Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-20
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELErs.


Price of wheat unchanged.
Receipts of wheat, 1890 bushels.
Shipments of -four, 1890 barrels.
Rev. DR.. Knickerbacker went out to How
ard lake to hold services yesterday afternoon.
Parties are now in Minneapolis negotiat-
ing for location upon which to erect car
works.
The Minneapolis fire department will have
its annual parade during the first week In
September.
The Annual Harvest Home festival of
Gethsemane parish, in this city, will be held
on the 2Sth inst. Rev. d. d. Chaplin, of
Saltwater, will deliver the address.
The X. of P. excursion and picnic to Lake
Minnetonka will take place to-day, and a
most pleasant and enjoyable time is prom
ised should the weather prove propitious.
The Westminster Presbyterian society
will proceed at once to build new church
edifce, at the corner of Seventh street and
Nicollet avenue, at a cost of about $4,000.
Hennepin avenue was being turned into a
race track again last evening, at the risk of
life and limb to pedestrians. Have citizens
no rights that o. Chawles Gale is bound to
respect?
Just the gayest possible little joker of a
building will be erected for GLOBE head
quarters at the exposition grounds. Buff
fngton, the boss architect of the west, is
making the plans.
JosepIius Alley, one of the editors of the
Peoples Aduocate, paper published at
Howard Lake, in Wright county, was in the
city yesterday seeking whom he might hold
a conversation with.
Fred d. Underwood and Charlie Nurse,
popular conductors on the Chicago, Mllwau-
kee & st. Paul railway, were locking over
the metropolis of the Northwest. Alderman
Fred l.. Smith and John L. West had them
in charge.
The employees of Averill, Russell & Car
penter's paper mill are on strike, having
stopped work the latter part of last week.
and demanded an increase of wages from
$1.15 to $l25 per day. Thus far the pro-
pretors have held out, and the mill is at
stand still.
There will probably be reduction from
the 100000 asked for by the school board
at the next meeting, which will occur Satur-
day. The board will probably fix the assess
ment at 3 % mills and trust to the action of
the next legislature to allow the issuance of
bonds for permanent improvements.
Mr.. Robert Hale, superintendent of Me-
chanic's Hall, may be found at the rooms of
the association Pence Opera House, from 8
to 10 A. NJ. daily, and at his Office on the
fair grounds from II O'Clock A. NJ. to a
o'clock p M All who have business in his
department will please bear this in mind.
Mrs. Lille, the woman who shot herself
two or three weeks ago and is now in the
Cottage hospital, is slowly recovering, but it
is the opinion of those who are familiar with
her condition that she will never fully re-
cover her mind. She is receiving from Sis
ter Annette and assistants the very best of
care and attention.
In the municipal court yesterday Charles
Wilson was given ninety days in Jail for
stealing valise in Excelsior, as mentioned
in Sundays GLOBE. James Riley, who stole
Aid. Andersons horse, was bound over in
the sum of $500 for his appearance be-
fore the grand jury. Failing to furnish the
required security, he was sent down to jail.
Col. G. A. Lounsbury, the approaching
Republican candidate for delegate to Con-
gress from our little sister Dakota, the alb g
editor of the Bismarck Tribune, and one of
the best fellows that ever followed tue point
of lead pencil into poverty, is in the city
on his way to the Congressional convention,
which will meet at YaLkton on Thursday
next.
Next Wednesday tomorrow afternoon
the Minneapolis rifle club will have another
hitch at their target near Adams on Mime
haha avenue Wescott will put on his GLOBE
sight and fire at the side of barn, and Aid.
Henry Morse wi endeavor to catch the ball
in his teeth. Joking aside, however, the
boys will shoot at the regulation target at a
distance of 500 yards under the rule of the
national association.
Andrew J.. Foster, an old citizen of Min
neapolis, met with a frightful accident yes
terday morning. He was engaged in draw
ing hay from his farm near Minnehahe,
when he accidentally slipped from the load
to the ground. In falling he struck fork,
the end of the handle pricing him in the
groin and lascerating his abdomen in most
horrible manner. His injuries, it is feared,
may prove dangerous.
The clerk of the district court this morning
was at work on the bare boards. His office
will soon have mating ON the floor,
materially reducing the chances of breaking
somebody's neck.-Iiabtne.
Congratulations are in order. That is the
first time the clerk of the dis riot court has
been known to do any work in his Office
since court adjourned. Possibly Mr.. VOL
verton prefers to work con bare BOARDS