The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-27
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.

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Carpets. Stoves and Furniture sole
on time. Smiths Instaiiment House
& III Nicoliet avenue.
Is. ii. Barry, contractor and builder,
Stone and brick a specially. TO Uni
yersity avenue northeast.
Priester, the Tailor, No. 10 South
Second street, Minneapolis. Merchant
tailoring perfect fits.
The safe in Russell & Mccormick
grocery store was burglarlzed Saturday
or Sunday night of $3.50.
Daniel w. Vincent Thursday filed a
voluntary assignment in the district
court to George g.. HAYES.
Glenwood spring water is the purest.
& Order Of w. FL. Fruen & Co., 258 Iien-
ngoin avenue, and have it delivered TO
any part of the city. It is the health
Fl lest and most wholesome water,
II. Blake whose Office is in the Irl-
/ bune building, has completed the pur
chase from Gates Brothers of the nine
teen tenenents constituting the Central
Park Terrace, for the consideration OF
$500, 600.
The benefit concert TO Frank DAM at
the Grand Opera on Monday evening
was an artistic success The audience
+ if not very large, was critical, and en-
loved the entertainment greatly.
There are now over 1900 stockholders
in the Exposition and as a rule the first
and second installmeEts have been
promptly paid. A collector has been
nnt; in the field to reach the deIinquents.
S. d. Harding's barn, No. 2 81
Twenty-sixth avenue south, was burnt
wednesday night. Loss 81 600, insured
with Gale. 81 Co. William Snllivan's
store. in the vicinity, sustained 500
damage.
Representatives of the bricklayers,
carpenters, plasterers, stone masons
and painters unions met Monday even
Jug and discussed the matter of short
ening the hours of q working day. An
other meeting will be held March 81.
Frederick Twain found in his yard
Tuesday, at No. 2l2o Second street
north, human hand, which seemed to
have been violently wrenched from the
arm as by a railroad accident. The
hand was taken to the norgue.
Michael Hoy has sued John B. Gilhl-
Ian and Frank. r. Chandler, asking the
district court to confirm him in the po-
session Of lot 5, block is, in Bottineau''iss
addition to Minneapolis, which is
claimed by the defendants.
"A weak minded German woman was
brought into the police station We'd
nesday morning charged with going
around making extensive pure bases and
not having the money to pay Tor them.
She thinks her husband is amillionaire.
The chief sent her home.
The boiler OF the soda motor has
sprung leak and commenced to sag. a
new one was ordered at the Glenn
boiler works, and was placed in posi-
ton on Thursday. Another thorough
test will be made before the motors are
ordered from Chicago.
at the meeting Of the central council
of the associated charities, Monday
Secretary Hall presented his report for
the past five weeks, Whick showed that
l78 families had been assisted in the
different wards, though there had not
been a single call from the Eighth ward.
Every naturalized citizen who has re-
sided in the state four months and IN
his precinct ten days is entitled to vote.
The first opportunity to register was
on Tuesday, March %, from a. M, TO
9 o. IN. after that on the Friday and
Saturday preceding election, between
12o'clock, noon, and 10 p. M.
Nine hundred employees of the Mil
waukee road have signed petition fol-
the eight-hour system. No reduction
in wages, time and half for over
time and double time for Sunday labor
The Knights of Labor have nothing te
do with this petition which comes from
the emplo yes.
E. j. Ford, a boarder at the Mer-
chants hotel, on Nicollet avenue
dropped dead Sunday morning In the
office of the hotel while writing a let
ter. The deceased was from Chicago
and travelled for the Eagle carriage
works Of this city. Ford was about
fifty years of age and the cause Of deatf
was either heart disea Sc or apoplexy.
Herm an a. Westphal bet Alderman
sly that il Pillsbury be elected he vii
wheel Sly from the West hotel to Br1dg'
square, three times around the City hal
IN Nico llet to Tenth street and bach