St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-17


of wheat in the years named:
Year. Bushels. Year. Bushels.
1873. .2S, ,937 1879. $40, 352
1874 ,62S,143 1880. ,756, 463
1875. ,S78,727 1881. 10, 176, 09S
1876. ,174,817 1882. S,05S, 422
1877. 9,S14,949 1ss3......... S,967,s79
1878. .21 ,763,312
The decline in ten years from an annual
receipt of nearly %, 500, 600 bushels to one of
barely 100000 bushels is astonishing.
While Chicago tactics and railroad discrimi-
nation have had something to do with it, the
reduction must be ascribed to the rapidly
growing milling interests of the west. The
great mills at Minneapolis and the numerous
Touring institutions of the new northwest are
every year increasing their direct demands
upon neighboring wheat fields, and as con
sequence the cereal product moves forward in
the shape of flour. This is no mere theory
evolved for temporary comfort, but hard
fact, based upon the annual receipts of -four
from the west, which have increased in ratio
almost co-equal with the decline in the annual
influx of wheat.
FALLING WATERS.
Your correspondent was somewhat surprised
to see, in last Mondays GLOBE, an editorial
note correcting statement in regard to Geo.
Drake's posthumous honor of being the first
Wisconsin soldier if not the first soldier of
the Union army, to fall in actual engagement
with the enemy in the southern rebellion.
Those early events of the war were so vividly
impressed on the writer's mind, which was
then in the formative state, that reference to
records seemed unnecessary; but, since the
attempted correction mentioned, the files of
the Evening Wisconsin for 1862 have been
consulted, to settle the matter satisfactorily.
The battle, or more properly skirmish, of
Falling Waters was fought on the I'd of July,
1862 In letter written on the day follow
ing the fight, from camp at Huntsville, Va,
Private Geo. NJ. Bleyer, who was the war
correspondent of the Evening Wisconsin, wrote
over the signature "Marion" as follows:
''Private George Drake, of Co. A, fell with a
heart-wound, exclaiming as he died,
Ooh! MY MOTHER"
Shortly after the first fire Sergeant w. M.
Graham received two wounds while leading
his men forward With faint cry he fell,
and as the rebels retreated he was picked up
and carried from the field more dead than
alive" In a private letter, dated the Sd of
July, Col. Starkweather, of the First Wiscon-
sin regiment, said: 'sYoung Graham, Co. B.
was shot in three places, is still alive, and
may recover. Young Drake, Co. A., was
instantly killed. Geo. brakes body was
buried at Williamsport, Pa, where it now
rests Warren NJ. Graham fingered until
the Goth of August, when he died OF blood
poisoning from his terrible wounds. His re-
mains were brought to Milwaukee and in
TERED at Forest Home cemetery. The par
l.oxl, % cfin
side in Milwaukee, the brakes keeping a
large boarding house on Wisconsin street
called the ssDrake house," where a fine oil
painting of Wisconsin's first sacrifice may be
seen hanging in one of the parlors.
EX-MAYoB JOHN BLACH.
Ex-Mayor John Black, whose name has
been banded about of late in connection
with the mayoralty, but who peremptorily
declines to make another run for an Office
which was not at all conducive to happiness
while he held it, has returned from Wash
ington whittier he went some time ago to
work in the interest of the bonded whisky
bill. He is disappointed with his work at the
national capital, as the house, on Saturday
last refused to take up the bill for consideration.
Mr.. Blacks interest in whiskyis as natural as
that of a fly in lump of sugar, with the diff
ference that appetite is not back of it. Mr..
Black takes to whisky because of the
money there is in the handling of it. He
was poor man when he first commenced its
sale and his first transactions in the fluid
were in two-fnger quantities over coun-
ter.
AWAY BACK IN THE zoos
Mr.. Black kept saloon on the corner OF
Huron street and Broadway, dispensing the
stimulant from a row of vanished barrels,
numbered as to grade arranged on shelf
behind the bar. At that time he lived in
frugal style overt the saloon. From the retail
business he branched out into dealings in
large lots and finally developed into whole
saler and got rich rapidly. AS his wealth in
creased he changed his household quarters,
moving first into the frame building on
Michigan street, back of the Friend block,
now occupied by Robert Elliott as a grain
commission Office, then to- plain but sub
stantial new frame house on Wisconsin
street, between Van Buren, and Cass streets,
and next into the elegant residence which he
now occupies, on the corner of Division and
Milwaukee streets, representing capital to
the amount of over 100000 During the
famous whiskey ring trials, good many eyes
were turned toward Black, who it was thought
might be involved in the whirlpool of crook
edness, but the finger of the law was never
placed upon him. If he had hand in the
intrigue for spoils at that time he was adroit
about it. Some time ago he retired from