St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-26
MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.

Weather Observer Beals yesterday
received two sets Of signal flags for
which he has been waiting some time,
and he will Immediately establish dis
play stations at the North Side high
school and the university.
The annual entertainment of the
North Side high school will be given
at the school this evening. The enter
tainment will consist of spectacular
features which will include a represen-
tation of Jove's court with all its
NEUROLOGICAL accessories. There will
also be fine musical programme.
The examination of Counterfeiters
Crowley and Lee was begun yesterday
before United States Commissioner
Odell The principal witnesses for the
prosecution We're Police officers Lind
quist and Rice and Storekeeper Hele-
brand, who had the pair arrested. The
wives and children of both men were
In court.
Roger S. Pease, the Minneapolis in
ventor, has lately been experimenting;
with a new process for smelling iron
ore by the use of wood, without first
converting it into charcoal. Mr.. Pease
proposes to use a different kind of
furnace, and claims that his inven-
ton will revolutionize the production
of the finer grades of iron.
Today is Arbor day, and exercises ap-
propriate to the day will be held in the
public schools of the city, as previously
announced by the GLOBE. The eXer-
cises at the Bremen school will be more
impressive because of the presentation
of a school flag from Schaeffer post
The board of education will probably
attend the exercises at the Bremen
John Husser, who was engaged in
the grocery business in this city for
several years, was drowned near On
tario, Cal, last week while fording a
river in company with his wife and
two children. The mother and one
child escaped, but one little girl fell
back into the water and was drowned
after having reached a safe place on
the rocks.
Three young ladies were yesterday
fined s. each in the police court for
riding their wheels into the sacred
shades of Minnehaha Park Wednes-
day. The fair wheelwomen were not
in court, but were represented by an
attorney, who told of his clients ig-
norance in regard to the law. The
fines were subsequently cut down to
81 each.
Dates for the encampment of the
national guard have finally been set
tied. The Third regiment will go into
camp at Lake City June TO- The Sec
ond regiment will camp on the same
ground for ten days June 90 and the
First regiment, comprising all the
Minneapolis and st. Paul companies
and the artillery outfits, will camp ten
days beginning July 5.
George Fortwinkler, a farmer resid-
ing near Edna Mills, was very
seriously injured yesterday morning in
a runaway accident on the Edna road.
Mr.. Fortwinkler was on his way to town
when his team became frightened and
ran away. throwing him out of the
wagon. His left leg was broken and
his back injured, besides which it is
feared that he was injured internally.
He was picked up and carried to his
own home, but a short distance away.
The unctuous villainy of Mephistoph-
eles, who bestrides the Bijou boards
like a Colossus this week in the
dramatic version of Faust" is at
tracing large crowds to that play
house. A combination of the poetry
of Goethe and the mechanical effects
of the modern stage carpenter appears
to be quite irresistible.
Michael j. Crowley, charged with
manufacturing counterfeit money, and
Frank Lee, charged with passing
counterfeit money, were arraigned for
in rxr
United States Commissioner OdelI YES
terday. Both were held TO the federal
grand jury, which meets Sept. 8, Crow
ley under $1,000 bonds and Lee under
$500 bonds.
Ysaye, the great Belgian violinist,
whose triumphal tour through America
will touch Minneapolis on Saturday
evening, has probably received more
medals, titles, honors and other
tokens of esteem and official recogni-
ton than any musician living. The
sale of seats for his engagement at
the Metropolitan opera house has been
very large.
The board of education has decided
to erect a sixteen-room school build
ing in North Minneapolis, and another
of equal capacity on the site of the
Winthrop school, at University and
First avenues southeast 1t is prob
able that the North side building will
be adapted for a high school and the
present high school building be used
for grades.
Following up the investigation of
park policemen brought to the atten-
ton of the board by the recent ex-
plot of Officer Joseph Ryan, the COM
mittee on police has sent notice to
the press asking for information of
police Irregularities Parties who
have complaints to make against any
of the park policemen are requested
TO send them to Commissioner H. J.
Dahn, or appear before a meeting of
the commissioners to be held May 1.
Two warrants have been issued in
the police court for the arrest of Joe
Jepson on a charge of uttering bogus
checks, one for S. upon Thomas Gal
lagher, saloonkeeper and one
for 81 upon Hugh Middlestadt.
Jepson was formerly engaged in the
saloon business in this city, and figured
quite extensively in an escapade some
two years ago, in which he drew a
revolver on Norm King, and the latter
took it away from him, jamming the
muzZlo in JepSons eve