St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-18
MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIS GL0BULES.

The mayor of Sioux City has sent
letter to Mayor Pratt expressing his
official thanks for the treatment ac-
corded the Sioux City visitors to the
recent paving exhibit.
The ubiquitous tall and short man
held up and robbed Charles A. John
son, of 725 Sixth avenue south, late
Tuesday night on the corner of Fourth
street and Eleventh avenue The rob-
bers secured between SIT and SIS.
The board of education is still hold
ing executive sessions with the super
intendent and supervisor of buildings.
A meeting will be held Saturday, at
which it is expected something will be
learned of the boards plans for new
school buildings.
The board of health is indulging in
little spring cleaning at present, the
work of the sanitary inspectors being
prosecuted vigorously in all portions
of the city. Over LOCO notices to clean
up within the next five days" have
been served. -f
The residents along Thirty-first
street, from Nicollet to First avenue
south, complain that the street car
company is making improper use of
that street by storing on it unused
cars and trailers. A protest has been
made to the council.
Mrs. Grady, a resident of Fish alley,
will try the gold cure at the workhouse
for drunkenness. Mrs. Grady has been
q hard drinker for years, according to
her own statement. She has two sons
and for their sake she is anxious to re-
form.
A large number of fish were left
lying on the banks of Rice creek yes
terday by party OF young men who
had been spearing them with pitch
forks. The poachers are said to have
secured over $50 pounds in Their eaten
and were unable to carry all of it
away.
The scheme for keeping pavements
free of Gisagreeable accommodations In
vogue in Paris is now in effect on Hem
nepin avenue. Yesterday a man with
a huge dustpan and a broom was sta
toned at every block, and the filth
was removed at intervals during the
day.
The case of G. Larson VS.. James
Snyder, the paving contractor, was
yesterday dismissed by Judge Smith,
who held that no contract existed be-
tween the parties. The case was one
in which Larson claimed a verbal con-
tract with Snyder for furnishing stone
for paving Nicollet.
A sealed verdict for the defendant
was returned yesterday in the case of
Lydia Hull VS.. The Minneapolis Street
Railway Company. The case has been
up five times, attaining one verdict for
$1,000 and three disagreements, besides
the verdict of yesterday. Mrs. Hull
was injured in July, 49,
F. F. Davis, A f. Zonne, H. S. Wood
ruff, Peter Ainsworth, Fred KEGS and
Charles Goodnow are planning to make
a bicycle tour of England. The party
will go first to Queenstown and do"
Ireland before visiting London and
other cities. The party expects to sail
on the Germania on June &c.
The little Church of the Friends. that
has stood for years at the corner of
Eighth street and Hennepin avenue,
was torn down yesterday 1t will be
replaced by a brick block, 5Ox150. to be
built by John Wunder The Friends
will shortly build a modern church at
Fourteenth street and First avenue
SOUTH
ii. H. Hart, secretary of the state
board of charities, has written to the
construction committee of the court
house commission making a number of
suggestions for the Jail on the top of
the building. He approves of the plan
provided the whole building is made
fireproof, and a separate elevator is
used for the Jail.
The marriage of Miss Mayme Cor
gas, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Samuel
Gorgas, to Ralph Nelson, of Phila-
delphia, took place at noon yesterday
in Plymouth church, Rev. George H.
Wells officiating. Mr.. and Mrs Neil
son left last evening for an extended
Southern trip. Their future home will
be in Philadelphia.
A meeting of the paving committee
has been called for 2 o'clock SATURDAY..
at which time the aldermen will prob
ably agree on the proper material to
be used on Nicollet. Aid. Loye's re-
cent recanvass of the merchants of the
avenue showed a decided leaning to-
wards asphalt, and the asphalt men
are accordingly jubilant.
Manager w. j. Held, of the street
railway company, says that the excite
ment in the crude oil market is not
worrying the company much. Crude
oil is used in both Minneapolis and st.
Paul, but his company's contract with
the Standard Oil people does not ex-
pire for some time. If the worst comes
to the worst, Mr.. Held says he can
manufacture gas entirely from coal.