St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-23
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBULEs.
Yesterday's bank clearings, S772,5 ,534. OF

Yesterdays bank clearings, $772,534.O7.
A fire in kitchen that Occasioned slight
damage called out the fire department yester-
day at noon.
Bryant avenue north residents claim the
street has been left in an impossible condl-
ton since the sewer work was done.
The public school children are indignant
because Decoration day is to be made an
examination day this year instead of holi-
day.
Fifty thousand collars of the S65, GOO due
on water rents has been collected. and Regis.
trar Moody says water will be shut Off from
delinquents Immediately.
Charles Dannager, the North Washington
avenue saloonkeeper, has been fined 81 90 in
dedition to a sixty-day workhouse sentence.
A weeks stay was granted him.
Articles of incorporation were filed yester-
day of the Northwestern Land company.
The capital stock is 100000. William B.
Clark, jesse B. Chatterton and Trumen E.
Penny are the iDcorporators.
The latest newspaper milling rumor is that
the Pillsburys will form stock company to
manage and operate their milling and eleva-
tor business, and that the Washburn mills
are likely to be included in the syndicate.
The park board committee on designation
Of grounds yesterday considered petition
for establishing parks at TOdd'S pond, on
Nicollet and Forty-second street, In b EST &
Dibble's addition, and at Saratoga Springs.
The difficulty with the roadway between
the motor tracks and Calhoun boulevard at
Lake Calhoun is to be adjusted by lowering
the roadway, making it forty feet wide, and
leaving twelve feet between it and the boule-
ward.
The chamber of commerce yesterday morn
ing adopted an additional section to rule 10.
providing that on all contracts made after
May %, grain inspected as either old or new
grain can be delivered unless otherwise
specified.
The water department began Yesterday to
take up the old wooden water main on
creek. The main is about 40 feet long, and
was put down about twenty years ago.
About One-half of it is as lsOund as when it
was put down.
special agent from the treasury depart
ment will be sent here to examine and report
the new pOstofice. 1t is not likely that more
than three stories will be supplied with
lights as the appropriation will not warrant
more than that
Marriage licenses were granted yesterday
to Charles Peterson and Amanda Manson,
Alfred E. Woolett and Leila w. Shaw, An
drew NordstrOm and Maria Anderson, Tim
othy Bacon and Lizzie Caverly. Bruno Schu
bert and Louise Henry, Abbott Blunt and
Emma Flickinger.
a masked battery on Washington avenue
south, between Eighth and Ninth avenues
south, last evening, and arrested two white
women and two colored men and one white
man. The women were running cigar
store, with a bagnio attachment.
The treasury department at Washington
will soon issue an advertisement for furni-
ture and gas fixtures tor the Minneapolis pub
lie building The plans and specifications
for the furnishers are prepared, and are very
elegant in design and finish. The depart
ment expects to put the postOffice and other
government Offices into actual possession of
the building about Oct. 1.
A water faucet was carelessly left open
Tuesday evening on the sixth floor Of the
Travis block, and yesterday morning the
building was found to have been flooded
during the night. W. W. Huntington owns
the building, and the occupants expect to
hold him for the damage. The Spectator, the
Buckeye Publishing company, H. C. Travis,
Geesaman q Murphy and Ennis & De Haven
were the occupants most seriously damaged.
The ground floor escaped injury. The total
damage is about 81, 200.