Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-03
M1NNEAPOLIs GLoBELETs
Flour shipments 1900 barrels.
Wheat receipts 1000 bushels,

continues day or two.
o. w. Kiefer, of st. Paul, assistant secre-
tary of the German American Hale insurance
company, was in the city yesterday adjusting
losses for the company.
Officer Otis Wescott, one of the most de-
serving members of our city police force, has
received few days leave of absence and is
Visiting friends in Red Wing.
The engineering party running the line
between Sank Rapids and Minneapolis were
in the vicinity Of Clearwater yesterday. The
survey will be finished the early part of next
week.
The Minneapolis Millers' association met
lowing prices for wheat Old No. l, ST. co.;
old No. 2, 97c: new No. l, 95c; new No. 2,
82c: new No. 3, 75c.
Laborers are scarce, and the per diem for
good men high. Some contractors were in
the market yesterday shaking $1.75 under
the nose Of workingmen, and could get no
takers. The harvest is what's the matter.
The Iowa excursion has disbanded and
will strapgle back in parties of half dozen,
more or less, as the humor SEXES them.
They are all unit, however, on the fact
that they had first rate time while here.
strong effort is being made by several
interested parties to carry the drive we'll
suits, about which there has been 40 much
talk, to the supreme court of the United
States. II is thought that the royalty claim
ants would thereby be scooped
Eastman, Bovey &c Co.'s MILL and it was
found necessary to amputate that member.
A. w. Krech and Will Bassett, of the Lur-
line boat club, have ordered new shells,
which will be here in few days.
Mr.. H. M. Magill, general agent of the
Phoenix insurance company of Hartford,
Connecticut, and Mr.. Bennett, general agent
of the Etna of Hartford. accompanied by
their wives, are enjoying the comforts of a
midsummer Minnesota atmosphere.
Some of the good people out on Franklin
avenue and in that vicinity complain loudly
of the street railway company because they
stop at Seventeenth street ION their Fourth
avenue route) instead of continuing on to
Franklin avenue. AZ it is only block or
two further, it would seem to be policy to
do 80.
Never in the history of the city of Mime
apol!s has there been so many strange faces
in the city. The hotels are literally over
they Gomez The attractions of Minnesota
as summer resort are just beginning to be
understood.
A sneak-thief relieved G. B. Moses of
watch, worth $50, and bill book filled with
bills, yesterday. Moses says he hopes the
fellow who got the truck will be able to col
lect some of the bills. He has been dread
ing to undertake the job for a month, and
now smiles audibly to think what joke that
thief perpetrated on himself.
An excursion is now engaged in fitting
out at Nashville, Tenn, and vicinity, for the
purpose of visiting Minneapolis, st. Paul
and Duluth. The party will be composed of
ladies and gentlemen, will have their own
cars, which will consist of three sleepers and
dining car. and will make a stay of two
weeks in this vicinity. They will start the
last of next week.
The engineers have completed the survey
of the proposed line Ito tap the Iowa coal
fields from Albert Lea to Forest City, Iowa.
They find the line good one, and it is the
purpose of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
road to proceed without delay in it's construc-
ton. 1t is probable that contracts will be
let within the next ten days, and the dirt will
be flying before the 18th of this month.
A one-armed fellow was visiting business
houses and residences on the East Side YES
terday asking for aims. Truth compels the
remark that this curtailed fellow begged like
corporation. That is, in some instances
he took what he wanted in others he villain
ously abused such persons as declined to con-
tribute, Finally, he ran into the arms of
the police and spent the night in the East
Side lookup.
Mr.. Harlow Gale is in the field once more.
1t it his purpose to put Burdette, the funny
man of the Burlington Ha,okeye, up for a
twenty-five cent. lecture-that is for dol
lar and half lecture, which will be given to
his patrons for % cents-next Saturday
night. Burdette is up here Oh a pleasure
visit and would have escaped without earn
ing cent if MIR. Gale, with his showman's
instincts, had not smeled him out.
Night before last runaway horse with
buggy attachment came down Western ave-
nue. from somewhere in the vicinity of Cedar
lake, on the dead run. Undertaking to cross
Western avenue bridge, without having read
the GLoBE.) he got one leg through one of
the many holes in that played-out structure,
and came to sudden halt. No bones were
broken, and the animal was effectually
stopped. Who says dangerous bridge is
not ct times blessing in disguise.
The city engineer, tired of being bull
dozed by Western avenue residents, in fit
of desperation yesterday instructed the street
commissioner of the Third and Fourth
wards to patch up the old concern so that
there would be no immediate danger of any,
body getting a neck broken. 1t is we'll.
Now let the council and Pacific railway set
tie the vexed question once and for all as to
whose duty it is to keep the thing in repair
private dispatch was received in this
city yesterday afternoon conveying the sad
intelligence of the accidental death of George
Winslow, brother of the president of the
Burlington, &c lar Rapids & Northern rail
way. 1t seems that he was riding on the
pilot somewhere on the line of the road,
when the engine struck hog and knocked
him off. He lived only about twenty min
utes. MIR. Winslow was we'll known and
univers lily beloved among the railway mon
in this vicinity. Only short time ago he
was in this city and spent several days.
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