Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-06
MINNEAPOLIS aLOBELETs.

MINNEAPOLIS GLO6GA6X6s
Remember that the Boston restaurant is al.
ways open.
Judge Seagrave Smith returned from Hast.
ings yesterday.
Judge Lochren left yesterday to hold court
in Judge Cox's district.
The Silver Greys will give another ball in
Archibald's hall on Friday evening.
The pest house is being repaired and put in
readiness for use in case of an emergency.
The State Millers association viii hold
meeting at the Nicollet house to-day.
The Minneapolis Eastern Railroad company
lost about $4,000 worth of property at the
fire.
Hiawatha Lodge I. o. G. T., will hold
regular meeting at No. 251 Nicollet avenue,
this evening.
DR.. Ames reports the men injured at the fire
doing as well, and they will soon be able to
report for duty.
A meeting of the directors OF tine Children's
home will be held this afternoon at Q o'clock
in the College hospital.
The insurance adjusters will arrive to-day
and proceed at once on the work fixing up the
respective losses incurred at the Sunday fire.
Robert w. Brown, a prominent real estate
dealer, and an old citizen of Minneapolis, died
ct his residence on Sunday night, with typhoid
fever.
It is reported that pieces of stones from the
Minneapolis mill, which was blown up by the
explosion, were picked up on Washington
avenue.
At last those long waited for and much
talked about safety gates at the st. Paul, Min
neapolis q Manitoba crossing of Washing
ton avenune are in place.
The ladies of the Fifth Presbyterian church
will give supper this evening in the new
Buckendorf store building on Western avenue,
corner of Nineteenth street.
Grape has been placed over the doors of the
fire department headquarters in memory of
the brave heroes who gave up their lives while
struggling with the flames on Sunday morn
ing.
Architect Burlington is drafting the plans
and specifications for the elegant $3.50, 1000 no.
tel which Vice. President Hill, of the st. P,
M & M. railroad is to build at Lake Mime
tonka.
The members of the old volunteer Hook and
Ladder company, No. 1, held special meet
ing last evening, and consummated arrange
ments for attending the funeral of their late
comrade, Neil Frederick.
The Crusaders T. A. society will hold a
meeting at their rooms in Catholic Associa-
ton hall this evening. A fine musical and
| literary programme has been prepared, and
| will be presented to their guests.
During the fire on Sunday morning, Nick
Steffes. foreman of Hose company No.s4. was
hurled by the explosion from shed, on which
| he was standing, to the platform below, q
distance of nearly twenty-five feet. He es-
| capped, comparatively, uniniured.
A man was captured by night Waterman
last evening, for stealing sack of flour from
freight car in the Milwaukee railway yard.
The man freely admits the theft, but urges in
| excuse that his family had nothing to eat and
were hungry.
little girl was quite severely bitten in the
hand by an ugly dog on the street, at the cor
ner of Washington avenue and Third avenue
| south, Yesterday. The peanut vender at the
place dispatched the brute with shot from
his revolver. The little girl was taken at once
/
| for.
The uncle of the unfortunate Emma Peter
son, who was beheaded by train of cars on
Nicollet island, writes to Coroner Fairbairn:
| "Let the authorities bury her, This sounds
harsh indeed, coming as it does from blood
relation (the only one in America) who is well
endowed with worldly possessions. The poor,
unfortunate girl will be buried a pauper.
| 4fSer the Disaster.
Large crowds of people visited the milling
district yesterday to view the scene of the
sad disaster. The smouldering ruins looked
black and foreboding. A large crew of work.
men were busily engaged in removing the
heavy timber and debris in the hope of recov-
ering the remains of poor John Tuhey, but
| up to last night were unsuccessful.
| The report published in yesterdays GLOBE
was substantially correct and gave the esti-
mates of losses, insurance, etc., which yester-
days developments failed to alter materially.
During the morning Gates, the fireman,
supposed to have been bHried in the ruins at
the time of the explosion of the Minneapolis
mill, reported for duty. This leaves the
death roll at four. The insurance adjusters
are expected to arrive to-day and begin at once
to fix values, losses, etc. No trouble is antici-
pated by the mill men.
| The property, as soon as the insurance has
been adjusted, will be cleared up and construc-
ton work begun. Larger and better mills will
take the place of those destroyed in the con.
| Migration. The very best machinery will be
used.
| The Postofice Removal Question.
A dispatch was received yesterday by the
| agents of the new Boston block being erected