Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-24
CITY GLoBULEs.


wheat growing.
st. Joseph's church will picnic at Union
park on the Fourth.
Capt. Reaney will run line of boats to and
from the camp meeting grounds every hour.
B. F. Mills, general passenger agent OF the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road, is
in St. Panl.
The members of the Great Western band
are making very extensive arrangements for
their picnic at Minnetonka tomorrow.
Adjutant General Hawley yesterday issued
an order for the organization of company of
infantry at Mankato under the militia laws
OF the state.
R. r. Gable, vice president and general man.
ager of the Chicago & Rock Island road and
president of the Minneapolis & st. Louis road,
is in st. Paul.
The Little Falls and Dakota bridge at
Little Falls is completed, and the iron is at
Sank Center for laying the whole track be-
tween Little Falls and Sank Center.
81 gather them in" was the burden of
Poundmaster Shields song yesterday morn
ing as he rode down the street on captured
horse, driving herd Of eleven COWS to the
pound.
1t required thirteen cars to transport the
Masons yesterday morning from st. Paul to
Red Wing. On the way down the train picked
up four more cars at Hudson, which made it
number seventeen cars.
The little seven-year-old son of Fergus
Fahey, who fell over the bluff at the head of
Hill street on Tuesday evening last, was still
alive yesterday, with very faint hopes, however,
of his ultimate recovery.
Chief of Police Weber was the acting mayor
of the city yesterday, all the other mayors be-
ing absent. This may account for the state
of profound peace which prevailed SO far as
news items were concerned.
Messrs. Grote & Hinkle are fast converting
Union park into menagerie. There are now
six deer, an antelope, young elk, six buff
falO calves, a young moose and an American
eagle, to say nothing of dogs, monkeys, ETC.,
etc.
The police yesterday found two valises in a
saloon on jackson street, which had been
stolen from Fl. s. Crippen's trunk store on
Third street by Dennis Ahern, who is already
serving out term in The Ramsey county Jail
for another theft.
Rumor has it that a certain young man in
this city is willing to bet that he can go forty
days without working. He is confident he
can perform this difficult feat if his employers
do not watch him too closely. He has been in
training for some time past.
special meeting OF the board of fire COM
missioners was held last evening for the pur-
pose of considering the appointment of su-
perintendent of fire alarm. Commits
sioner Hughsen being absent from the city,
the appointment was laid over.
The railroad men at the union depot are as
imous in the declaration that there has never
try They can.fOrm no conception of where the
people come from. They say 1t is simply
prodigious.
The old Pioneer Hook and Ladder company,
now the Pioneer Relief association, held a
meeting last evening to perfect arrangements
for their eighteenth annual celebration of the
Fourth of July. The usual committees were
appointed. The orator will be announced as
soon as secured.
Mr.. Truman Smith has sent to the reporters
desk some boxes of luscious Minnesota grown
strawberries from his stand, No. 81 East Sew
enth street, in the public market. Thanks for
the polite attention. Mr.. Smith makes berries,
peas, asparagus, etc., and the new, fresh gar
den vegetables specialties during the season.
Sheriff Matthew Mickey, of Stearns county,
passed through the city yesterday, having in
charge four prisoners for Saltwater as fol-
lows: Adds Bengeureif, convicted of rape
for thirty years; Lous Bridgebine, larceny,
three years; George Cowell, burglary, five