St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
THE DULUTH BUDGET.
Value Of the Chamber Of Commerce Ex-
planned by Prof. Phelps.
DULUTH'S WHEAT RECORD.
Large Amount of Wheat in Store--A
Brakeman Nearly Freezes to Death
--0ther News.

Der OF commerce meeting there was a
small attendance. A communication
was read from Senator G. X. Davis, in
which he stated the receipt of the
memorial of the chamber regarding
measures to make Duluth a full port of
entry, and that he would make the
memorial into form of an act to be
presented to congress as soon as posi-
BILE. The special order of business, the
statistical matter, was then taken up
and discussed at length. The subject
of an appeal from the decision of Judge
Sleeper i'll the mandamus question was
argued, and it was finally decided to
postpone all action pending efforts to
settle the matter satisfactorily other
wise. Prof. Phelps spoke vigorously of
the value OF the chamber to the city,
rehearSed some of its results in the
past year, especially i'll the matter of
the Sault convention, in which the i'm
pOrtant move Duluth took and kept the
Initiative, and argued for the city that
the burden of the chamber should not
be borne by few public spirited cit
liens, while all property owners whose
Duluth lots were enhanced by the work
of the chamber, whether living i'll Du-
luth, st. Paul OF the East, stood by and
what benefits all, and earnestly hoped
that all differences might be healed and
that Duluth people could stand together
to advance in unity everything for the
good of the city. He showed that the
growth of the Twin Cities was due in a
great measure to the earnest work and
union of the citizens, one and all adj
vancing their interests. After his re-
marks the session closed.
NEARLY FROZE TO DEATH.
Conductor McManuS, of the limited
st. Paul IL Duluth train, had orders at
the junction last evening to look out for
man lying across the track. The train
ran slowly along until a short distance
this side of Greeley, when McManus
saw a prostate human being directly
across the track short distance ahead.
The fellow proved to be j. j. Elliott, a
freight brakeman, who was very drunk
and had either jumped or fallen from
his train an hour before. Elliott was
frozen stiff, and in a short time would
have been corpse. He was taken into
the baggage car and thawed out on the
way to Duluth. 1t was very narrow
escape and had the limited train been
late he must have frozen to death. 1t is
thought by EllIott's friends that he was
drugged at Northern Pacific junction.
WHEAT IN STORE.
Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Jan. 3.-There is now in
store in Duluth elevators 6,5TS,5?7 BUSH
els of wheat, 211 .S42 bushels of corn and
81 500 bushels of oats, total of 1861 ,06S
bushels of grain. Of this the Lake
Superior Elevator company holds
100000 bushels Of wheat and all other
grains, the Duluth Elevator company
$500 bushels of wheat, and the Great
Northern 100000: showing slightly over
half to be with the houses of the Lake
Superior company. The increase of
wheat in store for the week has been
4.192 bushels, against an increase
of 2S0.S79 for the corresponding week a
year ago. The receipts are very light,
only los cars since Friday, and will be
storms and railroad bockades. The
amount, however, is good for this sea-
son, and bids fair to continue so. Did
the elevator companies here dare to
take in corn at this time they would
quickly receive between 100000 and
100000 bushels, but as the corn which
would come here is remarkably oily
and hard to keep, they are not anxious
to handle it as yet. A special rate has,
however, been made for the storage of
corn.
RESTAURANT FAILURE.
The failure is announced to-day of
John Silbert, a restaurant man doing
business in the name of his wife, B. E.
Silbert. The liabilities amount to
So, 1000, with assets merely nominal, and
those who are creditors will probably
suffer total loss. The principal cred
itors are Al Wagner, $1,000: James Bell,
meat market, $50; wages for help over
5000; Clark IL Matter a small sum for
groceries, together with Indebtedness
for coal, wood, groceries, ETC., to vari-
Gus firms around the city amounting to
at least $1,000. The sum of the indebted
ness is probably between $4,000 and
$1,000. Wagner is the heaviest loser.
and will be out over $1,000, but he will
continue the restaurant so that holders
of Communication tickets will lose moth
ing. 1t is not yet known what proceed
ingS will be instituted in the settlement.
People with money to invest will do well to
turn their attention to Duluth and Superior.
NJ. B. Harrison, real estate exchange Hotel
st. Louis building Duluth has a large list of
property in both places for sale low.