Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-20
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Gathered by the Special Reporters of the
Daily Globe.
SALTWATER.


Services at the different churches were well at
tended Sunday.
EMonday morning opened up decidedly wintry, with
q slight fall Of SNOW.
Miss Aggie Green our accomplished lady elocu-
tonist was greeted with full house at Hammond,
Wis.,, Saturday evening.
James Dwyer and Mrs. Kelly were made happy
Monday morning by Rev. Father Murphy. Both par
ties are old residents Of this city.
man, by the name Of Pickering, working in the
Saltwater elevator, got two of his fingers caught in
the elevator, injuring them severely.
John Chestnut, while at work on the bolt saw in
Staples MILL yesterday afternoon, had four of the
fingers of his right hand fearfully lacerated.
horse attached to A. O. Hospes' delivery wagon
ran away yesterday Pine street, throwing the dri
Yer out and smashing several rods of picket fence
belonging to Matt. Clark.
An alarm of fire Monday forenoon called out the
fire department In hot haste. The alarm was caused
by the burning out of Of the chimneys of house
back Of the Keystone house.
Charley Clegg, of the California fruit store Third
street, is enlarging his place of business. When
completed his store will be Is by 80 feet with glass
front and all modern improvements.
John Delahant was up before Judge Smith yester-
day for disturbance Of the peace. He was fined
IS and costs. Frank Keep also put up S. and costs
for imbibing too freely of the coll of gladness."
Complaint has been made of August Gore, who
lives in the old city lookup, for keeping vicious
dog, the dog having bitten two persons recently.
OloI VI FOnC6 OuOrIdu udS OrQ0r6u tu0 QOB buOI,
which will dispose Of the case.
AS general thing our male thread singers are
peaceable set, but nevertheless lively scrimmage
took place in tailor shop Second street Saturday
evening. The weapons used being large pair Of
sheers one side and ironing board the other.
Several severe bruises were given before the COM
batants were parted.
Joe Wolf, our jolly brewery man, proposed to go
to Baldwin, VIA, the other day, on important bust
ness and took the train at the lower depot for the
junction to meet the Chicago express. Before ar
irving at the junction, however, Joe fell asleep and
slept soundly until the train returned to the city It
took the train hands some time to explain to him why
the train didn't start. When Joe took in the situa-
ton he was the maddest man hereabouts, and even
1t isn't safe to ask Joe when he's going to Bald
win.
The house of Mr.. F. Roesche, about two miles
from the city, in the Poutwen settlement, was struck
by lightning about O'Clock Sunday morning last.
The shingles roof boards and rafters were torn off
or demolished on one side of the roof; the siding
the wall of one of the rooms. Other eccentricties
Of the fluid were observable about the building and
premises, but no one was hurt. One of the boys
was stunned slightly, but soon recovered. Damage
about 500; fully insured In the Minneapolis Farm
ers' insurance company.
AFIRE SCARE.
A girl frantically waving handkerchief and wildly
gesticulating at the head of the Main street stairs
together with the appearance Of pufs of smoke
the residence of O. A. Bromley about o'clock yes
terdsy afternoon created tremendous excitement in
the city. Crowds of men rushed up the stairs and
soon extinguished the fire, which proved to
be case of spontaneous combustion in
pile of fertlizing back of Bromley's barn. Though
slight damage done the risk was fearful as the
fire was located in the very center of group Of res
licences and barns which would all inevitably have
been destroyed had not the alarm been promptly
given. The engine was otherwise engaged in some
renovating process at the city hall, and would not
have been of any assistance until loss Of valuable
property would have fallen to the deyouring fam