Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-11
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MINNEAPOLIs GLOBELETs.
Another beautiful June day yesterday.
No change in wheat since the forenoon re-
port-9O to So.
Receipts-wheat, $500 bushels. Ship
rnents-hour, 2,675 bbls.
The heat of yesterday tested the pitch
covered roofs of the city.
Travel on the various railroads is on the
increase, and our railroad men smile.
An adjourned meeting of the county
board of commissioners will be held at the
auditors Office to-day.
Over $4,000 was paid out by City Treasur-
er Buxton on warrants ordered drawn at the
last meeting of the council.
The dog killer is once more meandering
through the alleys and by-ways of the city,
seeking what unlicensed cur he may devour.
Sheriff Thompson started for st. Peter
yesterday afternoon in charge of an insane
patient named Lyons. He will return this
afternoon.
The various iron works located in the city
are all busily employed in getting up the
machinery for the Touring mills now being
constructed.
That prince of good fellows, Tom. Bren-
nan, assistant superintendent of the St. Paul
&, Duluth railroad, was seen looking around
our city day or two ago.
Capt. E. NJ. Wilson mourns, and will not
be comforted because his Newfoundland pup
has disappeared. In another place he adj
vertises liberal reward for his return.
The directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee,
& st. Paul railroad, are on their way to Min
neapolis and St. Paul, and are expected to
arrive in one city or the other this morn
ing.
An incipient runaway of a donble team
occurred at the Pacific depot this morning,
but cool, dashing effort on the part of the
driver nipped first class sensation in the
bud.
His Honor Special Judge Reynolds was
presiding with grace and dignity in the
municipal court seat of Judge Cooley yester-
day, the latter being necessarily absent in
st. Paul.
The Minneapolis & ST.. Louis railway COM
pany have nearly completed the grading of
new depot grounds, and soon expect to COM
mence the construction of the necessary
buildings.
Smith & Parker, who, it will be remem-
bered, lost their mill by the recent explosion,
have commenced the construction of new
planning mill near the Pacific railroad depot,
East Division.
Geo. W. Cooley has invented Tor rather
improveD the truss bridge, and had hand
some black walnut model constructed at
vanduzee's pattern shop. Wonder if George
has struck bonanza?
Bids are now being received by the city
eng ineer on the proposed stone arch bridge
over Bassett's creek on Second street, and
on water mains and earth fill. They will be
opened next Monday.
George McAbe, young man about &c
years of age, and one of the most promising
young landscape and fresco painters in the
city, died Sunday evening of typhoid fever
after an illness of two weeks.
Cannot our enterprising citizens who
reside on Hennepin avenue afford to con-
tinue the sprinlling up as far as Tenth
street. It is shame that this beautiful
thoroughfare should be spoiled for driving
by dust.
The condition of James Best, the young
man njured by the street cars Sunday, was
practically unchanged yesterday. There is
total paralysis of the lower limbs, and no
~ o4e,+ ~ %loc 1o
injured that there is small hope of his re-
covery. He is receiving every possible at
tention from his physician and sympathiz-
ing friends.
County Commissioner Glenn returned yes
terday morning from his business trip to
Wisconsin. While there business poured in
upon him so rapidly that he was compelled
to send for two men to take his place, SO as
to return and tend to home matters. He
can now be found at his place of business as
usual.
People who have money transactions with
the school board, seriously (and very JUSTIFY
object to being compelled to go clear to the
extreme limit Of the city Ito Prof. Oftedal,
at the Augusberg seminary for their war
rants, before they can draw their money.
Can not the board make more convenient
arrangement?
Sylvester Chase thinks of taking class
in nauticul gymnastics. He was working
up his muscle at Calhoun on Sunday in one
of the shells of the boat club when some
thing about the machinery gave way and as
nice young man as lives was battling man.
fully with the wild waves. Sylvester has
sworn off being a bold mariner-its too
hard on clothes.
Diamonds Tourist and Sportsman for
June Sth, fhe second number for this year),
is out, and besides being most beautiful
piece of typographical architecture is replete
with good things about Minnetonka, White
Bear, Prior lake, and other places of summer
resort. Every lover of outdoor life in our
beautiful Minnesota should buy and read q
copy of the Tourist.
Aid. Fred. Smith and George Hamilton,
ESQ.,, were at Lake Minnetonka on Sunday
holding services. On their return they were
met by full brass band and friends in car
riages, and escorted into the city with all
the honors of peace. Since that time a
wagon and four yoke of steers have been
supplying their friends with fresh fish which
they purchased of Perry out at the lake.
DR.. ]. G. Smith, late of Waverly, Iowa,
has located for the practice of his profess