The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-17
THE CITY
TOWN TALK

DR.. W. T.. Joslin, dentist. moved to $50
Andrus building.
Shirts, collars uffs-Saturday is the last
day of sale at the Plymouth.
Great bargains in tailoring. One-thrd off
on al suits and overcoats at Brown Co.'s.
24O Hennepin avenue.
Free samples of securing soap will be given
away, free, at Powers Mercantile company's,
saturday. Grocery department.
Flowers for funerals and all Other: pur-
poses shipped to all parts of the northwest
Mendenhall. florist, 81 Sixth street 5.
Subscribe for all magazines, papers, etc.
and get your binding done at Century News
Store, Third street S. near Hennepin av.
charter, board Of directors was elected
Wednesday and other formalities were gone
through with.
A regular meeting of the Minneapolis Stamp
collectors Club will be held Monday eve
ming, Jan. 20, at the clubrooms, 614-616 Bank
OF Commerce building.
Postmaster Lovejoy has womans pocket
book, found on window sill in the postof1ce
lobby yesterday. It is Of value to the owner
and may be obtained on inquiry.
Under the auspices of the South Minneapolis
total Abstinence Society, Rev: j. NJ. Cleary
will speak this evening at Dania hall on "The
Folly Of the Drink Habit" There will also
be musical program
at the Jewish Reformed synagogue, Fifth
avenue and Tenth street His subject will
be, BLESSINGS and Curses Of Wealth." Ser
vice begins at s o'clock
}. W. Norberg, an old man., was in police
court this morning charged with drunkenness.
he has already served several terms in the
Workhouse for yagrancy and drunkenness. He
was fined $40 or ten days.
Joe Downey, who was arrested last Wednes-
day, charged with stealing IS and a pair Of
opera glasses from his boarding house keeper
Mrs. Gordon, 2l61s Third avenue S, had q
hearing in the municipal court, and was held
for the grand jury in $500 bail.
The pupils of the Emerson school yesterday
held their first fire drill for the term. Six
strokes OF the bell was the signal, and form
ing in orderly lines. they hurriedly picked up
ing was emptied in 212 minutes.
The case Of Charles Pease arrected last
week for appropriating the sweepings from
freight cars, came UP again to-day, when
some mistake, the attorney for the defend
ant was not ready to take up the case and
the trial was reset for next Thursday.
course Of four talks on Dante will be
the Kindergarten Association, at Gethsemane
vestry-rooms, at p. M, on the following
dates; Jan: 90 The Life and Times :.r, Of
Purgatorio'; Feb. 10, The Paradise
The breaking of feedwire under the via
duet at Eighth avenue S, on Washington, at
o'clock last night, caused a tie-up of traf-
Cedar and First avenue S lines for nearly an
hour. Several other lines were affected.
Electric lighting and power plant for sale.
Description-Two American Ball engines,
14x12, each 1OO-horse power, direct belted to
four-pole 50-klowatt 110-voIt lighting genera
tors. Possession given Jan. is and Feb. Is.
1902. These eequ. pments, are in full opera
ton and may be inspected at The Minneapolis
Journal plant
William O'Donnel, who lives on Bryant
avenue, near Twelfth street, was arraigned
IN police court this morning for assaulting
Charles F. Clark, a boy of II. Clark was
hit in the face and his nose cut, while
to show that there were blows struck on both
sides. He was fined S..
Charles A. Daily, president of the Viking
League, has appointed the following to serve
as the leagues campaign committee for this
year: Dr.. H S. Nelson, fifth ward. chair
man; H. G. Brevick, first ward; Julius New
gord sixth ward; G. NJ. Marboe, tenth ward;
A. n Wasmuth, eleventh ward. The league
meets next Tuesday, when the election of
officers will take place.
The annual election of the Minneapolis Fire
Department Relief Association was held yes
terday afternoon in Chief Canterburys Office
Engine Company No. IA was elected secretary
to succeed William Pierce, and DR.. c. E.
Dutton will take DR.. A. x. Norton's place
as surgeon. James Dinon, pipeman with en-
the directors. Chief Canterbury is president
,eX- officio Of the organization.
John Ryan, a prisoner in the county Jail,
tried to escape last "Wednesday evening. With
the aid of the iron leg of his bunk and a
piece out of his iron bucket, he stripped the
covering Off the lock Of his cell door, Being
in the insane ward he at dis
lance from the office, and able to carry
his work without being detected. Having
effected his escape from the cell he crouched
in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to
man discovered the young man, and escorted
him to another cell.