St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-01
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.

To-day the deputy city assessors will start
on their annual rounds, taking personal as
sessments.
The Minnetonka Yacht club will meet this
evening at the West hotel to discuss the sea-
sons plans.
The regular meeting of Zuhrah's Ladies So
clety will be held Friday evening i'll their
room at Masonic temple.
Monday morning next the sheriff of Hen
nepin county will begin the sale of real es-
tate upon which the 1889 taxes remain I'M
paid.
The eight-round glove contest between
Frank Lewis and Paddy Harrington for to-
night at the COmique has been postponed
until tomorrow evening.
The Summers hotel, Tenth street and Fourth
avenue south, has been sold to Adelaide b.
Lampman. of Newark, for S5s, 200. Edward
Russell negotiated the deal.
The water works department now has nine
crews at work laying mains. and Monday an
other will be put on. Each crew contains
twenty-eight to thirty eight men.
Aid. Rollins, Woodward, Parry and Peter
son conferred with the city attorney yester-
day relative to the equitable division of the
Seventh and Twelfth ward street funds
The report of trouble between the Buckeye
Publishing company and their printers cur
rent yesterday was unfounded. A couple of
men quit for personal reasons and that was
all.
The bank clearings yesterday reached a
total of S1,010,2Jl.49. The totals for the week
ending April 30 are S6,2I2, 969.7O. as compared
with 81, 925, .06 for the corresponding week
of last year.
Yesterday afternoon Mayor Winston signed
the contract with Ring & Tobin for the laying
OF natural stone curb for the season of 1891.
The contract specifies that The work shall be
done by Nov. l.
work of assessing damages and benefits for
the widening of Central avenue to Broad
way. The damages will amount to some
$1,000 more than the benefits.
At O'Clock yesterday afternoon there was
special meeting of the produce exchange
to see what could be done to provide seed
potatoes for Dickey county, N D. A commit
tee was appointed to look after the work
A man named Thompson, from McGregor,
To- barrier, was sent to the city hospital
yesterday afternoon. and as soon as he is
strong enough will be sent home. He is sub
ject 10 nose bleeding aud is SO weak that he
can hardly stand.
The directors of the humane society met at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon at President
Cneneys once. Mrs. Cause and Mrs. Meiser,
of the American Hum ane society of Chicago,
were present. They will enter the field to
solicit Memberships
A case TO recover on notes was filed in the
united States circuit court yesterday. Alfred
b. Brooks, OF lion, Herkimer county, n. Y,
is the plaintiff. Sarah E. w hitman, E. H.
Barrett and Lewis II. Selden are the defend.
ants. Brooks sues TO recover $500.
The semi-annual water tax will be due to-
day. Consumers will be allowed until May
~ 10 pay their bills. Those who fail 10 settle
by that time will wake up some morning and
ma themselves without any water Fourteen
thousand notices were sent out last night
Yesterday afternoon the Minnetonka I'm
proVement association met at the West, and
appointed committee to confer with the
county commissioners as to the practical
workings of the law. The committee con
s1sts of George w. Cooley, c. N. Smith, s. c.
Gale and E. j. Phelps.
To-day is Arto- day, and the schools of the
city Will celebrate with appropriate tree
planting exercises. There are forty eight
schools in the city. The park board fur
nlshes each with a healthy tree, which the
1anltor plants while the children speak
pieces" and hope for the trees success in
life.
Fory grocery clerks met at 222 South Fifth
street Wednesday night and took steps to-
ward forming fraternal and social Organi-
cation. A. l.: Waters was elected president;
secretary, and F. NJ. Burchell. treasurer.
committees were appointed to draw up
Constitution and bylaws and to select place
of meeting.
Assistant Dairy Commissioner w. w. Peck
is kept busily engaged at present issuing
about May l each year. About LEGO are is
ssUed in the state, half of them In this city
They are issued only in places with $500 or
more inhs bitants. The cost is 81 per license.
The penalty for selling milk without license
is S25 fine.
James H. Miller, of the Pillsbury B mills.
was an easy winner i'll the head millers' con.
test which was started by the Northwestern
Miller some time since. Mr.. Miller will be
presented with a ticket which will entitle
him to passage on the steamer City of New
York, which is engaged for the millers' ex-
cursion to Europe May u. There were 100
contestants.
John H. Elliott. general secretary of Min
nesota, and II. Kinports, the secretary of the
| local Y. M. c. A, started yesterday with a
party of fifteen Y. NJ, G. A. secretaries from
st. Paul, North and South Dakota, and Can
ada. for ten days trip to st. Joseph, Mo-.
TO attend the secretaries conference for the
United States and Canada. which is to be
| held there from April 30 to May 4.
The Iron Works Land company has fled
articles of incorporation. The incorporators
are o. c. Merriman, Fred g. James, J. S.
Pillsbury and w. II. Eustis. The company
will proceed at once to the erection of a
hundred houses for the accommodation of
the employees of the new iron rolling mills
now being built north of the Minneapolis
stockyards and they expect to see a large
town there within few months.