Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-28
SALTWATER.

rILeen ueW DulluinBS are III COur5o VI oroC-
ton in this city.
Judge Page, of Mower county notoriety,
spent Monday in this city.
The lady barber, of Myrtle street, seems
to be doing spanking business.
Seven secret societies meet in the hall
over the GLOBE sanctum sanctorium in this
city.
The Boom company commenced opera
tions for the season on Monday, and things
are lively thereabouts.
The templet of the engine for Ellison d
Co.'s mill at South Saltwater arrived Tues
day. The engine is being built by Rouse d
Dean, of Dubuque.
The steamer Mary Barnes arrived Tuesday
with good passenger list, and 600 sacks of
wheat for the Saltwater mills. The wheat
was shipped from Franconis.
Isaac Staples has large force of men re-
pairing the building at the Lily lake driving
park. A number of horses from abroad
and at home will be in training there this
summer.
David Seeley and John Nugent. two no.
tor1ous rum blisters and soakers, were up
before Judge Smith, on Tuesday, for drunk
enness and disorderly conduct, and were
assessed the usual sum.
Louis Garyke, boy ten years of age, had
his forearm dislocated by falling from a
wagon on his fathers farm, Tuesday. The
dislocation was reduced at the city drug
store by DR.. A. l.. Zurcher.
Durant, Wheeler & Co.'s new steamer, the
r. j. Wheeler, will be ready for orders by
the last of the week. She is differed as fol-
lows: captain, William Whistler; pilot,
James Whistler; clerk, Aaron Rambo.
The steamboat Mary Barnes, running be-
tween Prescott and Taylors Falls, is classed
by an up-county paper as slower than the
Jennie Hayes. The Barnes is never taxed
to her full strength and yet makes the best
average time of any boat on the lake.
The tow boat Aunt Betsy, owned by st.
Paul parties and chartered by Charles Vital
is, of Franconis, to tow wood barges, when
about one mile this side of Osceola, Tuesday
morning, parted from her barges by the line
breaking, and running into the bank stove a
hole in her bow and sank. She now lies IN
the water up to her guards. It is rumored
that the boom company will go into mourn
| ing and that the flags at the boom are up at
| half mast. Vitallis has chartered the Ada
| b. to take her place.
Albert Haase, of South Saltwater, has be-
come raving maniac, and application has
been made to send him to st. Peter. AS the
officers of that institution refused to re-
ceive Frederick Baumann, of this county,
who was sent there few weeks ago, the
probate Judge thought it advisable, before
taking steps to send him there, to ascertain
| if he would be received, and has written to
| the superintendent. In the meantime the
patient will be attended to under the direc-
| ton of County Commissioner Cover.
A little boy some years of age, son of
| widow Hebenstreit, fell into neighbours well
on Monday, and, but for timely assistance,
would have been drowned. Mrs. Heben-
STREET, who is woman of veracity, declares
that she was foretold of the escape from
drowning of her son in a dream. She
dreamed that her boy fell into the identical
well and that the identic person who res
cued him took him out. She also dreamed
was in the we'll when the boy fell in and held
| him up until his rescuers arrived. The boy
was covered with sand, so grain may be
allowed as to Mrs. Hebenstreit's dream.
LOG SALES
By Gillespie and Harper, 100000 feet of
long logs to G. N. Clark d Co., Dubuque.
By same, 100000 feet short logs to the
Dubuque lumber company.
By same, 100000 feet mixed logs to
Kaiser & Berry, Burlington, Iowa.
By same, $4,000 feet mixed logs to Gable
lumber company, Davenport, Iowa.
LOG DRIVES.
j. s. Anderson, on the Pokogama, has
twenty-five booms out at the booming out
grounds. They made the last sluicing at the
big dam on Saturday.
O'Brien's drives were out of Hay creek
Saturday. They had run the body of theil
Snake river logs into wings from new dam
into dead water. They will arrive at Bruins
wick in ten DAYS.
Boyle has got his rear half to Fullman's
mill, and are in the Snake tomorrow.
Tuttle & Mckay are in Knife lake.
Mcmillan and Danforth's Knife river
drive are in the dead water below Greeley's
| farm.
Ann river lower drive is in Fish lake.
The Bears Ear company's boom is not
hung yet. There is plenty of water every
where.