Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-17
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBEzETS.

The wood and coal dealers smile smile
of satisfaction.
The small boy is in ecstacy oyer the pros
pect of a SNOWFALL.
Yesterday was pay Gay on the Minneapolis
g. st. Louis railroad.
A. M. Putnam, an old railroad conductor,
is quite i'll at the Nicolet.
John Dillon, the elaiuent comedian. is
booked for Minneapolis Monday evening.
Peter Rauen, Esq, is daily expected from
an extended and pleasant visit with friends
in Chicago.
Track laying is soon to be commenced on
the Hastings & Dakota cut off at the Min
neapolis harvester works.
The Hancock and English club will hold
meeting at headquarters Tuesday evening,
and talk over the situation.
The heavy rain Friday night flooded the
basement of the Manitoba elevator, and pre-
vented operations yesterday.
Rev. Thomas Wells, of gainesville, Ohio,
will enter upon his duties to-day.
Ches. Cotton has returned from his trip to
Fort Dodge, Iowa. He reports the railroad
business booming in that vicinity.
There are at present large number of
cases of typhoid fever in the city. The
physicians are hopeful that the cold weather
how % ahak kbo
Paymaster Scstt, of the c., M. d st. P.
railroad, will disburse, among the employees
of that road, at this place, on Monday, some
$4,000. large portion of this will be in
gold.
Several car loads of telegraph poles and a
large fierce of men were sent out yesterday
by the Manitoba company to repair the tele-
graph lines. They report Friday nights
storm the seyerest ever experienced.
The Greenback convention of the Twenty
sixth legislative district, called for yesterday
afternoon, failed to materialize. Possibly
they were little timid about exposing their
greeabacks to the severity. of the weather.
Among the arrivals at the Nicollet house
yesterday were F. t. Lincoln, Washington,
D. c.; j. F. Grimes, Springfield, Mass; j.
A. Smith, Hartford; Jas. Brooks, New York;
w. l.. Thompson, Fargo; Chas. d. Dean,
Amsterdam, n. Y.
gentleman, yesterday, while walking On
Washington avenue, in front of Gale & Co.'S.
slipped and came near falling on the sharp
spikes that are driven in the railing around
the stairway at that point. Would it not be
well to have those dangerous spikes re-
moved?
Col. S. w. Laird, formerly of the North
western Stove Works, in this city, fell down
the shaft of his mine near Custer City, a
few days since, and was severely injured. He
is now on his way home to Ohio. The col
onel formed many acquaintance while here.
His many friends will regret to hear of his
misfortune.
The government is making quite impor-
tant Improvements at Fort Smelling. A
large corrall is being built of rubble stone,
set in solid masonry, two stories high. The
walls are $50 feet long, and two feet thick.
The new commissary building, also of stone,
will be 1OOx30 feet, only one story in height.
The bake shop will be 4x20.
A collision between two freight trains CO.
Cured Friday night at Armstrong, place
some twenty five miles west of here on the
Manitoba road. The telegraph lines were
broken by the storm, and the extent of the
disaster was not known yesterday. Wreck
ing trains we're sent to clear the track, and
trains were not delayed yesterday.
Gottleib Gluyck, an old resident of this
county, and one of the pioneer brewers of
the State, died at his residence, short dis
lance up the river on the east side, yesterday
morning At 6 in the morning he was
taken with shock in the limbs, the disease
working up and reaching the heart half
hour later, causing instant death. He has
been engaged in building a new brick brew
cry, and was respected as a man of honor.
The Sunday Science club will discuss, for
one hour, at their regular meeting this after
noon, "Should higher education be under
the auspices of the State?'' and for the
second hour, 1.-THE qualification of the
earth's crust;" a topic preparatory to the
practical study of the rocks, soon to be in
troduced. The first question, our readers
will remember, was one of the principal
topics of Prof. d. @. Johns inaugural ad-
dress at Hamline University, delivered before
the members of the Methodist conference
The club will meet at O'Clock.
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