St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-08
SALTWATER SlLAOUETTES
The 0akdale & Lakeland Road Scheme
to Be Fixed To-Day.
A LOFTY MAN IN STRIPE.
Convict Burmaster Sands Six Feet
Five Inches in His Sock
Rrevities.

A matter of much local Importance
will come before the board of county
commissioners to-day or tomorrow.
perhaps, in the committee report on tn
Oakdale and Lakeland roaI scheme,
which includes the opening throu gh of
a direct thorOughfare connecting with
the st. Paul Mlnnehalla avenue OF
street, and giving all that part of Wash
Ington county easy and quicker access
by teams to the capital. The committee
having the matter III charge asked and
was granted further time at yesterdays
session. The board also authorized the
purchase, through Rev. j. w. Luke. of
eighty copies of WeIch's classification
register for use in the common schools,
The auditor was instructed to notify
newspaper publishers that bids for
doing the county printing would be re-
ceiyed.
The tallest man of whom the Mime
sofa state prison records have any men-
ton was received there Monday night
in the person of William Burmaster.
who stands in his stocking feet six feet
five and One-half inches high. Just all
inch greater than the stature of Warden
Randall, who thus loses his sometime
distinction Of being the tallpst man
about the institution. Convict Bur-
master is twenty-seven years of age.
weighs 206 pounds. and was sentenced
in Blue Earth county to three years
Imprisonment for grand larceny in the
second degree.
In the district court yesterday Eller
Mcclellan and Daniel Flynn were adj
tlNitfAh tn aifi1anchin
G. Clark and A. j. Orff Ealnst the CITY
of Saltwater, each plaintiff claiming to
have been damaged by the action of
surface water, We're referred to Chas. N.
Bell, of st. Paul. to try and determine.
Argument was heard in the afternoon
on the application of j. S. KeatOr q
son 10 have their claim of Sl,9g0 against
the Ed. ST. John insolvent estate adj
mitted against the receiver. The plain
titfs have also suit pending in the fed
erai court on the same claim, on which
they sue there for a personal judgment
against the insovent, st. John.
The city council. after nine unde-
cisive ballots, deferred the election until
place were A. w. Anderson and James
Foren. A petition from Isaac Staples
and forty-eight business men. in favor
of the election of t. e. Butler, was
read. The last and nearly every ballot
resulted: EOren, 8; Butler, 2; Ander-
son, L. The aldermen present were
Goodman, Kitty, Sutton, Yates, Pattee
and Strom. City Engineer Clark was
elected building inspector. without pay,
to fill the vacancy caused by the re-
moval of George Low. A. K. Doe
asked rebate on the Sawyer house
saloon license for two months, since the
closing of the house.
Alfred l.. Keevil, of the railway mail
service, and Miss Celia A NORM,
daughter of Mrs. Catharine NORM, of
this city, were married yesterday morn
ing at st. Michael'S church, Rev. NJ. E.
Murphy performing the ceremony. A.
c. 1 thorpe, of Morris, Mimi, and Miss
Kittie Smith, of st. Paul, acting as
groOmsman and bridesmaid respectively.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keevil will reside at Nor
ris after Feb. 1.
Philip McDermott, operating on
GrOundhouSe river for the Hersey &
Bean Lumber company, has banked
100000 feet of logs, an unusually
heavy cut to have been made at this
stage of the season. He started in for
a total winter cut of S12, 100000.
Judge of Probate Lehmicke and
Prison Guard Cayou are late victims of
the grip.
Miss Belle Rankin will entertain the
Epiphany party next year, by virtue of
having ,gOn the ring Monday evening,
when Ascension parish people were en-
tertained by Mrs. w. NJ. Capron, of
South Third street.
All the Mcmillan divorce case evil
dence being in and arguments made the
court has the matter under advisement.
The question of alim0ny will he dis
cussed when the court shall grant a
decree Of divorce.
Miss Addie Mathews. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Mathews. returns to
school to-day at Sinsinawa Mound, Wis.
1t is probable that the George Abrescil
seduction case will be heard to-day in
the district court.