The Irish standard., 1889-07-20

same CITY. In all probabilities Father
Murphy will not return until about tht
1st of October.
CITY BRIEFS
The telephone call of THE IR1sE
STANDARD is 1854.
The Western Avenue Creamery has
assigned to F 3. Wright.
Almost all the wards IN the city held
meetings and indOrsed the Anderson i
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
Wapsch 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. J. Dissette, OF 29O8 Pleasant ave-
nue., died Thursday off cholera infan-
tum, aged three and one-haf months.
George w. Ferrier will erect hand
some residence on Hawthorne and
Russell avenues. 1t will be two and
one-half 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 thatit will take $316 $50 to meet the
county expenses for the coming year.
Last year they asked for $2S0,OOO but
got only 1897 900.
Herman Westphal, who runs the big
brewery at Keegan's lake, or better
known as Germania Park, was lined
$50 last week for selling neighbor
keg of beer on Sunday.
John Shelley, chief grain inspector at
Duluth, has been transferred to Mime
apolis to fill A. c. Clausen's place made
vacant by the latter's promotion to the
chief grain inspectorship.
The council has ordered the purchase
of a lot, at Nineteenth avenue North
and Third street, for a new police sta
tion, at a 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. II.
Spry responded in behalf of the recl:
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
$1,000.
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 assessments on some $4,000, GOO
feet Of logs.
President Lor1ng of the park board
faYors the preserving Of the natural
features of the parks. He says the
European parks are all laid out in geo
metrical order, and that there is nothing
natural about them.
It is said that Senator Washburn is
financially embarrassed, and that he
would have ''gone under'' had not
Thomas Lowry. q. A. Pillsbury and
others put up the necessary money to
carry him through.