St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-21
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULEs.

A case OF scarlet fever at 341S Grand ave-
nue. apd one Of measles at 2203 Emerson ave-
nue. north were reported al the health office
yesterday.
The case Of Joseph Cuba against the
Great Northern railway has been dismissed
Judge Lochren holding that he did not have
sufficient cause for action.
The work on the steel arch bridge is nearly
completed. This will soon allow the Uni
versity electric line to be opened. Poles are
being set in the Bloomington line.
Harrison & Smith have commenced action
TO garnlshe property in the hands of Jason
Baker & Co., owned by Humphrey Michaels
on an amount due them, and owned by the
latter.
The second trial OF the case OF George r.
Briggs against j. 4. Shea d Co. to recover
Sl,SCO, alleged 10 be due on a carload of cram
berries, resulted in verdict of S1,649. II for
the plaintiff.
verdict in the sum of $1,000 has been re-
turned for the plaintiff i'll the case of Fixen
VS.. John ID. Blake, the real estate agent for
damages on the ground Of misrep presentation
in real estate deed
Robert Pritchard has begun action to make
judgment binding in Hennepin county
secured over year ago against George n.
Farwell in the chancery court of Boone
county, Tennessee. for 81, 5S5.
1.-The japanese Wedding will be the lead
Ing feature in an entertainment by The
Kings Daughters of Grace Episcopal church
on Friday evening, at Tolofson's hall, corner
tlIleentn avenue ana Franklin.
Yesterday morning General Passenger
Agent Pratt, OF the St. Louis road, was APP
pointed general passenger agent of all the
railroads in the Twin Cities during the time
the Christian Endeavor convention is i'll ses-
sion in Minneapolis.
The damage suit of Mrs. Sarah Williams
against the Minneapolis Street Railway com
pany was on trial yesterday before Judge
Smith and jury. The plaintiff was injured
by being thrown from street car on Oct. II,
1890, and brings suit for 3,0S7.50.
Melvin E. Thomas has commenced action
for divorce from his wife, Amanda K Thorn
as, on the grounds of willful desertion He
says he is rorty two years old and she thirty;
that they were married in Philadelphia, Mo,
on July %, 1877: that they have one child
eleven years old, and that he has been de-
serted since 1886.
The case of j. & w. A. Elliott against Nc
Carthy d Courteney to recover $500 damages
on defective plumbing put in tenement
row, was commenced yesterday before Judge
Lochren and jury The plaintiffs claim the
work done was inferior TO that contracted
for, and had to be repaired at an outlay of
the amount sued for.
The Canadian American Reciprocity league
will hold public meeting at the West hotel
this evening. Among Others Marion d.
Shutter, Prof. Folwell and s. M. owen will
address the meeting. Mr.. Estes. United States
consul at Kingston, Jamaica, who addressed
the Union league on Central and South
American reciprocity, has been invited to
speak.
The following marriage licenses were is
sued yesterday: William Super and Rachel
Maynee,, Peter Carlson and Albertina Ander-
son, John Weber and Mary Shadewald,
Charles Clementson and Mary s. Malby,
Ngnat Dupey and Mary Jezusko c. F. Eni-
rich and Katie Rotz, Edward c.. Helm and
Julia J. Machen, Allen NJ Coleman and Liz
Zie G. Foosman, John w. Hernlund and Min
ME Olson.
The order of Chairman Finley designating
the Omaha, Burlington and St Louis as the
roads to carry the Christian Endeavor dele
gates from Chicago to Minneapolis is not en-
joyed by the strong lines, yet they can only
grin and bear it, for under The terms of the
blind pool Chairman Finley has the right to
name roads that have not secured their share
of the passenger business.
John G. Woolley returned yesterday from
Lake City, where he has been busy in the in.
auguration of his Rest Island" institution
for the reformation of inebriates. To-
night he will report progress at a public mass
meeting at Park Avenue Congregational
church. DR.. Smith Baker will preside, and
there will be an interesting musical pro-
gramme.
An invoice of valuable books was received
Tuesday by Librarian Putnum from London
and the books will soon be in place. Among
them are Interior Decorations by Caesar
DAILY, government architect of France, four
volumes, profusely illustrated Fancy Dec
orations," by j. Herbert-Dys, is another costly
work. There are thirteen volumes of fishery
literature and fifteen volumes of health ex-
hibition literature from London.
W. P. Cooper, the manager of the Minpeap-
oils Directory company, says that they have
completed all the outside work. The can
yassing and the entire work will be completed
by the middle of June. w. B. Holmes is III
the city clerks Office completing the mortuary
list for the work and is somewhat puzzled on
account of physicians neglect in spelling
the names or deceased people They spell
by sound and make many mistakes.
A cable from Queenstown yesterday morn
Ing announces the safe arrival, after a
pleasant voyage, of the millers' excursion
that set sail from New YORK week ago to-
day. w. C.. Edgar, manager of the North
western Miller, cabled that the party were
all well. A remarkably quick run was made
by the City of New York, which has the
reputation of being the greyhound of the
Inman line The party will proceed from
Queenstown to Liverpool and thence on
their trip to the -four ports of Great Britain,
as already outlined in the Journal