St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-15
Norsh,resforn No.ss.

La Grace secured the county seat of Camp
bell by twenty-three majority over Wander
bilt.
Maud Clifford, the variety acress who was
sufferer by the Devils Lake fire, attempted
suicide at Fargo, but unsuceessfully.
a mass meeting is to be held to-day to
work up an interest in the project and Sc
cure its building the coming year.
The Fargo brothers of Chicago and New
York have offered to furnish a chime of bells
for the Episcopal church. 1t will be ute an
acquisition.
An old fashioned camp fire by the G. A.
R., with rare musical features and an adj
dress by Gov. Pierce, is intended for the
25th at Fargo.
Judge Smith proposes to form new sub
judicial district OF the counties of Campbell,
Edmunds, Mcpherson and Walworth, with
Ipswich as the place for holding court
Gov. Ziebach, of the Scotland Citizen, is
beaten for the council but named in the
south as the probable governor under a
Democratic administration. He is capable
and popular.
The Sioux Falls Press states that at present
new school buildings and church edidces in
that city, aggregating about S75, 600, are be-
ing rushed towards completion with the ut
most dispatch
Dakota Herald: One election betin Turner
county, will make every one happy. If
Cleveland was elected she was to marry him
If Blaine was elected he was TO marry her.
1t was sure thing either way.
The editor Of the Alrora, at Plankinton,
barely escaped being mobbed BY a comedy
troupe on account of an attack in his paper
upon the female members of the troupe. II
is thought that financial matters had some
thing TO do with the low estimation OF the
esthetic editor.
Brakemen are as fascinating in Dakota to
females as coaehmen in the east. The
Huron Times has this incident: Sam Brose-
man, Marquettes pet dude brakeman,
eloped with a Mrs. Parks, Saturday from
Tracy. The boys say that too much skatin Q
rink was the cause.
Register Rea, at Bismarck, Is making a
specially of working for reduction Of the
price Of government lands in the railroad
grant districts to Sl.25 an acre as in other
sections. There is no good reason why this
should not be done. Delegate RAYMOND is
inclined to favor 1t.
The wife OF Col. Towner, the pioneer rust
Ter of the north, whose family would grace
the best circles in any city, is an expert shot
and beats the best hunters. She killed the
first deer in the Mouse river section and has
shot Ii prairie chickens recently. She is
valuable woman to have about in a new
country.
The Niagara Times says: Two hundred
miles OF the Manitoba road, on the Devils
Lake and Park River division, are lined with
clogged elevators. The Niagara elevator has
taken in $4,000 bushels of wheat The town
is covered with wagons and piles of wheat
In some towns so TO 100 wagons have been
obliged to unhitch at the elevator door.
The largest Dakota pumpkin has been
seen by the editor of the Campbell County
Courier. A farmer started to town with it in
the hind part of the wagon, but in going
down steep hill it rolled forward and
crushed the farmer to death. The editor
vouches for the story but be is not regarded
by his readers as a George Washington.
Postmaster Tyner says to the vfctors be-
long the spoils, and he win cheerfully vacate
when the new machine comes into operation.
1t will be fortunate for the place If his sue
cessor administers the postal affairs as eff
ciently as does the colonel. There are as vet
reported only nineteen full hedged candi-
dates for the position.
A strong effort is being made to secure
daily mail along the Missouri river from Bis
marck down to Yates and Pierre. It is said
that the petitions sent on have the signatures
Of 5000 men, That region is settling up
rapidly with a splendid class of people, and
several lively towns are springing up In
creased mail facilities seem to be demanded
Contrary to expectation and the usual or
der, the early freezes did not stay and close
blowing for the season. The weather has
been remarkably mild since and the farmers
have had the usual time for fall blowing.
Democrats insist that the election of Cleve-
land has something to do with II, but there
could hardly be more favorable weather for
Dakota.
The Valley City Times confirms in this
point suggested several times as noticeable
in this region: AS Cleveland's chances for
the presidency assume shape 1t is surprising
to see the number of men, heretofore con-
sidered Republicans, who are engaged in ex-
ecuting a complete flop. But they might
better wait to see if they will not yet find the
road through the woods blockaded.
At q meeting a few days ago at Sioux
Falls of the directors and stockholders of the
Sioux Falls and Northern railroad, 1t was
decided TO go on with the present survey at
once, to connection with the Burlington.
Cedar Rapids Il Northern railroad. Those
present at this meeting were enthusiastic IN
the enterprise aud manifested al unmistak-
able confidence in the early completion Of
the road.
His many Illinois friends win learn with
regret of the defeat of Hon. Sam Reed for
probate judge in Hughes county. He was
upon the regular Democratic ticket and
probably made the very rare mistake of
claiming TO be real Democrat, as he was
when editing a Democratic paper in his old
home in Illinois. He has Websterian pro-
portions and massive brow. 1t is probable
the voters thought he was too large man for
a minor Office.
Since the results OF the elections have di
minished his interest in political matters.
Col. Lounsberry, of the, Bismarck Journal
and postmaster, is devoting his time largely
to spirituslism, or psychical research, as he
terms it. 1t is claimed that he is developing
into first claas medium, and will give
seances during the session Of the legislature.
He says that hitherto this movement has been
associated in the public mind with the armv
of cranks and frauds claiming to be It's ex-
ponents, and has consequently met with dis
favor. He expected to give it character and
dignity, and demonstrate that the phepom-
ena are really the work of those who have
left their earthly tenements. Surprising 70.
suits may be anticipated.