St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-28

the one put down used by the company III
paving. The meeting this morning will be
to confer with representatives of the COM
pany as to what is best to be done in the
matter.
Friday last B. F. Morgan. South st. Paul
saloonkeeper, was arrested charged with
highway robbery. His case was continued to
this morning. and in default of $1,000 bail he
was committed TO jail. Yesterday James Cur
tbs and H. NJ. Sullivan, who were threatening
Herman Christensen, the complaining wit
ness in the case, were arres ted. They will
have hearing this morning.
Yesterday morning a four.year-old son of
D. F. Brayton fell from the window of his
home at ATT Clinton avenue. The little fell
low, who was playing near the wind ow,
climbed on the sill and fell to the ground,
distance of twenty feet A physician was at
once called, but efforts to restore conscious
ness were not successful, and up to late
hour last night the little sufferer was in
comatose condition.
The parishioners of st. Peters church,
Dayton's bluff, will commemorate the ninth
anniversary of the church with a full choral
evensorg at s D. m. on the festival of st.
Peter the apostle CThursday). Rev. 7. P.
Morgan, rector of St. John the Evangelist,
will be the preacher for the occa SION. The
sacred edifice will be appropriately decorat-
ed. Strangers will receive cordial welcome.
Seats free.
The street railway company yesterday de-
cided to change the route of the Como ave-
nue. line. Instead of going over the Como
avenue bridge it will run over the Western
avenue bridge and by the way of Atwater
street to Como avenue. This is done owing
to the Como avenue bridge not being consid-
cred strong enough to stand the travel. 1t is
expected the line will be ready for passen-
gers by July4.
The committee on gas from the assembly
met yesterday afternoon and prepared
resolution which will be passed at the next
meeting. directing the city clerk TO advertise
for bids for lighting the gasoline lamps in
the city from July Is TO Jan. !, 1894. The
specifications and advertisement passed by
the board of aldermen did not meet the views
of the ASSEMBLY,, and the one prepared yes
terday will be substituted.
The Wilbur Opera company will give their
last two performances of the popular opera
sFalka'' at the Metropolitan opera house to-
day; the matinee at the usual reduced prices.
Tomorrow night and the remainder of the
week they will present Auber's tuneful work
Fra Disvolo," including the regular matinee
Saturday. Next week the company will
present tor the first time in this city Audran's
musical work Indiana" This will be the
first production of the opera in this city. A
special matinee will be given next week on
the Fourth of July in addition to the regular
matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Seats
and boxeSfor next week can be secured to-
morrow morning at the box Office.
8 Capt Williams is the Pacific coast agent
for-the Brunswic XII Jake Collender Billiard
company Of Chicago. He is an old Mime
apolitan and he has been spending q few
DAYS in the Twin Cities renewing old ac
quaintanees. The captain is genial COM
panion and an interesting raconteur. He
had goodly store of San Francisco billiard
lstories to regale his friends with. Capt.
Williams considers the city of the Golden
Gate one of the best billiard centers in the
country. and says that one Of the rooms pays
$1,000 month rent. Billy Saylor is the cham
pion of the coast and he can make any of
the Eastern experts hum.
The railway ticket offices at Hotel Ryan
are well patronized these days and the ticket
sellers are Kept on the jump to care for their
patrons. A large proportion of the sales are
of steamboat tickets, and the ride on the
great lakes grows constantly in fryor. 1t
will only take the stories of some good writer
to make the lake route a most romantic
pleasure. Crowds at the corner Of Sixth and
Robert streets yesterday viewed a gigantic
picture of the Ferris wheel of the worlds
fair which Mr.. Whitaker, Of the Albert Lea
route, has on exhibition. 1t is a really wide
spread attraction. Among Mr.. Whittaker's
visitors yesterday were Philip A. Helbner
and wife. VINO took tickets to leave this
morning on the 500 o'clock a. m. train of the
st. Paul & Duluth road for Montreal taking
the Northwestern Transit company's steamer
United Empire from Duluth tonight. They