St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-16
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News on the Str Page.
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

Bank clearances yesterday were $751;
1920.
The county commissioners meet this
morning at 10 o'clock.
Five births and seven deaths were
bulletlned at the health Office yester-
day.
The council committee on police will
meet at 1880 this forenoon, and the
committee OIL public buildings at $50
this afternoon.
The young ladies' department of the
w. c. T. U. has perfected arrangements
for sending cut flowers to the hospitals
of the city Easter Sunday.
A contract for the grading of Bidwell
and Baker streets was yesterday
awarded by the board of public works
to Thomas Linnen at S11,245.
rhe board of public works yesterday
confirmed the reaSSessment for the
opening of Broadway street, between
Grove aad Thirteenth streets.
An incipient blaze in the basement of
the Skidmore block, at Fifth and Min
neSota streets, called out the fire depart
ment at 8 As yesterday afternoon. No
damage was reported.
A smallblaze in the kitchen of a res
the ignition of pan of lard, called out
the fire department at $3.50 last night.
The damage was tritling.
A meeting of the White Shield league
was held at the hall of the order. 20 East
Seventh street, yesterday afternoon.
The proceedings were confined to the
transactian of routine business.
DR.. S. g. Smith announces that any
fInn fTzl-fn Nr frNx
Rev. Joseph Cooks lecture, Thursday
evening. can have them exchanged for
reserved, seats by applying at Musset-
ter'S drug store.
The religious festival at the Peoples
church will be continual this evening,
when Rev. William Faucet, ID. D., pas
tor of the Park Avenue M. E. church,
Chicago, will preach on a topic appro-
pirate TO the occasion.
Joseph r. Blackwell was yesterday
appointed justice of the peace for the
Tenth and Eleventh wards, under re-
cent act. of the Legislature, by Mayor
Smith. The appointment holds until
the next general election.
The work of removing the debris from
the new court house lot was begun yes
terday by Mr.. Cummings, st. Paul
landscape gardener, who will lay out
the grounds according to elaborate
plans drawn by Architect BassfOrd.
Reports were received at the health
office yesterday of diphthera at 1863
Hubert street, and scarlet fever at S2S
East Seventh street, 903 Fremont street,
go Park Place. ego East Sixth street and
at Midway street and Oakdale avenue.
Kelliher has been fired. Notwith-
standing the assertion that he was
marked for advancement, the eX-assiSt-
Mt chief of the . fire department has
been dumped into the pot-bouille by
Chief jackson, his term as a substitute
having expired.
State Auditor Braden yesterday ap-
pointed Gen. j. w. Bishop, E. j. Hodg-
son and William NJ. Bushnell as APP
praiSerS of the state reform school
property. The property comprises
SiXty-three acres and the buildings, and
will be sold Oh June l.
A meeting of the Swedish Temper
ance society was held at the quarters of
The organizations, Oh Seventh street,
yesterday. Several speeches on tenn
perance were made by members of the
society. There was LARGE attendance,
and the temperance sentiment appears
to be growing rapidly among the Swe-
dish population.
Robert l.. Miller, Esq, chief of the
division of loans and currency of the
= treasury department, Washington city,
was yesterday appointed assistant cash
Ter of the Bank of Minnesota, in place
of Leander Bosch, who resigned on ac-
count of poor health. Nr. Miller is an
experienced cashier, having had eight
years experience as a banker at his
home in Kenton, o.
Last Saturday Sheriff Bean mailed
the last batch of notices to delinquent
personal taxpayers, which stated that
the debtors property would be seized
and sold if thetaX were not forthcoming
at once. Yesterday the anxious tax
payers came tumbling into the sheriff's
Office by the score, and Deputies Hardy
and Dana were constantly employed
waiting upon them.
st. PauliteS are almost forgetting what
q street car looks like. Last evening a
blue-painted. white-rOofed ice wagon
swung into West Seventh street, near
Ramsey. and homeward bound pedes-
trianS hurried forward to see the ''start-
ing OF the street cars" But when the
real character of the vehicle dawned
upon them they postponed their con-
CALCULATIONS for another day or more.
James Kavanagh, a well-known city
contractor. died at Il o'clock yesterday
n,erning, at his residence on Portland
cvenue, of typhoid fever He was a
prominent member of the Irish-Ameri-
can club and the Catholic Benevolent
society. and was well liked by a large
circle of acquaintance. The funeral
will take place Wednesday morning at
O'Clock, from st. Luke's church.
Passover services were held in all the
Jewish synagogues of the city yester-
day. and the Passover season will be
rightly observed among the Hebrews of
st. Paul. Services. were held at the
Jewish temple, corner Of Tenth and
Minnesota streets, at o'clock last even
ing, and will be repeated at s 80 o'clock
this morning. The day was formerly
observed with imposing ceremonies,
but is now marked only by the holding
of services at the synagogues.
The following deaths were recorded
at the health Office yesterday: Frank
j. Berkman, eleven months, diphtheria,
252 lglehart street; Baby Young, six
months, maraSmuS, 161 st. Anthony av-
enue; Albert Fourener. FIVE years,
Group. 200 West Fairfield avenue; Baby
underwood, three weeks, pneumonia,
GO Cook street: Erick johnson, seven
months. eclampsia, 1l3 Jessamine street;
George c. De Fouche, two years, diph-