The Irish standard., 1904-04-30

John G. Quinn, 2707 Girard avenue
N. left for Seattle Thursday night.
where he will spend the summer.
The jury awarded $3.50 to the plaint-
lit i'll the case Of Michael Conner
against the Washburn-Crosby COM
pany. Conner was injured by falling
through a defective skid while loading
flour at one of the mills of the de-
PENDANTS.
Division No. 5, Ladies' Auxiliary,
A. o. H., will give social dance next
Monday evening at Forester hall, POLL
Washington avenue n, to which the
members of the order and friends
throughout the city are cordially in
vited. Potter's orchestra will furnish
music. Admission % cents each,
A large automobile driven by an en-
plyoee of local agency crashed
through plate glass window in Brad
avenue N. Tuesday night. The auto
was not damaged and the driver es-
capped without injury. The machine is
new one and the driver was not vet
accustomed to it.
On Monday night John c. Sheehan
and John Powell, two of the leading
grocers of Minneapolis, left for San
Francisco, Cal, to attend as delegates
the national convention of retail gro
nj, ;e, 1>o
May I'd to 9th. They went via Omaha.
Denver, Ogden and Salt Lake. Return
ing they will visit Los Angeles and
will then take the Southern Pacific for
San Antonio, Texas, and New Or
leans, thence to the Worlds Fair at
st. Louis.
Tobias G. AIealey, the Minnesota
pioneer, died Wednesday at his home
in Monticello, where he had lived about
fifty years. He had been in ill health
all winter and his death from heart
trouble was expected. His son, S. j.
Mealey, is still living at Monticello,
and three daughters in Minneapolis,
Mrs. Lester B. Elwood, Mrs. Rufus r.
Rand and Mrs. ]. o. p. Wheelwright.
MI. Mealey was born in 1923 at Pen
field, N. B.
About 9:30 Tuesday evening a fire
broke out in the dwelling of L. S.
Hawke, IL Sixteenth street N, doing
some damage to wearing apparel, etc.
The only occupants of the house during
the absence of the parents We're the
young daughters, Florence and Nellie.
The latter ran for assistance, and dur
ing her absence 11-year-old Florence,
with rare presence of mind for child,
prevented the air from reaching the
flames, succeeded in quenching the fire
and saving the house, as when assist
ance arrived the fire was out.
The flour millers are closing their
mills alternately in order that all the
men may be given work. The Wash
burn-Crosby company closed down the
A mill Saturday and started half of G
Monday. The Northwestern Consoli-
dated A, D and G, and Pillsbury-Was
burn B, Anchor and Palisade are still
being operated. There is otherwise no
change in the milling situation and the
manufacturers say there is nothing to
stimulate buying.
Alderman G.. A. Westphals plan to
repeal the "curfew" ordinance was re-
jected by the council committee on or
dinances Monday morning, the father
of the measure himself voting against
it. There will be a vigorous enforce
ment of the ordinance, and Mr.. West
phals desires are attained, as his mo-
ton to repeal stirred up the very agi-
tation he wished. Police Superinten-
dent E. J. Conroy stated that express
instructions would be given to the po-
lice to keep the youngsters off the
streets in the evening.
The song Of the buzz saw is becom-
ing more pronounced in the land. The
big mill of the G. A. Smith Lumber
company has been running for about
two weeks and starting Monday is now
running night and day. This mill is
fed with logs from the boom. The
Scanlon-G ipson mill at Seventeenth
avenue north and the river started
Tuesday morning for the season, using
logs which were shipped in by rail.
Logs began coming through the boom
in large numbers Monday and in q
few days it is expected that about all
Of the mills will be at work.
A. NJ. Cleland, general passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific, Wednes-
day appointed Arthur NJ. Smith assist
ant general passenger agent for that
company. The position has been va
cant since Mr. Cleland was promoted
to be general passenger agent. Mr..
Smith is at present auditor for the
Yellowstone Park company. P. w.
Pummill, district passenger agent with
headquarters at indianapolis, is pro-
NOTED to the district agency at Phila-
delphia, to succeed the late M. Bortle.
G. P. O'Donnell, city passenger and
ticket agent of the Northern Pacific at
Superior, has been promoted to be dis
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