The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
BY THE WAYSIDE.

BY THE WAYSIDE.
The Minnesota Loan and Trust Com
pany is by law made legal depository
for all Trust Funds. Deposits made at
any tims during the month draw interest
from date of deposit at per cent.
Mr.. and Mrs J. B. Allen, of Minneapo-
lie, who are supposed to have been lost
in the forest fires at Hinckley, are still
among the missing. A. M. Allen, the
brother, has lost faith in the theory TINT
the couple are alive.
AS soon as the contracts for the paving
of Nicollet avenue are signed the work
will begin. City Engineer Cappelen has
the contract drawn up, aud all that re-
mains to put it in force is the signature
of the Minneapolis Brick Paving COM
psry.
Miss B. Kennedy, Of 1872 Tnird street
northeast, and Patrolman T. II. Garvin
will be married at the Church of st.
Anthoney Of Padua, Wednesday after
noon, September 26. Friends of the
contracting parties are cordially invited
to be present.
Anumber of the retail merchants have
been complaining to the police that
dinner pail forger" is at work. He has
succeeded in vlctimizing quite number
of them. None of the checks are made
out for more than $l5, and in each case
the man who passed them is described
as young fellow attired as a laborer.
Again the casa of the State against
Kcistian Kortgard is to b. delayed. Tnis
time the State wishes to SECURE more
evidence aud, indeed. has com into pos
session otsome. Tae public is very aux
ious to have the case tried, but is prob
ably doomed to disap2 ointm ant, as it is
absolutely necessary for the success OF
ths state that the present case have a
continuance.
A very aggravating accident occurred
at 3 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon on Second
avenue south, between Third and Fourth
streets. The horse and buggy of G. M.
Stocking, in which besides himself were
Mrs. G. Allen and Homer Stocking, was
run into by single rig driven by ono
mau, who never stopped nor turned his
head when he saw the occupants Of the
Stocking buggy thrown to the ground.
It is not known how badly Mrs. Allen is
hurt, l,u. she has sustained quite serious
injuries.
1t is thought that Mrs. Haley and
family of six children, who started from
Minneapolis three weeks ago for Canada,
accompanied by Mr.. Collins and Mr..
Ruby, were lost in the forest fires. They
left in wagons, overland, and their route
would take them through Hinckley. No
word has been received from the party
since the departure, and their friends are
fearful they have persisted in the flames,
MRS. Haley lives on Sixth street, between
Sixth and Seventh avenues north.
The school board has decided to in.
vestigate the charge that an excessive
price was paid for the Van Cleve school
site. Falk Gjertsen, Mrs. Crays and
Luth Jaeger we're appointed on CON-
mittee to investigate the matter. The
commit tee met yesterday afternoon. j.
T. Avery, the well known real estate
dealer, says that he can prove that the
board paid sum for the site of the Van
Cleve school several hundred dollars
larger than the price it was previously
offered for. Moreover, he says, one
member of the board was aware OF that
fact.
| About o'clock Wednesday afternoon
Fred Wallace, teamster for Louis
Malchow, was seriously injured, sustaia-
ing fracture of the base OF the skull,
and several cuts and bruises. Wallace
was driving loaded wagon on North
Lyndale avenue when he dropped one OF
his lines, and stepped out on the wagon
tongue to pick it up, without stopping