St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-20
TUESDAY AT SALTWATER.
Names Of the Incorporators Of the Po-
tato Starch Company.
A PROBABLE FACTORY SITE.
Funeral of the Late William Muller.
Member of the Fire Department
Assaulted.

The incorporates of the new potato
starch company will be Fred Scote, John
Karst, John Hogstrom, Y. G. Seward
and Michael Moffatt. who were named
by Chairman A. K. Doe at meeting of
the stockholders and other citizens held
at the city hall Monday night. Besides
formally incorporating the company, the
gentlemen named are Instructed to Sc
cure additional subscriptions to the cap
ital stock and to report upon the most
suitable and available site for the build
ings to be erected. The starch factory
is now sure go, indicated by
the character of the meeting and its
action on the various important
points brought up. Mr.. Hogstrom
reported gratifying success in
his canvass for subscriptions to stock,
and gave assurance of still greater ac-
cessions. The committee will report as
to site at the first annual meeting, of
the stockholders, which will be held the
second Tuesday in April. at which time
directors will be elected. The articles
of incorporation fix the capital stock at
$4,000, and the factory to be first
erected will have daily capacity of
a bout 225 bushels of potatoes. 1t is de-
sired to begin the manufacture of starch
this spring. in order to take advantage
of the fact that the farmers now have
in their cellars large surplus of pota-
toes, which can be secured for the fac
tory, it is said, at Is cents per buShel.
The proposed location of the factory is
either OH the old city pound, back of
the city hall, the Browns creek gully,
the Lily lake neighborhoOd or at Oak
Park.
The funeral Of the late William Null
Ter, held yesterday under direction of
Concordia Lodge No. 10, Sons of Her
man, was very largely attended. The
pail bearers were George Rippman, l..
Pankonin, August Kutz, William
Kenneman, Henry Kunde and Rudalph
Stussi; all Sons of Herman and in re-
gala. At the German Catholic church
the pall-bearerS were denied admit
lance, and the casket was deposited
outside the doors, where the family of
deceased stood on the church steps
during mOmentary ceremony, and the
coffin was then returned to the hearse.
The church was at The time half filled
with people waiting to witness the
funeral ceremonies. The pall-bearers
were also refused admittance in regalia
to the cemetery and remained outside.
Mr.. Muller died in the Catholic faith.
Prof. S. s. Taylor, who died suddenly
at st. Paul, Monday night. was. at the
time of his death, member of the Still
water firm of Seward d Taylor, pub
fishers of the Saltwater Messenger, and
was also the husband of Mrs. V. G.
Stewards sister.
John Shortall and "Singer'' Barnes
were fined S25 and costs each yesterday
by Judge Nethaway for an assault COM
mitted Monday night on Peter Blad, a
member of the fire department.. George
ROney, who was found to be the ring
leader in the affair and showed especial
brutality in his attack on Blad, was
held to the grand jury in $500 bonds.
Blad Is severely, but not seriously in
jured.
Coroner Clark received letter yester-
day from E. Nj, Evans, of jackson,
Mich, in which the latter says that the
dead body found in the Long lake
slough is undoubtedly that of his
brother Frank, but that Frank did not
leave Michigan until October. At the
inquest Nays swOre positively that
the strange man supposed to be Evans
was seen at their farm early in Septem-
Der, before the state fair.
TarbOX, Schliek & Co. and Joseph W.
Blabon gave notice of appeal from the
order of the district court ordering
distribution of the j. L. Miller assets
upon the filing of releases by the cred
itOrS.