Daily globe., 1883-08-17
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs.

point is now quite low.
There was no meeting last evening, and
the scientists took rest.
The coopers will go to White Bear on
picnic excursion tomorrow.
The brave hunter is sending prairie
chickens to our market by the car load.
If you want good meal go to 'The Le-
land" restaurant, 226 Washington avenue
south.
The board of trade rooms will probably
be removed to the chamber of commerce
to-day.
Geo. Rebholz had his hand crush
ed in one of Swineburne, Adams & Co.'s
printing presses.
The Minneapolis Turner's will go on
grand festival in New Ulm commencing
August 18th to August %.
A special train to Lake Minnetonka over
the Minneapolis & st. Louis route, took
out large party last evening.
The question of over insurance was the
popular theme of discussion among our
leading business men yesterday.
Only little over one-quarter as many
scientists are in attendance upon the pres
ent session as there we're last year.
The wild, untamed light infantry wer Q
out last evening, but beyond frightening
few horses did no further damage.
It seems not to be improbable that the
construction of the union depot will be
postponed another year. The mills of the
gods grind slowly.
The regular weekly meeting of the
board of water commissioners should have
convened last evening but failed, however,
for want of a quorum.
The police nine went out and had a
practice game last evening, preparatory
to the match with the fremen at the
Brownstocking park on Monday.
Street car tickets found an abundant
sale at the university yesterday, twelve
tickets for twenty-five cents. Some of the
boys have years supply laid in.
Thomas OConnor, an employe of Bard
well & Robbson's sash factory, crushed his
hand in machine, and had finger am
putated yesterday at Ames d Meor's Of
fee.
The qrestion iof tunneling the railway
tracks az proposed by Col. Glenn has
struck popular vein. The colonel is
usually about correct upon municipal af-
fairs and city reforms.
Prof. j. w. Dawson, of Montreal, late
president of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, has accepted
the invitation of DR.. Dana to occupy his
pulpit Sunday evening next.
Tba roI;oa ,,Io;,,, hot MT bo ol,o
which blockaded the front of the Nicollet
house on the occasion of the reception
rendered the scientists, but private car
riages. So much for Sufferer"
At the university the mails are received
at 10 a. N. and p. m, and several hun
dred letters addressed to the scientists
arrive daily, besides the loads of pam phi
lets, reports and circulars which are mailed
there.
The committee from the city council on
water works will make a practical test of
the six-inch water main on Nicollet avenue,
to ascertain the strength of stream
which may be thrown from a hydrant at
tached to that main.
A decree of divorce in the case of Eva
May Green against Albert Green was filed
in the district court yesterday. The case
was tried several years ago but owing to
the non payment of attorneys fees the
decree was not filed till yesterday,
Burglars broke into Dennis Healey's
grocery store at about o'clock yesterday
morning and took over 800 worth of
groceries, provisions, cigars, etc. They
gained entrance by means of breaking out
two lights of glass in the front door.
A fireman visited police headquarters
dog catcher who took from his yard two
"purps" and placed them in the pound.
The dogman is no respecter of "purps"
and owners must preserve their temper.
On Sunday Miss Mary Waters was
severely bitten in the thigh by a savage
dog, owned by Holman on Plymouth ave-
nue.. Yesterday the lady suffered great
pain from the wounds, and to-day the
matter will be taken into the municipal
court.
The polzsyllabic words of the scientific
gents are of extraordinary length, such
as the word "gammadichlordbro
which contains twenty-fou letters. One
reporter in attempting to pronounce it
fractured his jaw bone, but he has enough
of cheek left to get along with.
This evening, at the Church of the Re-
dsemer, lecture on archaeological explo-
rations in the Ohio valley, altar mounds
and their contents will be delivered by F.
Whitman, the curator of the Peabody mu-
scum of American archaeology and eth
nology, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Mass.
Johnnie Williams, the Nicollet avenue
news dealer who wandered away from
home Tuesday morning, has not been
heard from or seen since The statement
by an evening paper that family troubles
caused the young mans mental alteration
is refuted by his employees, who generally
know best.
The question of blowing locomotive
whistles in the city will be given another
test in the courts. Yesterday Edward Kel-
ley was arrested at the instance of John B.
Stevens, who alleges that Stevens, loco
motive engineer, blew whistle in the city
limits. The case will come up for trial to-
morrow.
Strange as it may seem after the strong