Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-11
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELETs.

persons.
A meeting of the Boom company will be
held to-day.
The X Of p. ball last evening was very
pleasant event to ell concerned.
Alderman Barge will bnild four story block
on his corner as soon as spring opens.
Lii. F. P. Lowell, the East side grocery
man, is confined 10 his residence with sick
ness.
The cotton mill has been closed this week,
while a new boiler was being put in, and other
alterations made.
Col Platt B. Walker leaves to-day for Wash
ington, in the interest OF Honduras railroads
and mines and other Improvements in Central
America
The stockholders OF the Bristol Silver mining
company have received word that another sill
yer brick, vllued at % PSI, is in shipment to
this city.
It Is understood that the resignation of j.
Newton Nird as city editor of the Tribune has
net been accepted by that journal, aud Mr..
Mind will probably remain on the paper.
The p. p. says the ice men are hauling out
blocks two feet in thickness" below the
suspension bridge, which is about as slippery
as many other statements in that paper.
The monthly meeting of the Mechanics and
Workiugmen's Loan and Building association
will be held this evening, commencing at 80
at the board of trade rooms in the city hail.
The newlY-completed residence of Cir. o.
F. Davis situated at the corner of Sixteenth
avenue south and Twenty fifth street, which
Is outside the city limits, was destroyed by
fire Thursday morning.
A malignant form of diphtheria is prevail
ing at the county poor farm. Ore child in the
care OF the institution died on Wednesday,
and two of Superintendent Connolly children
are sick with the disease.
Whoat dropped to go cents yesterday. The
temporary rise Immediately after election was
ascribe6 TO the success of Garfield. The indi-
cations of better times after the Republica n
success don't seem to pan out much.
The dangerous operation of tracheotomy was
performed Thursday night On L 5 year old
child Of s. J. Wardenburg East Minneapolis,
that was dangerously sick with diphtheria.
The child was little better last night.
The resignation of @. n. Fay as city editor
of the EUning Journal viii take place on the
Ist of January. Fit is Nj. Fay's intention to
depart from the field of journalism here, Min
neapolis viii Lose pleasing and ready writer.
Tenth street is mostly monopoiized ,ow-a-
days BY local sportsmen as a race course. and
pedestrians must look out for themselves on
the crossings. Yesterday a little girl came
within an inch Of being struck and run over
by one OF the local flyers.
The Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul company
are spending great deal more in the effort to
keep the Hastings { Duluth open than the
revenue of the road amounts to, and will keep
the iron horse rolling through that section if
possible, regardless of expense.
check-boy employed by Goodfellow s.
Eastman, whose honesty has been in question
for some time. was caught stealing small
sum of money Thursday. The lad confessed
the theft of Sc so check some time ago. and
WIS ct once discharged by the firm.
John Furness was arrested again yesterday
on a warrant sworn prt by l.. Roberts, charg-
ing Furness with violating the Sunday liquor
law on November 2Sth. The temperance peo-
pie are getting more determined than ever,
and propose TO see to 1t that the law is en-
forced.
4 boiler maker in this city has made twenty
rev boilers during the season, whe--ss. last
wear only half dozen were turned out. The
present season seems to have been one of I'M
p2ralleled acticity in the building of mills and
manufactures in this city, and all over the
northwest. The course Of empire is still tray
cling on.
The German NJ. E. church, corner of Fifth
stree and Fourth avenue south narrowly es.
capped destruction by fire Thursday afternoon
The wooden partition in the basement through
which the pipe from the furnace passes caught
fire. but was discovered before much progress
had been made. 4 funeral was in progress at
the time, but the services were not inter
rupted.
/ man called upon Clerk Dunn yesterday for
warrant against the proprietor of 1.-THE Wash
ineton Avenue house. He claimed the hotel
Tuau had 81 belonging to hem, ana had also
knocked him down. There was no mark upon
;he man, however, and Clerk Dunn promptly
decided that it was fish story and no warrant
y IS forthcoming.
i deaf and dumb man was up for intoxica-
ton yesterday. When called to the bar he
made motion of putting a glass
To his lips AID then tumbling
evidence of a plea Of guilty. He was let
20, "a il was the birthday Of Judge Cooley,
and he was in a particularly lenient mood.
Mayor Dawson has, closed all the gambling
houses in st. PAU. Mayor Rand is spared any
such performance in Minneapolis, cause we
don't got any such naughty places here. -
Euening Journal 1t is quite probable that
mayor hanu might ma something OF the KIND
IN minneapolis if he had his eyes fairly open
Because an officer can't see anything, is no
sign that it does not exist. As matter of
fact, there are places in this city as naughty
as any that ever existed in st. Paul. and if
Mayor Rand, or no one else, doesn't close them
pretty soon, it Elay be the duty of the GLOBE
TO wake up the mayor and tell him thing or
two in the near future.
It has been subject OF remark for some
tina that the postofice facilities of this city
were in many respects deficient. Additional
delivery windows and interior arrangements
10 correspond are perhaps needed most, but
the clerical and carrier forces are also too small
for the speedy transaction of the business. 1t
Is doubtful if = city of 1000 inhabitants has
so poor postoffice accommodations as Minneap-
OILS. Some time ago Postmaster Keith applied
to the postofhce department for the increase of
the carrier and clerical force, but has received
reply that the appropriation will not admit
Of II, and no relief can be granted until the be-