St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-08
WILL STRIKE SALTWATER.
The Escanaba, Twin City ( Western
to Touch the Bluff City.
! HUSBANDS ASSAULT.
Alteration Between Pris0ners---Brief
Items Of News From Hany
Quarters.

1t is discovered that the proposed Es-
canada, Twin City & Western railroad,
from Escanaba to st. Paul, will, if
direct line is followed, intersect the st.
CroiX valley at Saltwater. Since the
death of Lieut.. Gov. Mcdonald, of
Michigan, who was the chief promoter
of the enterprise, Marcus BOllasky,
president of the Postal Telegraph COM
pany, and protector of the Escanaba
and Twin Cities line, has been appoint
ed agent of the Mcdonald estate, and a
company to build the road will, it is
assured, be organized at once, and pre-
liminary surveys made this spring. The
survey will be anXiously awaited by
people of this city and vicinity.
CT. Bergstrom, of South Saltwater,
was up in the police court yesterday
charged with brutal assault upon his
wife, Carrie, to whom he has been mar
ried five years. The court suspended
sentence on defendant, as it was ex-
planned that BergStrom had begun an
action for divorce which would not be
opposed. NeighbCrs say the husband
has made all sorts of charges against
his wife, who is said to be a faithful
and honorable woman. He has charged
her with having two or three other hus-
OftlUS Ill lliuly uiAClCIU tON uS, dllu
has preferred other charges equally un-
founded. Recently he was examined
in probate court by a commission in
lunacy and found to be not insane, but
since that tune his wife claims that
he has made her life doubly burden.
An alteration occurred yesterday be-
tween two of the convictS employed at
the levee dump, one striking the other
over the head with shovel. No Seri-
GUS injury was done except to rules of
discipline, and the breach of decOrum
was punished in part by marching the
offender back to the pen.
Rev. W. T. Boutwell,, one of the pio-
neer missionaries of the Northwest
among the Indians, and resident of
Saltwater town since 1S49, reached his
eighty-siXth birthday anniversary last
Tuesday, and is in more vigorous health
than for the last two years. His mental
faculties are unimpaired, and he walks
out daily when the weather is favor
able. His missionary life in the North
west began in 1881, after his graduation
from Andover Theological seminary,
having previously completed full lit
erary course at Dartmouth.
1t is probable that grand musical
convention, participated in by the sing
ers of the city, will he held here under
the direction of Prof. l.. W. Ballard
during four days of the week begin
ming Feb. II. Such promlnet citizen
vocalists as George 0. Haskell. County
Auditor Masterman, E. f. Barrett and
Frank Berry are inStereSting themselves
in the project.
The committee of five, appointed at
the potato starch factory convention
Monday to solicit subscriptions to stock
and pledges of potato acreage. will meet
tomorrow afternoon at the Office of
Secretary Charles NJ. McCluer, in the
Hersey & Staples block. to receive
blanks and further instructions as to
methods of procedure.
A large cOncOurSe yesterday wit
messed an impromptu matinee Oh the
ice in front of the city, wherein Abe
Rohrback's Black Diamond and Dave
COnnors' Belle l. contested for 100
cigars, half-mile heats, best two in
three. Belle, driven by EX-Alderman
horse captured what was left.
The case of Keator & Co. against Ed
st. John. wherein plaintiffs claim up
was recently removed from the Wash
ington county court to the United
States circuit court, has been remanded
for trial here.
Miss Eva Gay, the Minneapolis cor
respondent OF the GLOBE, has been for
few days the guest of her friend, Miss
A. A. Lane. She was formerly a Still
water school girl.
R. NJ. Anderson went up the North
Wisconsin to Stinnett yesterday and
will spend week among the lumber
camps.