St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-07
SAINT PAUL.
SKIPPED With A BARBER.
A Minneapolis Mans Fruitless Search
for Ills Daughter.
SHE FOUND HER AFFINITY.
A Poor Laborer Drops His Dollars
Through the Robert Street Bridge
West Side Notes.


HMvra Coulter. seventeen-year-old
daughter of Minneapolis parents of
that name, is missing. Myra came TO
West st. Paul week since to visit
girl friend who had several times visited
at the house of her parents in the Flour
City, and whom she said resided on
Concord street, West st. Paul. Last
evening Peter Coulter, the girls father,
alarmed at her protracted absence from
home. and the fact that a letter he had
sent her to the Concord street address
was returned unopened, came to west
st. Paul to investigate, and found that
no such persons as his daughter had
described were known in the vicln-
itv. Mr. Coulter stated last evening
that he thought the girl had chosen this
method of evading her parents and car
rying out her ott-eXpreSSed Intention OF
marrying Young man doing business
as barber in Red Wing. The father
and mother of the girl had opposed the
marriage on account of the youth OF the
would-be bride, and a previous attempt
at an elopement had been frustrated.
Mr.. Coulter departed for home by the
last lIulll. hlliS liittt iio Niiiiu
daughter had made her own bed and
must lie on it. adding that the news
would about kill her mother. The
name of the bold, bad barber Is said to
be Edward Warren.
A carpenter named Frank Lande, who
resides at 90 Augusta street, who was
employed in repairing cars near the
Kansas City shops in West st. Paul,
dislocated his ankle in descending from
a car upon which he had been working.
The injured man was attended by DR..
Willard, surgeon of the road, and was
found to have sustained no other in
jurieS. He was conveyed to his home
III the patrol wagon.
A laborer named James Daley, while
crossing the Robert street bridge last
evening returning from work, pulled
plug of tobacco from his pocket in such
manner as to turn that receptacle in.
side out, and scatter all the small
change he had with him, some 81 or s.,
over the sidewalk. The money disap-
peared through the gaping cracks in the
planking, only S. cents being recovered.
Some mlschievouS boys yesterday
tied large tin can to the tail of colt
owned by II. T. Bradley. The animal
became frantic and ran blindly down
Eaton avenue. with the can rafting in
an alarming manner at the end of a
rope sixteen feet long. The colt sped
thence across South Robert street,
knocking down couple of school chill
dren and narrowly missing several
others. 1t ran until exhausted, and
was found almost dead on the bank of
the river. An effort will be made to
discover the perpetrators OF the trick.
A meeting OF the veStry of the Church
nf tba will ba hold tO-p,orroyv
evening.
The citizens unicn will again inter-
view the council committee on streets
this evening. The bridge at State street
and Broadway will be the subject of the
interview.
The No Name club will have session
tomorrow evening.
The case of Cruikshank against Leuer
came up in the Sixth ward court yester-
day morning before Justice McMartin
and was settled without trial.
A number of gentlemen are engaged
in an effort to establish lodge of
Druids Oh the West side and the project
is being doomed with considerable
spirit by all who have been approached
on the subject. The quarters of the
new lodge have not yet been decided
upon.
The beauty festival which was to have
taken place last evening at the Clinton
Avenue M. E. church has been post
poned owing to the indisposition of
Mrs J. F. Stout. who has been training
the pretty girls for the affair. The in
structiOns have been thorough, and the
entertainment will doubtless be given
without hitch on the 18th and 18th
inst, which dates have been fixed.
Seventy-fve young girls will take part
in the entertainment.
Since the repairs to the Wabasha
street bridge were completed the dew
Otees of Aquatic sport represented by
the Minnesota Boat club have been en-
abled to reach their quarters on the
island without walking seven miles for
that purpose. The tours have not been
out SO far this year, but several single
scull shells are to be seen on the river
every evening.
The officers in charge of the West
side detachment of the Salvation army,
holding forth in the old gymnasium
hall on Congress street, speak of the
progress the army is making in West
st. Paul in glowing terms. The per-
Torrance was formerly given to empty
benches, but now the old hall is packed
every evening with crowds of people
curious to learn the methods of the Red
Ribbon brigade.
Moonlight excursions are now the
rage with the young people of the West
end, and the proprietors of the steamer
Cleon are making contracts with various
parties for the use of the craft, which
looks better by moonlight. About 200
will attend the excursion of the Beth
any Congregational church next Tues
day.
The Epworth league is preparing
social entertainment for the edifcation
of the members and friends of the or
ganiZatiOn in the near future. Straw
berries will figure as one of the chief
attractions.
The ladies of the Willard W. G. T. u.
will hold an informal meeting at the Y.
NJ. c. A. this afternoon.
SEVEN JURORS LACKING.
Clara Blatz's Trial for Murder Will
Be Resumed To-Day.
When the case of Clara Blatz was
called in the district court yesterday
morning there were but seven talesmen
from whom to draw as many jurors still
necessary to fill the panel. These were
examined and excused, and the case
continual fo fhic a.,