St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-12
MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBuLEs.

Chief Stetson, of the fire department,
yesterday received a letter from Key
CITY Hook and Ladder Company No ],
of Moorhead, enclosing a $25 draft for
the fire relief fund.
The citizens census committee is
still working with the enumerators to
insure a full count. The police CEN
sus, though inadequate, has been of
great assistance to the committee in
checking up the returns.
Bert Clark, eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. c. Clark, of 1894 Sixteenth av-
enue south, who was drowned in
Powderhorn lake Wednesday evening.
will be buried from Olivar Presbyter-
ian church at 2:50 p. m. today.
In order to keep up the Jumbo meet
lngS 1t is necessary that IS be raised
Tor expenses for the rest of the week.
The actual cost of a weeks meetings is
So. Any contributions for this pur-
pose should be sent to Rev. c. D. Cody,
In care of Mayor Pratt, at the city
hall.
The guests of Lake Park hotel, ac-
companied by a large number of Min
neapolitanS, will go on big moonlight
excursion tonight on the City of st.
Louis. The steamer will leave the ho-
tel at o'clock, and make a tour of tho
lake, returning in time for the II p. m
trains for the city.
T. D. Schultz, of 319 Hennepin ave-
nue., the first offender under the anti
hltchlnS ordinance, was fined 50 yes
Jerday in the municipal court. Mr.
Schultz explained that he had moved
his horse few feet every five minutes,
but the court remarked that the law
could not be thus evaded. Sentence
was suspended.
The Press club committee on enter
tainment of the Michigan Press asso-
cation met yesterday with Secretary
Dan1orth, OF the Commercial club, to
perfect arrangements for the entertain
ment of the visitors. Alex Scarlet c.
vera and other members of the COM
mlttee Will meet the party at the
windsor hotel in st. Paul this morn
ing and accompany it to Minneapolis.
ne committee on underground wires
took under consideration YESTERDAY aft
ernoon the matter of the Guaranty
Messenger Dispatch company. which
Is maintaining overhead wires 1t was
learned that the company had no fran
chlse, and on plea of the company it
was given thirty days "a which to Sc
cure a franchise and arrange its
wires.
A big excursion to Minneapolis will
be run over the Minneapolis q st. Louis
Sunday, July y. The excursion is COM
ing from Albert Lea, and will be the
largest of the popular excursions that
year. The excursion will reach here
at 1920 a. m. The train will leave Min
neapolis for Albert Lea at Z p. m,
reaching home at 1890 p. m.
In habeaS corpus proceedings yester-
day to secure his release from jail for
contempt, 3. z. Olson testified that he
did not understand he had to appear
before referee when notified. He
asked a friend named Linn, and was
told that he didn't have to go. Neither
GjerstOn nor the plaintiff appeared, and
olson was released, after spending two
days III the county bastiie.
The concert to be held on July IS at
the Excelsior town hall promises to
be the best ever heard on the shores
of MinnetOnka. 1t is under the able
management of Miss Annie Dennis,
and from the rate at which tickets are
being sold it is evident that large
audience will be on hand to enjoy it.
and incidentally to swell the Golfers of
Trinity chapel, for whose benefit the
concert is given.
The members of the council commit
tee on street grades visited the North
east Minneapolis viaduct yesterday to
personally investigate what merits
there are to the taxpayers who object
to the amounts of the awards for dam
ages and the assess mentS fixed by the
commissioners. AT the meeting held
yesterday afternoon two-scOre or more
taxpayers were present to state their
objections, and the entire afternoon
was taken up in an effort to induce
the aldermen to appoint a new COM
mission.