St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-24
SAINT PAUL.
WEST SIDERS SATISFIED.
They Want a Levee and Want II
Now.
CAUGHT A BIG STURGEON.
An Aged Lothario Cuts Some Queer
Capers in the Sixth
Ward.

The passage of the bill authorizing
the city to appropriate 100000 for levee
purposes in West st. Paul has been re-
ceived with satisfaction by most people
in the Sixth ward. The general opinion
seems to be that a levee is needed, and
that the sooner it is built the better for
the owners of the property OH the flats,
and residents of the West side generally.
"What we want now,'' said a prominent
business man yesterday lis that the
work be commenced at once, and
not kept hanging two or three years be-
the low bridge built we shall be able to
compete with uptown merchants in
some respects. any way. If that
bridge is built [ am willing to
wager that there will be a perfect city
of warehouses on the lower flats in less
than year. Well. the legislature did
one good act, anyway, and the men who
worked like beavers last night to get
the thing through deserve great credit.
Yesterday afternoon some West side
fishermen, who were angling from
Raspberry island, hooked an enormous
fish which for time defied the com
bined efforts of the party in
their attempts at landing it.
1Hey peISeNcleu, however. anu Wele
finally successful in landing the fish,
which proved to be a sturgeon weigh
ing trifle over one hundred pounds.
a rope was passed through the glllS
of the fish and made fast to
a post, after which the monster
was examined by large crowds of peo-
pie who had been attracted by the news
of the capture. The fish measures eX-
actly five feet two inches in length,
and the captorS have refused
several offers from enthusiasts who
desire to have it preserved
as a specimen. Several hundred people
visited the scene of the capture, and all
agreed that the fish was the largest ever
taken from the river at this point. The
fishermen have decided to give the fish
to the state society of naturalists.
Anaged LothariO who does business
on South Robert street attracted con-
siderable attention yesterday, and gave
rise to suspicious of his sanity, by a
series of absurd antics on Fillmore
avenue. The frisky old gentle
man cannot be less than sew
enty years old, though judging
by his actions he feels just as young as
ever he was. He is the victim of a vio-
lent passion for pretty dressmaker,
and can't keep away from the house
where his inamorata carries on bust
ness. He put in the golden hours of
yesterday forenoon opposite the lady's
window, where he posed in all the
catching attitudes long experience of
the world could suggest. When the eX-
hibiti0n commenced to draw a crowd
the old man was called down by Officer
Ruffner.
A blaze occurred Monday night on
the flats. in house occupied by fam
lily named Schenk. The family had re-
tired to bed about 10 o'clock, leaving a
fire in the cooking stove, and small
can of kerosene standing on the boiler
in the rear. A cat climbed up the
boiler, upset the can, and soon the
kitchen was in blaze. The flames
were eXtinguished without the aid Of
the department.
An exciting runaway occurred yeSter-
day morning on South Robert street.
Henry Martin had, with an absent
mindedneSs unusual in him, hitched
up his horse and forgotten to put the bit
in his mouth. The animal ran for
some distance with his owner in the
buggy and finally landed with a crash
between two piles of rock. The only
damage done was to the buggy.
The street cars on the West Side lines
are now running on schedule time,
though but few passengers are availing
themselves of the service. Sympathy
in the Sixth ward appears to be solidly
with the strikers. and every vehicle
that crosses the Robert street bridge
cityWard, carries one or more passen-
gers, who would take the cars were the
conditions altered in favor of the strik-
erS.
Joe Croft is the name of the individual
who was brought into the Ducas street
station yesterday charged with being
drunk and tiourishing a revolver. Frank
Newman also got on a larger jag than
he could carry conveniently, and was
making good deal of noise when az
rested for disorderly conduct. Mike
Locus just went in for plain drunk,
with black eye establishment got
by falling against post.
Chicken thieves have been getting in
their work with great success on the
residents along Concord street for sew
eral weeks.
A social entertainment will be given
at the Y. M. G. A. parlors, on Dakota
avenue, Friday evening.
A small boy named Schroll, whose
parents reside on Burgess avenue. while
playing with some other children on
Raspberry island yesterday, fell into
the river and was rescued by work
man employed on the bridge.