St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-06
ONE DAY IN SALTWATER.
Proceedings to Foreclose the Mortgage
on the Sawyer House.
OAK PARK is EXCITED
Over the Affair Between Principal Nor
ris and the School Trus-
tees.

Proceedings were begun in the dis
trict court yesterday by Gilmore Lowell
to fOreclose the mortgage Oh the Saw
yer house, the mortgage being given to
secure payment of a note for 10000,
given in promise of payment of part OF
the purchase price. There Is also
chattel mortgage given TO secure pay
ment of three other notes of $1,000 each.
Mr.. Lowell also secured an order yester-
day requiring the defendant, Doe, to
show cause why a receiver for the Saw
yer house should not be appointed, the
order being made returnable Monday
morning at 10 O'Clock. The plaintiff
alleges that a receiver is necessary IN
order to keep the house open. preserve
its good will and business and prevent
injury to the property generally. 1t is
stated that a gentleman offered to at
once take the property off the receivers
hands. run the hotel, guarantee the re-
ceiver against loss, and pay him what
ever profits accrue between the time of
the receivers appointment and the sale
of the property under the foreclosure
proceedings. Mr.. Lowell. who sold the
property to defendant, says he has made
several offers to the latter looking to
compromise of advantage to the latter,
| but that the overIures were not favor
ably considered.
The Oak Park school trouble was in
| tensited yesterday. and matters there
are at white heat. Principal Morris,
! declining to recognize the right of the
| board to dismiss him. held on until the
board locked the building against him
| Yesterday morning. He then came to
| the city, and after returning to the
| park induced the janitOr TO reopen the
| building, the latter being then sur
rounded by all the mothers who are
! partisans of the teacher. The school
| board again closed the house and effect
ually, but the redOubtable professor
continues to regularly call the roll from
the steps just outside the barred pOr-
tails. Last evening he was asSailed from
another direction by a letter from the
| county superintendent of schools citing
| him to appear at the superintendent
| Office in Cottage Grove to-day for re-eX
| animation as to his qualifications as
| teacher. In addition to the formally
called meeting for tomorrow night.
when a vote is to be taken on Morris
scheme to make the district independ-
ent. A preliminary meeting has just
been called, to occur tonight, to discuss
the question. Oak Park is stirred al
most riotOusly. and tomorrow nights
meeting promises to develop a great
amount of fun.
| The Swedish Lutheran church build
ing on North Third street was formally
| dedicated last evening to the service of
| God. Rev. z. SgOblOnl, president of the
| Minnesota conference presiding. he
| delivered a sermon in Swedish, and was
followed by Rev. DR.. w. A Passevant,
Jr., of Pittsburg, Pa, editor of the
leading Englisll-Lutheran journal in
| America. He spoke in the English
language. After which Rev. A. F.
TOrnell, former pastor of this church.
gave the salient points in its history.
After impanelling jury and hearing
| a few witnesses yesterday in the case
of John Glaspie against j. S. Streator
q Son, the parties stipulated in open
court for settlement, and the case Was
dismissed. Plaintiff brought the action
| to recover about S40J. claimed as due
for services in exploring pine lands and
furnishing estimates of their value.
D. r. Moves, of ST. Paul, would like
to have prosecution begun against the
| Saltwater Gun club on account of the
Thanksgiving day programme of shoot
ing live birds from trap. He charac-
teriZes the practice as cruel. and asks
| if there are not humane people in Still
| water to suppress such things.
| County Attorney Lee is commiss stoned
to take charge of and forward all co l.
| tributions of clothing to sufferers in
| Walsh county, Dakota. Such articles
may be left at the Third street fire en-
| CINE house.
| The Kirmess. under the management
| of the Universalist church ladies will
| open at Music hall, at o'clock this aft
| ernoon, a wand drill being given by the
young ladies in the evening.
The superb Mendelssohn quartette, of
| st. Paul, Will make a second appear
ance in the concert at the First Presby-
terian church next Thursday evening.
| in aid of the organ fund.
The city council last night allowed
| S10.550 in bills on existing contracts and
s9,449 current fund bills. The council
| added four fire alarm boxes in the new
water main territory.
| An unknown man walking on the rail-
way track was decapitated by west
| bound freight train half mile west of
| Elmo station.
Mrs. DIR. Van Waters and mother
leave Sunday for Milwaukee, whittier
the elder lady goes for medical treat
| ment.
All the district court petit jurors liv-
| ing without the city limits were yester-
| day excused from further attendance.
The jury in the case of Carroll, tried
for horsestealing. retired at 4 O'Clock
| and had not agreed at IL last night.