Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-26
CITY GLoBuLEs.

call is OUT Tor meetng Ol luluucIMou oo
the board of trade rooms st. Paul, Saturday,
July 80, 1881, to complete the Organization OF
the Northwestern Lumbermen's ASSOCIATION.
Adjutaut General Van Ceve yesterday re-
ceived notice of the allowance OF invalid
pension claim at the rate of SIS per month,
the arrearages amounting to $3,3SS.5O.
The Rice Guards, the colored militia COM
pany Of the city, have secured from the State
arsenal sufficient number OF guns to arm
the company for the emancipation celebration,
August 1, at White Bear lake.
The board of abatement of the county COM
missioners met at p. m. yesterday pursuant
to adjournment, and went through the Fourth
ward assessment, and adjourned until 3 p. IN.
to-day. The board will probably complete
its labors this week. -
The committee on streets OF the city council
will meet this evening to.consider the matter
of widening Seventh street, and the commit
tee will also proceed to inspect the new street
railway extending from the corner OF Rice
street and Summit avenue to University ave-
nue. distance of nearly mile.
Capt. H. A. Castle, who has a wheat field
on the banks of Silver lake, commenced har-
vesting his wheat yesterday. This is about
the earliest commencement of harvest in Min
nesota for number of years. Capt. Castle
says his wheat will all grade No. and that
the yield will exceed that of any former year.
The Wednesday evening concerts of the
Great Western band are an attractive feature
at that popular resort. The electric light is
in full operation, and the scene is charming
ly beautiful. No pleasanter evening can be
passed than in attending one OF these con-
certs. You can pass the entire evening at the
lake and return to the city at seasonable
hour.
At about S:35 last evening brilliant meteor
of the apparent size of star of the first mag
nitude passed over the city from the south
east to the northwest, and seeming to observ-
ers on upper Third street to be not more than
six or seven hundred feet above the street. 1t
had quite long, brilliant, white tail, and it's
motion did not seem to be faster than that OF
a rocket.
John Anderson, Esq, proprietor OF the
Skend;navcn, of Chicago, the only daily
Scandinavian paper in the United States, and
one of large circulation and influence, is In st.
Paul since yesterday morning, on his return
from a tour of the Red River valley, but will
depart this morning by the l. u nj. train for
Southern Iowa. Mr.. Anderson is very pleas
gentleman, as we'll as a successful business
man.
Governor Pillsbury yesterday received a
telegram from the Baronet Lumber company
of Baronet, Wis, rendering a car of lumber
for the benefit of the New Ulm sufferers. The
generous tender was thankfully accepted by
the Governor on behalf of the sufferers, and
instructions forwarded the donors as to the
manner of shipment to secure its delivery at
New Ulm free of charge.
Joseph Moses, S. Il. Wright and Fl. F. Han
son were Yesterday appointed by the governor
on the part of the State, to examine the bridge
in the State road from Fergus Falls to Her
man, over the Mustinka river, near Fergus
Falls, and to audit and pass upon the accounts
connected with the construction of such
bridge, as provided in the legislation under
which the bridge was built.
A man who gave his name as A. NJ. Nelson,
carpenter by trede, in the employ of the st.
Paul & Duluth Railroad company, made ap-
plcation at the Municipal court yesterday af
ternoOn for a warrant against a young man
named Robert Birtue an employe- of the same
company, who he suspects of stealing $1S5 in
money from him on Saturday night. Nelson
says the money was in his vest, which hung
in the basement of the shop, and from all that
Nelson can learn Birtue was the lad who
took it.
The map of the city of St. Paul is being
constantly changed. Yesterday there were
two new plats filed with the register of deeds,
known to the records as "Reserve Park Gar
den lots" and sBohrer's subdivision of lot 5
of Bass outlots. +" The locality of the latter
is we'll known. Reserve Park Garden lots en-
braces the sw4 of the nwA and the sw4 Of
section 9, town %, range %, excepting the
north 33 4-l0 acres of the neA of said sw4 !,
and is divided into five and ten acre lots.
Alderman Jerry Mccarthy returned home
yesterday from his large farm in Stevens
county. The jovial alderman says his crop of
$40 acres of wheat and 160 acres of oats ne er
looked better, and promises to be the best he
has ever harvested He is sorry to say that
this is not true of some of his neighbo1s'
crops On the low fiat lands he says at least
one-fourth will not pay to cut, and to a some
what less extent the same is true of certain
upland fields. The alderman says he will start
the reapers in his wheat fields on Friday or
Saturday.