THE ST. PAUL DAILYGLOBE. TUESDAY MORNING.DECEMBER 9 ISS

The eastern papers contain an Associated Press dispatch from St. Paul reporting a blood curdling affair at Portland, Trail! county, in which one man was killed and another thrown by him into a threshing ma- chine just before expiring. The story was rumored in Dakota about a month previous, but there was not a shadow of foundation for it. Most of the Fargo city papers are calling for the suppression of a class of low variety theaters in that city. They arc unusually numerous for a city of the population of Fargo. The better class of them are as well conducted as are vaudeville bouses in the larger cities, and are visited by at out all of the men who patronize any theatrical per- formance. Civilization was Inaugurated at Dunscith the pact week by a graud ball, probably the first ever had in the Turtle mountains. Parties came to it from St. John's and Bot- tineau, twenty and thirty miles, and forts mountain belles gyrated to the strains of a fiddle and French horn. They were mostly bruuettcs and many of them bad the garbs of white people and were good dancers and attractive. It is not expected that President Cleveland will make any change in the governor's otlice in Dakota for some months after his accccsion, but at the proper time there will be a strong effort of the party in the territory to have Mr. Wilson, the late candidate for congress, selected for the position. lie, ha* all the requisites for the post, and is very popular. The energy with which he made the utterly hopeless canvass is thought to merrit recognition. The members of the Democratic territorial committee are arrauging for a meeting to be held, probably In St. Paul, early in February, to select a deputation of representative Dem- ocrats to visit Washington about the 4th of March and assist President Cleveland in In- augurating his administration. It is de- sired to send only those who are not seeking appointments. Those who are willing to go would do well to send their names to Hon. D M. Kelleher at Jamestown. The Hamlin Times has this weather and game item : Beautiful weather and wild ducks, fine and fat, still bless the clime of Dakota, notwithstanding the fact that the month of December is rapidly coming to a close. Last Friday D. O. Parliament shot eight and a half brace ofbeautiful ducks. 更多