The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-05
THE CITY
TOWN TALK
Plymouth

Correct dress. head to foot. plymouth
Corner, Sixth and Nicollet
Order your shrubs, lilacs, snowballs. spi-
rails, barberys. etc.. from Mendenhall. 81
Sixth street S.
Dependency due to inability to secure work
impelled Benjamin F, Lowe, $50 Monroe street
NE, to commit suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Saturday He left wife
and two children.
John Murphy, better known as .'Maloney"
on the East Side. where he has the reputa-
ton of spelling for a fight. was knocked out
In one-round bout with Patrolman William
Gibbs yesterday morning. He was charged
with drunkenness.
The funeral of the e-year-old son of John
w. Wilson will take place at p. m. to-mor-
row from the residence. 261S Dupont avenue
\. This service will be followed by service
in the Zion Lutheran church. Sixth street
and Twentyfourth avenue N.
An oDen-air concert will be held this eve
ming at Lyndale avenue and Sixth avenue N,
under the auspices of the West End Improve
ment Association. 1t will be followed by a
mass meeting and entertainment at Kistler' S
hall. Admission will be free.
Archie Chisholm. a laborer who lived at II
First street ~ died yesterday at the. city
hospital. An ahscess in his right knee joint
infected the bone of the leg, and ten days
ago amoutation of the limit was found to be
necessary. A brot her at Princeton. Mimi,
has been notified.
l.. l.. May of ST. Paul met with Chairman
Wallace G.. Nye OF the Commercial Club con-
vention committee and J. E. Northrup, presl-
dent of the American Seed Trade Association,
late SaturdaE afternoon, and asked that the
association spend one day during convention
week in St. Paul as his guests The conven-
ton is to be held here July 24-27. and is ex-
pected to bring $50 seed men to the city.
Twelve deer and elk purchased by a Phil
adephia collector, We're shipped east by the
Minneapolis park board Saturday, night:
Minneaaha park The same Philadelphia
had previously purchased six buffaloes in
Montana. and the Minneapolis contributions
were boxed mp early to go east on the same
train. .-... 81
The gang which has been. robbing farmers
about Minneapolis for some time past is
| thought to have its rendezvous somewhere
on the North Side. The latest depreciation
gardener living near New Brighton. Thieves
stole $50 bushels of oats from his granary
Friday night He followed fresh wagon
tracks to the east end of the Plymouth ave.
| nue. bridge.
The first Sunday afternoon vesper service
which during the summer months VIII replace
the evening service at Plymouth Congrega
tional church, was we'll attended yesterday
Beginning at 4:4O. the organst, Hamln Hunt
gave an organ recital of sacred music, fol
| lowed by the regular vcspers lasting an hoIr
L. II. Hallock, the pastor, preached shor
sermon. The offertory was sung by Miss
Helen Hall. contralto of the choir.
| D. c. Paul has Teen named as grand mar
| shall OF the Memorial Lay parade, tne SeleC
| ton having been made at meeting OF tn
| Memorial Day committee Saturday evening
| Details were appointed to take part in tn
! exercises to be held in the public schools
and an effort will be made to have a soot
| representation of G. A. r.. men attend eacl
| schools ceremonies. A request is made tina
! any one knowing of an old soldiers graV'
within the city, not appearing on tue roster
will report its location to G. A. R. headquar
ters. s.r
Mr. and Mrs. George schaetzel kissed an
made up again at the Hotel Hyser, Satur
day Mrs Schaetzel is the young woman VIII
| tried to end al with revolver and succeede
in shooting herself through the arm at tn
| Beaufort Hotel. Schaet2el told his wife n
had been called TO St. Paul on business an
| had heard nothing of the shooting until n
saw her picture in a paper Thursday NOR
ming He came immediately to Minneapolis
but she had changed hotels. and it took mr.
two days to locate her. He denies naNln
seen his divorced wife in st. Paul.
The lakes round about Minneapolis are sal
by the oldest inhabitants to have reached ID
low water record. This condition is partlcu
larly noticeable at Cedar lake and Lake
the Isles. The lily pond which used to be
feature of the east side of Cedar lake ma
been tranformed into bog. The water
have rcceded so far from their normal sho1
line as to leave a wide margin of rocks an
lake refuse Lake Calhoun has held Its oW
better than any of the neighborng lake
which confirms the belief that this deep lax
is fed by prolific springs.