St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-16
MINNEAPOLIS.
kGGTtionaI City News en- fage S.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The appointment by Gov. Merriam of
francis B, Bailey yesterday to fill the
Office of judge of probate, made vacant
for the five months of Judge Won
Schlegell's uneXpired term. was not
unexpected, Bailey wanted the place,
and it was an easy way to smooth down
his feelings, which have been decidedly
ruffled because of the treatment he re-
ceived at his party's hands when his
claims for denomination as munlclpal
court Judge were so cOolly overlooked
at the convention. The judge will
doubtless find warmer fight when he
comes to seek nomination for the
Office this fall however.
The claims of Charles B. Holmes. the
clerk of the probate court, who has
been running the office practically for
Ahe past year and whose appointment
qepst almost. do not seem to have been
cC&sdered at all. Political influence
was alone potent. The Pillsbury and
Langdon influence was thrown for
Bailey, and his principal competitor was
Aid. BradiSh, who is an attorney. The
latter was backed by Aid. Potter, SEN
ator Clough and Freeman P. Lane. A.
NJ. Scott also had some Union league
influence and figured as dark horse.
They say that Langdon played sharp
trick by getting the Bradish men to
agree upon Scott as compromise can
didate, and having them telegraph the
governor that they would be satisfied
with his appointment. He, however,
stood out for Bailey, and the governor,
thinking that the Bradish men did not
know exactly who they did want, while
Baley'S friends were firm, appointed
Bailey.
They say, too, that Freeman p. Lane
in the morning was a Bradish man,
went to St. Paul in the afternoon as
Scott man, and came home in the even
ing a triumphant Bailey man, full of
glory as to how 1--WE got our man ap-
pointed"
Roger Vail have read DR.. Mabie's
"Romanism in Four Chapters" and
they need not advertise for me to read
it either. | will say, too, that DR.. Mable
is logical and fair: Morrill, only rants
Gnd uses invective instead of argument
c. NJ. Loring says he will retire from
the park commiSSion-and he should be
allowed to-as it would be an imposi-
ton to urge him to devote his time and
attention to the onerouS duties which
his love for Minneapolis has caused him
to perform at no little personal sacrifice.
One of the Minneapolis evening
papers roastS the correspondents who
have sent out reports that Lake Mime
tonka has fallen eighteen inches, and
the other tea-time sheet quotes Nelson
Williams as follows: "What Minnesota
needs is not so much dam as rain.
Give us rain and we're all right. Al
ready the lake has risen six inches, but
it is still three feet below level"
At the present rate of progression, it
will take the contractors for the re-
mOval of the suspension bridge some
where in the neighborhood Of three
years and several months to wind up
the wire cables that are stretched
across the river. By that time they
will have learned how not to 60 about
the work the next time they have a SuS-
pension bridge to take down and cart
away.
The Bijou theater is cosy place of
amusement that has become deServedly
popular with Minneapolis people, but
there are some few complaints in regard
to matter that might be prevented by
the management. There is crowd of
WOuld-be dudes and curbStOne Washers
that stations itself three rows deep in
front of the house after every perform
ance and selects an object upon which
to display It's individual charms. Ii it
stopped at this there might be little
harm done, but some members of the
crowd have way of voicing its appro-
baton or otherwise of some of the
30 1,A nf
their escorts, who dislike to become en-
tangled i'll a row, no matter how great
the proyocation.
The evenings are beginning to be
mild and Springlike, and the Minneapo-
lis gamins are already beginning to
gather upon the steps of the West hotel
to pitch the inotfensive penny. while
their younger brothers pass the fieetlng
hours by playing marbles in the gutter.
under the brilliant rays OF the electric
light.
Poor Scottl He played and lost. The
fact that he did the most of his playing
around the Union league rooms and
not on the right political field. may &C
count for his losing.
While Judge Hooker was hearing a
case yesterday the court was suddenly
interrupted by such wild, weird, Un-
earthly shrieking that even the pleas
ant-faced judge frowned. The bailiff,
after a prolonged search, found the
originator of the noise and locked it up
in closet. 1t was "Dickie" Mabie's
new spring vest.
Capt. Dan Day says that the young
girl who tried to commit suicide yester-
day had been driven insane by the airy,
persiflaginous, three-ring circus heads
adopted by the Tribune.
If published reports about Axel Paul
sen be true, the eX-champion never
should have been skater. He would
have made a magnificent financier.
His business instinct was strongly de-
TelOped.
The statement that G. f. Haney has
powerful moneyed interests behind him
in the forthcoming fight in the criminal
court is suggestive. 1t only intenSifies
the belief that there has been good
deal of croOkednesS of which the public
is, as yet, in ignorance.
If Ed Davenport develops as much
talent for taking the census as he has
for taking real estate, Minneapolis Will
show up with bigger population than
Chicago.
DISTRICT COURT BRIEFS.
Fred S. Jones has brought an action
against Marie Bisbee to secure the di-
vision of property in Remineton's Sec
ond addition. There are twelve lots to
be divided, and they are valued atSl, 200