Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-13
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELErs.

The Morning Herald will renew publication
this morning.
The parties of the editorial excursion re-
turned yesterday.
81. q. Mitchell, of the Elk River News, was
In the city yesterday.
The Petit Touring mills are to put in forty
new Helvetic purifiers.
The Zouaves viii hold their regular meeting
at their armory tonight.
''Are there any returns yet?' was the sole
inquiry after o'clock yesterday.
Several farmers came in with wheat yester-
day from points over forty miles away.
About 500 bushels of street wheat were
bought yesterday. No was worth ninety-six
cents.
Minneapolitans are confident of Miss Jew.
EFT winning the race at Louisville next Satur-
day.
Street car No. "a had an axle broken while
crossing suspension bridge yesterday morn
ing.
The Centenary society will give a musicale
this evening. A good programme has been
prepared.
That Scandinavian Garfield and Arthur club,
if there is any such organization in existence,
ia very quiet affair.
Orders are coming in 80 fast that the Touring
mill firms are scarcely able to fill them By dint
of running night and day.
Steve B. Lovejoy has been nominated by the
Republicans of the First district for commits
sioner, bat Baldwin Brown Z" will be thar"
The Republicans will make another effort at
the Academy of Music tonight. They have
engaged Hon. @. G.. Williams, of Wisconsin.
to speak.
Yesterday morning G. T. Page, employed by
an East side lumber firm, fell from the top of
pile of lumber, and suffers the severe fracture
of the elbow.
The physicians report an alarming preva-
lence of typhoid fever in the city, especially
In the northern part of the East side, and in
some districts of the West side.
The dilapidated condition of the planking
at the approach of the east side of suspension
bridge commands the immediate attention of
the authorities. Already there have been
several instances of wrenching wheels eff
buggiea.
Conspicuous among the arrivals at the
Nicollet house yesterday were c. Wright
and J. B. Hackett, of New York; G. W. Dye,
Chicago; G. j. Goodhue, Bristol e -nry Cat
Ter, Springfield; Mass; VIM. l.. Buckwith
Providence, r. l.
An accident occurred yesterday afternoon on
Nicollet avenue which for a moment placed the
life of Mrs. Benjamin, CT the East side, in i'm
minent peril. Her horse became frightened
| or n looHa1 forDoar,a too,
denly to one side as to upturn the buggy. and
she was thrown out, bat with little injury.
The horse was secured by the bit by a gentle
man.
The special meeting of the board of educa-
tion called for yesterday afternoon was fail
ure for want of q quorum. The purpose of the
meeting was to name the new school building
on the east side. The members present agreed
upon the word Webster" aud it was decided
TO go ahead without waiting for full meeting.
The building will accommodate three hundrad
pupils, and will be completed for the winter
term.
The walls of the county jail are now very
nearly completed, but as yet nothing has been
done toward putting on the roof. The prison.
ers are thus without any protection from the
chilliness of the weather, and stand shiveriDg
in The cells. The man who has the contract to
b, l.
for the sake of the prisoners, that ne will be on
hand soon, and get at the work before the cells
are filled with iee and snow.
matinee will be given on the track at the
fair grounds under the auspices of the Gentle
mems Driving club this afternoon The fol.
lowing is the programme as reported by the
secretary of the club: First, free for all, gen.
tlemen's roadsters-ten entries. Second. 2 40
class-ten entries. Third, sulky race, free for
ali--ten entries. This will close the races for
the season. Some Of the entries made are good
horses, and the probabilities are that goo
record will be made.
Monday evening the store of o. Parkhurst
Son. on Hennepin avenue, WAS for q few
moments a theater of excitement. A drunken
man who was seeking vengeance on some one
inside, drove his horse headlOng into the store.
The carriage wheels struck the building, and
the crazy driver was thrown out. Matters were
at bay. until the arrival of a policeman, who
was obliged to pummel the man considerably
to bring him to time.
It has leaked out that Ed. Nash, the Repub-
lican candidate for sheriff, has promised the
deputyship, IN case he ia elected, to Geo. Ell.
Johnson. By this maneuvsr he hopes to
make friends among the Scandiuavians, but
they don't propose to be soft-s oaped in that
way. They have been fooled too many times
to be caioled in that way, and Mr.. Nash will
so find. II the present indications are worth
anything, the scandinavian vote of Hennepin
county will be about solid for the hero of Get
tysburg, and for Gen. Sibley too. Their Han
cock and English club here Is apparently doing
moro solid work than any other organization in
the city. LIST the work continue unsbated.