The Northwestern standard., 1885-12-12
STANDARD NEWS.
Light Mention Of People News Of The
Week-Gathered and Condensed
for Hurried Readers,


The next meeting of the directors OF the
Catholic Orphan Association viii be heio 'tI
Catholic Association Hail oTTuesday evening
December Is.
The friends of Tom" Hanaey--he has most
of tnen--will hereafter find him at 81 Fourth
street south, where ne will continue to do hrst-
class work III the Notwithstanding line.
Tr7n srASDARp this week publishes par
tial tist of the Catholic Churches and Soclenes
in the city. In next weeks issue Wesss~s en-,
aeayor TO give a fun and complete directory OF
the same.
quo .aro,d lecture OF the Immaculate Con-
.ca,,tion Benevolent Society course should NOT
ha overlooked 1t takes place next Wednes-
dav evening at Catholic Association Halt.
..romcfs and Meteors is the subject.
Frank D. Hopwood, Of Wyman, MuIhn & Co,
is laid up with injuries received In IL runaway
on Wednesday. His cutter was badly demorai-
lied. ana his INJURIES thought is hoped are nor
serious, are quite painful.
The city council has ordered ffty-tiVe miles
Of plank sidewalks laid in the outer portions
of the city next year. 1t viii require 2,0o0,ooo
feet OF lumber and the work must pe COM
n,eted by Aug. /. The past year torty-tour
miles were laid
Thursday morning Sergeant Helm anda squad
Of police arrested a colony OF coored cltlZehs
for gambling. At their trial before judge Ma
honey. six Of the number were discharsad'
Four others who could not meet justice III the
way provided by law, went to jail for twenty
days.
Annie Olson died Sunday at the Homeopathic
Hospital of spinal meningitis. II "ns seVetai
davs before the whereabouts OF her parents IN
St Paul could be escGrtaiHed and tnen thcy re-
fused to take charge of her remains Ihe
hodv OF the unfortunate girl was buried Ihtirs-
day at the county's expense.
II is understood that the council committee
on health and hospitals will report taVorably al
tha meeting Of the council next Wednesday
evening upon the candidacy of Norman camp
he'll rs s,lperintendent of the quarantine hos
n;tal Mr.. Campbell served the city in that
capacity two years agC.
Preliminary surveys for the stone arch bridge
have been Commcncc1 and active work will
Dcgin SO soop as possible. Ltlnlbermen state
that the principal effect Of constructing piers
in the river abo%e the suspension bridge VIII |
be 10 throw more water into the east side chan
mel but the amount is 80 slight that it cannot
injure the west side mill powers.
The new grocery house Of Boran & Ring has
been opened ut 225 Broadway, N. g. The senior
member OF the firm we have known for years
ana his sterling worth and honesty cannot be
questioned. In the business field the people Of
;x1r lIuJy find Koran ~
Ring prompt and just in all their dealings with
them.
An adjourned meeting of the county com
Jnissioncrs was held Wednesday. The petition
OF james Hamilton and others for the location
of a public highway in West Minneapolis to
connect with the Minnetonka AMI Hopkins Sta
~ 49, as granted, and Commissioners !
C,;,,,,.s ri; scr and Peterson '',"'o s-'s''ihtea
Ni'''i''N' 'AtoWt-s ,UIh.ny, Dec. q All order
" VIZ" the premises Ecation of road along
,"nt ms .a"n u'a"n Tor the Mnnetonka, from Way
zata to Spring Park
The following new fire alarm boxes have
lately been added to the list: Box No. rs, cor
ner OF Ncollct Rvenue and Sixth street; 18,
First avenue south and First street; l2l, Mic
oiiet and Washington avenue; 50, Fifth street
and Third Avenue north; 43l, Fifth avenue
north nItd Nineteenth street; 432, Western and
Grand avenues; Us, Franklin and Sixteenth
avenue south; 24l, Cedar avenue and Seventh
street; 248, Washington and Fifteenth avenue
south; l52, Second street and Fifth avenue
northeast; i90, Fourth street and Second ave
nue. southeast l29, Fourth street and Four
tecnth avenue southeast.
Tho Northwestern Miller says that last week s
-four production was the lightest for number
of years. the output of the 1--we mills that ran
being u ,G0I barrels, on average of 2l0l barrels
duly, against r., 500 barrels the preceding week
and l52 500 barrels for The corresponding week
in S9t. There is II scarcity OF water, due
largely TO the g0rgng of ice III the river above,
II is believed that this difficulty can be rcme
died in a short time There are now eleven
mills IN operation, with probability of one or
more resuEntng work ON Monday. The prices
for flour show no advance, though the demand
seems more active.
At conference lately held between the
Council Committee on Roads and Bridges and
the Trades Assembly, who desired the stone
work on tue new bridge to be done at Mime
apoiis, Nessrs netvan aud Shadrick appeared
il behalf Of the latter body claiming shat ii
the work is TO be performed it will prove a
benefit 10 the entire city. Engineer Rinker
was OF the impression that it would be better
to have the dressing done at the Qnarries.
Aldermen Eichhorr and Comstock thought the
work should be done here, even st an in-
creased cost, and the committee decided to
invite proposals for dressing the stone at the
quarry and ut Minneapolis. Ths work win be
given to resident mechanics if the difference is
not too great.
Upon petition of Saxey r. Wood Judge Loeb
rem has granted u writ OF habeas corpus for
Harry Norton, aged four years. The little fel-
low is the son OF MsrS Norton, who was killed
a short time since. His mother died last
spring, Mrs Norton, the second wife Of the
murdered man and now widow, seems to be
the victim Of cate Several years ago a forest
fire in Michigan swept away her home her
husband and young son perishing in the
Games. She managed to escape ana, with a
babe in her arms, sought the nearest peiehbor,
who lived at some httle distance. The night
was bitter cold and in watiing through the
heavy snow she became exhausted and sank
down, as she thought, 10 die. IN the morning
she was found IN sn unconscious condition,
and so badly frozen us to necessitate the ann
putation of ore foot at the ankle. the other at
the knee. Her child was dead.
The Feast OF the immaculate Conception was
very appropriately observed in the different
Catholic churches throughout the city on
Tuesday last. At the Church of the msaeu-
iara Conception Father Henry McGolrick de-
hrered a sermon on the dogma of the Immacu-
late Conception From substantial quotations
the exalted dignity Of the Mother of God was