The Irish standard., 1889-07-20

Murphy will not return until about the
LIST of October.
CITY BRIEFS
The telephone call Of THE IRIsn
STANDARD Is 1854.
The Western Avenue Creamery has
assigned to F. 3. Wright.
Almost all the wards IN the city held
meetings and Endorsed the Anderson &
Douglas;cable franchise last week.
The scarcity of water in the river has
rendered logging very difficult, and a
number of the sawmills are idle now.
Supt. Bracket says he will have the
charges made against him by the
Wansch girl Investigated if it costs
him $4,000.
Acting on the advice of the IRISH
STANDARD, President Loring of the
park board has condemned 81 of the
boats at Lake Harriet.
The Swedish-Amelican Bank has
been the victim of a number Of we'll
planned and successful forgeries dur
ing the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Byrnes, Of
1901 Third street North, were agree
ably surprised last night by number
of their East Side friends.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. J. Dissette, OF 1908 Pleasant ave-
nue., died Thursday off cholera infan-
tum, aged three and one-half months.
George w. Ferrier will erect a hand
some residence on Hawthorne and
Russell avenues. 1t will be two and
one-haf stories high, and will cost
$4,000.
The Minnesota Valley Elevator Com
pany has incorporated with $50 900
stock. A. "A. Sawyer is president. S. S.
Linton yice-president. G. M. Ranney,
secretary.
The county commissioners have fig
ured that it will take $31S $50 to meet the
county expenses for the coming year.
Last year they asked for 100000 but
got only $780,, 200.
Herman Westphal, who runs the big
brewery at Keegan's lake, or better
known as Germania Park, was tined
$50 last week for selling neighbor a
key of beer on Sunday.
John Shelley, chief grain inspector at
Duluth, has been transferred to Mime
apolis to fill A. G. Clausen's place made
vacant by the latter's promotion to the
chief grain inspectorship.
The council has ordered the purchase
of lot, at Nineteenth avenue North
and Third street, for new police sta
ton, at cost of So, 500. A new build
ing will be erected at once.
The local G.. A. r. posts dedicated
their lot at Lakewood cemetery last
Sunday. Hon. G.. A. Pillsbury made
the presentation address, and G. H.
Spry responded in behalf of the reel:
pients.
The Bodega saloon, at 40 Washington
avenue South, was closed Tuesday last
by Sheriff Eye, on an attachment issued
at the request of Benz & Sons, whole
sale liquor dealers, of St. Paul, for
81. 800.
Miss Mamie Wren entertained a
number of friends last Monday even
ing at her home, 391 Broadway N. E.
in honor of Miss Eta Brown Of Britt,
Iowa, who has been her guest for
several days,
Lumbermen will not be assessed on
logs in the river, if they can show that
they were assessed in other counties.
City Assessor Plummer has already
levied assessor ents on some $4,000 600
feet of logs.
President Lorlng of the park board
.aYors the preserving of the natural
features Of the parks. He says the
European parks are all laid out in geo
netrical order, and that there is nothing
natural about them.
Tt is said that Senator Washburn is
embarrassed, and that he
would have 'sgone UNDER had not
Thomas Lowry, .. A. Pillsbury and
others put up the necessary money to
AIRY him through. i