Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-01
THE ST PAUL DAILY GLOBE THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 1878
CITY GIoBULEs.

CITY GLOBULEs.
Ihe Clinton avenue church Sunday school
picnic at Lake Elmo to-day. The train leaves
ut $50 A. N.
Regular trains commence running to-day |
over the branch line of the ST. Paul & Pacific |
to Sank Centre.
The new Rice street cistern was filed yester= !
day afternoon by steamer No l. the task ocou-
cupying four hours.
The weather was splendid yesterday for har--
vesting, and good progress was made toward
saving Minnesota's crops.
In accordance with general order No. IL, is
sued on July 80, Gen. Terry has resumed COM
mand of the military department of Dakota.
All parties proposing to take part in the Mil
waukee excursion are requested to hand their
names in to the secretary of the chamber of
commerce on or before Friday evening next.
Ed. Roemer, a former resident of this city,
was picked up dead on Tuesday night abont
two miles east of Bismarck. d. T., and beyond
that bare fact no further particulars have been
received.
Four men were lodged in the police station
last night for being drunk and disorderly One
so obstreperous that 1t required two Off
GERS, Cook and Babe, to land him. The fourth
gave considerable trouble to Patrolman Glib
bons.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the emanci-
patton of the negroes in the West India islands.
In honor of the event-a bright little day in
the history oil the colored race-the colored
people of st. Paul will very generally unite in
picnic at White Bear lake.
Messrs. Horace Thompson, E. F. Warner. VIM.
j. Dean, and G. A. Zimmerman went out to the
wheat fields yesterday along the line of the
Worthington g. Sioux Falls railroad. The latter
WILL take advantage of the visit by taking
Photographic views of harvesting operations
Mr.. Getty, of White Bear, sowed some wheat
on Christmas day last and yesterday he har-
wheat sown later, he found it stooled out bet
ter and it yielded heavier crop. but it did not
rlpen quite so early that sown at a much
later date.
The excursion to Saltwater to-day of tn;
Damascus commandery will be one of thu
pleasantest events of the season. The knights
will leave at 500 A. NJ, and will return b,
special train after the ball in the evening. 4
limited number of tickets will be reserved fol
others than those of the fraternity.
Frank D. Hall, foreman and acting driver O
| the hook and ladder truck. was taken quite
| suddenly i'll at midnight of night before last
He had been suffering the day previous from
dlarrhoea, which he checked to suddenly re
sultlng IN fever, from which be became de
| lirious. At ten o'clock last night, he wa
sleeping quietly. with every prospect of speed,
| recovery.
| The swimming train,'' due at IL P. NJ from
Lake Elmo, met with half an hours DELAY
There were two box freight cars and two o
three hat cars between the engine and the pas
senger cars. When about or 6 miles from
the city coupling pin broke and the engin,
ran ahead four miles with single freight ca
before the engineer discovered that he had los
his train. He then backed up and took tn
train IN in good style.
>. L. Archibald, ESQ.,, who arrived in the cit,
yesterday from visit to his wheat farm ii
Stevens county, on the main line of the st
Paul d Pacific road, brings favorable report
of the harvest in that section of the State
Cutting, he says, is we'll advanced and The
gram IS being preserved in good condition
The yield he estimates at from fifteen to eieh
teen bushels, nearly all No. 1, thou Oh othe
good Judges he says, places it at twenty bush
els and above.
A. j. Sypher, of Huntingdon, Pa, died yes
terday afternoon at the Clarendon, Just befor
his wife arrived from the East, whence she hat
been summoned. Mr.. Sypher came here for
summers vacation, and exposed himself to tn
scorching heat of the sun on the 18th nit.
while fishing at White Bear lake. He returned
to the Clarendon the following day, and grad
ually sank from sunstroke. His body was EN-
balmed, and was subsequently conveyed HON,
on the evening train, Mrs. Sypher and DIR
Buchanan accompanying the corpse
On Tuesday afternoon last. as a sergeant wa
examining in the guard room at Fort Smelling
one OF improved rifles with which the United
| States infantry is now armed, the piece sud
| denly discharged, the bullet penetrating and
shatterlng the left leg OF a corporal sitting nea
by In the act of making out his report. Th,
wound was OF such serious character that am
putatlon above the knee was deemed advisable
and the operation was successfully performed
by Dr. Burns, the post surgeon, assisted by
Or. Brisbine, of this CITY, The wounded sol.
Tier ia progressing favorably under the dis
| tressing circumstances.
Fred Jones and Charles Ryle, the beaten or
Sunday night on Fort street. were confined il
the police station last night for contempt O.
| Court IN not answering in the municipal cour
yesterday morning in response to their sum
mons as witnesses in the Lyons assault case
The curiosity is that both men were presen
when the case was called, but claimed to hav,
not heard their names announced, and it seems
| little odd they should both get whipped ane
then be imprisoned for it. They both declared
to GLOBE reporter last evening that the,
never remember seeing Lyons until YESTERDAY
| morning in court.