St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-12
MINNEAPOLIS
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBuLEs.

Fanny d. Mueller was yesterday granted a
divorce from Robert Mueller.
The government has not yet recognized
Lincoln's birthday national holiday, and
the postofice in Minneapolis will therefore
keep Cben today the same as on any other
work day.
Today is Lincoln's birthday and, being
legal state holiday, the banks of the city will
be closed. The courts, city and county offices,
state capitol and board of trade will also
suspend business.
Monday evening some twenty-five members
of the Press club met at the club rooms and
gave John II. Leonard, one of the most pop
ular newspaper men In the city right royal
send off, on the eve of his departure for Chi
cago.
DR.. James K. Hosmer, public librarian,
gave the Tourist club and its friends an in
tellectual treat last evening when he lee
tured in the Portland Avenue Church Of
Christ on Germany. and the Opening of the
Franco-Prussian War"
1t is doubtful If any comedy entertainment
OF the season has offered better return for
the money than Joseph Hart and his COM
pany OF merry entertainers are giving at the
Bijou this week through the medium Of the
1aughable skit, "a Gay Old Boy"
mass meeting has been arranged for by
the members of the Young Mems Democratic
club Thursday evening, on the second floor
OF the New York Life building. An address
the subject of the Monroe doctrine will
be delivered by Charles ]. Albert.
The reservoir committee met yesterday aft
ernoon and it is very likely that bids for
$4,000 tons of water pipe will be advertised
for. The pipe will be of forty-two-inch meas
urement and the bids call for delivery on the
ground as needed by the city engineer.
John l.. Smith, the receiver Of the Henne-
pin County Catholic Building and Loan as,
ISOLATION, filed his bond of SIS, 900 yesterday
morning. The sureties Fred B. Snyder,
Austin F. Kelley and Henry F. Brown Mr..
Smith has appointed T. E. Byrnes as attor-
ney.
The new hotel, which will occupy the cor
ner of Third street and Second avenue south,
formerly the Beery block has been named
The Hotel Hyser, this name having been
selected by the committee appointed for that
purpose, from a list of nearly 1,500 names,
which were received in competition for the
so prize offered by the management.
Johanna Sophia Calum brings suit for di-
vurce from her husband Johan Frederick
Callum. the grounds of desertion. She
alleges in the complaint that Johan dsap
peared with another woman, whose name
she did not know and asks for absolute di-
vorce and the right to resume her maiden
name of Johnson.
At the meeting of the directors of the Res
cue league yesterday afternoon a report was
made that the entertainment at Wesley
church was a success, and the directors eX-
tended their thanks to those who participat-
ed. Mrs. F. A. Bronson was elected d-
rector in place of Mrs. Tanning. and Mrs.
NJ s. Mathews was added to the evangelical
committee.
The regular annual ball of the Northwest
ern -four mill employees union, held at Ma
sonic Temple last evening, a brilliant
affair. over $50 couples participating in the
occasion. The grand march, led by Miss Vir-
ginia Bratte, moved at $50 o'clock, and the
dancing programme lasted until midnight,
when refreshments were served.
The various Twin City lodges of the Order
of the World met in social way at Harmo-
pfa hall last evening The programme for
the occasion comprised the presentation of the
irama, Nevada; or The Lost Nine" by mem
bers of the Concert club of the order and the
Rotations, '+McSwatt's Swear OFF, and ''The
Great Northwest" by Mrs. E. c. Holmes and
E. c. Holmes respectively.