St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-02
WEDNESDAY, WINNOWINGs.

Samuel Morrison, the well-knoWn attorney
and eX-judge of probate, is seriously i'll with
peritoniteS.
The physician reports F. G. Ireland, who
was injured at the cordage works Tuesday,
as much improved.
Sergeant Sullivan and officer Goven put
out a fire at Sandell's tailor shop on East Sew
enth street last night.
Thieves broke into freight car on the.
Minneapolis & st. Louis road Tuesday night
and carried off a lot of groceries and tobacco.
The sale of postage stamps at the St Paul
Office for the4donth of January just ended.
was % per cent larger than the sales for the
same month of last year.
Scarlet fever was reported at the health
office yesterday at the following places:
1927 Minnehaha, 1888 Hubbard 6S2 Dayton
and at the corner of Blair and Fry streets.
EThe em5ezzlement charge against j. M.
Page was dismissed in the police court yes
terday. Page was arrested i'll December last
charged with embezzling $50 from George c.
Harper.
County Auditor Burns has placed the New
York Life Insurance company on the per-
sonal property list OF a valuation of $4,000.
The company had been left off the tax list
altogether.
The health department reports the follow
ing statistics for January: Births, 30:
deaths, l3S; 81 cases of scarlet fever, 30 cases
OF diphtheria and 9 of membraneous Group.
Marriages reported, III.
Edward Mason and Daniel Norman we're
held to the grand jury yesterday by Judge
Twohy The lads were charged with bur-
glarizing Primeau's grocery store, on State
and Fairfield Streets West ST. Paul
John A. Coleman, that clever grotesque
comedian and superior dancer. who showed
US how clever he was Lord Cholmndly
Clearinghouse in Tuxedo last season, comes
again with that play to the Metropolitan
Monday evening.
permit was issued by the building in
spector yesterday to the Walter A. Wood
Manufacturing company for the erection of
a one-story frame warehouse at the COM
pany's plant. The building, which is now in
course of erection, is 81 by $50 feet and the
contract price for which the building is to
be finished is S25, 496.
The report of Secretary Tong, OF the board
of control, gives the following figures for
January: Total expenditures, S7,14991; hos
pital fund, S205l.33; poorhouse, Sl,69lS2;
outside aid, Si,79t61; salaries, S704 Is. The
number of families assisted was 3?5 and 49,
167; wood. 259; coal, 43; shoes. 2; transporta-
ton, 1; and burials 10.
A representative of the firm of Schune-
man & Evans appeared before the county
auditor yesterday and explained that their
department store is apportioned off into |
seven divisions, owned by as many concerns,
and that the return of the goods owned by
Schuneman & Evans was correct. This |
showing was satisfactory 10 the auditor. and |
the assessment of the firm was allowed to !
stand as before the arbitrary increase by the |
auditor.
A remarkable feature of Frank Boards !
performance at the Peoples church tomor |
row night is what is known as his tive-dot- !
act A person in the audience chosen at |
random is asked to make five chalk marks or |
dots on the blackboard. Mr.. Beard then pro- |
ceeds to draw figure so that two of the dots |
are in the center of two hands, two dots are |
in the center of two feet, and the fifth dot III
the head of the figure. No matter where
these dots may be placed on the board, the |
artist has never failed hitherto to compile /
the figure and fulfill the conditions required. !
The charming actress Miss Rosina Vokes,
with her London comedy company. will be-
gin an engagement of three nights and Satur- !
day matinee at the Metropolitan opera house |
tonight, appearing IN the following roper |
toire: Tonight and tomorrow night, "Croco-
die Tears 1.-The Circus Rider and my |
Lord in Livery. Saturday matinee and night, |
"a Game of Cards, THAT Lawyers Foe" AM |
"a Double Lesson The sale has already been |
large, and a packed house is looked for to-
night, as Miss Vokes has not been in this city |
for three years. Seats and boxes for any per- |
Torrance can now be secured at the LoX j
Office.
The only farce comedy company now on
the road that carries ali the scenery used in |
the production is the latest musical comedy
success, "a Railroad Ticket next weeks
attraction at the Grand, and the manage !
ment, Messrs. Blaney and Gates, promised |
the great theater-going public that no thing
would be left undone when they produced
their maiden effort i'll farce comedy, to wit, |
perfect setting, perfect costuming, and a |
play that would not only contain clean and
interesting plot, but one that would hold the
interest of The auditor from the first cur tain |
to The last. and at the same time introduce !
popular songs, dances and other specialties
in such a manner as to in no way lose the
thread of the story. Hence the report of the
success of the young managers was only to
be expected.