St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-27
Fargo.

In the case in the district court of Ellis J
French against the Northern Pacific railroad
jury has been made up for trial. The case
has been tried once and a verdict given Mrs
French of S., 500 for injuries sustained by an
accident on the road. The latter, however
obtained new trial. Rev. Ewing preached
he union Thanksgiving sermon at the Bap-
fist church Thanksgiving day. 1t was pro-
nounced an able and appropriate effort.
Rev. D. E. Bierce. the Presbyterian pastor,
has organized church at Wild Rice, O few
miles SOUTH the past week, and an edifice
will soon be erected. There were two
church sociabes on Tuesday night-Disci-
Piles and Episcopal-and library one. AT
one Of them the facetious DR.. barrow sur
prised his friends with the power and JUNCTION
with which he rendered an African sermo on.
.. Col. Morton is waging a newspaper war
with some of the elevator men over their
wheat grades, and injects into the contest his
characteristic vigor. Manager Robe has
been able to secure the Milton Mobiles cele-
brated company to give Love and Law and
PHOENIX" Dec.2 and 8. 1t is expected that the
mind-reader, Brown, will exhibit further on
his return from the North. Not long since
the county board was called upon to take &C.
ton over the birth of twins of the county
treasurer. On Wednesday Commissioner
Redman reported fourteen-pound boy. The
board will meet to consider the matter
VI.
spending some time in Fargo aiding in maxi
ing up a report to the governor Of their vari-
GUS excursions It will be a pamphlet of $50
pages Most of the leading business houses
closed part of the day Thursday. =. Mayor
Johnson intends to visit Honduras in
January. to be absent couple
of months. looking for chances
for investment. Several other Fargo
ca pitalists will probably go there. His duties
as mayor can be discharged about as well in
Honduras as Fargo =. W. s. Howden left
this week TO spend the winter in England.
The lodge of locomotive fremen had fine
time at their ball at the rink Thursday night.
The Fargo Musical club, which contains
much of the best talent of the city, will give
the opera ''Musketeers" next month, and
several other entertainments during the
winter. The proprietor OF the He'd Light
saloon was robbed of about 5000 In property
q night or two since, he alleges. Ben. Rey-
nolds, the manager of the Coliseum, has gone
to New York to spend the winter. The gas
vein struck a few miles from Fargo three
months ago still burns as bright as at first.
1t is learned that the city attorney can find
no law for interfering with bar-room damsels.
-. Bids for the sale of the old court house
are to be opened Saturday. Aid. Hector
opened fine cigars this week over the usual
Dakota incident-twelve pounds. The most
exciting controversy in Fargo of late was
over the appointment of janitor for the
new school house. An old soldier was the
local applicant backed by the G. A. R. and
the Argus. The board selected man from
Minnesota, and popular feeling rose to such
an altitude that the board called a meeting
and rescinded it's action in favor of the Fargo
man. The new Sherman house already has
its rooms filed, and its effect Is seen in the
opening up of several houses on upper
Broadway that had been closed since the
burning of the Continental ....