Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-12
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MINNEAPoLIs GLoBELETs.

IINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETS.
Wheat 80 and So cents
Flour shipments 1870 barrels.
Wheat receipts 10, 200 bushels.
The First M. E. church will picnic next
week.
An excursion party from Albert Lee will
visit this city next week.
The city engineer is receiving proposals
for the new large fire proof ordered for
that office.
D. w. Albaugh left by the Milwaukee
road last evening for an indefinite absence
down in the Buckeye State
The city engineer has advertised for sub
merged pipe with which to lay the mains
across the river to the East Division.
Sylvester Chase and Will Bassett will set
tie the dispute as to which is the champion
oarsman of the Jurline club to-day at Lake
Calhoun.
Rev. Theodore M. Riley, of the East Side
Episcopal society, will visit the White Earth
indian reservation in company with Bishop
Whipplc.
subscription paper is being circulated
for the benefit of David Rose, whose house
was destroyed by fire at the time of the
great mill explosion.
Reports from the west seem to indicate
that the great storm of yesterday morning
did considerable damage by beating the
grain into the ground.
special meeting of hose company No. 2
this evening. Every member is requested
TO be present, as business of the utmost inn
portance is to be transacted
If you want to sec a potato bug quickly
turn up the whites of his eyes, and stop dep
relations on potatoes, just Touch him off
aisy" with a little paris green.
Is not tho contractor engaged i'll covering
the east channel bridge making rather slow
progress with his work? The great public
only want 10 know you know.
About six thousand dollars has been re-
ceived from all sources for the relief of the
friends of the killed by the great mill explo-
aion butnot near that amount has been ex-
pended.
The chief of police is reporting defective
sidewalks to the street commissioners. Tn.
der the law it then becomes their duty to
make the necessary repairs. Over one hun
dred comp ANTS have been filed already and
several precincts yet to hear from.
Officer Buiferding on the Fourth OF July
took watch from IL man who was drunk,
to prevent its being stolen from him, and
now the man has disappeared without claim
ing it. Any one who has lost watch will
do well to call on Officer Bufferding.
The advertisement for grading Nicollet
avenue from Seventeenth to Twentieth
street, so as to make that thoroughfare
passable for the new Lyndale street railway,
is out. The engineer thinks the dirt ought
to be moved for twelve cents per yard OF
less.
The canvass for the new city directory
will close to-day and the showing promises
TO be large The printers enter upon their
part of the work at once. Messrs johnson,
Smith 4 Harrison attend to that part OF the
work, which is sufficient guaranty that it will
be well done
the temporary bridge now used across the
east channel of the river, and for the loca
ton of one-half of it over Bassetts creek
ON Lyndale avenue. And this ought TO be
granted, too-always providing that there is
sufficient bridge.
Several of the delegates to Fletcher's con
vention after the weary labors of the day
were over on Wednesday, took carriages and
went out to Oswald's summer garden be
You'd the limits Of the city, and spent jol.
night with Gambrinus, and they do say thai
the boys had a Jolly time.
A GLOBE reporter was on brief tour o
Investigation among the lamp posts of thu
Minneapolis Gas Light company last night
What he found and what he is prepared t,
prove to the gas committee of the city coun
Gil, will appear i'll the GLoBE tomorrow
morning, in connection with the gas contrac
between the company and the city.
j. G. Fogarty, of this city, and James Cor
coran, of Corcoran, in this county. are max
ing arrangements to remove to De Gra1
and 90 into mercantile business i'll tina
thriving town. The GLOBE can most cor
daily recommend them to the people 0
that locality as enterprising, honorable an'
thrifty business men. They will make
valuable addition to that community, bu
Hennepin county dislikes to lose them.
Since new lines of street railway are th
order of the day why not an extension GU
Yves ern avenue? This is rapidly coming
be one of the leading avenues of the cit.
An extension from Hennepin avenue OF
Western avenue would draw travel from
large population on the south side of Yves
ern, and the rapidly growing porto
known as Oak Lake addition on the mort
side. line for the present as far as McFa
laner's OF Bassett's creek bridge would, in OF
opinion, be one of the best patronized in Il
city. Westward the star of empire takes
way, so let the Minneapolis street railway {
the same-and be happy.