Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-28
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULEs.

Wheat, unchanged, 9O@H.
Flour shipments 2,625 barrels.
Receipts of wheat, 12,5OO bushels.
The fortune telling birds are perambulat-
ing the streets.
The district court has adjourned until the
SIKH day Of July.
A pleasant time is reported at White Bear,
by the st. Marks excursion.
French plate windows, broken by the great
explosion in Centennial block, are being re-
placed.
Look out for the open air concert by the
Total Abstinence band, in South Mlnneapo'
lis, tonight
The visiting Knights Templar spoken Of
in yesterdays GLOBE, left for their homes in
Wisconsin, yesterday morning
City Engineer Rinker yesterday located
the proposed culvert Oh Eighth street and
Second avenue southeast. East Division.
A man named Johnson was injured by
being struck on the head by plank at Nudd
& Co.'s cave trough factory on Wednesday
afternoon.
j. B. Bassett, Esq, president of the Min
neapolis Eastern railway, will leave this
morning for two or three weeks visit to
Colorado.
A section of the cadets Of temperance will
be organized this afternoon at 3 o'clock, at
Reform club room. From six to sixteen
may apply.
The executive committee of the State In
surance association yesterday elected R. H.
Dugan as secretary, and fixed his salary at
81 200 per annum.
The new savings bank structure, on the
corner of Nicollet and Hennepin avenue, as
it approaches completion looms up more
and more beautifully.
Southern summer travel is beginning to
be felt. Our neighbors of the sunny South,
begin to sigh for the cooling breezes of
Minnetonka and White Bear.
L. P. Mcmahon, employed in the North
Star cooper works, cut his hand with an
adz on Tuesday. The accident will necessi-
tate the amputation Of the hand.
The Lurline boat club promise their
friends a pleasant entertainment on the
fourth of July. A special train will run
out and there will be lots of boat racing, etc.,
for amusement.
Tho body of the boy Smith, drowned in
the East channel near Fred Clark's mill on
Tuesday last, was recovered yesterday FORE
noon, and will be buried, without an inquest,
to-day. Who will be the next victim?
Workrnen are engaged in lowering Tuttle's
creek, on the East side, as was provided for
by tho city council last winter. The object
in lowering the bed of the stream is to Sc
cure more effective drainage for the southern
part Of the East Division.
Col. Hicks, General Fletcher's chief of
staff, denies the soft impeachment that he
went to Brainerd to buy the caucus-he
went to pay taxes. Exactly That accounts
for Stewart walking off with the delegation.
Now, Newton would have done better.
The building committee Of the board of
county commissioners met again at Architect
Buffington's office yesterday, but adjourned
without letting the contract for building the
vault Mr.. Burlington informed a GLOBE
reporter yesterday, that the vault would be
constructed for $500 less than was appro-
priated for the purpose.
There are now under contract and in
course of construction at the falls, new -four
ing mills which will make the aggregate run
of stone more than il was before the late
explosion. And this does not include the
great Washburn 'A' mill, which will (prob-
ably not be erected this season. Before
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the leading flour producing centre of the
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