St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-21
SAINT PAUL.
A MONDAY MELANGE.


Regular meeting OF the board of aldermen
this eveuing.
scarlet fever at ~ Belvidere 4Sl Clinton
and lG} GcneSee street was buIletined at the
health otlce yesterday.
Johanna Burke slipped on the ice and fell
near he residence at 2la Livingston avenue
yesterday ana broke her wrist.
tharie, Swanson was adjudged insane by
the prlblte court yesterday and ordered
taken To- the Rochester asylum.
\ special meeting of the school board will
be held this evening. IN addition 10 other
business the board will elect secretary.
George p Winford, of Chicago, and Miss
Alice Poirier OF ST. Paul. were united in
marriage at The home of the bride on the
afternoon % March 10. Rev. E. II. Edwards,
of the Christian church, ofiiciated. The
couple left Immediately for their future home
IN Chicago.
Prot. Thomas Davidson viii open his
course of lectures al the Peoples church to
night with n talk or The -Four Great Re
egious Poems of the World" The sale of
tickets insureS fine audience, and the low
price marks an epoch in this class of attTac-
tiOuS for The city.
Mark Twain" will be the subject of
lecture to be given at the Dayton Avenue
Presbvterian church tonight by Prof. Maria
J. sanford, Of the state university. Among
other readings Miss sanford viii give selec-
lions from 'Innoeents Abroad and THE
Yankee atthe Court of King Arthur"
L. Blakemore, a youth who has had con-
siderable notoriety in police circles was ar
rested Saturday last by Patrolman Heaney on
Il charge of pocket picking. The woman
who lost her purse. the patrelman says, has
identified Blakemore rs the one who took H.
The case Will he heard this morning.
Oliver Byron will be seen At the Grand
next week in two of MS most successful
plays; the first half of the week The Plung-
er " in which he created such good i'm
preston here two years ago. and the latter
part OF the week Across the Continent in
which he first became known Us STAR
James McNally, alias Charles Norton. was
before Judge cory Yesterday charged with
larceny McNally was arrested by Patrolman
Carroll CHARGED with picking woman's
pocket on East Seventh street sunday after
noon lie viii have hearing on Nednes-
day. His partners escaped arrest
The -. Paul postofice has received 10000
envelopes with stamped impression of the
circular Columbian stamp of the two-cent
asa silver 50-cent piece. and Is pretty, The
heads Of Columbus and of Liberty are above
the figure of an eagle with outstretched
wings and surmounted by Il shield similar to
that used in the coat Of arms of the United
States.
"Thcrese Racquin," the play which has
created such a sensation in the East in con-
sequence of the particularly salaciOIs un
- inc, fpar
IRE, will not be played at the Grand Thurs
dav ana FRIDAY evenings, because OF the OBJ
jections OF Mr. Marston, the husband of
Lillian Lewis, who takes the principal role.
Il viii be played at the saturday matinee and
SATURDAY. evening. however. as the contract
with the management of the Grand calls for
lis production. The contract was made
without the consent of Mr.. Marston.
Prof Davidson. who has made for himself
az enviabIe reputation as a lecturer in the
East will begin his course of lectures this
evening in the auditorium of the Peoples
church. The prices for these courses OF lect-
ureS. SIX lectures in each course, is only 81.
This. il is thought, will do away with TWO
complaints that are often made in regard to
lectures; first. that no real first-elass leetur-
ers come West. and second that if they
Shoull be induced to come. their prices
would be beyond the limits of ordinary peo-
pies purses.
The meeting of the committee on streets
last evening was a very short one, as there
was but little business to come up before it.
The claim of Charles Sandeen. for 81 279S,
was referred TO the corporation attorney.
Sandeen took a contract for the grading Of
Lawson avenue with the understanding that
the work was to be done in the winter, dur
ing which season he could hire men at the
TaIe of 81 a day. The work was postponed
however, by the city engineer until the sum-
mer months, when he was compelled TO pay
81 - per day, and he lost the aboye-named
sum on the contract The petition for the
vacation Of Park avenue was referred to the
same authority. The meeting was then ad-
lOurned