Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-29
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
MINNEAPOLIS GRO8ELETs.

alngatOr.
Divorce still holds the boards at the Met
ropolitan theatre.
Board of education meeting this after
noon at $50 o'olock.
Prof. and Mrs. Shoemaker arc to real al
Association hall Saturday evening.
Regular services will be commenced at the
Church of the Redeemer next Sunday.
The volume of water in the river at this
point is slowly but surely on the decline.
Another terribly hot day yesterday, and
overcoats might have been purchased very
cheap.
Johnson's summer garden theatre is to
come out fair week with large company OF
first class artists.
Another pleasant promenade concert was
held at Lake Calhoun last night, at Col
Dawes pavilion. r.4..
"The Cronen Roller mill'' is the name OF
the new Touring mill constructed by Harden
bergh, Christian q 90.
Lumber dealers in this section are happy
in hearing that lumber has advanced 80 per
thousand feet in Chicago.
The wooden gas main on second street,
between Nicollet and First avenue south, is
being replaced by one of iron.
Rev. T. McClary and DR.. Tracy will con-
duct gospel temperance meeting at the Y.
M. @. A. parlors, this evening.
A large number of new business houses
and private dwelling houses are in the course
of construction in Minneapolis.
The Fourth street water mains have been
completed, and MIR. Brown will commence on
the Oak Lake extension after the fair.
The Minneapolis fire department will be
represented at the fair grounds, and will be
in readiness to extinguish any fire with
pronptness and dispatch.
The DAILY GLOBE will occupy the same
building at the fair grounds as last year, and
its readers and the public generally will find
the latch string out at all hours.
About 100 little children known as the
"Wide Awakes'' went out to Lake Calhoun
yesterday over the Lyndale route for days
pleasure about that pleasant resort.
A number of Minneapolis Knights Tenn
plars went out to White Bear Lake yester-
day to participate in the closing exercises of
the Knight Templars at their camp.
Thirty eight prisoners are confined in the
Hennepin county Jail, originally intended
for the accommodation of less than half that
number, sort of black hole as it were.
A harvest hand from Owatonna was "taken
in and done for'' yesterday afternoon to the
amount of $50 by the knife act, which was
worked by two confidence men on Nicollet,
island.
The Earnest Workers of the Seventh
Street Methodist Episcopal church give
lawn festival at the residence of Mr.. Mayo,
Sixteenth avenue south near Eighth street,
this evening.
The last sad rites were performed over the
remains of Mrs. Julia Ann Emmett. mother
of Mrs. H. G. Side, at the residence of the
daughter yesterday afternoon. Deceased was
80 years DID,
About forty ladies were busily engaged in
decorating the fair ground buildings yester-
day, and twice that number are needed to-
day. Omnibuses leave the Nicollet at 8
o'clock A. M.
man named Green got full of birch
beer or something else, yesterday, and enter
Ing the Metropolitan restaurant proceeded
to demolish everything within reach. Officer
Ryan put him in the cooler, and he will have
a hearing to-day.
1t was at Lake Calhoun, and not Mime
tonka, as the types would have it yesterday,
where the knights of Pythias held their sec.
ond social party. The party was the finest
that has been given by that order in this
city, and will probably be repeated soon.
Mr.. Donnel]y has made arrangements for
grand final excursion and concert to
Minnehaha Falls on Sunday next. The
Great Western band, of st. Paul, will be in
attendance, and st. Paul and Minneapolis
will enjoy the finest excursion of the season.
Andrew johnson, while grinding mill
picks, yesterday after aoon, received a very
painful accident. The emery wheel threw
q small piece of steel with such force that it
entered Mr.. Johnson's eye, and will probab-
ly destroy the sight, although there is just
the least possibility of its ultimate recovery.
A middle aged man is in town looking for
his daughter, aged sixteen, who ran away
from home a few days ago because she
could not marry the man of her choice. He
has been with the police looking for her, but
up to the present time without success. The
police officials do not know his name or where
he came from (at least they say they don't).