St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-08
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBULEs.

The bank clearings yesterday were $780,.
20O.93.
A regular business meeting of the non
partisan w. C. T. q. will be held at their
hall, 215 Hennepin avenue, to-day at p. m.
C.E. Ashworth took out two permits to
build two double story frame dwellings at
2721 and 1928 Penn avenue north yesterday.
The houses will cost $1,000 each.
Scarlet fever is reported at 1929 Fourth
street north and lis Second street north.
Diphtheria is reported atTwenty-fourth ave-
nue. south, adjoining the Minneapolis d st.
Louis yards.
The council committee Oh railroads has
ordered the Chicago avenue street car line
extended to the Catholic orphans home at
Forty eighth street. This work is to be done
this summer.
City Engineer Rinker has been authorized
by the lunket committee to make the report
to the council, which will contain the rec
concentrations outlined in the GLOBE just
after the committee returned.
The peopl who attend the labor picnic
will be protected and kept in order by a del
egation of deputy sheriffs AS many OF the
deputies who desire to attend the picnic will
be sent out by Sheriff Eye, and others Will
be deputized to make up corps OF twelve.
W. L. Wolferd took out building permit
for 81, 900 for additional work in stone We
neer at his home, SO Tenth street south. Mr..
Wolferd had previously taken out permit
for Sc, 600. so the improvements which ne is
making to his home will aggregate about
1000.
The street railway company is building q
spur offfrom the First avenue south line onto
Fourth street. This is preparatory to the
construction of the Plymouth and Blooming
ton line, which will run down Fourth street
south after leaving the loop at washington
and First avenue south.
The Flour City military company will give
it's first public exhibition drill at Armory hall
this evening Rev. r. H. Williamson, w. h.
Morris and A q. Plummer will make short
addresses. The above named company Is
composed of young ladies who drill with
regulation arms instead of the broom.
Washington avenue merchanst have adj
dressed petition to Thomas Lowry request
ing him to put electric cars in operation upon
that thoroughfare as soon as possible. Inc
tracks have been done for some time. ana
the merchants think that the cars should
have been running upon them before this
time.
The long looked for conference between
the railway commissioners of North Dakota,
the attorney general of the state and the Min
neapolis elevator companies will take place
some time next week at the chamber OF COM
merce. Attorney General Goodwin is now in
st. Paul. The meeting is expected to result
in an unraveling of the snarl over the elevat-
or laws of North Dakota.
Miss Hattie @. Brown, the queen of elocu-
t1OnlStS, assisted by MISS frlScllld DuuSeo.
Mrs. William Smith, Mrs. Gertie Anderson
ann Frank Allison, will give an Evolutionary
and musical entertainment Friday evening.
Aug. 8, at Calvary Baptist church. corner of
Blaisdel avenue and Twenty-sixth street.
Those who have heard Miss Brown pro-
nounce her the funniest speaker in
America.
The Chicago Avenue Improvement associa-
ton met at 2S45 Chicago avenue to consider
the question Of extending the boundaries of
Powderhorn park. After considerable dis
cussion resolution was adopted favoring
the extension so as to include all the land be-
tween Thirty second and Thirtyfourth
streets and Tenth and Fourteenth avenues
Owing to the absence of Park Commissioner
Allen, whose presence was necessary to ex-
plain some features of the extension, moth
ing further could be done.
The Minneapolis professional cooks have
formed an organization of about twenty
members. W. H. Phillips, chef at the Hotel
Lafayette, is at the head Of the movement.
Under the rules adopted each member of a
hotel or restaurant kitchen force is graded to
a certain standard, for which he receives a
diploma or certificate from the officers of the
union, testifying to proficiency in the culin-
airy art to whatever degree has been attained.
Following are the officers of the society: A.
w. Llmbelger president; Peter Hyland, vice
president; Robert Nigel, secretary; A. E..
Bard, corresponding secretary; D. r. Gift
ford, treasurer.