Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-06
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETS.

Miss Clara Thompson was reported yesterday
to be out of danger.
The Hebrew society recently organized is
known as the Apollo club.
The American express Office is being improved
and fixed so as to greatly facilitate the busi-
ness of the office.
MIR. Il. L. Abbott, assistant city engineer,
left Saturday night for a trip to Buffalo and
other Eastern points.
Miss Jessie Brown, daughter of Edgar A.
Brown, Of st. Paul, was the guest of Miss
Louise Morrill, last week.
There are great many cases of diptheria in
| the city at the present time. One physicisn re-
ports having over dozen cases on his hands.
The first of the Zouave social parties occurs
on Wednesday evening, and the preparations
are making for grand time The Zouave
band will furnish the music
About three o'clock yesterday morning man
employed in the mills had his left hand crush
| ed into jelly between two cogwheels. His
name could not be ascertained.
Thomas Shortliff, one of the leading work
men at the st. Louis shops, is very SICK with
diphtheria. j. 81. Miller, who is the head
miller at the Excelsior MILL is down with the
| same disease.
The Sunday science club yesterday held diff
ferent views as to who ought to vote. Some
believed in limiting the suffrage to property
and educational qualifications, while others
thought every one, old maids and all, should
enjoy the glorious privilege.
Mr.. q. c. Webb has let the contract for q
three story, red pressed brick building on the
corner of Third street and Hennepin avenue.
The building will be so constructed that it can
be easily made higher as the city grows broad
and vide and increases in Importance.
The light infantry will give reception to
the business men of the city during the month
of December, possibly at the Nicollet house.
The governor and staff, with their ladies, to-
gether with the officers of the fort, will be the
guests of 1.-The boys" and everything will be
done to make it the affair of the season.
On the 18th of last November man named
Jerry Bates disappeared from his boarding
place, No. 800 Second avenue south. since
which time nothing has been seen or heard of
him. Some time previous he received the in
| telligence of his sisters death, which greatly
affected him and may perhaps have made him
crazy.
Saturday evening MIR. ]. P. Hill, head miller
of the Palisade mill, came near losing his life
| while in the discharge of his duties He in
| some manner got under descending elevator
| bucket, which struck him on the head and cut
a fearful cash. He was thrown senseless on
the floor. DIR. Ames was called, who dressed
| the wound, and Mr., Hill was quite comfortable
! yesterday.
| The multitude of complications into which
the Harwood matter is getting will perhaps be
| favorable to settlement. as the easiest way
out of tho difficulty. The attorneys of some
| of the creditors who are best secured state
| however, that even ninety-fve cents on the
dollar wouldn't satisfy them, and the proposed
compromise at fifty cents on the dollar is
secuted by them.
The next meeting of the Minnesota Congre-
gational club is to be held on the evening OF
| Forefather's day, the 22d inst, for which occa
sion special and popular programme is pre-
| pared. The club is to be entertained by the
Plymouth church ladies of Minneapolis, in the
parlors of the church, and the wives of the
| members are by special vote, invited to be
present and share in the commemoration OF
the day.
The lunatic who was brought down from the
woods Wednesday morning is still at the po-
lice station. All Saturday night and yesterday
| forenoon he was raving maniac and only
| quoted down when his strength was entirely
exhausted. No physician is attending him
| and the neglect of the officials who are charged
with the disposition of the insane is a disgrace
| to the city. It is a fair sample of the Repub.
lican management of county affairs.