St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-02
MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.

AT the April meeting of the Mime
apoils presbytery, at Westminster
church yesterday, DR.. l.. G. Hay was
elected moderator vice Rev. A. K.
Harsha, resigned.
Building Inspector Gilman has or
dered the wooden fire escape on the
city hospital building removed. II
will be replaced by an iron one which
Will cost in the neighborhood of 5000.
The Methodist ministers at their
meeting yesterday endorsed House
File No. 81, known as the Jacobson bill
relating to the sale of Intoxicating
liquors. The Woman's Rescue league
was also endorsed.
The loss by fire on buildings in Min
neapolis during the month of March
amounted to $12, 543.5 SO, and on contents
$l5,392.2O. The insurance involved
amounted on buildings to $261, 175, and
on contents, $263,955.
T. A. Switz has been appointed pur-
chasing agent of the $500 line, vice
w. T. Watkins resigned to accept
other service. Mr.. Switz was formerly
clerk in the general managers office
of the Great Northern road.
At the monthly meeting of the library
board yesterday afternoon it was dis
covered that there was $4,000 in the
treasury, an amount which is very sat
isfactory and considerably in excess of
the boards finances at this time last
year.
The appeal in the case of the Floyd
boys will be filed Thursday. Attorney
F. d. Larrabee is confident of obtain
ing a new trial based on a number Of
supreme court decisions covering SIM
liar cases where juries were alleged to
have been unduly Influenced.
A delivery team belonging to Wal
dron's grocery store ran into Dr.
Tiers carriage, on Nicollet avenue
yesterday, completely demolishing
1t. DR.. Tier had just left the carriage,
but his coachman was thrown from
his seat and severely bruised.
John Samuels, colored, was arrested
yesterday morning by Sergt. Mealy,
and Officers Novack, Void and Gar
vim, on a charge of cracking the safe
of the North Star club, which contain
ed SIS. Three pals of Samuels were
also arrested, William Sewer, John
Davis and A. B. Gorham.
Charles Robertson, employed by the
General Electric Company, was ter
ribly burned Saturday night, by being
struck by pail of boiling tar which
a fellow workman was swinging
around his head. The handle of the
pail broke and it's contents struck Mr.
Robertson square in the face, burning
his right ear to crisp.
A Ouelette, Israel Chamberlain and
Zephrin Payquette, the three men
al,o -,+I r.;
wines and doing a general moonshin-
ing business at COS Taylor street north
east, were brought before United
States Commissioner Bowen yester-
day. The testimony of finding the still,
etc, in Ouelettes house was briefly
heard, after which Ouelette was held
to the grand jury in $1,000 bail, which
he furnished. Paquette pleaded guilty
and was held in $500. Chamberlain
will be given hearing on Wednesday.
Yesterday afternoon the Womans
Rescue League held a meeting at the
rooms. of the Press club and COM
pleted organization and elected Off
GERS. The officers elected for the en-
suing year are: Mrs. George Mailer,
president; Mrs. E. A. Russell, vice
president; Mrs. Patton, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Purple, treasurer.
The system of uniform grades,
adopted by the Mississippi Valley
Lumbermen's association at it's Febru-
airy. meeting, went into effect yester-
day, and all lumber issued from the
mills from now on will be graded on
the new basis by a corps of inspectors.
The park board held short session
yesterday afternoon and decided to
purchase three elk and one antelope
for the park at Minnehaha. 1t was also