St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-26
PATRIOTIC LITTLE PUPILS.
Arrangements for Unique Celebration
of Centennial Day.
SIOUX TAKE IN THE SIGHTS.
Police Lieut.. Rouleau Seriously H.
Happenings On the West
Side.

Elaborate arrangements are being
made by the teachers and pupils of the
Humboldt school in West st. Paul for
the celebration of Centennial day. The
school rooms are being decorated in
unique manner, the principal feature
being blackboard sketches by the small
scholars. The freehand drawing of lit
tie nine-year-Old Alice Hugely, who has
ornamented the walls in her room
with historical Bible sketches, under
the di ERECTION of Miss Maggie Sermon,
are wonderfully clever, and unless the
child was seen at work the beholder
could scarcely credit her with the de-
signs. In addition to the decorative
work rooms are to be hung with flags
and colored bunting, while the cos
tunes of the children. participating in
the fan drill and other exercises will be
of the national colors. The exercises
will consist of choruses, historical
sketches, patriotic sentiments. Wash
lngt0n'S maXlmS, etc. Declarations
will be given by scholars of the al
vanced classes, while the class of little
boys has been trained to a surprising
degree of precision in musket drill,
with costumes a la militaire. The
teachers have worked hard and faith
fully in the preparation of the exercises,
and are confident that this will prove
the most successful affair of the kind
ever held in the West end.
F.. A party of fifteen Sioux Indians,
under Chief White Dog, took in the
sights of West st. Paul yesterday,
and expressed themselves as satisfied
with the progression since their last visit
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route to Chicago, where they will fill
two weeks engagement in a tomahawk
throwing exhibition and Indian dance.
The party is under the management of
q. w. Broadhurst, who came from Chi
cagO for the purpose OF securing the
services of the dusky warriors.
Lieut.. ROuleau, OF the West side pO-
lice detail, was taken suddenly i'll on
Tuesday evening with severe attack
of sciatic rheumatism, and has since
been confined to his bed. The trouble
is one to which he has been subject for
several years. The familiar form of
Capt. Walsh was again seen at the
DucaS street station yesterday, his pres
ence being necessitated by the illness of
his lieutenant.
The ubiquitous drunk showed up with
praiseworthy punctuality at the Ducas
street station yesterday. in the person
of Charles Nornican. Judge Cory gave
him the usual dose.
The Willard W. c. T. U. will meet
this afternoon at the usual place, for the
transaction of routine business.
The No Name club will hold meet
ing Saturday evening for social enjoy
ment.
The question is being agitated among
the ladies of the Sixth ward, of holding
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striking street car drivers.
A frame building is being put up on
the grounds of the Brooklyn Gun club,
for the storage of the club properties. A
Windbreak is also TO be put up in such a
manner as to admit of matches being
successfully held on windy days.
A young man named j. S. Ford, who
was riding a bicycle at rapid rate
down Eaton avenue yesterday afternoon,
was thrown off by striking rough place
in the road. He was stunned by the
fall, and was taken to his home i'll Ham
line.
The search for opium joints in West
st. Paul, announced by afternoon pa
perS as about to be instituted by the
West side police, has been deferred,
pending the arrival of few more Chi
cago cons umers of the drug.
There is dissatisfaction in certain cir
cles in the West end regarding the
passage OF the leVee appropriation bill,
which does away with the possibility of
a return of the property decided to the
city several years ago. Those who sold
their property at that time are otsatis-
fed with the price obtained.
The League of the Cross will hold its
usual rally in the school house hall on
Sunday evening.
There will be no i'll effects resulting
on the recently performed amputation
| of fingers in the cases of the bows
| Ungae and NitrogShek, who were in
| jured while operating tin-cutting ma
! chimes.
A crowd of four or five hundred peo-
| pie assembled last evening between s
and o'clock to witness the gyrations
of a detachment of Salvation Army re-
cruitS who held forth on the corner of
| State and Concord streets. The lieu
tenant of the red-banded and blue
skirted band has apparently arrived at
the conviction that the people in the
vicinity of Concord street are particu-
larly in need of salvation, and is mar
shalllng his forces accordingly. A new
feature, in addition to the performances
usually given by the members of the
army, consists in a kneeling drill, the
whole company dropping on their knees
in the road with unanimity which can
only have been attained by long prac-
tice. The West side quarters of the
army have been established in the old
! gymnasium hall.
A slight difference OF opinion between
two men named Carleson and Ward at
the junction of Ohio and Winifred
streets last night led to blows. The
men were both under book beer spell
and were taken in for being drunk.
Preparations are being made by the
st. Michael's Dramatic club for another
entertainment to be given under the
| club auspices in the new hall at st.
Michaefs school. The date will be an
| nounced later.