The Irish standard., 1893-04-08


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i not necessary Tor any one to jump from
4 tie windows. The car was hauled eight
miles af,er the fire, and all the other pas
lsengers escaped without injury He is
4 investigating the origin of the fire. All
the cars are heated BY steam, and how Q
4 fire could start is a mystery. 3s s
a special meeting Of the Police Relief
Association was held Tuesday night in
the office Of Supt. Smith. The commit
tee which has been Investigating the al
legged irregularities in connection with
1 the funds made it's report, in which it
was shown that an examination OF the
books had been made, and the charges
of shortage of $2,033 were fully sus-
tanned. The money had evidently been
received and never turned over to the
treasurer. County Attorney Nye was
present and was instructed to bring the
matter before the grand jury: It was
generally agreed that no compromise
| would be made in the matter and that
the guilty parties should be punished.
Articles of Incorporation were filed last
Wednesday by the American CONSOLE
dated Mica Company, with capital
stock of 100000 The stock is divided
into 10000 shares, the amount OF in
debteaness being fixed at $4,000. The
corporation will carry on general bust
ness in mining, refining ores and miner
ais, smelling and reducing. They will
also manufacture brick, steel, iron, cop
per and other metals, besides buying
selling and working mineral and other
lands. The incorporators are James A,
Bishop, Thomas E. Bishop, Emery F.
Dodso1 and Chas. F.. Brown, of Mime
apolis, and Joseph B Dickover, of Hot
Springs, S. d. The headquarters of the
company will be in Minneapolis.
Last Monday evening boy aged six
years named Boy Arbuckle, whose par
ents reside near Glenwood springs, fel
into Bassett's creek and was drowned.
The lad was playing on the bank OF the
stream, short distance from home, and
about o'clock answered to call to sup
per This was the last seen Of him, and
about an hour later, not having reached
the house, search was made for him at
neighbors' houses. This being unsuc-
cessful the distracted parents realized
that the child had fallen into the creek. |
A party dragged the stream until mid
night and then waited for daybreak to
continue the search. At 8 O'clock Tues
day morning the body was discovered
lodged in weeds near whore the accident
occurred.
At meeting of the Hennepin Demo
cratic league in the league rooms in the
New York Life building Wednesday
night arrangements were made for the
celebration of Jeffer> on;s birthday, April
Ii. In the absence of President Winston,
Vice President Kiichli presided. It was
decided that the celebration should take
the form Of a banquet. The leading
Democrats of the state and the Demo
cratic members Of the legislature will be
invited to attend. Where the banquet
will be held was not fixed upon. The
settlement of that question, as we'll as
other details of the banquet arrangement
was left to the following committee: P.
B. Winston, James w. Lawrence, s. r.
Child, George L. Levine, jacob Stoft, p.
W. Murphy and Weed Munro.
Michael Kennedy of West Superior,
while asleep last Sunday night in lodg-
ing house at 225 Washington avenue
south, was robbed of his purse contain
ing $3.50 in money, besides number of
invaluable keepsakes, and certificate of
deposit for $50 on the First National
bank of this city. Kennedy went to bed
with stranger who had the faculty of
winning his confidence without divulging
anything about himself, not even his
name. When the man from Superior
went to sleep his room mate quietly arose,
and after stealing all the available prop
erty Of the sleeping man departed,
whittier no one knows, not even the de-
tectives. He is described as man about
thirty years of age, with light COM
plexion and muetache to match.
At the monthly meeting of the Library
Board last Tuesday afternoon Librarian
Hosmer gave brief statement Of the
growth OF the library during the past
year, as the first of April ended his first
year in Office. The circulation for Feb
ruary was more than 5000 larger this
year than last and the total for March
will show an increase of several thousand
volumes. The circulation Of last Satur-
day, April l, was the largest by so or
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