The Irish standard., 1903-09-05
CITY IN BRIEF.

Edward Il. Murnane of the Mime
apolis post office will leave for Nash
vile. Tenn. to-day to attend the ma
tional convention of postal clerks
which will be held next week in that
city. Mr.. Murnnc was elected dele
gate to represent the Minneapolis
branch of the organization.
Among the visitors to the state fair
from outside points We're Walter Nc
Nalan and Timothy Murphy of Kei-
logg, j. j. Moran of West Duluth, ]. T..
Rogers of Whipple. Nj. Malone of
Montgomery. Thomas Burke of Ellis
worth. Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Jordan and
Martin Jordan. of WaSeca.
The De LII Sale Institute conducted
by the Christian Brothers opened last
Monday With Il large attendance. Dur
ing the week many more students We're
enrolled. Brother Heraclian. director
of the Institute. says that there will
be no chance for the boys to enter
after Oct 1 if the present rate of i'll
crease in enrolment keeps up. Pa
rents who desire their sons to attend
the Brothers school had therefore bet
ter see to it that they are entered
without delay.
Capt John II. Alexander, eN-deputy
sheriff. Wednesday received announce
ment of his appointment to Il lucrafIv"
position in the interior department.
The captains appointment was made
solely OH the strength of the endorse
ments furnished the department by the
members of the bench of Hennepin
county and by the representative bust
ness men of this city. His departure
from Minneapolis will be regretted as
he has il wide acquaintance here and
many friends.
Albert Bezeman and Ernest Benton.
two North Minneapolis boys, appeared
in court at .Anoka Tuesday to answer
to charge of attempting to wreck two
Great Northern passenger trains a
couple of weeks ago. Upon eNamina-
ton they were bound over to the grand
Jury and remantled to the AnOll; coun-
ty Jail. 1t is claimed by the Great
Northern officials that the two boys
deliberately planned and nearly ac-
complished the wrecling of two pas
senger trains, which We're only saved
from destruction by the presence of
mind of the engineers.
City Treasurer G. S. Hubert received
a telegram Wednesday from New York
stating that the 100000 of public i'm
provement bonds has been delivered
and the money deposited by n. W..
Halsey & Co. with the United States
Mortgage and Trust company of New
York city. AS soon as Mayor Haynes
and Comptroller Joshua Rogers return
from New York. the 100000 of water
works bonds. bought by the Swedish
American bank of this city, will also
be delivered. The work of paving and
construction of sewers will then be
begun, and will be pushed until the
needs are PROVIDED IOr.
There are now fifteen flour mills run
ming in Minneapolis. the two mills of
the Pillsbury- Washburn company that
were closed having been started again
Wednesday. There is Il good demand
for flour for both domestic and foreign
account, buyers appearing to be Salts
fed that present prices are about right.
Although the receipts of new wheat
so far this year have been much below
the quantity received up to this date
last year. the quality Of the grain is
generally very fine. except where at
fected by smut" and only little OF
this has been seen here as yet. AS
the law provides that the state board
of appeals shall fix the grades OH the
new crop before Sept. 15 in each year,
a meeting of that body was held at 10
O'Clock Wednesday, ut JOG Flour En-
change
DR.. A. A. Ames was on Monday de-
MED new trial by Judge Elliott, and
HIS Oily lOpc VI csSdtpIllS IAC pShltSh
tiary now lies with the supreme court.
Ames was convicted of receiving 5000
as IL bride while mayor of Minneapolis
for protection to be given to women of
the town. The motion for new trial
will come up before the supreme court
at the October term, but as it will have
late setting on the calendar it is not
expected that Il decision will be hand
ed down before the latter part of the
year. Judge Elliott has had the argyll
ments OH the motion under cOnsdera-
ton for several weeks. and had /,
lengthy memorandum attached to the
decision for the supreme court. but
later he decided to deny the motion
without any explanation. \ brief
memorandum may be filed later Civ.
ing the reasons for the decision.
Fred Bonge. one of the best known
newspaper men III the middle west
died last Sunday in Superior. Wis. OF
typhoid pneumonia Mr.. Bonge went
to the head of the lakes from Chicago
last winter. He has done work on
New York and Chicago newspapers
and on the Minneapolis Tribune. AT
the time of the Leutgert trial in Chi
cago he is said to have achieved cele