Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-08
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
Specially Reported for the Daily Glob,
M1NNEAPoL1s GLoBELETs.

Elias Moses and wife have gone East.
A great demand for small and comfortable
tenements.
W. +. Hale, Esq, has returned from his
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS trip
The Minneapolis & st. Louis road are to put
on Pullman sleepers after April 1st.
The shafting and machinery for Brackets
block was being put in place yesterday.
The register in bankruptcy has appointed J.
Il. jerks assignee of Judge Grove B. Cooley
The name of Scion Armstrong is the last one
whispered about as good cand idate for mayor.
Col Lounsberry, of the Bismarck Tribune,
was in the city yesterday on his way home from
Washington.
The work of excavating for the bank build
ing, corner of Washington and Nicollet avenues,
was commenced yesterday.
A step-son, and other friends of Ovid Pin
ney, Esq, are on a visit to this city. and pro-
nounce the weather far superior to that of
Pennsylvania.
The Boston Philharmonic Club are to give an
| extra concert at Association hall Saturday even
| ing next. Settees and chairs 25 cents opera
seats so cents.
What little ice there has been in the river
| during the past winter, yielded to the influence
of spring yesterday. broke up, and gracefully
keeled over the falls.
| Budd Reeve is to deliver his lecture on Roots
and Other Things at Grace chapel Monday
evening, March 18th. Street cars go within
two blocks of the church.
]. P. Farley, of the st. Paul & Pacific road
was consulting with Gen. Washburn, of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis road, in this CITY YES
| terday. 1t means business.
| Under the provisions of the new city charter
the Fifth ward will have a property valuation
of 81, 100000 and the Sixth ward won't be
more than 81 ,0OO, 900 in the rear.
| Spring has reached Minnesota in advance of
the fashions. The spring styles have not APP
peared, and lighter hats and clothing must be
donned even if after the pattern of last year.
That little wood-ofce that has for a few
months occupied the corner which will be
erected the new Butler bank building, was
yesterday picked up by man and removed
further up the avenue.
The subject to be considered by the Liberal
League at its regular meeting Sunday after
noon next, will be- "Our present revival phe-
nomena-Are they of the Holy Ghost or of
David Updegraff?" Judge Reynolds will lead
the discussion.
City Clerk Mead sent to st. Paul Yesterday
for copy of the new charter, in order that he
might make out the proper election notices.
and Deputy Auditor Mcdonald spent the day in
locating ward boundaries, and preparing for
the new books required.
little boy named Allan W. Comstock was
before the municipal court yesterday, charged
with the larceny of money from domestic in
! the employ of the family. His case was the
only criminal one before the court and SEN
tence to the Reform School was the result
An officer has been stationed on the east
channel bridge to prevent pedestrians from,
crossing while the bridge is in process of con-
struction. If they would heed the posted notices
at each end of the bridge they would save
themselves the trouble of walking to the centre
and then being turned back.
In anticipation of the passage of the new
city charter, Mayor DeLaittre recently wrote t.
i firm of experienced engineers with reference
, to the East Division water works. The firm re
ply in substance that it will be far cheaper and
more practical to supply the water from the
West Division works, rather than build and
maintain two pump houses.