St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-03
TUESDAY AT SALTWATER.
Brails of Logs Get Fearfully and Won.
derfully Tangled Up.
THE PRISON MANAGERS
Will Hold a Special Meeting to Discuss
the Feasibility of Manufacture
ing Irvine.

Work at the boom was greatly ham
pered yesterday by a jam of number of
brails of logs that had been run through.
thus closing the outlet into the lake SO
that the choppers were unable to get
any logs down during the day. The
boom company'S boat will be needed to
pull out the blockading logs, and it was
decided to shut the boom down last
right, instead of waiting until noon to-
day, when work would have been sus-
pended in any event on account of the
national holiday. All the boom workers
will be paid off to-day on concession
to the spirit of patriotism.
Durant & Wheeler sold 100000 feet
of logs yesterday to the Lyons Lumber
company.
The crews of the two four-oared shells
that will contest in race over the Lake
ST. Croix course tomorrow are. First
Crew-R.H H. Bronson. bow; FIN. Prince,
No. Q: George H, Prince, No. 3: J. IL.
Harper, stroke. Second Crew.. w.
Durant Jr., bow: COrcoran. No. 2; W. j.
Shortall, No. 3: Echart, stroke.
BY the crossing of district telegraph,
electric light and telephone wires near
the corner of Chestnut and Second
streets yesterday, the current created
an alarm in the office of Clapp d Mac
artney, burning out the telephone and
setting fire to the window-caSing and
wall paper.
The sanitary conference that was to
have been held yesterday morning and
afternoon was intertered with by the
non arrival until late hour of Secre-
tary Hewitt, who was detained at home
by illness.
The infant son of William Broun.
corner of Churchill and Second streets,
died yesterday.
The cedar block paving crew on
Chestnut street reached Second yester-
day, and force is row actively en-
gagged in grading the latter street. pre-
paratory to laying the pavement.
Work at the prison will be sus-
pended tomorrow, the city and county
offices and banks Will be closed. and
the boom boys, together with large
representations from the surrounding
country, will be in the city. The Fourth
of July committee has endeavOred to
keep Saltwater people at home by offer
ing an attractive programme Of sights
aud sports.
Charles A. Staples, son of Isaac
Staples, is appointed postmaster at
Maple Island, this county.
Fenton Mccarthy injured his hand in
some manner while working at the
boom yesterday, and went to the city
hospital.
The board of prison managers, after
auditing the monthly bills, transacting
routine business. and hearing the inter
cessiOnS of several cOnVicts for res
tOration of good time lost through in
fractions of the rules, adjourned until
the time of the next regular session. 1t
sprobable, however, that in the mean
time special meeting Will be called to
hear the report of Managers Dunn and
Temple, committee appointed on sug
gesti0n Of Gov. Merriam to investigate
the feasibility of manufacturing binding
Irvine at the prison by aid of convict
labor. Those two gentlemen are in the
East on their appointed mission, and
just at present are in Washington, where
they expected to interview the secretary
of agriculture.
R. A. Kennedy, late of the Evansville
& Terre Haute road, succeeds Y. NJ.
Smith as cashier and telegraph operator
at the Duluth depot. Mr.. Smith expects
to remain in Ohio.
Mayor Durant sent to the city council
tonight message vetoing its action in
instructing the finance committee to
effect a loan of $4,000 in anticipation of
current revenue. Consideration of the
message went over until next meeting.