St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-01

Howard, M. j. Boyle and w. G. Reed have
been appointed committee on entertain
ment, and will have charge Of the affair.
St. Patrick's church is said to possessa boy
soprano who will, ere long, vie with young
Creelman fol. vocal honors among the juve-
niles of the locality The lads name Is Ar
thur Ferris, ard his singing is the feature of
any gathering for entertainment in which the
Interesting twelve-year-old happens to find
Z himself.
I Ia Slight fire at the resid erce Of Fred Bry,
anti at 443 Portland avenue. yesterday,
causeh by the ignition Of the lace window
chrtains, resulted in some injuries to Mrs.
! Bryant, who was badly burned about the
I hands and face in the effort to extinguish
the flames.
\ Ansel Oppenheim stated yesterday that the
Metropolitan hotel would not be closed, and
|, thatshenceforlh it would be under the man.
/, ageMent of Whitney Wall. Mr.. Oppenheim
/ made this statement after co inference with
( III. d. Minot, who has just returned FROM
Boston, where the controlling stock in the
hotel is held.
/ Chris Svard Russian rag dealer, fell In a
b FIT oeepilepsy yesterday morning on the Rob-
ert street bridge. Svard resides on the b..
iheHlian flats. and has Mad one of these fits in
one quarter of the city or another about one g
81 week for the past year. An effort will be
made,to have the man sent to Chicago for
special treatment.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fl. Gilkey. whose son
: Ho ward, was drowned at the foot of Chest
nut street on March Is, are very much hurt
at the published reports that the lad was
skating on Sunday. He was merely out for a
walk. They desire to publicly announce
bair Sfr1da To hos ,hn iy,f 1o
recovery of the body.
The commission men are rapidly deserving
Robert street for mora suitable and roo my
quarters in Commission row. The spring
exodus has been begun by Messers. Hoxie &
and Fifth streets to the new brick row.
There are rumors of several other removals
in the same line, to occur this spring.
Lou Hurst and Carrie Wyndham, two frail
fairies Of the locality who were driving
furiously along the Smelling road Sunday
evening, drove into stage wagon from the
fort and were wrecked. The former of the
girls was badly bruised, being thrown unde r
; the wheels, which passed over her body.
The other escaped injury, as also did the
horses.
A lamp exploded at 10 o'clock Sunday
. night at the residence of G. w. Holt on Fort
street. The lamp had been filled with gaso-
line. and exploded when an attempt was
made light it, setting fire to the clothing of
Mary Stees q domestic in the family, and
burning her hands. The flames were ex-
tinguished without the inflietiou OF any seri.
GUS injury.
The following young men, members Of the
7. NJ. G. A., have volunteered to go to Africa
as missionaries: W. G.. Breg, Louis c. Duehl-
meyer, Robert c. Barton, V. D. Caneday, r.
A. Haddon. w. j. Hall, NJ. A. Dean, 0. j.
Christopherson Z. Vixen and W. j. Scott.
Messrs. Harris and Jaderquist will start for
the Soudan as pioneer missionaries about
the 18th of May.
Paul Risnei, the stone carver, whose
strange career as sculptor in Paris and
subsequent retrogressiOn were written up in
the GLOBE several months ago, left for New
York last Friday evening, ostensibly OH his
way to France. Risnet received quite large
sum of money recently from some European
source, and on receipt of it at once an
nouneed his intention of seeing Paris again.
w. H. Raglan. whose illustrated lectures in
this city and Minneapolis few years ago
we're so greatly enjoyed, has been secured by
the Young Peoples Society of the Contra
Park M. 4. church for four lectures on April
90 and 90, and May and 9. His subjects
for these lectures are 1.-THE Yosemite and the
. YELLOWSTONE belgium and Holland,''
rRamblings in Rome" and Treasures O.
theiRockies.'g it:.
The Peoples church lyeeum was interest
ingsas is usual, at 1.-The meeting last night.
The. paper for the evenings discussion was
On the subject of STRIKES, " and il was read
by MFR. Barnard. The subject was discussed
from practical as we'll as theoretical stand
points by the leader and several of the audi
ence; Mr.. Carothtrs read selection from
don Quixote.n Miss Nettie Hope and Miss
Emery with mandolin and guitar did nicely.
. Miss Atell sang "Springtide'' very accept.
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John Egan will be examined to-day before
Judge Morrison touching his sanity. He was
before Judge Burr yesterday charged with
drunkenness. and was detained for examina-
ton in the probate court He IS an old citi-
zen Of St. Paul, and was quite well-to-do and
respected. He has been drinking consider
able of late years, and his domestic relations
have. been accompanied with more or less
stormy incidents. He has lost an eye and Is
in feeble physical condition. 1t is reported
that he at times would walk the streets bare
footed and bare headed muttering TO him
self.
A man named Fred Johnson and better
known among railroad men as 1.-THE Greaser,"
who was until few months ago q brakeman
nthe Northern Pacific, is being sought by a
Council Bluffs attorney as one of the bene-
ficiaries by the will of Ray Calhoun, lately
deceased member of the demi- monde OF that
city. By the terms of the dead woman's will
Johnson gets $4,000 and four city lots
valued at S9uO each. Johnson is believed to
be in Minneapolis, and Mr.. Gloss. the at
torney. went there last evening in search of
him. The Calhoun woman also left S., 600 to
be used for the benefit of ST. Swithin's
church. New York city, of which she was
formerly member.