Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELErs.

The real estate transfers for the week just
closed aggregate $131, 706.
The morning train on the c., M. & st. P.
road was one and q half hours late yes
terday.
Yesterday was cold, cloudy, windy, dis
agreeable day, and business didn't boom
worth cent.
Tony Denier is promised an immense
house here. Humpty Dumpty and George
Adams are big favorites in Minneapolis.
The saw mills are just humping night and
day now, and will continue to do 80 as long
the present high stage of water continues.
Pretty actresses can distort their features
in wonderful manner when they scciden-
tally run the toe of slipper through hole
in the stage carpet.
Scrap Iron Blu is doing wholesale bust
ness. He has shipped twenty car loads of
old iron to the st. Louis Iron works, via the
Minneapolis q st. Louis road.
Now they do say that the variety theaters
nance recently passed prohibiting the sale of
liquors. They will probably not be molest
ed, however, so long as they keep orderly
| houses.
| Work on the Nicollet avenue sewer is be-
coming dangerous. The other evening big
fortunately at time when no one was in
the excavation. Yesterday, in blasting, q
workman named Larson had leg injured.
Talk about your Rooke-Donovan and Cess
Ryan fiascss, why Minneapolis had one of
her own yesterday. Five big pugilistic
| traass started for Western avenue to have q
tussel, and big crowd followed them. Ten
police pounced down on the crowd, and
locked the trannps up.
The Union Square company closed their
Minneapolis engagement at the Academy of
Music last evening. The play ga Celebrated
Case" was produced In better shape than
ever before witnessed in this city, yet the at
tendance was discoursgingly slim. 1t is
doubtful if this company ever returns, bat
should they do SO, the people would only be
doing their duty by filling the house to over
flowing at each perform ance.
The Metropolitan Theater Company re-
organized, and yesterday went down to
Mankato, where they play "Around the
World in Eighty Days." Mr.. j. w. Mack
and Mise Ada Boshell, of the Standard
theater, will accompany Mr.. Murray on this
trip. Mr. Mack is one of the best Irish
comedians on the road, and will take the
part played by Bryton when here. Miss
Boshell is an actress and singer of consider
able ability, and was formerly one of the
leading people in Tony Denier's Humpty
lDumpty company.
| DR.. Hammond, we'll known Minneapolis
physician, in january last married most
estimable lady, and his friends predicted a
brilliant future for the couple. But short
time elapsed, however, before the doctor be-
come too much attached to strong drink, and
the habit 80 grew upon him that it caused
his wife and friends no small amount of
anxiety. And now to cap the climax he has
suddenly disappeared and his wife is left to
shift for herself beat as she can. The reports
are conflicting as to his whereabouts. Mr.
| @. NJ. Oushman holds mortgage on the
doctors library and watch and chain to
cover rents past due. The doctors mother
is here and states that her son has gone to
Canada, but his affairs will all bs settled.
Many of the friends of the erratic doctor
think he will soon return.