The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-04-17
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There are about 10000 dogs in Mime
apolis and they will net to the cityaa
revenue Of some $13, 200. Tags will be
issued until May l.
Nels Thuleen. Of 1907 Third avenue
forth, was held up Saturday night at
1880 at Oak Grove and Vine Place by
two young men. They took his silver
watch and IS cents
e. r. Bennett, who was arrested in
Chicago last November, charged with
embezzling $4,000 from the Bay City
Tribune, has brought suit against the
Michigan sheet for false Imprisonment.
Bennett formerly lived in Minneapolis.
and is we'll known here.
The supreme court Saturday returned
an order. which restores Charles E.
Brame to the bar, and again allows him
to practice law in Hennepin county.
The order was returned after 4. careful
deliberation on the part Of the bench.
E. T. Thompson, the druggist at Grant
street and Nicollets avenue, was held
up Saturday night about II O'Clock by
two men on Twelfth street between
Second and Third avenues. They got
Is cents, overlooked $40 bill and re-
fused to take his gold watch. -'ft
Mayor-elect E. S. Starlkwcather, of
West Superior, the clerical executive,
chief and novel campaigner, registered
at the Nicollet house Saturday night,
having stolen away from the numerous
officeseekers which attend every eiec-
ton. ..-.,
The courthouse chimes will furnish
music for Minneapolis Easter morning
and afternoon. The morning concert
will begin at 9 o'clock and continue I'M
til 1920, and the afternoon will be from
$3.50 until 5. Both concerts will be by
E. S. Rhind. s'...-. Pc.
Charles J. Won Arnold, at one time a
member of the Minneapolis detective
force, and who has masqueraded at vari-
GUS times and places as count or a
baron, was married Saturday at San
Francisco to Mrs. Jennie Young, also
known as Mrs. D. M. Delmas.
A novel plan in recognition of bicycles
has been adopted at the Central Bap-
tist church. The rear entrance and hall
and on the Grant street side of the
church building has been fitted up for
the care of bicycles during Sunday SER
vices. The men of the Young Peoples
society will provide system of check
ing each wheel. .....,
The state supreme court has sustained
the verdict of the lower court granting
Mrs. E. L. Lockwood judgment for $15,-
600 against her husbands parents, MIR.
and Mrs. John e.. Lockwood, for alien
ating her husbands affections. This
case was first tried ia the Hennepin dis.
trist court year ago and won much
sympathy for the plaintiff.
It is estimated that floating near the
shore on the surface of'the lake at Lor-
ing Park there are fully 10000 dead fish,
whose death is due to the unusually
large amount of ice that was on the lake
during the past winter, the extreme
thickness of the ice shutting air out
from the fish. Death was caused by
suffocation.
Manager Chute, of the Mississippi
and Rum River Boom comoeny, and
the log committee, consisting of Messrs.
Day, De Laittre and Akeley, chartered
a steamer at St. Paul Saturday and
went down the Mississippi as far as Red
Wing in search of the logs which went
over the falls during the extreme high
water last week. 81.
The talk of the town since last Sun
day night is the mysterious object of
red and green color which many persons
claim to have seen in the heavens. Some
are of the opinion that it is an airship,
while others think it is twinkling star.
The managers of the Cycle show which
opens here on the 18th, believe 1t is an
aerial machine containing visitors to
their exposition. -
A dispatch from Washington says
that a petition from the Minneapolis
Board of Trade has been received by
Senator Davis urging legislation on the
currency question. Although this is the
first petition received at the capital on
the subject, it is said that the senate
and house will shortly be flooded with
appeals from nearly every commercial
body in the union. The Sound money
men are at the bottom of 1t, and it is
part of the campaign which they have
mapped out.
e The beet sugar industry is assuming
great proportions in Minnesota and the
most recent move to start factory is
said to have been begun by Senator
Theden and Peterson, who have taken
Treasurer Edmunds. of Ramsey county,
into the deal. These with others are
planning to incorporate and build
$250,000 factory in South Minneapolis.
They will have the seed to plant 1900
acres of beets furnished at once, and
expect to make the sweet stuff this cont
ing fall. %
Word comes from st. Peter that Mrs.
Jennie Hansen is apparently growing
worse daily. She has been confined to
her hod ovor since aha arrival Of tho