pages devoted to names.
Last year it was on the 1.O15th
page. This shows that there are
up to this point thlrty.eight pages of
names less this year than last, and the
decrease of names, taking sixty to a
page, would thus be about $3.50. There
yet remains about one-siXth of the di-
rectory to be completed. and at the
present rate of decrease the whole
shortage will be about 900 names.
This will bring the whole number
of names down to less than r.
900. The population, estimated from
the directory, taking two and half as
a factor. amounted to 1s5,S75, and with
three as the factor, amounted to 223,-
$50. This years estimates of the popu
lation made in the same way, will dwin-
die as low as $50, 600 perhaps,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
UNTIL JULY 20.
The English Syndicate Is Still Me-
gotiating for the Mills.

The smoking rumors about the efforts
of a syndicate to buy the Minneapolis
mills are beginning to show some sparks
of fire. 1t is definitely known now,
says the Northwestern Miller, that an
option has been given on the mills, and
this option is understood to expire on
July 25. There is strong probability
of the deal going through, and if
it does it will mass mills with a
capacity of 1900 barrels day
under one management. probably that
of Charles A. Pillsbury. The negotia-
tons are understood to have been con-
Quoted through the great New York
banking firm of DreXel, Morgan & Co.
Experts have visited Minneapolis and
examined the books of the different
firms and are ready to report to the En-
glish syndicate. The capital stock of
the syndicate is said to be fixed at s1O,-
100000,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
LOCAL MENTION.
This Looks Like Business.

The Petrole Fuel company has leased
for long term of years the spacious
George Tenant factory buildings and
grounds, located on Fifth street and
Second avenue northeast.
A large force is already engaged get
ting the buildings and grounds in shape
for the extensive machinery, which will
be placed early this week.
The public is assured the celebrated
Petrole Fuel will be ready for delivery
by Aug. l.
Sufficient orders are now on hand to
keep the works busy for months. Every
effort will be exerted to supply the de-
mand. BY making weekly deliveries
all can be supplied for the present. The
works will be enlarged as rapidly as the
machinery can be made, and by Jan. 1
the capacity will be to turn out 500 tons
daily.
Send all orders to Office, No. 400 Lum-
Der Exchange, Minneapolis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
COUNTY EXPENSES.
The Commissioners of Hennepin

The Commissioners of Hennepin
Estimate for the Coming Year.
The county commissioners at their
meeting yesterday fixed the county ex-
pense for the coming year as follows:
Salaries of county officers, $4,000;
fees of county officers, s25, 600; expenses
of district court, S2S.OO0; courthouse
expenses. $4,000; Jail expenses, $4,000;
changes in the old Jail, S25, 900; court
house and Jail expenses, $1,000; roads
and bridges, $50, 600; poor farm. 1000 !;
dredge boat at MinnetOnka, $4,000;
books and printing. $4,000; station
cry, $4,000; care of insane, $1,000;
coroner'S inquests, $4,000; justice
courts, $500; municipal court, $4,000:
police officers fees, $500; returns of
births and deaths, $1,000; outside relief,
S1.50O; interest on court house and city
hall bonds, S15,075; interest on Lake
street bridge bonds, S3,375: incidentals,
$1,000: deficiency in county revenue
fund. $4,000. Total, S31S.S50.
The total request last year was $780,
600, while the board got only about
Sl97, 900. 1t will be seen that one of the
largest items in the present requisition
is to make up the deficiency in the
county revenue Iund caused Dy the
meager allowance of the preceding
year. Another large item is to provide
for the improvements to the Jail.
The contract for the substructure of
the new Bloomington ferry bridge was
let to D. D. Van Norman, his bid being
s., 43S. The bid of Morris & Foley was
S1,765. Several bids were rejected, the
legal requirements not having been
ooyoDliod with Tho folIOwinu hide for
the superstructure were received:
George E. Bridge company, S10.50O; S.
NJ. Hewett. 500; Wisconsin Bridge
company, s9,4S9; Horace E. Horton,
1895; King Bridge company, slO,S95;
Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works,
S10,35O; Canton Wrought Iron Bridge
company. 800; A. Y. Bayne & Co.,
$4,000. These bids will be acted upon
at the next meeting. ]. II. Helm was
granted a license to sell liquor at the
old Webb place on the COrcOran road.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL"
A Fine Performance at Harris

A Fine Performance at Harris
Theater of the Charming Opera.
The largest Monday night house of
the season witnessed fine presentation
of Balfe's beautiful opera, 1.-The Bohe-
milan Girl" at Harris theater last night.
1t was placed upon the stage in magnifi-
cent style, every scene being charm
ing picture to look at, and the costumes
unusually pretty and in strict accord
with the Gypsy custom. Miss Kirwin
made a hit with her every song and act,
and had to repeat all of the many
melodious songs allotted to her part.
Miss Christine was exceptionally good
in her picturesque character of the
queen, and was deseryedly encored for
her songs. The Misses Hamilton and
AipSc oe gave a delightful Gypsy dance,
assisted by the chorus. Mr.. Comfy, Mr..
Jones, Mr.. Mares, and Mr.. Kohnle were
satisfactory in the presentation of their
respective roles, and as whole the
performance was an especially excel
lent one.
This afternoon their will be matinee,
and "The Bohemian Grip all the week
at Harris theater
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
A BUILDING ERA,
The University improvements
Being Pushed.

The contract for erecting the new
chemical and physical laboratory of the
university has been let to f. A. Fisher
q Co., and the work of tearing down
the old structure will begin soon. The
laboratory is to be 1877 feet long by 80
wide, two stories high and a basement.
The material will be brown stone for
the basement and trimmings, and
Roman brick for the superstructure.
The foundation of the main heating
plant is in also. 1t will be 125 feet long
by 60 feet wide, and will con-
meet with all the other buildings by
tunnels. The law building has been
completed to the second story, and will
be finished in September. Pillsbury
Science hall, on the interior of which
work has been pushed since commence
ment, is now almost completed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
COUNCIL COMMITTEES,
The AIdermanic Bodies Move
Slowly on Monday.


The gas committee put in part of
the afternoon at it's usual business of
ordering the transferring of lights from
one point to another on the petition of
citizens and recommendation of the
light inspector. 1t also recommended
the establishment of fifteen electric
lights on the steel arch bridge, for
which posts have been erected.
The fire committee audited bills and
took into consideration the question of
an engine house to give protection to
Oak Park and Bryn Mawr regions. The
nearest engine house at present to this
district is about twenty blocks distant.
The committee will make a visit to the
locality this morning.
Aid. Downs, Aid. Hunter and Aid.
Flaten, OF the public grounds and build
ings committee, had another wrestle
with the Hunter Il Scott plumbing
bill. Aid. Downs maintained that
the bill was excessive. and refused to
vote for it, but the other two members
thought it reasonable for plumbers
bill and put it through. The matter of
releasing the upper floor of the city hall
to the telephone exchange was brought
up in the same committee, and resulted
III lllOOhCl AAiN. Nv w no
suggested 500 per month as a fair
rental, and Hunter and Flaten held to
$3.50. There will be majority and mi
nority report at the next council meet
in e as consequence.
The committee on health and hOSpl-
tails had a short session and playfully
examined DR.. KilYingtOn on his cOnnec-
ton with the police commission scandal.
The Doctor made them full statement
upon which the committee took no ac-
ton.
The committe on paving received
four bids for laying stone sidewalks.
The lowest from .he Franklin paving
company was Sl.10 square yard. The
committee will investigate the financial
standing of the company, and if 1t is
responsible. it will get the contract,
as the offer is a low one.
John West, superintendent of the work
house, submitted to the committee on
workhouse a semi-annual report, show
ing that warrants to the amount OF
sl0,9lS.74 had been drawn in favor of
the institution. On the other hand, he
inmates at S7,573.95. More than $1,000
worth of grading and quarrying had
been done by the prisoners for the
Third and Tenth wards. The cost
of maintaining all persons. pris
oners and officers, the superin-
tendent figures at a little more
than nine cents day, three cents less
than the cost has ever been before. The
average number of prisoners has been
lis during the half year. In conclusion
the superintendent suggests the estab-
liShment of shop where simple and in
expensive articles can be made to en-
ploy the men in the winter months,
when, he believes, there will be in the
nelghborhood of 200 prisoners.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
AN ELOPEMENT SPOILED,
A Determined Brother With Two
Policemen Blocked the Way.

A small room in the second story of
the building on the southwest corner of
Washington and Nicollet avenues was
the scene of a little romance which
came very near ending in tragedy Sat
urday evening. The parties concerned
were a young lady. her brother and a
former clerk in the business Office of the
Tribune.
About a month ago the young lady in
question, a very handsome girl of seven
teen, the daughter of the foreman of
saw mill in Northeast Minneapolis, met
the clerk at party. 1t was case of
love at first sight, both the girl and the
young fellow being badly smitten.
Many letters passed between them, and
at last the young lady's mother, becom-
ing suspicious. opened one of the letters
addressed to her daughter. In this let
ter the clerk said that every moment
seemed like an age until he could call
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16

E. J. Davenport, A. B. Nettle-
ton, n Col 1;,,, William ;a Mecr1Fy, Dr.
Hughes candidacy. Capt. Terrell and
George w. Cooley are for that other old
soldier, Frank Mead. E. a. Sumner
throws the weight of his influence for
George w. Marchant. However, Post
master Ankeny expects to serve until
August, 1890, more than year yet, aud
Will have the new pOstOffice in ship
shape for his successor. He does not
expect to be reappointed, and his per-
sonal choice for his successor is Mr..
Hughes.