St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-28
SALTWATER SILHOUETTES
Butcher Hanson Will Test the Meat
Inspection Law.
A TOBACCO FIRM TUMBLES.
Tenner & Co. Assign for the Benefit Of
Creditors prison City Pick
ings.

J. E. Jackman, meat inspector under
the new law in the town of Saltwater,
swore out complaint before Judge
Nethaway yesterday charging Nels
Hanson. Main street butcher. with
violating the law in slaughtering beef
cattle and selling the dressed meat
without having had previous official
inspection. The case will come up for
hearing in the municipal court this
morning, and Mr.. Hanson will defend
solely on the ground that the law is un-
constitutional. All the essential facts
are conceded, and Mr.. Hanson, who has
heretofore claimed the unconstitution-
atty of the meat inspection law, is will
ing to Inconvenience himself in order
to have determination of the question
in the courts.
The establishment of j. A. Tenner &
Co., tobacconists, doing business at 206
South Main street, was closed yesterday
by the service of a writ attaching the
firms stock and other assets issued at
the instance of Ferd. Hack, of Daven-
port, To-, who has claim of s., 1O2.5O
for goods sold them. Tenner & Co.
afterwards assigned for the benefit of
their creditors to Fred Scott. Bad debts
and slow collections are said to be the
causes of the failure. Mr.. Bremen,
junior member of the firm, on being
asked to estimate the assets and liabili-
ties, said he was unable to do so, and
referred the reporter to Mr.. Frederick,
the bookkeeper, who, he said, was bet.
ter acquainted with the condition of
affairs. Mr.. Frederick could not be
found by the reporter up to the time Of
tho a1ncinp Of this rnnOrt
1.-THE case of Keator & Son against
Edwin St. John was begun in the dis
trict court before Judge McCluer and
a struck jury yesterday morning.
At 8 o'clock, after the preliminary
statements to jury by counsel, the first
witness, Ben c. Keator, was put upon
the stand. Searles & Gail and Judge
Flandrau appear for plaintiffs, and n.
81. Clapp and G. D. O'Brien for de-
PENDANT.
Beginning next Sunday Rev. A. Wat
son, of the First Baptist church, will
initiate Sunday afternoon service in
connection with the Oak Park mission
Sunday school, preaching at 8 p. NJ.
preceding the Sunday school, which
opens at 3;15. The mission is under the
charge of Supt. T. III. Yarnall, and is
the first Sunday school to exist at Oak
Park during the last ten years. 1t was
established last August, and during the
winter reached membership of fifty
five.
The council last evening referred
back to the commissioner the report on
South Second, from Chestnut to Orleans
streets, for readjustment of assess
ments. Fayette Marsh made sensa-
tional speech, threatening the council
with wholesale prosecution for NAL
feasance in Office.
Gardner, in "My Fatherlapd," is the
next dramatic engagement at The opera
hOnse. The children of st. Michaeps
parochial school will give an enjoyable
entertainment in the house tomorrow
afternoon.
At Good Templars' hall this evening
will be held all open lodge. with pro-
gressive angling, music and refresh
ments for the entertainment Of every
one who chooses to come.
The big jam at Rock island went out
Sunday night, and the logs are running
into the boom, with millions more not
far behind.
The South hill juvenile nine won
ball game from the '.big fellerS," at
South Saltwater, Sunday, by score of
"a to 81.
F. Warner and Mr.. Burchard, of
Minneapolis. were entertained yester-
day by E. j. Spindle and j. II. Cock
burn.
The residence Of ex- City Treasurer
Clark, OH North Fourth street, has been
leased to Emil Kruger.
Ben G. KeatOr, wife and two children,
of Moline, are stopping at the Sawyer.
Agent Shedd. of the Milwaukee road,
spent yesterday in st. Paul.
The Henrietta, arrived from Clinton
yesterday.