St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-03
MINNEAPOLIS.
additional City Regs on Page +.
PHASE. oF LIFE.

Minneapolis is something Of q city of
churches. The Bank of Commerce
AMI the New York Life Insurance build
inzs sre only about block apart, yet
Carr. j. n. Cross, the other day while at
q window IN one Of the upper stories OF
the GLOBE building. was able to count
no less than eleven church spires In
South Minneapolis within the space
Gornled by the buildings.
Tom II. Davis, the cheerful man who
preceded the Stowaway company
which played at the BijOu, recently
stirred up something of a sensation at
indianapolis. He addressed circular
to some of the colored Baptist ministers
of the city. SAYING that he had employed
g couple of X-burglars in his company,
and that they would crack safe
during the play. He stated in the
circular that his employ ment of the
two men has done more in the
way of criminal reformation than has
has been done through the church in
gears, and that he would be pleased to
have the ministers announce from their
pulpits that the theater has outstripped
the church in this matter" When the
circular was read at the meeting a
storm of indignation followed and reso-
buttons were adopted denouncing Davis
and his show and asking the people of
the city 10 withhold their patronage.
Probably the resolutions served Davis
quite as we'll as an advertisement as
would have the pulpit announcements.
"Blank blank the blank BANKED ice,'.
said pedestrian on Nicollet avenue
yesterday afternoon as ne walked along
the north side of the avenue, above
Sixth street, "when will these people
clean OFF their walks2"
There was particularly bad stretch
OF ice along there, and a GLoEE man
3ust stepped into convenient hallway
90 watch developments.
"Jce-ruSalem." calculated plous in
dividual, as he barely escaped vicious
rap from the Sidewalk. ii wish | had
the proprietor of that store cut here for
about two minuteS,H came in low, ill.,
tense tones from an aged citizen who
had Just been going through series of
iiveler antics than he had performed
since he was beardleSs boy and played
circus. IF I've broken any bones I'll
sue the city" remarked an irate individ-
ual. who had sat down hard upon the
walk, after clearing the stars from be-
fore his eyes.
And so il went on 4 good part of the
day. But the walk at that particular
point IS no worse than they are in a
dozen other places on NicOllet avenue.
The Ice certainly can be removed, and
tt should be. If proprietors of stores
will not do it the city authorities should
see 10 it. As ii is man takes his life
In his hands when he goes on foot in
Minneapolis at present.
Seldom is it given to American people
Go gaze upon real live will, but court
reporters for Minneapolis newspapers
yesterday saw two of them, and formid-
able looking documents they were.
they had that air about them which
trresiStibly reminded one Of Dickens
descriptions of the well-fed proctors.
shabby lawers, blue bags full of papers
and volumes of legal lore, the wool
sack" courts IN chancery and
the red tape, plentifully besprinkled
with formidable looking seals, so char
acteristic Of English courts. These
wills were written on parchment, about
which there was more than faint sug-
gestion of dead mems shoes. They each
occupied two sheets of the same-not
small sheets, but pages Of nearly three
feet long by two and One-half wide.
Names anG titles were engrOSsed and
che letters of the name of the deceased
were fully an inch long. They
had been probated in England.
and bore the seal of the
high court of justice of Great Britain.
Attached To each will was a certificate
OF probate signed u. c. Hammer. regis
er of the English PROBATE court" Also
attached to each was document from
the United States consul generals Of
fee in London, bearing the seal of the
United States and John c. News we'll
Known signature. Very unweildy and
legal they looked, and about as vulner-
able as the rock-ribbed hills erected by
commissions of nature in ages past.