St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
TUESDAY AT SALTWATER
Jupiter Pluvius Makes It Blue for
Contractors.
THE SULLIVAN-COLES CASE
Aid. Lows Case to Come Before the
Municipal Court This
Morning.

The rain at an early hour yesterday
morning washed out large section of
the street railway track on Chestnut
street, west of Second, aud so tore up
the track and street that two or three
days will be required in which to repair
the damage sufficiently to permit re-
sumption of street car traffic. Olive
street, near the corner of Third, was
also badly quilted, and Doherty & Co.,
the paving contractors, were seriously
damaged on Second street, where about
fifty square yards of pavement must in
consequence be taken out and relaid.
The case of Sullivan against Coles,
which was begun last year, was yester-
day submitted to Judge McCluer, accom-
panied by a remark of plaintiffs attOr-
ney that he did not see as he had any
case after all. Patrick Sullivan. a lum-
herman, alleged that R. M. Coles agreed
to pay him s., 500 for information as to
the amount of pine timber on certain
land which Coles was to try and get
leave to sell for the owner on commits
sion, the payment Of the $1,000 being
conditioned on Coles getting such per-
mission and selling the land. Plaintiff
also alleged that Coles did sell the land
and made big money. These allegations
Coles denied, and showed to the court
that at the date the alleged conversation
took place between him and plaintiff he
already had an option on the land in
question.
At a session of the board Of county
commissioners yesterday, it was shown
that Mrs. Roxa Belden, poor and dis
crepit old woman of Cottage Grove, was
dependent on the charity of strangers
and liable to be a county charge, but
her only child, Mrs. Lucinda Munger,
also of Cottage Grove. was aDundantly
able to care well for her poor old mother,
WhereupOn the board adopted reSolu-
ton directing the county attorney to act
in the matter in case the daughter re-
fuses to take care of her mother.
The controversy in which Mr.. Mar sh
and the aldermen, particularly AL
Low, are the prominent parties, will bd.
resumed in the municipal court thi
morning, but it is not at all certain tina
Mr.. Marsh will gain his point in having
the case of Low tried before that of the
other aldermen. The county attorney
and Mr.. Marsh vary in their ideas as to
the order of procedure.
If the weather is favorable the Bap-
fist church people will have lawn
festival this evening on the Oak park
grounds of T. HI. Yarnall.
Fenton Bergin, eighty-nine years of
age, died Monday night at the residence
of bis daughter, Mrs. Edward Stewart.
91O South Third street. The funeral
occurs at O'Clock this morning from
| st. Michael's church.
1t is thought that yesterdays rain
covered an area that includes the upper
logging streams, though telegram from
| Mora indicates that the fall in that re-
gion was light.
Saltwater delegates to the Minnesota
Grand Lodge, Sons of Herman, at
Young America next Saturday, Sunday
and Monday. are: From Germania
Lodge No. 8, Charles Bremen, William
Becker, Fred Weber; from Concordia
No. 10, Emil Kruger, F. c. Neumeier.
Louis Pankonin, Albert Drews.
The Knights of Labor headquarters
have been removed to the Hefti Block
hall and the night of meetings changed
from Saturday to Monday.
The stockholders of the Saltwater
Gas and Electric Light company held
their annual meeting yesterday at the
Lumbermen's National bank and re-
elected the old board of directors and
officers
Rain preventing work at eXcavating,
the 2O3 convicts who have of late been
employed out of doors, were yesterday
kept locked in their cells, greatly to
the discomfort OF the prisoners. Sixty
eight are at present distributed through
the Thresher company's shops, though
their labor there is, of course, not con-
tracted to the company.