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


Some of the milkmen came in on runners
yesterday.
Postmaster Keith has returned from his
Western trip.
Trains were on all on time yesterday. not
withstanding the storm.
'Scrap Iron Bin' recently delivered tenn
perance lecture in Milford.
The police court was en- livened yesterday
with the cases of nine DRINKS.
The coroner's jury on the Mianehaha collis-
ion adjourned again last night.
In some sections of the city great many
cases of diphtheria are reported.
The monthly meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the w. @. A. will be held this afternoon
at o'clock.
Horse owners report that the turning point
has been reached, and the epizooti, is begin
ming to decline.
The men at work on the new Pillsbury A
mill were obliged to retreat from their dizzy
heights yesterday.
Chief Bracket, of the fire department, has
one horse that is liable to 60 up the spout
from the epi1ootic.
The Mississippi & Rum River Boom com.
pany have all their boys under control and are
ready for the winter.
William Ahler, a colored citizen, was sent up
for sixty days yesterday, for the larceny of a
coat and pair of pants.
The liabilities of N. B. Harwood & Go. are
still increasing. and the aggregate now consid-
erablv exceeds 100000.
The Knights of Pythias' Hall association is
making arrangements for grand ball on the
evening of Thanksgiving day.
The man who left his team at the Union iron
works some three weeks ago, has finally called
at Browns livery stable and taken the animal
away.
Owing to the storm Wednesday the Manitoba
yard yesterday was SO blocked with wheat that
the switch and transfer men about gave up in
despair.
The motor train was about failure yester-
day, owing to the ice on the track. The pillow
was kept at work all day and the train will
probably run on time to-day.
John O'Neill, charged with stealing seven
blankets from @. J. Schindeldecker, Wednes-
day night, was fined $50 and costs YESTERDAY
In default he was sent to Jail for sixty days.
The regular monthly meeting of the Me-
| chanics' and Workingmen's Loan and Building
| association will be held on Saturday evening"
November Ii, at the Board of Trade rooms
Wednesday evening Walter Smith met with
| severe accident in his fathers meat shop on
Hennepin avenue. He was cutting meat, when
| the heavy knife glanced and cut a deep cash
! on his left hand.
meeting will be held this evening at the
hall corner of Washington and Fourth avenue
south, by members of the different Knights of
Pythias lodges, to consider the question of or
ganizing drill corps.
| The fire alarm yesterday forenoon was occa
| stoned by a burning straw heap at the Chaly-
beate spring on the East side The fire appar-
atus was hauled over at walk, as though o
| fire was of no account anyway.
1t is reported that ''Cub," McOlintock, con-
ductor of the freight that collided with the
gravel train at Minnehaha, and through whose
carelessness it is supposed the accident occur
red, is now with his wife in Red Wing.
Last evening fellow wss caught in the act of
| driving off horse and buggy belonging to Har-
Ian Gale. he was partly intoxicated and gave
/ his name differently to several different per-
| sons The police took him to the station.
Yesterday forenoon large stone, ten feet
long and four feet wide, fell from the top of
the fourth story IS it was being placed in posi-
| ton on the new Eastman block. II struck on
| the sidewalk, breaking the plank and timbers
underneath, as well as the stone itself, into
| fragments.
1t is expected that the new railroad to Tay-
| lors Falls will be one of the most popular ex-
| cursion lines in this section of the country.
The Dalles of st. Oroix and other scenery there
| form great attraction, which the railroad
company will take advantage of another sea.
| son and inaugurate grand series of excur-
| sions.
Rev. E. D. Neill, of our city, has led more
than ordinarily eventful life. He was private
secretary to Abraham Lincoln and Andy john
son during part of their terms. He was the
| father of our State Historical society, and is
| the author of history of Minnesota. He has
| been the most untiring and jealous worker for
| the building up of Macalister college, and he
| is now president of that institution and rector
of Christ church. So says the Minneapolis
Evening Journal.
Belmont at Liberty.