Daily globe., 1880-11-08

nehaha. from grief; but the rumor could not
be confirmed. He was married three weeks
ago to daughter of d. M. Baldwin, of Red
Wing.
This evening Miss Phosa McAllister will
make her debut before the public as Mercy
Merrick in the dramatization of Wilkie Collins
novel entitled, ''The New Magdalen." This is
a capital play and will undoubtedly attract big
houses.
The track leading to the new Omaha depot is
up steep grade and forms an abrupt curve.
The few trains that have passed over have
thrown the track all out of gear, and dozen
men were repairing the mischief Yesterday.
Railroad men say it is a bad yard to get into.
For the week ending Friday the Millers' as
sociation purchased $780, 900 bushels of wheat,
which will be parcelled out to the millers to-
day. These are the biggest receipts of any
one week Saturday the association deposited
$l23, 900 for their agents to draw upon to-day.
The board of county mmissioners meets to-
day. The special committee on corruption can
now make their report of mismanagement in
the auditor 8 office, without fear of its having
political significance" or any other signif.
canoe to the benefit or detriment of the
county.
The falling of the North Star smoke stack
Saturday night was caused by the bursting of
the iron bands to which the sustaining ropes
are attached. The SCOT took fire and caused
the stack to expand, and it was about half
spoiled by the fall. 1t was repaired yesterday
and will be put up to-day.
The new time table on the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road went into effect Yesterday. No
change in the existing trains will be made, but
a train will leave here at o'clock in the after
soon for TaylorB Falls, arriving at 1885 P. M.
The train from Taylors Falls will leave that
place at z A. NJ. and arrive at II :15 A. M.
Saturday the guy ropes on the south side of
the suspension bridge, at the east end, were
hauled out of the river, where they have laid
since spring. When the stone anchorage was
undermined by the flood, the ropes were de-
tached from the bridge and dropped into the
river. The old stone anchorage will be sub
stituted with an iron shaft, which will be sunk
deep into the ground.
N. B. Harwood & Go. confessed to six ad-
ditional judgments Saturday involving the sum
of $35, ,248, 80, making the total of confessions
$42O, ,473.06. Eleven writs of attachment,
amounting to $5l, 5S427, were also fled against
the firm. There will probably be more or less
litigation over the priority of claims, unless
some arrangement is made with the creditors
by which the firm can resume business.
serious row, growing out of the strike in
the st. Louis railroad yard, took place on lower
Washington street Saturday night. McLaney,
the newly-appointed yard master, and some of
the strikers got into trouble, whereupon one
Reddy drew knife and was about to cut Nc
Laney into pieces when officers interfered ana
marched him off to the station. Judge Cooley
will be Reddy for this matter this morning.
The following notice was published yester-
day. ''The West side riflemen, who cleaned
out the East side Bucktails and their allies
three weeks ago. will give thems chance to
win back lost honors on Monday afternoon. at
o'clock sharp. Every rifleman on either side
eye on the river bluff, at 200 yards, is cordially
invited to be present. Any kind of gun with
open sights will be admissible
The funeral of George A. Terrence. the vic
tim of the disaster at Minnehaha, was held yes
terday afternoon at his late residence, 304 South
Fourth street. The services were directed by
the Knights of Pythias, of which the deceased
was a respected member, and there was a large
attendance of friends and others. The railroad
company provided special train to take the
remains and party to and frc m Layman's GEM
etery. The deceased was 45 years old, and
leaves wife, two children and an invalid
mother to mourn his loss.
Some movement should be made to have the
manufacturing department of N. B. Harwood
& 90. kept in operation. A business employ
ing between 200 and 300 hands ought not to be
allowed to remain idle. 1t is a great loss to
the city, and one that will be felt for long
time if nothing is done. The goods made in
the establishment are well known and COM
mand ready sale. 1t is not losing industry,
but profitable if properly managed, and for
this reason, if for no other, the manufacturing
should go on. If allowed to be failure the
effect cannot be but injurious to Minneapolis
as manufacturing place.
backer, superintendent of the
Cottage hospital, is in pack of trouble. Dur
ing his absence from the city some weeks age
the board of supervisors of the poor passed a
resolution that no more patients be taken to
the Cottage hospital, unless the board was as
sured that the patients would receive proper
attention. The resolution stirred up those in
charge of the hospital, and the patients were
afterwards given decent care. On the Rev.
Knickerbacker's return hume he wrote an open
letter to the supervisors regretting that the has
ty action had been taken by the board, express
ing his sorrow that the trouble had occurred
and whitewhashing things as much as possible.
Mayor Rand, chairman of the board, now re-
plies, and while telling nothing new, he shows
conclusively that the patients at the hospital
were grossly neglected, and that some chilled
and died that might otherwise have been