St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
WEST SUPERIOR.
Death of David ClOugh - Other
Items OfNews.
Special to the Globe.

OpcCldl W TIC O4ODe.
David Clough, for many years foreman fol-
Wilson & Thatcher. paving contractors, died
at the Broadway Friday after q few DAYS
illness. The deceased was Mason and 9
G. A. K. man. The body was taken to
Omaha for burial.
Work was commenced Saturday on whale
back No. 125.
w. o. Winston, of Minneapolis, was in the
city Thursday and Friday, looking after some
railroad matters.
Judge John Twohy, of St. Paul, was the
guest of Edmund and D. w. Twohy, his
brothers, this week.
Two hundred new books have been re-
ceived at the public library. The library now
has 1000 volumes on its shelves.
The street railway is now operating nine
new cars and two miles more track. all the
cars now run on schedule time.
Rev. J. Fl. Mason, of Montevideo, MINI.
Iectured before the West end Y. NJ. G. A.
Wednesday, on the Tides of Society,"
Lewis H. Owen, ex-seeretary of the smeIt-
ing works, has left for Washington. d. c.,
where he will remain during the winter
Friday night Sergeant Erickson acting I'M
der orders from the chief of police, closed
all the gambling houses, twelve IN number.
They are still closed.
Walter Butler, of the firm of st. Paul con-
tractors which is building the Freeman
FIGURING mill and the Breunig block, has
!, been In the city This week
n. W. OuEl6G, VI Leu1dTS, TO-. mas Do6Q IN
the city this week, looking after his business
interests here. He is building a tWostory
brick block on North Twelfth street.
Mrs Maude r. Barley, one of the state
delegates to the national w. c. T. U. con-
vention at Boston, gave public address
Friday night at the Presbyterian church.
Scott R. Hayes, a son of Ex-Presiden'
Hayes, visited in Superior for several DAYS
this week. He returned Friday night to Ere
mont Ohio but says he will locate in Supe
rior.
The Warehouse and Builders Supply COM
pany recently shipped large consignment
of cement to Winnipeg. This is the first
ever shipped from Superior to Canada di
rect.
The city fire engine. the Edward Dundon,
worked continuously 240 hours at the Lehigh
dock fire. Chief McGill claims this is the
best record ever made. 1t is an Aherns en-
CINE.
State Railroad Commissioner Thomas
Thompson visited Superior Wednesday and
Thursday, TO arrange some difficulties be-
tween one of the roads and its shippers, over
switching management.
Manager C. A. Tracy, of the Central Supe
rior Development company, who has been
sick of nervous prostitution at his home in
Palmyra. n. j., is recovering and will start
| for Superior in about a week.
Charles White, the new secretary of the
| chamber OF commerce, has been installed in
| his Office, and is now active in working vi
an increased interest in the institution
among the business interests of the city.
The Superior wooden mills have closed ne
! gotIations by which they secure control of
| Knitting plant employing about fifty men
| This will be moved to Superior, and ready &c
| operate next spring with the wooden mill
| The wooden mills are now using about
! 1000 pounds of Dakota and Western woods
! daily.
| A proposed change in the plans of the Rec
| Wing & Southern by which II will aband on
| the present trackage Arrangement with the
| through Douglas county, VIII result, if car
ried out. in shortening the distance to St
Paul fifteen miles, making the route tbs
| shortest between the head of the lakes
and St. Paul, it being only 135 miles.