Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-23
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETS.


A. Bunker, of Albert Lea, was in the city yes
terdsy.
@. @. Washburn has returned to his home in
Madison.
The German Catholic fair, at Harmonic hall,
is in every way success.
parlor concert was given by the Derrick
house boarders last evening.
A regular meeting of Minneapolis lodge was
held last evening at EIliot's hall.
A regular communication of Khurum lodge
A. F. aud a NJ. was held last night.
More st. Paul logs were shot through the
sluice yesterday than on any previous day.
The Boston one-price clothing store is being
fitted up with steam apparatus for heating pur-
poses.
Remember the Democratic torch light pro-
cession and mass meeting next Wednesday
evening.
Examinations in our public schools will be-
gin on Monday November 1st, instead of Oc-
tober 25th.
Ohas. Cotton starts this morning for New
York on business in connection with the new
bookstore.
The Coltons are preparing to open a large
book and stationery store in the nne, new Do
mestic building.
D. a. Secombe, in despair, has Withdrawn
hi s name as a candidate for judgeship honors
at the coming election.
Z. II. Steele is putting in his store six Lon
don patent concentrated gas burners of two
hundred candle power.
The part of the government apron being
built is loaded down with stone to make it
more secure than the old structure.
The celebration OF the eighteenth snniver-
sary of Minnehaha lodge tonight. The exer-
cises to be literary and musical.
The Mississippi and Rum river boom com.
pany have mammoth drive of logs which
have reached the mouth of Rum river.
W. W. Regain, G. W. T., will be master of
ceremonies at the public session OF the Social
Temple on the East side, this evening.
The Tribune yesterday published card from
W, W. McNair. Withdrawing from the legisla-
tive contest in the Twenty-ffth district.
The worn and dangerous planking at the east
entrance to the suspension bridge is to be re-
placed by the commissioner with new planks.
brought in by the farmers yesterday. They
are now engaged in blowing for the next
years crop.
The Taylors Falls branch of the Minneapolis
s. st. Louis road will probably be. completed
next week. Work is being pushed with all
possible expedition.
Chss. A. Gau, proprietor of the Union
House, who was recently thrown from his bug
gy in a runaway, and had his shoulder blade
crushed. is able to be about again.
The small boys were Juggling torches through
the streets yesterday that the weary Garfield
boys threw away on returning from the jam
boree at st Paul Thursday night.
]. R. Palmer, of Baltic, Ind, was in town
yesterday. He went to st. Paul last evening"
but will return to-day to await the arrival of
his father from the Red River valley.
Two of our local lumber firms have refu sed
to accord with the lumber board of trade in
the rise in the price. They will probably re-
ceive all the orders they can handle.
Scrap Iron Bills difficulties do not seem to
be settled yet, it would seem. 1t is reported
that various parties hold his worthless checks
for different amounts. An Investigation will
probably be had in the courts.
q L.
came bounding around the curve at the WASH
ington avenue crossing Yesterday afternoon,
switch engine was standing on the track, and
a collision was narrowly averted.
At the Nicollet house yesterday were reg
istered: e. W. Shepard New York; Willis T.
King and wife, of Pittsburgh. Pa. A. G.. Fow-
Ter, Chicago; W. 81. Kelly. Owatonna; Ohas.
NJ. Hill. chihuahua, Col; ]. A. Cummings,
Duluth.
A. W. Rosander, Swede in the employ of
Cole & Hammond, had his right arm broken
Yesterday by load of lumber falling upon it,
The other arm was also considerably bruised.
Thirty-fve dollars were subscribed for the
man by the employees of the mill.
The broken wheel at the Washburn @ mill
was taken out yesterday. The buckets were
all twisted off, and the wheel looked as though
it had been In the vicinity of nitro glycerine
explosion. 1t was broken by the force of the
water alone, the pressure upon it being about
100 tons.
Every possible effort is being made by the
Republican ring leaders to manufacture vot-
ers. Applications for naturalization papers
are pouring into the office of the clerk of the
courts at remarkable rate-and, what is
more remarkable. they are under the guidance
of the Republican political engineers.
Yesterday as the motor train was passing
Washington avenue and Third street, ragged
specimen of young America ran out and placed
block of wood on the track. The train had
to be stopped and the block removed. That
lad is candidate for some bad place. begin
ming thus early to obstruct railroad tracks.
Messrs. Wilson & Lawrence have brought
suit against the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani
toba railroad company for damages for their
client MIR. Birdman, whD with his family were
run over by train on Nicollet Island. Five
separate suits were commenced, for the various
members of the family, with damages varying
from $500 to $4,000.
If there is a society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals in this city they are i'm
plored to visit the hill leading up by the EN-
pire mill, and what is taking place every
two or three minutes. The hill was formerly
planked, but now the mud is deep and soft,
while few planks of the old road remain, and
have the effect of SO many boulders. 1t is a
pity to see the horses with their great loads of
wood and lumber struggling up this hill. The
city seems in no hurry to tx the road, as it is
used by the mills almost exclusively.
HMr. A. n. Putnam, who has been suffering
for some two months with malaria contract