St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-05
FOR LOCAL OPTION.
Scandinavians Demand a
Chance for a Vote on the
Burning Question.
A Discussion Compelling the
Turning Over Of the Nor
timer Insurance.
The New Reporter Makes a
Discovery Anent the Mill
ionaires' Ball.
How "Our Fellow ToWnsman'
Is Being Doomed for the
United States Senate.

Nearly 5000 people were in attend
ance at the mass meeting held last
hvening at the Swedish tabernacle, on
the corner of Seventh street and Eighth
opened the meeting by stating that it
was the first of series which would be
held for the purpose of convincing the
members of the legislature that the
people were in favor of having law
passed which would allow them to vote
on the question of county local option.
He said that large majority of the
counties in the state were in favor of
prohibition, and if this law was passed
then each county could decide for itself
whether 1t wanted saloons or pro-
hibltion. He was followed by Rev.
Charles j. Petri, pastor of the Angus
tana Swedish Lutheran church, who
spoke in favor of this law and said that
the people had right to demand of
that such law should be passed. Prof.
Sven Oftedahl, of Augsburg seminary,
made an address in the Norwegian Ian
guage favoring the same meas
ure, and was followed by Rev.
Erick A. Skogsberg, pastor of the
Swedish tabernacle. who spoke III the
Swedish language.
Rev. NJ. Falk Gjertson made short
address, in which he showed the neces-
sity of curbing the liquor traffic, which
was the direct cause of so much suffer-
ing and misery, at the conclusion OF
which he read some resolutions de-
handing of the legislature that a
county local option law should be SUBJ
mitted to the people. These resolutions
were then submitted to vote and
adopted unanimously.
THE MORTIMER FIRE CASE.
A Decision Compelling the Turn
ing Over ofthe Insurance Money.
Judge Lochren filed decision yester-
day in favor of the plaintiff in the case
of John III. Long. assignee of f. L.
Mortimer, against N. F. Hawley, trus-
tee for several of Mortimer's creditors.
This case grew out of complication in
regard to the payment of the Insurance
on the Mortimer apartment house,
which formerly stood on the corner OF
Thirteenth street and Mary place, and
which was destroyed by fire little over
a year ago. Immediately after the fire,
the different insurance companies nav
ing insurance on the building, and
Mortimer settled with them by deliver
ing to n. F. Hawley, their attorney,
sufficient number of the insurance
policies to cover their claims. The
garnishee proceedings were then dis
missed, and Mortimer collected the bal
ance of the insurance, some 5000, and
after making all assignment skipped
the country. The assignee then begun
all action against Hawley to compel
him to turn over the insurance policies
in his possession, so that the amount OF
the insurance which they represented
could be divided pro rata among all the
creditors, and it was in this case shat
the decision was filed yesterday.
THE MILLION AIRES BALL.
A Discovery of How the Weather
Has Interfered.
The new reporter has lost the familiar
habit he had acquired of referring to the
assignment book as 'the diary" He
has now a great respect for that wise
and potent volume. When he picked 1T
up last night and reverently inspected
the current page, he found the following
argument:
Millionaires' ball, Z. of l.. hall. Smith
erS.
The inference was that Smithers was
expected to turn in readable account
of the ball of the milliOnaires at K. of
L. hall and he accepted it in that spirit.
About 10 o'clock he returned and
puzzled look was enthroned on his
brow. He struggled with stump pen
Gil for a time and then sought the i'm
perious presence of the city editor.
Ppm new man in Minneapolis" he
began, land may be mistaken in my
ideas, but either Pm off OF that diary's
got the jimjamS. l went down to the
ball and sized up the assemblage. |
didn't see any diamonds flashing amid
the sheen of satins, the rustic of silk
and the luster of velvets. 1t may be
that don't know millionaires when l
see 'em, so I inquired if this
was K. of L. hall and man told it was.
Then sized up the assemblage again,
and spotted one or two men who might
be millionaireS in disguise; but pretty
soon | heard one of 'em tell the other
he was going to dance all night and
sleep all morning if he lost his job for
it. So quit awhile and thought I'd
ask if there wasn't some mistake"
The city editor cautiously glanced
over the ''diary' and remarked con-
cisely:
'This books all right. and you're off
your reckoning. Tonight is the time
for the plumbers annual ball and-'
The light of dawning intelligence
shot through the new reporters eyes
and he departed without a word. An
hour later he had turned in four sticks
of a report of the millionaires' ball, of
which the first five lines announced the
ball and the remainder was devoted to
an ingeniously worded excuse. 1t
set forth that the plumbers
had insisted on having their
ball, which was success and largely
attended, but that as the obdurate
weather had prevented the usual opu-
lent receipts of their calling, they had
decided to dance and enjoy themselves
in the guise of ordinary people. The
new reporter demanded, for his acute
ness, a recognition in the way of an in
creased salary.
JOUR- FELLOW-TOWNSMAN."