St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-30
READY FOR DEMOCRATS.
Stillwater's Grand Opera House Splan-
didly Decorated
FOR T0-DAY'S CONVENTION.
The Republican Gathering---A Cele-
brated Divorce Case Probably
to Be Retired.
FOR T0-DAY'S CONVENTION

The delegates to the congressional
convention to-day will find the Grand
opera house handsomely decorated.
The stage is bower of beauty and per-
feet arrangements made upon the floor
for the convenient and comfortable dis
pOsal of the different delegations. Sell
ator Durant has. moreover, arranged to
entertain the entire delegation at lunch
at the Sawyer house, and has told the
landlord to- prepare for 200 people, IN
Guiding 145 delegates. The convention
will be called to order at IL O'Clock, and
the immediate subsequent proceedings
will be the temporary organization, the
appointment of committees on creden-
tials and permanent organization and a
recess, during which the lunch will be
served. Senator Castle, so far as this
county is concerned, is conceded the
nomination unanimously. 1t is not
thought probable that the deliberations
Of the convention will be lengthy.
There is liable to he a
great deal more rough-and-tumble
fun in the Republican county cOnven-
ton on the hill. Some of the delegates
to the latter aggregation are pretty mad.
and have quit talking about the late
Democratic county convention being
boisterous and characteristic of Demo-
Gratis" Any Democrat would be
ashamed to take part in such per-
formances as were enacted at the Sec
ond ward Republican caucus Thursday
evening.
The contest for the Republican nomi-
nations for sheriff and other county
offices will be fought out at the court
house to-day. The larger number OF
remote towns did not hold their eau
cuSes until last evening, and the re-
turns are not at hand. There is sup
posed to be fight for the nomination
of register of deeds. but no one has yet
shown that the incumbent of that office
has not performed well all his official
duties. The clerk of the court may also
expect opposition of some sort, but 1T
has not yet appeared so prominently as
in the case of Register Davis. For the
state senatorship j. N. Searles can un-
doubtedly have the nomination it he is
willing, and he is reported as being
open to conviction.
Fayette Marsh, attorney for the de-
PENDANT in the Mcmillan divorce case,
has made an application that when the
case be retired it be before Jury. The
testimony was taken by the late Judge
McCluer, but no conclusion of the case
had been reached up to the time of his
death, and the matter comes up for
Judge Crosby to dispose of. The latter
heard argument yesterday on the prop
osition that the entire testimony must
be retaken, since Judge McCluer, who
originally heard the case, is dead. Mr..
Marsh argues in favor of this PROPOSE
ton, and if the court agrees with him
he will further urge that the new hear
ing be to jury instead of to the court
alone. The case is something of cause
ceIebre locally, on account of the social
standing of the parties and of others
sympathetically interested.
In the municipal court yesterday the
jury in the case of Northey Bros.
against Mccarthy disagreed and were
discharged. Nicholas Hettinger sued
Powers & Smith, liverymen, to recover
1888 alleged as due for services of plaintt
ifs son as hack driver. and the jury
gave plaintiff verdict for S..