St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-29
MINNEAPOLIS.
Ldditional City News on Page 6.
yorE AND COMMENT.

Iupt sales CT boots and shoes were confined
10 lower Hennepin and Washington avenues,
put Of late they have left their old haunts.
and are now encroaching upon the rights of
The people on Nicollet avenue. Between
Third and Fourth streets on Nicollet there
are now three of these snaps" and their
huge, uncouth Signs are an eyesore TO the
community The street commissioner should
order them off the face of the earth.
AID. John A. Swanson, OF the Sixth ward
candidate for the Legislature from the Thirty
second district, thinks he is Sighted because
The board of trade did not send him copy
of the catechism that il sent to the candi-
dates for the legislature, asking them how
they stood upon The question of salaries or
ices Tor the county officers. John a. wasn't
sighted. Fot a bit of it. The board care.
fully considered the chances of election OF
the various candidates when it sent out Its
questions. E. NJ. Johnson failed to receive
copy for the same reason.
Aid. ]. II. Bradish's constituents say that
his name is mud in the Ninth ward.
A ]. Boardman and A. j. Blethen can't
both go to the legislature for the reason that
each would be liable to arrest for forgery.
What if one man should mark Hennepln
county petition 20. H. A. j. b." and the
other should repudiate il!
What has become of "Bill'' Reese, the spell
binder: lie hasn't been seen for three days.
The last that was heard from him was that
he had been delegated TO speak at the stock
eards. Can he have fallen into sausage
.utter-protected, of course, by the Mckinley
billy
The council is holding off the payment of
MI claims possible until the last of the year,
80 they will have 10 be paid by the next ad-
ministration. This move will show up the
present administration as an economical
cr,lt hn no &c n VI r1
The aldermen claim TO have precedents for
this.
At the council meeting Friday night mo-
ton viii probably be introduced giving all
city employees a holiday on election day.
There Will be 10 provlso attached TO II, but
there will be n general understanding that he
who fails to vote the Republican ticket Will
be fired when he returns to work.
How much was each Republican candidate
Tor city offices assessed for The Tribune S art
gallery printed Sunday morning: The eX-
Eddie Potter is reported to have drawn q
check for SO payable to Col. Charles W.
johnson, the designer.
The women are going to cut quite figure
IN the vote for members of the board OF edu-
cation. a large number have registered, and
within the past few days about twenty-five
have taken out their naturalization papers.
Fourth street was crowded Yesterday with
would-be American citizens. who carried Or
deTs from the different political headquar-
tiers. and were headed toward the court
house where they obtained the bit OF paper
pntitling them 10 vote.
Do young men usually have bald heads? If
they do. then the plea of some who urge
FOung men to vote for young men is ali right.
z. c. Potter is bald-headed.
Say, cul, whose desc fellers Winston an
Potterf'
"Oh. deys candigates for mayer
Dat so? Thought deys goin' to fight at
der club mex week. Marks Queensberry
rules"
The following epitaph was picked up on
The street few days ago:
Sacred 10 the Memory
E. G. Potter
and the
Rest Of the Disappointed Candidates.
They thought they had sinch
But-they didn't.
The candidates are evidently preparing for
The inevitable.
One of the polling places of the Fourth
ward is located at the lookup. Last night q
drunk was brought i'll.
Come register him. spoke up some one.
III be hanged if you do. putin Jack Nc
COnnell. He's wearing Winston badge"
The man was accordingly locked I'D.
'What are you wearing that badge for?"
asked politician of darkey who was wear
ing Winston badge.
"Oh.. cause red harmonizes with my
color was the reply, accompanied with an
eXh hit of worries
Who is the liar?
Charles W. 10 huson, sometimes clerk Of
the United States senate admits taking steps
howard preparing the"Winston's New Home"
article which the Tribune printed. That
paper denies that he had anything to do
Whit.
Again, who is the liar?
Autumn styles now ready in all depart
ments at the Plymouth Clothing House.