St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-08
SAINT PAUL.
ODDS AND ENDS.

The assembly meets this evening at 7'3O i'll
regular session.
Engine No. s. with fall company, is still
in West Superior, working on the big coal
dock fire.
The meeting of the board of regents of the
state university has been postponed to Tues
day. the 22d inst.
The by laws of the Minnesota Grain Grow
ers' ASSOCIATION were filed with the secretary
of state yesterday.
The retail grocers held a meeting last even
ing at 20 East Seventh street. and discussed
matters of interest to the trade and city.
Tomorrow morning the alleged fire bugs,
Marx and Moritz Michael. will be arraisned
in the municipal court on charges of arson.
The American Chemical company, of Min
neapolis, has fled an amendment to its ar
ticles of incorporation increasing the capital
stock to 100000
The assembly committee on fire depart
ment will confer with the board of fire COM
missioners this afternoon at O'Clock in the
council chamber.
Scarlet fever at Western and Sibley, $40
Canada street. %? East Tenth street, and
diphtheria at 1876 Robertson street were re-
ported at the health Office yesterday.
A fire, caused by defective fiue, called the
fire department at yesterday morning to the
residence of Mrs. B. Murray, 200 Lee avenue.
The damage amounted to So, covered by fn-
surance.
Rev. Samuel G. Smith, the popular pastor
of the Peoples church, is suffering from a
severe sprain of the right hand, having
slipped on the steps of j. j. Hills residence
Sunday evening.
The special committee of the trades and
labor assembly has examined the scene of
the disaster at the shepherd building, and is
expected to report TO the regular meeting
Friday evening.
The board of public works yesterday
opened bids for the grading Of Golf avenue,
from Dearborn street to the west line of Bid
wells addition. The contract was awarded
to the lowest bidder, John ". Maloney for
$500. The city engineers estimate was
SlO6S0.
Lew DoekStaders minstrels amused an-
other large audience at the Metropolitan
opera house last night. 1t is the best min
strel performance that has been given since
the opening of the theater There will be
three more performances only, tonight. to-
morrow matinee and night.
''Lieber Franz comedy drama, Will be
presented for the first time in this city at the
commencing Thursday evening. The tai
ented young comedian. John r. Cumpson,
aided by an excellent company including
the celebrated Murray Twins, will present it.
The assembly committee on claims and
ordinances met yesterday afternoon. The
committee will recommend for passage the
resolution to allow an electric lighting plant
to be placed in the high school building and
the ordinance giving the health officer in
creased power i'll the matter of ordering
privy vaults to be cleaned out.
The three colored men and a white woman
arrested early Sunday morning on the COM
plant Of Willy Ford, colored soldier. who
accused the arrested parties of robbing him
of $40 IN shanty on Fifth street, near Min
nesota, were discharged in the police court
yesterday, as Ford could not say which of
the defendants took the money.
Harris Topplitzkv was examined in the
probate court yesterday touching his sanity
and deemed a fit subject for the Rochester
asylum. He is a single man. aged twenty
seven years, and has starved him self 50 that
he IS reduced 20 almost a skeleton. Satur-
day night he attempted TO hang himself in a
cell in the county jail with his suspenders.
The one-anda half frame dwelling OF
Michael Murran at 666 Lee avenue burned
down shortly after midnight, entailing loss
of $500. The building caught fire about
O'Clock yesterday morning, at which time
probably $50 damage was done. The family
then left the building, and was not at the
building at the time of the later blaze.