Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-30
MEgyEAPOIlISNEWS
mNNEApuLIs GLOBELETs.

The elevated railway Is pelbS icpaiieo on
South First street.
The pressure at the water works was still
inadequate yesterday.
The total receipts from the Washburn
charitable excursion net 81 200.
Irregular meeting of The Reform club was
held at Harrison hall last evening.
George Knoebling accidentally fell at the
Milwaukee depot and dislocated his arm.
A regular meeting of st. Anthony lodge
will be held to- night for the election of officers.
Messrs Pillsbury & Hurbut, the elevator
men, have moved into their fine new offices in
Centennial block.
The new ten wheel locomotive for the yards
of the Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad was
set to work yesterday.
Charles Allen,while employed in the Crown
roller mill, received serious bluise upon his
head from falling plank.
The members of Centenary Sunday school
have completed arrangements for picnic ex-
curson to Minnetonka next Tuesday.
The $50 p. m. train for Minnetonka, on the
Minneapolis & st. Louis road, and the 7:3O
train returning, have been discontinued.
The foundation walls of the large new bust
ness block to be erected by II. D. Woods on
Nicollet avenue have been begun.
The Irving comedy company will appear in
an engagement at Anoka this evening, pre-
senting the same bill just given at Wayzata.
Charley King, hack driver employed at
2ussell's livery stable, had his watch stolen
by newly engaged employee, who decamped.
A new water wheel is being put into the
Lincoln Touring mill, and the mill will be
started up this morning with increased ca
pacity.
Martin Davereaux, charged with assaulting
John Hogge, was arraigned before Judge
Cooley Yesterday morning and the case dis
missed.
The mason work on the stone arch bridge
crossing Blssett's creek, on Fifth street north,
has been completed, and the earth grading is
being put in.
The district court has granted a decree of
divorce TO Malissa Dorman, from her husband,
John Dorman, on the ground of cruel and in
human treatment.
The present season is certainly the most
prosperous on record for the agricultural i'm
plement trade. The demand, it Is feared, will
soon greatly exceed the supply.
Pref ". L. Tomliss, of Chicago, is in the
city. He will join the Mendelssohns in an
excursion this evening, to and around Mime
topka. Danz' band will also accompany the
excursion.
Geo Moore and Homer Lewis had little
free fight of their own. During the fracas
Lewis get hurt. Moore was arraigned for
assault and battery, and paid SIT into the mu-
nicipal court treasury.
The Knights of Pythias of Anoka have an
nounced that they will make the tour of Lake
Minuetonka, on the the steamer St. Louis, on
August 9. number of the Minneapolis
knights will jola the excursion.
The Minneapolis Rifle club has decided to
accept an invitation to enter team of six in
the German schutzenfest to be held IN ST. Paul
next week, and feel quite confident of adding
new laurels to their victorious scores.
Some $1,000 will be expended in the front to
the Vanderburg block, being erected on Hen
nepin avenue. 1t will be composed of plate
glass, Ohio sandstone and iron, and will be
one of the handsomnst fronts in the city.
A special meeting of the city council will be
held this evening, for the purpose of consid-
ering matters relating to the threatened exca-
walton caused by the work of the Elevator
company at Holden street bridge.
The funeral of Miss Minnie Reeves, the vic
tim of the collision near Hopkins station, on
the day of the SIS charitable excursion, will
occur in Faribault to-day, and the remains be
inferred in the cemetery at that place.
After this week the excursion trains to Lake
Minnetonka, of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
railroad, will leave the Minneapolis depot at
o'clock p. M instead of 730 as heretofore.
Returning it will leave the lake half an hour
earlier.
The operetta, Cinderella, which has been in
preparation at Pence Opera house for several
weeks, will be put on next week. Some two
or three hundred children will participate
The stage effects arranged for its presentation.
are brilliant and complete
Yesterday Nellie Shepley and Carrie Hall
were convicted of using indecent language,
and Judge Cooley fined them S. each, with an
alternative of five days. commitment. In de-
fault OF the SIS they were escorted to the coun-
ty bastile for Incarceration
From time to time small deposits have been
made in the municipal court, by the different
attorneys practicing in that court, upon ac-
tions brought, and Clerk Stevens is now busily
engaged in tracing them out, and securing to
the proper owners these moneys. The attor-
neys thankfully receive the amounts with
manifest surprise.
Two boys named Thomas English, aged 10
years, and Albert Ait, aged II years,
were yesterday convicted in the police court
of stealing signs from Leo Bergman. Judge
Cooley administered fatherly and christian
lecture, which the boys will doubtless remem-
Der with most vivid clearness, to their dying
days, when they were released from custody
The magnitude of the business of the firm
of Pillsbury, Hurlbut & Co. is not very gen.
orally known, They own and control some
thiriy-three large elevators, with capacity for
storage varying from $4,000 to 100000 bush
els. These elevators are distributed at prom
inent and convenient points along the various
railway lines divering from this city and ex-
tending out in+o DAKOTA Territory. In ad-
dition to those already built and in operation,
the firm are now having some ten or twelve
more elevators constructed. To this number
they anticipate adding Others from time to
time as the demand arises.
The following are the amounts paid out of
the public school fund by the treasurer of the
hoard of education since the 18th of Januarv