St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-17
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBULEs.

The bank clearings yesterday were Ss7s,-
665.47
The ladies' social circle of the Church of
the Redeemer will hold business meeting
to-day at p. m. i'll the parlor of the church.
The subcommittee of the board of super
visors made an official visit to the poor farm
yesterday. On the way home they inspected
the quarantine hospital.
Mrs. Maria Waltman, who had resided in
his city for thirty-five years, died yesterday
morning at her residence, 101S Fourth street
north She was sixty -seyen years of age.
The wife of Policeman James Butler died
yesterday morning at the family residence,
1927 Second street north. officer Butler is
one Of the Oldest members of the police
force.
The following licenses to wed were issued
yesterday: Thomas H. Murphy and Zina
Ferrell, Frank Knox and Ethel 5. Hodgkins,
Albert Graber and Anna W. Erb, Robert w.
Wright and May Alice Gray.
The funeral sermon over the remains of
Fritz Gellerup was preached yesterday after
noon by Rev. Kristofer Jansen, at the resi-
dence, Lyndale and Twentieth avenues
north. The interment was at Layman's.
Two hundred and twenty-nne saloonkeep-
ers have already applied for new licenses
and will get them July l. Those who have
not yet applied cannot get theirs before the
1lth. There were 265 saloons i'll the city last
year.
The quarterly meeting of the Women's
Baptist church last evening. Besides the
regular reports of officers the ladies listened
TO an address on mission work by Miss Yuill,
OF Colorado.
The Gillette-Herzog company. of Minneap-
Dlis, has secured the contract for the iron
work of the Chicago cold storage exchange,
calling for 6,i57, 1S5 pounds of iron. This is
the largest cast iron contract ever let in the
United States.
Mrs. Celia o. Robinson, aged seventy-three
years, died yesterday morning at her home
19 Tenth street south. Deceased had been q
resident of this city for over eighteen years
The remains will be taken to Falmouth
Mass for burial
The funeral of John Kenyon, the Young
man who died suddenly in his room at No
G5 Washington avenue south, of heart
rouble on Monday night, will take place this
morning at 10 oclOck, from Gleason d Nc
Alllsters morgue.
Pat Egan. the sixteen-vear-old boy who
rolled Special Officer Schwartz in the gutter
near the ball park. on Monday afternoon,
and rendered it necessary for a detachment
of regular officers 10 be ordered out to quell
his rlotous career, was yesterday tined 81.
Francis Johnson has secured permission
from the health commissioner to remove the
body of Child, which died here two years
ago with scarlet fever, to Red Wing for final
1nterment This permission was sought
year ago and refused by DR.. KilVington, the
commissioner of health.
Scarlet fever at q Maple place, 307 Fifth
avenue north and l25 North Dupont street;
dlphtherla at 243 TWenty-flrSt avenue south
and 629 Seventh avenue south, and measles
at 5l4 South Ninth street, 2422 North Tenth
street, 1927 Fifth street southeast and 240O
Portland avenue, were reported at the health
office yesterday.
The new organ at the Free Baptist church
corner of Nicollet avenue and Fifteenth
street, will be opened this evening by Mr.
Watson, concert organist of Chicago. The
second part OF the concert will consist of
fIl 40 tot i
by L. ". Ballard and rendered by choir of
thirty fine voices.
The annual picnic of the grocers' clerks
will be held at Lake Park, Minnetonka. to-
day. The trains leave for the grounds from
the St Louis depot at Fourth avenue ana
Third street north, at s, Q and 9:45 a. m 80.
. 5:O5 and p. M. and leave Lake Park in re-
turn at 4:30 7:45, 9 and 9:45 in the evening
the last-named train being subject to order
Martin Knapp, stonemason IN the en-
ploy of L. W Noble, had the forefinger of
his left hand cut off yesterday in the ma
chlnery OF the elevator at the postofice
building, where he was at work. Knapp
tried to use the, elevator and not under
standing its machinery, got his hand caught
in one of the pulleys. He narrowly escaped
very serious injury.
The new desks for the park commissioners
have been put in place They are from the
council chamber and in use there before the
aldermanlc representatives were cut from 80
to 26 The president of the park board and
the secretary and attorney Will sit in the rear
end of the room, with the members desks
facing them. The lobby will be next to the
front windows.
The first meetidg of the Minneapolis Bap-
fist association will begin in Emmanuel Bap-
tist church this morning The opening
sermon will be delivered by the Rev. E. S.
Van Ness. In the afternoon business will be
transacted, and in the evening there will be
an address on City Missions" by Rev. S. E.
Price; state Missions" Rev. T. r. Peters;
Home Missions Rev. W. H. Geistweit
The commission recently appointed by the
district court to assess the damages 10 be
paid by the city to the Great Northern road
for the opening of certain streets across the
rlght-of-way of the railway company. met in
the CITY attorneys Office yesterday and made
the following awards: Fifteenth avenue
S414.22; Twenty-fifth avenue. S1730 and
Twenty-seventh avenue, $3.50 81 These
awards are for planking and other essentials
70 enable the company 10 make proper cross
ngs.
An effort Is being made by clerks and en-
ployes IN the various large retail establish
ments to close Saturday afternoons ar I
O'Clock during the months of July and An
gust. If concerted action can be had this
will be done. The New England Furnitrre
and Carpet company has started the bali
rolling by signlfying their assent to such a
move. During the warm weather II Is
thought that people could do their purchss
ing at other times than Saturday afternoon.