St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-19
SALTWATER SILHOUETTES
The Great Dam at Movers Practically
Completed.
A BALL LAST EVENING
District Conference. Of the Y. NJ. G. 4
1.-The General News Of os
Friday. ie9!

AL last, aTCer some premature IepoIea
the gigantic work of the st. Croix Dam
and Improvement company, at Neyers,
is practically completed, and the gates
of the great dam will be closed for the
first time this morning. To assist III
celebrating the event large party OF
gentlemen and ladies from Osceola,
Taylor's Falls, st. CroiX Falls and Still
water accepted an invitation to partlcl-
pate in a grand ball given at NeverS
last evening IN large temporary nall.
deliberately trimmed and decorated Tor
the occasion. Music was furnished by
a Saltwater orchestra. All the guests,
among whom were Hon. r. w. Durant,
County Attorney Lee, f. l.. McKusick,
William Sauntry and A. q. Schuttlnger,
of Saltwater, went by team from the
falls through the woods to the scene OF
the festivity.
at the First Presby terrain church this
evening will begin district conference
of the Y. NJ. G. A. for the district OF st.
Paul, continuing tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock at the Grand opera house,
and concluding with a session at the
church in the evening. The addresses
will be made by Ii. B. Walsh. chairman
of the district committees; Winthrop
Allison, secretary of the st. Paul as
ISOLATION; t. FL. Hildreth, state secre-
tary, and Messrs. Manson and Bowie.
The new patrolmen, Siegler and An
derSon, were sworn in yesterday, the
former being given beat including the
union station, while Anderson was as
signed to mounted patrol duty on the
North hill.
The Duluth Railroad company has
granted the newly reOrganiZed boat
club permission to build boat house
alongside the company'S dock at the
freight depot, and the work of building
will be begun in a few days. The club,
which now numbers tWenty-fOur men,
bers, has two shells and lap-streak
four-oared barge. and has better mate
rial for a frst-ciasS organization than
possessed by any club of the kind here
tofore existing here.
Fred Wittick, reprobate living In
Schulenberg's addition, was yesterday
convicted, under the state law. OF Will
fully neglecting to support his family
and sentenced to term or two months
in the county Jail.
The condition OF ii. ID. Harrison,
Superintendent of the water works, who
has been seriously ill, was considerably
improved yesterday.
city since 1913, celebrated his seventy
third birthday Thursday, and in the
evening entertained few of his friends
at rooms in the Mower block. During
the evening Judge McCluer presented
the host, i'm behalf of the guests, with an
ebony gold-headed cane.
The old livery firm of Smith & Pow
ers is dissolved by the sale OF Powers
interest to Jay Barnes. sas
A boy named Adolph Magoney. living
across the lake near HoultOn, purposely
exploded mass of loose gunpowder
yesterday, and may lose his sight as "a
result. He was terribly burned about
the face and neck. - /
Lake st. CroiX is falling, and will re-
cede rapidly for time, owing to 1.-THE
shutting down Of the gates Of the
Neyers dam.
A heavy party of merchant lumber1
men from down river was in the rcity
Yesterday, among them being Fred
Weyerhauser, Peter Musser, C.r RI
Ainsworth, Ira StockWell and IL. II!
Gilman. To look over the log market
was the special errand of most OF them!
Chester McKusick, Sheriff Holcombe
and Henry Drawer left for Chicago last
evening. ~
The Office of building inspector has
been located in the Pattee building on
| Commercial avenue.
The Rebecca lodge. I. o. o. F., gave a
pleasant dancing party last evening.
In the personal property tax cases
| against James Mathews and W. A.
| Hursey, the county attorney and the
attorneys of the respective parties stip-
uiated for judgment yesterday. In all
| other personal property tax cases, where
no answer is made, judgment was Or
! dered for taxes, penalty and costs.