Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-17
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CUR NORTHWESTERN NEIGHBORS.
News GIeanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by Tele-
graph to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, Dec. Is, to the st.
Paul Globe.
Dak.te end Hsnsana Notes.

schools. This il claimed to indicate nearly
5000 population.
A Congregational chur Oh has been or
ganized at Hope and will at once COM
menee parsonage for the preacher.
Hillsboro wants Touring mill of $50
barrels day capacity. There is an i'm
mense amount of wheat to be had there.
The gas works in Fargo propose to put
up and operate 100 gas posts on the streets
for the sum paid for the electric tower
| lights.
The continued mild weather has made
the ice on the Missouri, as high up as Bis
marck, very brittle and unsafe. Persons
take risks in attempting to cross on it.
The scandinavian Emigration company
| have made arrangements to locate SOHO
| ten Thousand families of Swedes and Nor
wegians in the northern counties of the
territory in tbs spring.
McMahon. the register of deeds in
| Steele county, has had for some time the
matrimonial symptoms, and the fears of
friends are evidently about to be verified.
1t is apparently deliberate, willfal act.
Saturday night she roller rink in Fargo
was the scene of lively merrimsns, in the
way of masquerade. These exercises
have become very popular IN all the North
Dakota towns this winter. They are, hav-
ing better raa than ice skating.
John Scott, one of the county commits
| sioners of Grand Forks county, while driv-
ing four-horse team with load of wheat
across the railroad into Ardock, was run
away with and seriously injured, but will
probably be about again in few weeks.
Sinee the 10th there is bus one train a
day running west of Fargo, except an &C.
| commodation to Jamestown. There are
two trains day between Fargo and s..
Paul, but passengers who leave st. Paul in
the morning will have to stop at Fargo
over night.
Ia view of leap year the young ladies of
hillsboro are making the arrangements
for ball on Janaary 1, that shall be the
event Of the terpiechorean season. Ali the
desirable young men are timidly hoping
that the privileges of leap year will be
exercised in their behalf.
ST. Thomas, a Manitoba town near the
Canadian borders, has unanimously re-
solved TO establish Sunday there. 1t has
been the practice to keep the business
houses all open, and the heaviest shop
ping was done on that day. 1t is one of
the older towns. largely settled by Cana
dams.
Tom Melally had & ball sent fooling
around his spinal column while drinking
in 1etorions place il East Grand
Forks, kept by Alex. McGuire and Mile
Watson, Mcclure doing the shooting at
the instance OF Watson. Ali the parties
give unfortunate promise Of continuing to
vex reputable people,
1t seems that the Rev. Frey visiting in
Ohio whom the sheriff at Valley City has
sought to bring to Dakota, is not the one
who played hob and broke most of the sa-
cred creckery and fed tike thief in the
night toward the setting sun. The Ohio
party has all the virtues of the standard
Ohio man, so far as known.
One evening the past week an atts m pit
was made toisssassinate T. J, AsCheny,
one Of tha principal Witnesses for the de-
fenSe in the Marquis do Morss' trial, new
Carpenter at Listls Missouri. The pistol
bail grazsd the top of his head and .oek
the crewn of his hat away. There seemed
to be several men engaged in the covardly
atsenps, who escaped probably into the
Bad lands. It is net the first sttemps to
kill Mr. M.
A lady, who had been an invalid for
eight years, martyr to dyspepsia, some
time since came to Darlington in Foster
county, and after breathing the famed,
inspiring ozone of Dakota six weeks, has
become hole and hearty, and if any patent
medicine man can manage to bottle I'D
some of this ETHEREAL inspiration and take
1t east TO retail to invalids, this lady will
furnish the strongest certificate wanted of
its salubrious effects.
The Casselton Reporter in speaking of
the Ambler-Keith examination, saws:
The result of the investigation, in lersI
sense, Is the binding over of the accused fer ap-
pearancs at the district court, The present in
Testlgatlon being equivalent to preliminary
examination IN justice court, the conference
and district court being the same, compara
tlVeIy speaking. In the meantime, Amhler
stands suspended from all the rights and privi-
Ieges OF e minister of the denomination,
The paper intimates further that the YER
dict would have been more conclusive, and
IN accordance with facts, had tbs charges
bseu more specific and properly formu-
lated.
The farmers in the northern border
counties insist that difference of twenty
three or twenty -four cents in the price
they are offered for wheat when it is al
lowed to pass at its proper grade, and the
quotations at st. Paul and Minneapolis
argues unfair treatment by the railroad
and the Millers' association. They o.u's
understand why it should cost twenty csnts
to ship bushel of wheat less than $50
miles TO st. Panl, while it costs only fl
Teen cents for the@00 miles from Chicago
to New York. Perhaps if it could be ex-
planned 10 them that they don't under
stand the mysteries of running a railroad
they would be satisfied and give up the
to build elevators of their own,
and secure competing lines of road.
careful estimate of the cost of new
buildings erected IN Fargo the present
year gives figures that run above $780,
GOO. On these figures are included some
substantial permanent improvements,
snch as buildings OF the Union Pacific
railroad. gas works, etc. There are also
some very handsome business blocks. Il
is probable that the aggregate totals for
the year will hardly fall below a million
dollars. This is only noteworthy as show