St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
STRUCK IN SALTWATER.
A Two-Year-0ld Boy Crushed to Death
bya Wagon.
THE BIG LOG JAM WORSE.
The Usual Municipal Suits Begun.--Cir-
Gus Day--Variegated News
Notes.

David, the two-year-old son of John
McHugh, living in the village of HOul-
ton, opposite the city, was crushed to
death, yesterday, under the wheel of
wagon loaded with hay. The driver,
Nelson Hughes, was driving slowly
along the road, unaware that any child
was in the neighborhood until he heard
a scream, whereupon he stopped his
horses and found the boy insensible in
the road. one of the wheels having
passed lengthwise across the body.
Death resulted within an hour. No
blame is attached by any one to Mr..
Hughes.
1t was thought yesterday that the
lesser log jam at TaylOr's Falls, below
the bridge, would be broken by night.
But at Big Rock, above the falls, an
other jam has formed, extending back
long distance. Logs are running thlckly
and piling upon the rear, and w. ID. q.
Folsom, who came down in the morn
ing, reports the situation there as serl-
Gus. During the day nothing was heard
from the seat of trouble, except that
Manager Sauntry wired here for more
men, and in response additional help
was at once sent.
In the matter of the Edwin st. John
insolvent estate, Judge McCluer yester-
day heard the argument of n. 81. Clapp,
in behalf of Receiver John G. Nelson,
on the latter's application for an order
to distribute the assets among the cred
itOrs. The receiver does not allow the
two Keator claims of $4,000 and S1S,-
600 respectively, cOntending that they
are not such debts as could be proved
against the estate. An application was
also received from the state auditor
asking leave to prove up against the
estate an additional claim for stllmpage.
The circus yesterday drew crowds,
and up to late hour no depredations
had occurred. During the parade one
of the electric railway span wires was
broken by some towering part OF the
procession, and the running of cars was
thereby suspended for an hour.
E. w. Durant, R. j. Wheeler, Mary
F. Doe, ]. P. Fitzgerald, E. q. Butts, r.
B. Langdon and Robert Malloy each
brought an action yesterday through
Attorney Marsh to prevent being de-
clared delinquent on certain special
taxes levied for the improvement of
various streets, Mr.. Durant's complaint
being in relation to Pine street. The
county auditor and the city of Still
water are made the defendants. The
grounds on which each plaintiff seeks
to evade the tax are stated in the allie
cations that the assessments were made
under an unconstitutional law; that the
proceedings were irregular; that the
commissioners were not diSIntereSted
parties; that the proceedings to con-
denim property for slopes and fills were
combined with proceedings to assess
and award damages and benefits, and
that notice of the proceedings was not
published in any official paper of the
city.
The editors of the state come to-mor-
row, when the programme for their en-
-tertainment, as heretofor published,
will be adhered to. Citizens are advised
to cooperate in making the affair pleas
ant for the visitors, so that future editO-
rial references to Saltwater may be
creditable to the city.
The white deer captured when fawn
near Cable year ago, and since kept
en- the grounds of Peter Jourdain, was
yesterday purchased from Mr.. Jourdain
for $50 by Adam Forepaugh, the show
-Iaan, who says that he shall send it to
Isarope. 1Hnf ~
: The ladies of the Universalist church
with give a lawn 1ete tomorrow evening
lon the adjoining grounds of F. T. Will
son and L. B. Castle. Broadway. Phren-
illogical expositions and fortune telling
will be features of the evening.
A legal chestnut burr was opened yes
terday before Judge McCluer by argu-
ment at chambers in the case of Isaac
H. Wing, intervenor, against The st.
Croix Lumber Company.
&c. S. Randall, of Winona, paid his
first visit to Saltwater yesterday and
called upon his brother the warden at
the prison.