The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-17
THE CITY
TOWN TALK

TOWN TALK
Journal Almanac and Year Book. 1902, on
sale at Journal counter, Price Is cents.
The Minneapolis Stamp Collectors Club
sons offices, 514 Bank Of Commerce building.
Barnum, the frank man, moves to us Nicol-
let March l. lie is giving % per cent OIL on
lifted bags and imported toilet cases, and
discount on all lines, at 404 Nicollet.
The smouldering ruins Of the Brooks Grit
fths elevator, which burned Friday. broke out
afresh yesterday. For four hours engine com
pany No and truck company No. worked
to eXtineuish the flames.
The knights OF Columbus have chartered a
special train for Saturday, Feb. %, for Wi
mona, where they will institute a council.
Delegations from Minneapolis, st. Paul, Du-
luth and West Superior will go.
The mascot dog which has been in the habit
Of escorting the mail automobiles across the
steel arch bridge met his fate Friday: While
performing his usual stunt in front of the
vehicle he was caught by the front wheels
and run over
DR.. ]. ]. Teleen occupied the pulpit Of the
Swedish Lutheran church, Monroe street and
Thirteenth avenue NE, last evening. DR..
Teleen spoke on missionary work, giving some
telling statistics and exhibiting several Gu
rious idols from India.
A skeleton key. enabled daylight burglars to
enter the Sully home, SIS Twelfth avenue N,
at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The family
was absent, and the thieves ransacked tie
entire lower floor, but evidently did not find
what they were looking for, as nothing has
been missed.
Eight hundred young men listened to an
address by Bishop s: 6. Edsall OF the diocese
1 at 9e C. 4
Play" was the theme. The address was of a
decidedly practical character from a young
man to young men. .-..
The Viking League will hold it's regular
meeting q Sixth street
tomorrow evening" j. F. jacobson, member
OF the Minnesota legislature, is to deliver an
address on some topic Of popular interest.
The meeting is to be an open one and all
friends Of the league are cordially invited.
Electric lighting and power plant for sale,
Description-Two American Ball engines,
l4x12, each 100-horse-power. direct belted to
four-pole 50-klowatt 11O-volt lighting genera
tors. Possession given March l, 1902. These
equipments are in full operation and may be
inspected at The Minneapolis Journal plant.
Fire broke out this morning, between and
8 O'Clock. in the Metropolitan steam laundry,
in the See block, at 907 Nicollet avenue. The
fire started in the rear of the building and
had made considerable Roadway before the
| about $500, which is partially covered by in
Surance. .,-. -E.. ...<
| Charles Keanit, a German boy of 10, slept
at the Central police station last night be-
ten months ago, and since that time, he says.
he has earned enough money to pay for his
passage, besides sending some money home
| to his grandmother. Now, however, he is out
| Of work and had to sleep in the tramproom.
| The transfer OF the old city hall to the
| Grand Army posts of Minneapolis is the lat
| est suggestion made for the disposal OF the
building when the city departments move into
the new city hall. The Grand Army posts
now meet in separate halls about town. 1t
is argued that the building could be made to
| serve the uses OF the veterans most admira-
! bly, and without great expense.
| Rev. G. l.. Morrill, has offered a $40 reward
| for the arrest and conviction Of the persons
who so altered a bulletin advertising the
church supper Wednesday evening as to re-
| quire its removal. The women of the Chi
| cago Avenue Baptist church had arranged 9
SUPPER and social in the parlors, and one
| Of the bulletins Of the same was the one
| altered. ::
John Kelly was fined $40 or ten days in the
municipal court this morning on charge Of
! urday night for interfering in reprimanc
which two Of the detectives were dealing ou
| to small boys who had been stealing
| peanuts Kelly thought it was up to him tt
! cut in with a few well-chosen remarks These
were not appreciated by the officers and Kelly
passed the Sabbath in the lookup to think i
over.
The Engineers Club will discuss the wate
| supply Of Minneapolis at its meeting this
! evening in the county commissioners, rooI
the DR. Leo M GgsI vii
the Subject and the Use Of Mile Laos Lake.
City Engineer Sublette will consider the En-
gineering Features Of the Work" and PROBES
on The Engineering Difficulties; also an En-
tirely New Source OF Supply g.
R. E. Lynch was arraigned in the polio
court this morning and entered a plea O
guilty to a charge Of malicious destruction
Of property. The complainant one Georg
Kuchoski, says that Lynch, with evil intent
licious act deprecated the value Of the tun
machine to the extent of 50. The defendan
said it was all a mistake, but he thought h
would say he was guilty anyhow. His vi
I cous act cost him 81 or two days
There is a new street lighting propostio
before the park board. Representatives c
the Meriden Hydro-Carbon Arc Light com
pany of Chicago are in the city to furnis
estimates and to explain the new system.
the scheme seems to be desirable. the ne
lights may be installed next summer on Min
riet parkways The lamps differ from othe
gasolene lamps in use in the city in the sui
stitution Of compressed air for gravity to SUI
i ply the pressure ."..
plea of guilty to vagrancy charge in tn
police court this morning. Both receive
forty days straight in the workhouse. Bot
men are in very hard luck. as they are shol
a right leg each and are compelled to beg &c
a living. Hanson came to the police static
. of his own accord and asked to be locked Il
and often obliged to go without food fC
a long time. .Norberg has been engaged i
. the manufacture OF coat hangers, but hi
pliers he says, got broken and he did nc
4 have Is cents to get new pair and so we
obliged to beg or starve.
Reinhart Heller, the, boy who ran ava
from his home in Mankato last week, an
who has been in the central station for tn
last few days waiting for his father to sen
for him, brought into the police cou1
this morning charged, with vagrancy. III
father refuses to take his wandering bac
into the bosom Of the family. He notife
the police that they could do what the
pleased with young Reinhart He was, there
fore, brought before Judge Holt as vagran
- but is still held pending further efforts to pei
suade the father to take him back. Jude
Holt believes that Mankato should care Il
him if he becomes a public charge. -