St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-31
SCRAPS OF CITY NEWS.

reported at the health office yeSter-
day: Scarlet fever at go East Belvidere.
Prof. Z. a. Manly. of Dawson, was
visitor at the state house yesterday.
Senator James McHale, of Shakopee.
was guest at the Cha. endon yeSter-
day.
The Central w. c. T. U. will meet
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Room
56, tord'S music hall.
The case of larceny against John
Lunkenhetmer was dismissed in the
police court yesterday ard the defend
ant discharged.
The fire department was called to 375
Congress street at g O'clock last evening
to eXtinguish small blaze caused by
the overlooking of a gasoline stove tank.
Damage light.
Prof. Prendergast of the state agrl-
cultural college. went to Appleton yes
terday for the purpose OF delivering a
lecture before the teachers institute
that is III session there.
1t was reported yesterday at the cap
itol that The railway companies will
begin proceeding soon to enjoiu the St.
Paul Bethel society from hitching the
Bethel boat near railroad property.
Charles Bishop, who claims to be
bartender, was arrested last evening on
a warrant charging him with stealing
lamp from the boarding house at the
corner OF Eighth and Robert streets.
NJ. j. Fuller, the Minneapolis youth
who made practice of renting bicycles
and then paWnIng them at any price he
could get, was sent to the workhouSe
yesterday by Judge Cory for ninety
days.
The cases against r. E. Cobb, the
OH
posing prairie chickens at time which
is forbidden by the game law, was con-
tinued in the police court yesterday 10
Sept. 6.
The antl-coal combine committee will
meet at the capitol this evening to see
what can be done TO secure the prose-
cution of the members of the combine.
1t is the pngpOse to take up the work
where 1t was dropped last spring.
The old settlers excursion on the
steamer George Hays will leave the
wharf at the foot of jackson street this
morning at 10 O'clock. The party will
proceed up the Minnesota river, spend
a snort time at the soldiers home, and
return to st. Paul at $50 o. III. The
occasion promises to be most enjoy
able one.
Yesterday Gov. Nelson issued the
pIOSldUldllOI.
Monday is made legal holiday by the
act OF three years ago, and the governor
tersely points to this fact. and then he
supplements that citizens and business
meu should observe the day. lie re-
quests that public offices, factories and
workshops, ETC., be closed for the day.
Some months ago Marie Talbot was
arrested OH charge of larceny, the
complaint being made by Mrs. Archer
Burton. Continuance after continuance
was taken in the case, and yesterday
morning the matter was settled by an
ain!cable agreement being reached be-
tween the complaining witness aud the
defendant.
A meeting of the paperhaugers aud
decorators was held last night at Labor
hall, and it was determined to partici-
pate i'll Labor day parade. The union
is expected to make good showing,
and those attending the meeting last
night will make an effort to have all the
members OF the craft in the city partici-
pate in the demonstration.
The lad John Lippert, who is charged
with being concerned in the tapping OF
a till in the butcher shop at 800 Duke
street. was arraigned III the police
court yesterday, and his case continued
to Sept, 5. John Wukditach, who is
said to have been with Lippert at the
time the money from the butcher shop
WINS taken, will have trial at the same
date.
The case against John ProtfeI, charged
with larceny. was dismissed i'll the DO
lice court yesterday. John, who is
thirteen years old, was arrested for
taking half a dollars worth of wheat
from a Great Northern freight car at
Como avenue. The boy claimed that
the grain taken had been swept from
an empty car, and the court took the
same view and ordered the case dis
missed.
The biennial convention of the |. o.
f. meets i'll Chicago this evening.
Among the delegates who left last
night were DR.. E. w. Buckley, H. G.
R.; o. Fl. O'NeIll, E. A. Reiulland,
Minneapolis, p. Ii. G. K. :; II. II. Gillen,
Saltwater, and several other members
of the order, with their families. vino
intend 'doing" the fair. They went
out over the Milwaukee last night, and
occupied special ear.
The committee recently appointed by
our business men to consider the con-
dition of the unemployed of the city
had an informal meeting at the mayors
office Yesterday, at which general dis
cussion took place, various plans being
suggested to secure the desired result.
No conclusion was arrived at. The
committee will meet again this after
noon to confer with the committee from
the trades and labor assembly.
Frank 5. Nicholas, by his guardian
ad litum. William w. Nicholas, has be-
gun an action against the st. Paul City
Railway company to recover S25, 900 for
personal INJURIES. Nicholas was getting
on an electric car at the corner of Con-
gresS and South Robert streets on July
20 last when the car started quickly,
throwing him to the ground and mangl-
ling mis- leg so that amputation was
necessary.
T. Il. Sanders, a sewing machine
agent, made his second appearance in
the police court yesterday charged with
assault and battery. The complaining
witness, Annie Hackle, recited that
Sanders come to her house to collect
payment on sewing machine. The
woman could not make the payment,
and Sanders took the machine away.
Both the complaining witness and
Sanders made explanations, and the
court dismissed the case.
The board of control will meet this
afternoon to decide on the bids for fur
niShing 500 tons of coal and 400 cords of
wood. Ten bidders sent in proposals,
duus Oh tH0 ldce Vi tu6 IStuTIS, tue
awarding OF the contract lies between
John DoWlan & Son and the Youghio-
gheny Il Lehigh company. There has
been some talk among the members of
the board about rejecting all bids and
re-advertising, owing to the figures OH
the anthracite coal being considered too
high. The matter Will be definitely
settled at the meeting this afternoon.
Receiver for the Canal.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3O-In the limited