Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS ;l.|5l'7
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MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs.

The markets were crowded Yesterday.
The Light infantry are to have an elegant
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sp ortsmen are shooting foxes at Lake Cal-
houn.
The new Jail extension excavation prog, esses
slowly but surely.
Storm doors have been placed on either side
of the city hall building.
The big smoke stack of the new elevator on
Western avenue is completed.
Next Tuesday the furniture and fixtures of
the Clark house will be sold at auction.
A new store for the sale of birds has been
opened on. Nicollet avenue above Fourth
street.
The delivery wagon of Mattison g. johnson
was slightly damaged by q runaway yesterday
afternoon.
The saw mills are running day and night in
the endeavor to cut up the supply of logs be-
fore the river closes.
Forty-one dodgers in the Jail that was con-
/ structed to hold but thirty. That ia crowdinp
them in pretty thick.
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& Manitoba railway depot is torn up to permit
the laying of gas pipes. 49, ..
horse driven by F. W. Hansome, formerly
OF the Clark house, ran away yesterday after
noon, but did no special damage.
The regular meeting of the Sisterhood of
Bethany will be held at the Home this after
noon at o'clock for the election of officers.
James Taylors team also ran away on Nicol-
let street yesterday. The wagon was total
wreck, but the driver escaped without a
scratch. .g.-.- 49,. -
The teachers have meetings this evening as
follows: At High school at 9 A. NJ. First and
| second grades meet in room ''C'' and third and
fourth grades in room 3D." ..:. f. -.
Richard Atkinson and his wife had family
matinee, in which the wife says her husband
choked and otherwise maltreated her, and
/ Judge Cooley Will attend to the case to-day.
Last evening Officers Wescott and West had
Milwaukee & st. Paul depot. The WON an was
finally taken to the lookup, although abe
fought like tiger all the way.
Some Of the lumbermen assert that about
$4,000, 600 feet'of logs are strewn along the
banks of the Mississippi and in the booms,
about one-half of which they expect to make
into lumber the present season. The fact of
the business is that there is over 80, DOC, 900
I feet of logs in the booms. One of them, not
the largest, either, about mile long, has logs
piled the full length, nearly or quite twenty
feet deep, while the river banks and shoals for
distance of thirty miles north are we'll COW
cred.
The Seager-DeMeres fracas recently recorded
in these columns, has resulted in souring the
disposition of both men, and they continue to
call each other base falsifers, or words to that
effect, with alarming frequency, and Prof.
Seager threatens to use his revolver CD DeMeres
should they again meet face to face. It strikes
us that Tor an Innocent man to continually
threaten the life of another as publicly as
Seager has, is not in good taste to say the
least, and great many people are Of the
opinion that it will not help his case.
Yesterday afternoon while Court Officer Stiles
Gray was taking B. F. Brown alias Stokes to
the lookup the fellow broke away from him
| and started q go-as-you-please race down Wash
ington avenue, darted into an alley back Of the
National Hotel, and made 80 many laps around
adjoining blocks that the officer gave up the
chase. The matter being reported to head
quarters detachment of police was sent out
sklrmlshlng, but up to last accounts had not
discovered their man. The man was arrested
for obtaining goods under false pretenses.
At o'clock on Wednesday evening Mer-
| chants block, on Washington avenue between
Nicollet and First avenue south, has a narrow
escape from destruction by fire. It seems that
| gasoline barrel in a small building in the rear
of Chamberlain's fruit store and restaurant
| sprang leak, and Mr.. Curtiss went out to see
what the matter was. Upon alighting match
80 that he could see in the she'd an explosion
followed, and the barrel and shed was Instant
~ in flames. Several persons happening to be
near by were called upon, and desperate fight
| occurred. Finally the flames were extinguished
before any great amount of damage had been
done. Word was sent to the fire department,
| but the fire was extinguished before it became
! necessary for the department to respond.