St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-03
SALTWATER SILHOUETTES
Edward Murtaugh Disembowelsd and
Instantly Killed.
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
The Mayors Veto on the Salary Ques-
ton Sustailed---General News Of
Wednesday.

Edward Murtaugh, ninet cen years of
age, was diSemboweled and instantly
killed at 1880 a. IN. yesterday, by the
River Falls train on the Omaha road. as
it was passing through the yards
abreast of the Hersey & Bean saw mill.
The track at that point is separated
from Main street On the west by high
fence, in which there is gate, leading,
by way of a flight of three steps, down
to the RAILROAD track, and thence across
to the mill. Murtaugh sprang through
the gate from the street on his
way to the mill. and had barely stepped
upon the track, when he was struck by
a coach of the incoming train, which
was backing in. The blow, it appears,
fractured the skull. Murtaugh was
dragged several yards, cut nearly in
two above the hips, his hands and feet
were severed, and his body frightfully
mangled otherwise. The deceased was
born in Saltwater, and was much liked
on account of his industrious and exem-
plary habits. He was in the employ of
Sawyer d Co., as tinsmith, and it was
in going to the mill after his tools, with
which he had been doing some work for
the lumber company, that he met his
death. He was a son Of Thomas Muir
laugh, of 624 Olive street, and brother
of John Muir laugh, of Rogentin'S bar
Der shop.
The coroner will hold an inquest rela-
tive to the mill company and railroad
providing against such danger at that
pOintsAIurtaugh is the third man killed
there by the cars.
The city council Tuesday evening
sustained the veto of the resolution re-
ducing policemen and fremen'S Sala-
rieS. this action being in pursuance of
an agreement that the mayor would re-
duce the fJrce numerically, which
agreement he fulfilled. The official re-
ports showed that during the year the
bonded indebtedness of the city had
been reduced $4,000 and the floating in
debtedneSS 81, 800. The clerks estimate
of the amount necessary to be raised for
the current expense is $40, 106.56.
The board of prison inspectors and
the thresheT company failed to close a
contract yesterday for the employment
by the latter of convict labor, for the
reason that the necessary documents
have not yet been completed by AttOr-
ney General Clapp. The terms of the
agreement are practically agreed upon,
and nothing remains but to formulate
them and execute the contract. The
session was occupied in the transaction
of monthly routine business, and the
board adjourned to meet at st. Paul
next Saturday at IL O'Clock.
The old stone machine shop IN the
prison yard, which has long been in a
tumbie-dOwn condition, has been RACED
and the preliminary work pile driying)
of building q new shop upon its site
begun yesterday. The structure will
be of stone, three stories in height, and
its ground dimensions will be 103 by 65
feet. giving a width twelve feet greater
than the old building.
The st. CrOiX boom has shut down for
the season after turning ont 1852, 900, 600
feet, leaving the boom with less logs at
the closing than for several years.
There are still quite a quantity Of logs
left, but they cannot be reached with
out rise of four or five feet in the
water.
SlOwness of collections and the impor-
tunities of one OF two creditors Undue ed
Jacob Brown, tObaccOnist. TO make an
assignment yesterday for the benefit of
his creditors. The assignee. L. H.
Warren, approXimateS the liabilities at
$4,000, and the assets at less than $4,000.
The report of w. T. Per Lee, secre-
tary Of the board of education, shows
that the balance in the school district
treasury. with receipts during the thir-
teen months ended Aug. l, amounts TO
S1G4, 4S9.07, and the cash on hand $3.50.
The bonded Indebtedness is S112,000.
Albert Blaisdell starts this morning
with a crew of thirty-five men to en-
tirely rebuild the Snake river dam,
twenty-six miles above Mera. The
dam will be fourteen feet high, with
three gates, and wings 600 feet long.
D. B. Staples, who was sentenced to
year at Joliet on conviction of shoe T.
ing Winship at Freeport, ILL.,, returned
yesterday, and found his friends de-
cidedly pleased at his temperance.
The case of The State against John
Peacha. accused of bastardy, was dis
missed by Judge Nethaway yesterday
on motion of the complainant, Miss Ar
cand.
D. A. Blakenny. superintendent of
the union station, returned yesterday
after months vacation passed at New
York and other Eastern points.
R. Ii. Hudson. of Texas, a brother of
Mrs. L. E. Staples, is in the city Oh
short visit.
James Parle. a resident of Saltwater
for thiTty-fiVe years, died last evening.