The Irish standard., 1893-04-29

| II RISH. AND. AR
and that he came to fhis city with his i'll
gotten money. He was formerly in th'
clothing business in the town mentioned
and after selling out his mortgaged stocl
forged a lot OF paper on his father-iD-law
w. A. Horton.
Too many pupils and not enough room
was the substance of the report OF Supt
10 M Jordan at the meeting of the boare
of education Tuesday afternoon. Dur
ing the present month the number oi
new pupils admitted had reached the un
precedented number of 1919. The build
ing committee submitted plans of the
new Lincoln school, to be butt on the
Hays land, recently purchased, al
Eleventh avenue north and Third street
The committee has secured some estim.
ates, informally, and reported that the
building would cost about $4,000.
Henry Hauser. enc Of the we'll known
youngbmen of the city, met with pain
full accident Tuesday evening while
pushing his bicycle up and down park
avenue. Hauser was on the wrong side
Of the street, and it being dark he ran
ioto or was run into by a horse and
buggy. The carriage ran completely
over him, aud besides crushing bis jaw
broke one of his lower ribs, The car
riage proceeded without it's occupant
stopping to learn the fate of the injured
! man.
Miss Nettie Hutchinson and Miss
| Nellie Niles had narrow escape last
Thursday afternoon while out riding.
They were seated in buggy and en-
gagged in conversation with gentleman
| friend in front of the engine house on
Third street near First avenue south
when team driven by James Griffin
dashed into the buggy, completely over
turning it and throwing the ladies to the
ground. Fireman Ryan jumped to their
| rescue and saved them from being
trampled on by the runaway team. They
received only few bruises.
Commissioner Thomas Downs, of the
Minnesota Chickamauga monument
commission, has received letter from
81. V. Boynton, secretary Of the national
commission of Chickamauga Park, in
which he states that the last of the many
difficulties in the way of the national
park have been surmounted, and the
government has received full possession
of the land he also states in the letter
that he has just received the land deeds
completing the title of the entire battle
field tract So far, arccording to the
statement of Gen.. Boynton, there are L.
! to Is states to join Minnesota in state
| monuments.
Another meeting of the creditors OF
Crocker, Fisk & Go. was held last Tues
day morning in the Northwestern bank
The firm presented proposition for a
settlement of the affairs of the firm with.
out the appointment OF a receiver. No
definite action will be taken on this
proposition until all of the outside cred
1tors can be heard from, but the creditors
feel inclined to accept the proposition.
Cashier Forgan, of the Northwestern
| National, one of the committee that ex-
amined the firms affairs, thinks that the
proposition will be accepted, and that
the frn will resume business without
the Intervention of either receiver OF
assignee.
| Minneapolis has received another boom
! to it's lumber interests in the filing Of ar
ticles of incorporation Of the G. A. Smith
Lumber Company. The new concern
has incorporated with capital stock Of
$75O,c0o, with limited indebtedness Of
$5O0,O0e. 1t is prepared to go into exis.
tence at once, and will buy, sell and deal
in timber lands, and do general lumber
business The eincorporators and first board
of directors are: John Pillsbury, Charles
A. Smith, Charles j. johnson, Arthur A
Rogers, Elias Anderson and Enoch Bro
berg. The officers are: G. A. Smith
president; John s. Pillsbury, vice-presi'
dent; Arthur Rogers, secretary, and
Charles J. johnson, treasurer.
It is understood that Police Surgeon
Gibson exceeded his authority somewhat
in announcing to thepublic recently that
certain applicants for places On the po
lice force we're rejected" and certain
other applicants accepted" 1t is un
derstood that the police surgeon, in max
ing these medical examination, is sup
posed to work directly under orders from
the mayor, to whom he should make hif
reports and not to the public, and that il
probably what the surgeon will do in the
future. It ia understood that the mayor
prefers to have these reports submitted
to him first and then given to the pub
lie, If at all. This is especially necessary