Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-24
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELETs.
Wheat market quiet at CSC for No. l, and 8

Wheat market quiet at CSC for No. l, and 95c
for No.2.
Thirty-three car loads of lumber were shipped
from Minneapolis yesterday.
Six thousand five hundred bushels of wheat
received at Minneapolis yesterday.
Three thousand three hundred and fifty
barrels of -four were shipped, yesterday, from
Minneapolis.
The Woman's Christian Temperance union
! will meet, this afternoon, to transact business
of Importance.
Frank Mead has returned from his trip out
west, looking hearty and his scalp lock firm
~ seated as ever.
The sale of seats for the Annie Louise Cary
concert, will commence at Wilson's music
store tomorrow morning.
There has been an increase of one inch in the
volume Of water in the river at this point dur
ing the past twenty-four hours.
Another street car has been wrecked on Nicol
let island. This time it is No. 6, and the for
ward axle and truck gear was demolished.
The board Of county commissioners held
| session yesterday, but did not transact any
business of special Importance to the public at
large.
Sprague 4 Blodgett's genuine negro min
strels are to please our fun loving people Mon
day evening. Don't fail to attend the enter
tainment.
The horse attached to E. B. Bates express
wagon stumbled on the street car track in front
of the city hall yesterday noon, fell down and
created a little excitement for short time.
Noc,l,r III al ,,,, n:ll. H. So 49,
| sumed operations for the summer season and
are rapidly converting the winters cut of logs
into lumber. The others will soon follow suit.
The testimony taken by the stenographer
during the coroners investigation of the cause
of the mill explosion, will be printed in full,
making book Of about three hundred pages.
The Touring mill of Messrs. Petit l. Robin
son, destroyed on May I'd by the explosion. is
being rapidly rebuilt. The mill will have
twenty run of stone, instead of fifteen, as be-
fore.
The national convention of Good Templars
which will convene in Minneapolis on Monday
evening, particulars of which have heretofore
been published in the GLOBE, will be largely
| attended and of unusual interest TO the frater-
nifty.
The committee on water supply for the East
division held meeting last evening prepare
tory to final settlement Of the question of sup
plying water on that side of the river. The
subject comes up for final settlement at spe-
cial meeting of the city council this evening.
A barn owned by Mr.. s. c. Gale, the insur-
ance man, was discovered to be on fire yester-
day afternoon, but was fortunately extin-
guished before any Roadway had been gained.
Mr.. Gale estimates the loss at about SIS; no in
r I<S he tax
now.
Mr.. ia. Hilliker, of the city market lunch
rooms is making preparations for opening
6rst-class branch establishment on the corner
of Washington and Sixth avenues south. The
building is being raised, so as to make a two
story structure of it, and will be thoroughly
remodeled.
Fidelia Social Temple has concluded its
preparations for the grand social party, to be
given ut Cooper's Union Hall on Tuesday even
ing, and grand good time is anticipated, with
a large attendance to make it all the more en-
joyable. Sidwel's orchestra has been engaged
to furnish the music on that occasion.
Master J. Harry Shannon, the wonderful boy
orator made his first appearance in Mime
apolis, at the Association hall, last evening be-
fore q large and critical audience. To say that
all were most agreeably surprised, but family
conveys the true state Of the furore created
by this prodigy. It is certain that the Eastern
press has not over-estimated the ability of the
little fellow.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals have good field for action down on
Sixth avenue south. The teamsters who draw
lumber from the ills on the platform up the
steep grade up Sixth avenue south frequently
have loads that are far too heavy for the horses
to pull Then the poor dumb beasts are sub
jected to treatment that it would seem no hui
man being would be guilty of in1icting upon
them. This thing has commenced already and
should be stopped at once.