The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-20
MINNEAPOLIS.
OFFICE 70 SOUTH FOURTH STREET
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBULEs.

slight blaze was discovered last evening
IN one of the approaches to the Laurel avenue
bridge. Engine Company No. 10 responded
on still alarm and extinguished the fire
with little damage.
o. B. Vail, the versatile counterfeitor and
alleged bigamist, still languishes in the Hen
nepin county Jail awaiting his trial, which
will come off at the September sitting of the
United States federal court.
Illustrated lectures ON Ben Hur and John
Wesley will be delivered Friday and Monday
evenings, Aug. q and "a, by Rev. ]. NJ. Wiki
inson at the Simpson Nj. E. church, under the
auspices of the Y. P. S. c. E.
Clyde ]. Pryor, clerk of the district court
at Glencoe, Mcleod county, was in Clerk
Dickey's office yesterday looking up the Grim,
inal files of the office preparatory to the trial
of the two men charged with the murder of
the Mcleod county sheriff.
Fredericka NJ. Speakman and John F.
Speakman have become reconciled and in
consequence all the habeas corpus proceed
ings, suits for divorce, demands ror all
mony and attorneys fees, and all appearances
in court have been dropped.
serious accident happened yesterday
morning to Frank Person, driver for Div
isiln Chief KinSley of the fire department,
ard he is now at his home on Adams street,
be-ween Spring and Summer streets, with a
badly cut head and dishgured face.
Before the regular monthly meeting of the
Minneapolis Credit Mems association, which
was held Tuesday night at the rooms of the
Kasota block, George E. Higgins of Anthony
Kelly & Co., read a paper on signed state
ments. and Attorney F. R. Hubachek read a
paper on assignments.
Leslie Zeiley, dishwasher at the West
Hotel, died Tuesday night at the city hos
pital, after being ill about two hours. The
coroner was summoned and the body was re-
moved to the county morgue. post mortem
examination was held yesterday morning, re-
vealing that he died of toxine poisoning. 1t
is supposed that he was poisoned from eating
fruits.
drum corps. which proposes to play a
organized in the Third ward with the follow
ing officers: President, Jay McCure; vice
treasurer, Irven Wood. 1t will be called the
Eagle Drum Corps, and Messrs. Hale and
Sampson will be the directors.
Inspector Mic Smith has located 1900 pounds
of copper wire belonging to the Northwestern
Telephone company which had been stored
in the basement of the Security warehouse.
After the fire it disappeared somewhere. but
after systematic search the inspector found
nearly all of it in adjoining basement.
William Goodside was fined SIS or fifteen
days yesterday morning by Judge Holt for as
sault and battery, the complaint being sworn
out by Ohicer DAHL of the South Side station.
The defendant was one of the two men who
entered Swanson's cigar store last Sunday
evening bought cigars. refused to pay for
them, and started small-sZed riot.
Frank Grub, in tattered clothes unshaven
face and unshod feet, appeared before Judge
Holt yesterday morning charged with
vagrancy. He told the court that he had been
at work for some time and when pressed for
answer to the question where he worked
he admitted at the workhouse. The court
gave him ninety DAYS straight. Mr.. Grub
has been at the workhouse, during the past
800 days. just $40 days.
Robert Jasper, an alleged vagrant, was ar
rested last evening by Patrolman Chamber
lain, of the East side, and placed in the CEN
trail police station The charge upon which
he is held is a blanket one as he is accused
of slyly entering the butcher shop at 211 Sew
enth street southeast and endeavoring to rob
i'm no Uhar
the proprietor discovered him before he could
cipher out the combination