Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-01
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
MINNEAPOLIS .GLoBELETs

MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs.
The delivery of wheat by teams is increas
ing.
Shipments of flour yesterday, 3,1OO
barrels.
Wheat received, 1890 bushels. No. j.,
&c; No. 2, S2c; No. 3, 67c.
Harry Ives, of St. Louis, formerly of this
city, is in town shaking hands with friends.
E. M. Wilson's 'stepper' Charley Champ,
carried off a purse at the Goodhue county
fair.
Fuller & Simpsons shirt factory was bur-
glarized Sunday, and few dollars stolen
from the till.
Charlotte Thompson will appear at tho
Academy of Music on Monday, Oct. Z, and
will play for four nights.
John Lockhart, injured by a falling plank
last week, in the Zenith mill, died from the
effects of his injuries yesterday.
The arguments in the Emerson will case
closed yesterday, and the case was given to
his honor Juge Rea. That case didn't quite
last the century out.
The ladies art loan exhibition at the old
Brigham House on Hennepin avenue, is hay
ing a fine run. It will remain open for the
remainder of the week.
The council committee on gas was in ses-
sion at the City Hall yesterday afternoon;
but there was no business of special import
ance brought before it.
Judge Cooley yesterday ruled that dog
had no appreciable value in law, and dis
charged Roberts, the city dog killer, who had
been arrested for stealing purp.
The committees on water works, claims,
and roads and bridges, were all in session at
the council chamber yesterday, but transacted
no business of public importance.
The Congressional district committee of
the National Greenback party for the Third
Congressional district will meet at the office
Of the Workman Thursday next at 2 o'clock
P. M.
Ground was broken yesterday for the four
miles of water pipe to be laid in the East
division the present fall. 1t will be we'll for
the contractors to hurry up, as the reign of
Boreas is liable to nip their work in the bud
DR.. Keith (Which is postmaster returned
yesterday forenoon from looking over the
crops sup West" along the line of the Hast
lngs d Dakota railway. He reports that the
wheat ring IS catching it out among the hon
est grangers.
The Minneapolis rifle club will meet for
weekly practice to-day at Adams grounds at
2 o'clock sharp. All members are request
ed to be present. The practice day has been
changed from Thursday to Tuesday to
oblige those members who could not attend
on that day.
Fred. Hooker, Esq, will deliver lecture
on ''The Aim of Life'' at the Y. M. G. A.
parlors Wednesday evening next. Last
night, at Osseo, in company with Hon. III.
j. Hicks he discoursed on "The Aim of
DEATH" as embodied in the Congressional
campaign i'll this district.
The council committee on public grounds
and buildings yesterday took steps to have
the sidewalk around the city hall SO improved
as to drain the water into the cutters instead
of flooding the basement. Now when the
city council conclude to build the Nicollet
avenue sewer it will be we'll.
Just as Minnesota is putting off it's vernal
leaves and putting on oyercoats, the scheme
is revived of completing the new Music
Hall at the corner of Hennepin avenue and
Fifth street. The new morning daily and
the new Music Hall will probably both come
into existence about the same time.
The meeting of the central committee of
the Twenty-seventh district called for to-
morrow "Wednesday at 2 o'clock P. NJ, has
been postponed until Thursday next at 2
o'clock P. NJ, at which time it is hoped the
committee will be on hand promptly, as mat
ters of import Will be considered.
Gale e Co.'s office, corner of Washington
and Nicollet avenues, is being remodeled and
fitted up with fine plate glass windows and
thoroughly renovated. Here will be found
the headquarters Of the Minneapolis depart
ment of the GLOBE. Send in your name
for the GLOBE, at 70 cents month.
The five year old daughter of Mr.. Gabriel
Mortta, who lives on Nicollet Island, was Sc
riously injured yesterday afternoon by fall
ing down the area in front of John Savory's
saloon on Nicollet Island. The child fell
distance of ten feet, and at 8 o'clock last
evening, was lnucn worse ana Ino DOCTOR mas
no hopes of the child's recovery
w. A. Rust and Alex. Kempt, Esqs., of
Eau Claire, Wis, were in the city yesterday,
interviewing our lun. bermen as to the pro-
posed boom below the falls. Messrs. r. and
X. represent the Patent Sheer boom, and are
struggling to put that improved institution
in. No special opposition is being met with
from the members of the old boom company.
Hon. Henry G. Hicks and Mr.. Hooker, of
the firm of Ray & Hooker, were enightening
the denizens of Osseo on political topics from
their standpoint last night. That fact may
account for the unusual display of heavenly
pyrotechnics in that direction last night.
Hicks and Hooker don't thunder their best
very often, but when they do their best they
are liable to illumine the entire horizon with
the electricity of their eloquence. But what
was Hicks doing up there out of his baili-
wick? Don't he know where the boundaries
of the twenty sixth district are?
The Good Nuns Feast,
The GLOBE man is sorely grieved to an
nounce that there is an impious impression
gaining ground among the good people of
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