The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-06-14
Father Byrne delivered q fervent
4exnortatio TO the commandments.

Father Byrne delivered q fervenl
exhOrtatjon to the commandments
Early in the fall Of 1887, Jacob Kohn
living near Como Park. was brutalll
murdered. A tramp named Nicholas
Kill had been given work by Kohn and
was missing after the murder. The
circumstances all pointed very strongl,
to Kill as the murderer, but he was
finally sent to the Rochester insane
asylum. Now he has been discharged
from the asvlum but was Immediately
arrested on bench warrant and com
Imitted to tho Rochester jail. He will
remain there until brought to st. Pau
for trial.
The new North side police station is
a 90, Some time ago the council ap,
propriated $4,000 for the purpose of
building the new station. Bids were
advertised for but when opened acc0rl
ing to the specifications the lowest one
was found to be some $l4 200, or more
than the appropriation, so the matter
was postponed temporarily. Tuesday
afternoon the ways and means commit
tee OF the council met Mayor Babb and
Supt. Brackett, and after listening to a
statement of the case decided to recon-
mend the appropriation $4,000.
The Minneapolis postofioe is IN re-.
ceipt of communication from the COM
mittee appointed for the purpose. ask
ing for designs for letter box for the
doors of dwellings that will be simple
in construction, low priced and capable
of adjustment. Designs will be re-
ceived until Oct. l. when the committee
will meet and decide which box in its
opinion Is entitled to the preference.
The postmaster general will probably
officially ADOPT the box or recon
mend the same for general use. This
move is made in order to increase the
efficiency of the free delivery system.
Word comes from Emma Schmidt at
Clearwater, that her health is failing.
The terrible strain under which the
poor girl has labored seems to have
been too much for her health. Though
she is at home now. living quietly on
her fathers farm, constant brOoding
over the past and the sense of the ire
parable wrong that has been done her
is gradually wearing away her health
and strength. Her malady is of the
mind-a something that medicine can.
not cure. In her last letter to friends
here in MINNEAPOLIS the poor girl said
that her health was failing so that she
did not think Sue could ever GO back, as
she had hoped, to work.
Chas. w. Bullock, of 10Y Sixth st. S.,
aged IS. states that his son, Chas. q.
Bullock, aged "a, Jumped on him.
last Monday evening at o'clock and
beat him brutally, giving him a pair of
black eyes. The elder Bullock was a
brakeman on the Omaha road until re-
Gently, and secured position in the
same capacity for his son, who, not ELL
ing the position as he should, was dis
charged. The latter blamed his father,
and has threatened for some time to
'.get even" with him with the above re-.
suit. Bullock the elder says his son is
big. strapping fellow, weighing 100
pounds, who has never done stroke Of
work in bis life. cumming all night and
sleeping all day." and showed a pair of
black eyes to substantiate his state
ments.
AT last the elevator in the government
building is in operation. The elevator
was made by the Crane Elevator com
pany, of Chicago, but when examined
by the government inspector did not
fulfill the demands of the specifications.
The Crane people were notified of its
shortcomings, and sent skilled ma
chinist 10 Minneapolis several weeks
ago who remedied the defects, The
elevator was then accepted by the gov
eminent, and Postmaster AnkenY for
warded the necessary vouchers for the
cost of the elevator. George l.. Abbot,
an old soldier, has been appointed car
man, subject to the approval OF the
Washington authorities. Postmaster
Ankenv forwarded his appointment,
and the probabilities are that Abbot
will be confirmed, his salary being fixed
at Washington.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
Father MoKenna Lectures on Them and
Denounces the Latter as Legal
lied Adultery.