The Irish standard., 1904-04-09
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CITY IN BRIEF.

crease over March of last year. The
records show $101,947.99 as against
$91, 251.07 last year. For the year end
ing March 81 the increase over 1903
was $105, 443.O1, the total being S1,O99,-
BOAST.
Warren Tobin, residing on Emerson
avenue north, was struck by Great
Northern switch engine at Second ave-
nue. northeast, near the river, early
Sunday morning and fatally injured.
He was taken to the city hospital,
where he died from the effects of a
fractured skull. Tobin was picking up
coal at the time, and was unseen by the
crew OH the engine that struck him.
He was 80 years old.
At the meeting Of the Minneapolis
mail carriers i'll Union Temple Tuesday
night the following delegates We're
elected to the state convention, which
is to be held at Saltwater on May 6:
G. f. Gordon, Lowry Hill district and
Thomas a. Kelley, downtown district.
members after 20 years Of service is
to be the principal matter of discussion
at the convention.
Mrs. Frances Potter, 249 Eighth ave-
nue. north, who was burned early Sat-
urtlay evening in Il fire in her home,
died Sunday after Il night of intense
suffering. The lace curtains in the par
lor caught fire, and to prevent the
spread of the flames Mrs. Potter pulled
them down. They fell across her breast
and arms, intlicting burns from which
she eventually died.
S. 3. Mattison, engaged in the hack
and bus business in Minneapolis since
1871, died at his home in this city Sat
urday, April 2, aged IS years. Mr.. Mat
tison had resided here over So years
and was we'll and favorably known to
our people. Interment took place at
Lakewood. Men who We're associates
with him in the earlier days of the city
bore the casket, as follows: A. L. An
keny, D. W.. Egan, NJ. w. Waters, r.
l.. Beebe, w. L. Robinson, G. w. Sub
lette, L. f. Cameron and G. H. Slack.
Plans for the addition to the City
hospital We're accepted by the board of
charities and corrections Monday and
bids will be advertised for, to be opened
at the next meeting. The addition will
comprise an operating room, servants
quarters, kitchen, laundry ami dynamo
and engine room. 1t will be built on
top of the present boiler house, facing
Sixth street. A considerable portion
Of it, however, will extend beyond the
limits of this structure. The addition
will be three stories high and of the
same material as the rest of the hospi-
tai.
An accident which might have been
attended with fatal results occurred
Tuesday night at Fifth avenue south
and Tenth street, as the result of reck-
less driving OH the part of cllaffeur
Harry Cramer, a we'll known paint con-
tractor, was severity bruised about the
hips and body, and John Duftield, FORE
man for H. N. Leighton s Co., sus-
tanned seeral fractures of his left arm
and is badly strained about the body.
Mr.. Cramer and Mr.. Dnf1ield were
driving out Fifth avenue and at Tenth
street were almost run down by an
automobile coming down the street at
high speed. The auto came so close
that the horse took fright and both
men were thrown.
A mass convention of the Prohibit
tionists Of Hennepin county is called
to meet April 10 at 1870 p. m. in Rich
mond hall, Nicollet avenue and Eighth
street, to choose delegates for the
state convention and elect county and
city committee, and transact such other
business as may come before them.
After the business is transacted several
short addresses will be delivered by
able speakers. The Central Prohibition
club will serve supper from $50 to
1880 in the hall at % cents plate.
Tomorrow Sunday at $3.50 p. IN. John
G. Woolley will deliver an address in
the First Baptist church OH the sub
ject, "The Next Great Commandment"
The KEENAN, male quartet is advertised
to sing, and Miss Genevieve Lawrence
will sing solo.
The river is slowly rising below the
falls and the flats under the Washing
ton avenue bridge are in danger of
being flooded and the occupants of the
houses forced to seek safety on the
high ground. The water has already
reached the houses directly at the foot
Of the bridge and is steadily rising.
But narrow strip of land separates
the other shanties from the water and
few inches more rise will flood the en-
tire fiat. The inhabitants of the en-
dangered district have not begun to
move out, as the water has not vet
reached the floors of their houses, but
everything is in readiness for hasty
fight to the bluffs above. The greatest
danger is feared from the blocks of ice
which will rush down upon the shan
ties as soon as the water is little
deeper.
The April term of the Federal court
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