St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-05
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.

IA case of measles at 5000 First avenue
south was reported at the health office yes
terday.
Marriage licenses were issued Yesterday to
James f. Barnes and Hattie Pettijohn, Sam
uel C. Trip and Slohala Wood.
The Mer1den Brittonia company, of NIeri-
den, Conn., has sued Ellis j. Woolf to
recover 81, 7S0.77 on promissory notes.
Madam Coe sailed on the North German
Lloyd steamer Lain yesterday morning for
Paris and London. She will return Sept. 10.
1t is rumored that Mrs. Lou Anderson,
widow of William Anderson. who was killed
lastsummer by George Buchan, has gone to
Pittsburg to marry Buchan..
Tine annual picnic of the Y. NJ G: A. jun
iors will occur at Spring Park, Lake Mime
tonka to-day. There will be games to absorb
superfluous energy of the boys.
Mayor Winston contemplates visit to his
farm near Richmond, Va, next week: He
will probably leave the latter part Of the
week and be gone about ten days
So far there is but one applicant for the
post of surgeon to the soldiers home, to be
vacated on the 18th inst by Dr. A. A. Ames.
Dr. w. E. Myers thinks he is just the person
to do the work and his application IS III the
hands of the board.
The civil service examination for letter
carriers and postal clerks was conducted
yesterday at the government building. There
were fifty-siX.application for places as letter
carriers and seventeen for clerks, making the
largest class examined here.
On June 81 II. C. Dahincke and George A.
fitzpatrick left Helena, Mont, on bicycles, to
make the trip TO Chicago. Monday they
passed through Minneapolis, after having
travelled 1876 miles. Thirteen days were lost
on the road on account of rain.
The board of equalization yesterday morn
ing fixed the assessment of the Minneapolis
flour mill at $50, 600. q slight reduction from
the arbitrary assessment fixed by the assessor
no no
cussed and conclusion reached.
Charles Felver, of GA Bryant avenue north,
who has been missing for several days, was
picked up by mounted officer and taken
home. Felver is twentyseven years old, and
last summer was sunstruck. since which time
he has been mentally unbalanced.
Miles W Dodd, a we'll known Minnesotan,
committed suicide i'll Los Angeles CAL, on
July 30. He leaves a wife and five grown
children and a divorced wife, who l1yeS i'll
Minneapolis. Business and domestic troubles
are supposed to have prompted the suicide.
A. D. Ripple, the clerk in Gooche's lodg
ing house on Washington avenue. who is
charged with the larceny of a watch, chain
and locket from j. d. Nichol, had an exam
ination in the police court yesterday and
was bound over to the grand jury Ill $500
BAIL
The Pythian Sisters will hold an leo cream
social on Thursday evening at the Masonic
Temple. One of the features of the enter
tainment will be Il voting contest for gold
badge, one member being chosen from each
of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias
to compete for the prize.
c. II. Hall. who resides at II Seventeenth
street north. was arralgned i'll the police
court yesterday on charge of assault and
battery preferred by the humane society. 1t
is alleged that Hall has beaten his grandson
in a most cruel manner on various occasions.
The case will be heard to-day.
JE. Webb an agent for the White Sewing
Machine company, who resides at 400 Vine
place was run over by runaway team yes
terday afternoon on Central avenue, near the
East side police station. He was taken to
his home in the patrol wagon and it is feared
that he has sustained internal injuries.
Ground has been broken for the new s., 800
addition to All Saints church, on Clinton
avenue and Twenty-sixth street. The ex-
tension comprises new chancel, guild room,
vestry, and two or three other small rooms
for the use of the rector. Beginning next
Sunday the church will be lighted by electric
lamps.
The retail grocers' association have voted
to close their stores al O'Clock. Out of the
300 firms in the city $50 have signed declara-
ton favoring the movement. The associa-
ton met Monday night and voted 10 put the
movement into effect Thursday. There will
be a parade Thursday evening in honor of
the occasion.
The council committee on roads and
bridges will meet at 2 o'clock Friday after
noon to consider the proposed bridging of
Minnehaha creek on lyndale avenue. The
committees on street grades ana additions
and bonds of city officers will meet Thursday
afternoon. The council does not meet until
a week from to-day.
The African missionary, Rev. Thomas L.
johnson, lectured last evening in the Swed
lsh Baptist church. Eighth street and Thir-
teenth avenue south. He gave a statement
of his experiences among the Bake-Willee
and Bakundu people, and sang and spoke in
the native language. Mr.. Johnson expects to
return to Africa this fall.
The officers and directors of the Homeo-
pathic hospital have decided to enlarge the
hospital. Arrangements have been made for
the construction of a new building, or ward,
for patients affected with contagious dis
eases, and the conversion of the present
building into.a separate department for the
exclusive use of fever patients.
Robert Willie, employed. on the Laurel ave
nue. bridge, fell from scaffold twenty feet
in height to the ground while at work yes
terday, and dislocated his spine. He was
taken to the city hospital, and, as the spinal
chord was not severed, it is thought that he