St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-04
FRIDAY At SALTWATER.
! A Residence Burned Curious Mistake
/ In Signals.
INSPECTORS IN A QUANDARY
The Election Of School Directors to Be
the First Test Of the Aus
tralian Law.

roof from sparks from the chimney yes
terday and was totally destroyed. Loss.
$700; insurance, $500. The contents
were saved. The alarm was turned in
from Box 20 and the same time the reg
ular noon call of two strokes was sent
in, so that the fire alarm was read as
coming from Box 4, corner of Second
and Mulberry streets. The error sent
the apparatus Off in the wrong direc-
ton and caused delay in reaching the
there was no hydrant within reach. and
an effort was made to pump water with
the steamer from Lily lake.
The present prison inspectors will ask
Attorney General Clapp whether OF not
they are still in official existence. They
met again yesterday and audited the
bills of last month, after which Inspect
ors Norrsh and Dunn went to st. Paul
| to ask for written opinion from Mr.
| Clapp as to whether their acts of that
day had any legal force. The new
| prison bill legiSlateS the prison board Of
three members out of existence and
substitutes a body of five men to be
| called the board OF managers, but those
| five members have not yet been ap-
pointed by the governor.
| The CleOn passed down last evening
with tow of wood for st. Paul. Here
after she will run to Taylor's Falls each
alternate day, Her officers this season
are: George Knapp, captain: E. D..
Hayes, second pilot; Bert Wilson, clerk :;
Nelse Fuller, first engineer; Isaac Gray,
| second engineer.
Youthful mines from the South and
North hills, captained respectively by
John Kelly and Tug Wilson, will play
| base ball this afternoon at the old brick
yard grounds.
The election for school directors, to
be held in Saltwater next week. will be
| the first experiment under the new cleo
| ton law, and the ballot boxes will be
painted red in conformity with the
| crimson hue of the tickets prescribed
for use at city elections. There can be
no peddling of tickets at the polls or
elsewhere, each person voting being
compelled to obtain his ballot from the
| judges, who will be supplied by the city
clerk. All the names of persons who
are candidates will be printed upon one
slip of paper, and before depositing the
same in the box the voter will place an
x opposite the name OF the person for
whom he wishes to vote. This is done
in the seclusiOn of curtained stall.
with no other person present. Each
candidate for a city office will be
obliged to contribute IS to the city
clerks fund before the candidates
name can be printed or voted. If the
candidate happens to be defeated, his
money remains in the tureen.
The village council of South Still
water yesterday awarded the contract
for the iron work of the new village
Jail.
1t is said to be very doubtful as to
whether the Omaha will restore its late
train to st. Paul this summer. The
management claims that it never paid.
The last trains for st. Paul at present
| are at 6 o'clock on the Duluth and 6:07
on the Omaha.
The Saltwater man, reported in the
Washin gton dispatches yesterday as
having been appointed route agent in
in the mail service. is supposed to be
Alfred Keevil, the only applicant known
here. Keevil recently retired from a
position in the Saltwater poStoffice and
has lately been employed by a business
moved to make room for the new ap-
pointee.
Hudson and Saltwater will play ball
here this afternoon on the South Bill
grounds.
Tie delegates to to-day's Democratic
and Republican conventions are as fol-
follows: First Embellishments limo
thy Kelly, G.. P. Gregory, John
O'Shaughnessy Jr., James Goodman,
John Burke, George Edwards, James
Kelly. John Kelly, Joseph Wolf, E: S.
Brown; Republicans, William Master
man, S. A. CleweIl, Frank Joy, Daniel
Day, E. j. Spindle, D. l.. Birmingham.
Second ward-Democrats, William May,
James Elliot, Robert Anderson, Ed
Donovan, Charles Mosier. c. J. Butler,
NJ. O'Donohoe, James O'Brien; Third
Ward-DemOcrats John Stinson, c. H.
CARL. George Bolles, S. c. Nethaway,
Emil Kruger, Samuel Register; Re-
pu blicans. John Covell, S. Richardson,
E. Reed, N. hammers, j. C. Henning,
William Wurdeman, j. A. Westby,
John Goodrich, p. Lilljigren, A. W.
Pattee. The Second ward Republicans
held no caucus.