Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-24
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELETs.

Iuel famine IN THIS CITY.
More lumbermen left for the woods yester-
day than on any previous day.
The fuel companies have special policemen
keeping guard over their woodpiles.
The snow storm yesterday made the railroad
men look blue. They predicted another
blockade.
f the new Turner's hall has
been postponed from the 10Th to the 9th Of
December.
The dedication of the Hebrew temple, Fifth
street and Fourth avenue south, will take place
on Thursday, at $50 P. M.
Yesterday forenoon forty quarts of milk
were mingled with the beautiful snow about
the city hall by a runaway milk team.
Secretary Sturtevant reports that last weeks
wheat receipts were 324.6O0 bushels. The
shipments of -four were 81, 572 barrels.
|. Mr.. J. B. Reese, travelling agent for the
Union Pacific railroad, arrived in the city last
night and will remain two or three days.
The State appropriation for wolf bounties is
can expect no reward for their labors.
Saturday evening the Uhildren's Wide
Awake Temperance society will meet with Mrs
Farr, 42S Nicollet avenue, to begin arrange
ments for Christmas tree.
Sheriff Thompson posted a notice, yesterday,
at N. B. Harwood's wholesale store of the sale
of the stock on Tuesday, Dec.'8, commencing
at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Mr.. Charles E. Wales, of the Northwestern
Fuel company. estimates that Minneapolis con-
sumes in one year, 25, QUO cords Of hard wood.
125000 loads of pine wood, and l0, 900 tons of
coal.
Yesterday morning rumor was started
somewhere, and gained wide circulation, that
the First National bank had failed. The bank
seems to be all right, however, and no one ia
hurt.
The twenty-fi fifth anniversary of the we'd
ding of MIR. and Mrs. 81. Mattison was cele-
brated last evening, and was brilliant sue
cess, both in attendance and in the value of
the presents received.
J. A. Newell, shipping agent for tho Chicago,
Milwaukee & Sc. Paul road, dropped 800 gold
piece soon after stepping from the pay Car the
other day, and is anxiously looking for il to
roll up from some quarter.
This evening Rev. L. 81. Cobb will tell about
the st, Louis Congregational council at the
Second Congregational church. Rev. A. n.
Ho I'd will also be present and give an account
of the visit of the coun oil to the Indian Terri
toro.
At the next meeting of the city council the
st. Anthony Falls Water Power company will
ask the privilege to construct the new canal on
the East Side, extending down main street
from the north side of Second avenue north, to
the south side of Fifth avenue.
Lumley, the mince pie man, started for st.
Paul yesterday morning with load of his
celebrated eating material. A fifty pound keg
dropped off on the suspension BRIDGE and the
pie stuff was distributed along the bridge. SO
much less Thanksgiving pie for st. Paurs
hungry people.
While one of Boilers men was hauling two
huge stones across the suspension bridge yes
terday the stone fell off and obstrncted one
side of the bridge for an hour. While reload
Ing them Swede in some manner got rolled
into the six inch space between the bridge and
street car and vas considerably hurt. He
was carried home.
fire broke out yesterday afternoon in a
straw stack at the corner .of Second atreet
and Fifth avenue south, East Side. The whole
department turned out but the straw stack
mos6y went up in smoke. 1t was the property
of Averill, Russell & Carpenter, paper makers
and was worth about $50. It is thought the
fire caught from pipe of one of the men
pitching the straw.
The Fifteenth District lodge, I. o. G.. T.,
comprising some twenty-four subordinate
lodges In the counties of Hennepin, Ramsey,
and Washington, will convene in regular ses-
sion with the st. Paul lodges on December
l, 1880. It may be we'll to state that there
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district with steady and healthy increase of
embership.
John Anderson had business at the munich
pal court yesterday morning. 1t seems that
on Monday evening Anderson had a little trou-
BILE with Louis Patterson.at the corner Of Wash
lngtCn and Fourteenth avenue south. He
knocked Patterson down and gave him O Sc
we're threshing. Patterson was SO disabled
that he couldn't appear at court yesterday
morning and the was continued until 2
o'clock. He was still too sick to appear. An
derson entered plea that he was all in fun
when he beat the fellow, and through some
hook or crook of the law was discharged.
The remains of John O'Flaherty, who was
cut into pieces by the cars last Friday night,
are still resting in box at Vail & Fredereck's
undertaking rooms. The coroner's inquest
was concluded last Saturday night. MIR. Fred
erick was asked yesterday why the remains
had not been buried. He replied that the cor
oner had given no orders as to the disposition
of the remains. Coroner Nelson was hunted
up and asked what was to be done with the
man. He wanted to know what man, and af-
ter an explanation of the circumstances, he did
remember something about it; but the affair
had entirely passed his memory. He thanked
the GLOBE for refreshing his memory, and
said he would at once issue an order for the
burial of the remains in the potter's field. This
is apparently bad place for friendless man
to die.