Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-12
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Gathered By the Special Reporters of tho
Daily Globe.
SALTWATER.

Business in this city is booming.
Carpenters and masons are short of help.
Our population has increased over 800 within
three weeks.
Good driving and carriage horses are scarce
in this market.
variety show will open up in Opera hall
Wednesday, May 10Th.
The band boys are making arrangements for
an excursion to TaylOrs Falls.
Our bill boards are covered with flaming
posters announcing Coup's circus.
The criminal calendar in our municipal
court has been light for the last few days.
City Treasurer Ryan, of Hudson, one of the
staunch Democrats of st. Croix county, was IN
the city on Tuesday.
Three prairie schooners, crowded with hu-
manity and household utensils, passed through
the city yesterday, bound westward.
Work for the completion of the Universalist
church was commenced on Tuesday and will be
pushed until fully ready for occupancy.
L. e. Thompson, Esq. is attending the cir
cult court of the Eighth judicial circuit of
Wisconsin, now in session at Hudson.
A bad break is noticed in the retaining wall
on the Third street side of Miss Cutters proper
| ty on the corner of that street and Chestnut
A freight car loaded with shingles and lum-
Der ran off the track at the upper depot Tues
day, doing considerable damage to the plat
| form.
| The report was circulated last evening that 6
little girl, daughter of Mark Webster, Esq
was seriously injured by stone thrown by
a careless boy.
Forty Swedish immigrants arrived in the
city Monday afternoon, direct from the ole
country. Washington county is getting 1T
share of immigrants.
The market for timothy hay is quoted at $12
per ton; wild $40; oats 35c per bushel, anC
wheat straw go per ton, with the supply no
equal to the demand.
The steamer M. Whitmcre left Monday anG
the Helen Schulenburg Tuesday, with RATS o
lumber, lath and shingles, for Schulenburg
Boecheler & Co., of St. Louis.
This city is in need of such an establishment
as Julius Rees is to open in Opera House block
on the 18th. 1t is to be known as the New
York One-price Clothing House.
remonstrance has been put in circulation
sthat has received large number of signatures
against running an engine on the line OF tract
to be built across Main and Second streets.
Miss Aggie Green, our talented lady elocu
Zionist and dramatic reader, was greeted by
large and enthusiastic audience at Lakeland
Monday evening. A special invitation was ex
tended for another reading at no distant day
At meeting of the fire engine company, hell
last evening, John Lyon was elected foreman
and Charles Burns assistant. Hereafter al
firemen will be fined if not at the engine hous
on roll call. Part of the money donated by l.
E. Torinus, is to be expended in buying rubbe
suits for the nozzlemen,
Ten patients have been received at the cit
hospital, of which number one has died an
two been discharged. The total amount o
cash subscriptions foots up $483.SO of whic
amount 1898 has been paid out for necessar
articles. The amount remaining in the hand
of the county treasurer is $295.07.
A man covered with blood aud dust mad
his appearance in the city Monday night ant
claimed that when about two miles out, acros
the bridge on the Wisconsin side, he was me
by three men who knocked him out of hi
wagon and robbed him of $95 and silve
watch. The matter being sifted, it was lesrne
that the man, whois employed in brewery
was drunk and fell out of his wagon, receivin
severe bruises by the fall, and lost his watch
The money was found in his pocket and hi
watch on the road and the team at a farmer s
At meeting of the directors of the Still
water building association, held on Monds
evening, the following officers were elected
E. l.. Hospes, President.
f. E. Joy, Vice President.
Theodore Jassoy, Treasurer.
| f. A. Seymour, Secretary.
@. P. Gregory. Attorney.
Inspection Oommittee-Geo. Law, Theodoi
Jassoy, F. E. Joy.
Financial Committee-H. J. Chambers,
Y. Chase, W. R. Lehmiche.
| LOG SALES.
Gillespie & Hurjer to Chas. Betoher, of Re
Wing 500, 900 feet of logs.
Durant, Wheeler & Co., by steamer L. +
Staples, Is strings of logs to Cat-tail slough.