St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-04
SAYINGS AND DoINGs.

The monthly meeting of the Celtic
American club will be held tonight.
Four births and six deaths were
recorded at the health office yesterday.
The annual report of the secretary of
the chamber of commerce Will be out
the day after tomorrow.
Fred Reichele, chief clerk in the city
treaSurer's office, Is confined TO his resi-
dence with severe illness.
The funeral of the late Z. B. Higgins,
postmaster at Hamline, was held at
o'clock yesterday afternoon, i'll the uni
versity chapel.
The ladies of the Central w. c. L. U.
will hold their regular monthly business
meeting at the rooms of the Gospel
Temperance Union, 20 East Seventh
street, to-day at p. IN.
Reports were received at the health
Office Yesterday of diptheria at PSI Good
hue street and of scarlet fever at 4S3
Selby avenue, 424 University avenue,
357 Maria avenue and S91 York street.
The 'Old Fashioned Deestrick
Skewl'' lately given at the West Side
Opera house will be repeated at Stand
ard hall next Friday evening for the
benefit of the Hebrew Baptist church.
Aid Henry Weber, who was granted
two months leave of absence by the
city council at a recent meeting, de-
parted last night for Europe, with the
intention of making tour OF the con-
tinent.
E. r. Coutsch and Tom Lynch,
transfers, were arrested at the instance
of the health department yesterday
afternoon for dumping garbage and
ashes in vacant lot III the central part
of the city.
City Physician Ancker announces the
convalescence of Andrew Anderson,
the Richmond street smallpox victim,
and states that he will be released from
the pest house to-day. The Richmond
street quarantine will be raised during
the week.
A lecture on Arctic explorations will
be delivered by Capt. James w. Nor
man, of st. Johns Newfoundland. this
evening in Gray's hall on st. Peter
street. There will also be stereopti-
con display of Arctic scenes illustrating
the lecture.
Probably as fine a carload of horse
flesh as ever arrived in the city was that
received by Nick Hardy yesterday.
Magnificent roadSters and light flyers
are among the string, and as they were
taken to his Oak street stable many
people dulHlTeQ Iutll.
Public Examiner Kenyon prepared
yesterday an abstract of the quarterly
reports made by the superintendent of
state banks showing the condition of
the banks on March s, 1889. A COM
pariSon Of the reports made in Deem
Der. 1888, shows a decrease IN the re-
sources and liabilities of S10l, $50. 6S.
There are siXty-two banks in the state
in which there has been an increase in
deposit of $4,000.
Tho following deaths were reported at
the health Office yesterday: Eta Taver-
nier, fonr years, diphtheria, SS5 Sims
street; Mrs. John Rouen, thirty-fOur
years, peritonitis, GIG East Third street;
Erick g. Nelson, twenty-one months,
meningitis, 119 West ROBBIE street; E. B.
Higgins, siXty-SiX years, softening OF
brain. Capitol avenue; Harry Carr,
three months, commissions, st. Anthony
avenue: Chris Rouser, fifty-five years,
heart disease aims house.
A meeting of the directors of the
Germania bank was held last evening,
when Adam Decker, of the wholesale
hardW firm of Adam Decker & Co.,
was elected vice president to fill the
place of Aid. A. Y0erg, resigned. The
officers of the bank now are Alexander
Ramsey, president; Adam Decker, vice
president: William Bickel. cashier: p.
NJ. -Kerst, assistant cashier. The affairs
of the bank are in highly satisfactory
condition, and the addition of Mr..
Decker to the directorate viii be new
element of strength to an already strong
organization.
At a special meeting of the Como
Warrendale union a resolution was
unanimously adopted approving the
course of the state representatives in
voting for bonds for Como lake and
park, and promising to give them hearty
support for any office they may want in
the future. The union will hold the
Ramsey county delegation in the senate
directly responsible for the fate of the
bill in the upper house. 1t also urges
consideration of the fact that the prop
erty owners on the lake front have
given the entire lake frontage to the
city, and that the issue of bonds has
been Endorsed by the chamber of COM
merce and park commissioners.
Articles OF incorporation of the st.
Paul German Insurance company were
filed with Insurance Commissioner
Bailey yesterday. Fire, storm and such
risks will be the business of the new
company. which has capital stock of
$500, 600. 100000 of which is paid up
fund. The incorporators are Albert
Schetfer, William c. Bredentragen, j.
Q. Haas, William g. Hendrickson. j.
Fred Witt, Bernhard Kuhl. G. FL. Lie
nau, William Hamm, Oscar t. Roberts,
Henry Rothschild. j. ii. Schumacher,
j. II. Drake, of st. Paul; and Henry
Poehler. of oibley county, and William
Il. Ward, of Waseca county.
The Western Union has materially re-
duced telegraph rates between mal!y
points. Both day and night rates to
points in Northern California, Nevada,
Oregon and Washington territory will
be 20 cents for ten words henceforth,
instead of 81. as heretofore. A cut of
10 cents has been made on night rates
to Delaware, District of Columbia, Ken
lucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri,
Nebraska. New Jersey. New York,
Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
making the rate 30 cents fol ten words.
10 Kansas and Montana the rate is re-
duced 10 40 cents, and to Idaho. New
Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming the
night rate will be 60 cents instead of 70.
Besides these many minor reductions
have been made.
A special meeting OF the members
of the Employees club was held Tuesday
evening 10 consider the proposition to
incorporate beneficiary clause in the
bylaws and constitution and providing
weekly benefit in case of injury and
IOf lulcral EXPENSES. III IL pIupoScu W
ultimately secure insurance on the lives
of the members in case of death. There
seemed 10 be a great unanimity of feel
ing among the members to support the
matter in its fullest sense. This insur-
ance is intended 10 reach every railroad
employee in the state in all branches of
the service. The boys feel as though
they have struck the keynote IN this
movement. There are 10000 railroad
men in the state. 1t is thought nine
tenths of them may he secured, which
o,,nl,l., tha1,, u rive thic inSI1rn