The Irish standard., 1904-03-19
CITY IN BRIEF.

w. w. Erwin, the criminal lawyer
who for several years was located in
Minneapolis and recently went to Palm
Beach and later to Miami to locate.
has just completed the formation of a
trust company in his new home town
that has enthused the Florida press.
The applications for licenses of Leon
Solomon for the Columbia theater and
John Hart for the Park were both
denied unanimously by the license
committee of the council on Friday of
last week. These petitions have been
under consideration of the committee
for over Il month.
Catherine Graef. aged 7G years, died
at the residence of her daughter Mrs.
p. n. Thill. 18Th East Twenty-second
street, last Saturday afternoon. The
funeral took place from the family
residence ut $50 O'Clock Tuesday
morning. services being held ut st.
Elzabeths church at 8 O'clock She
leaves nine children.
Nicholas Seyler, aged 81. died Tues
day at the home of his son. J. II. Sey-
ler. lbs Fifth street n. Mr.. Seyler
was born at Breidenbach. Alsace, and
served in the French army from 1878
until 1856. He had been Il resident OF
Minneapolis for fourteen years. Tile
funeral took place Friday morning
from the home of his son. Services
were held at st. Joseph's German
Catholic church at 8 Il. III.
An application has been made to
the district court to have the plat OF
LowIy's East Side addition vacated
The city council some time ago vacat-
ed the streets in the addition with the
exception of Johnson and Eighteenth
avenue northeast and these will still
be LEFT open to the public the petit
toner excepting these streets from the
request. The addition lies on the eX-
IRENE northeastern edge of the city
Will j. Ryan has accepted the posi-
tion of general agent for Minneapolis
and st. Paul of the Woolson Spice
Co., Toledo, Ohio. His trade will
therefore he with the grocers of the
Twin Cities exclusively. MI. Ryan
has been engaged III the grocery bust
ness a number of years with his
father, L. ]. Ryan. G29 Summer street
NE. He understands the wants of the
trade and represents good house.
Frank Lee dropped dead Friday Of
ternoOn of last week in the alley at
the back of the Syndicate block. He
was loading boxes OH his wagon from
the back of Knoblauch's shoe store,
and had just lifted up the first box
VI lien he fell OH his face and expired
Immediately. DR.. F. Z. Poehler and
tho coroner We're called, and the body
was removed to the morgue. The
cause of death was apoplexy. Mr..
Lee lived at 1907 Longfellow avenue
and leaves a wife and five children.
He was about so years of age.
The Rathskeller restaurant, one of
the better known after-the-play cafes.
has been sold, Thomas Lally, the
former proprietor, having disposed of
his interests to the proprietors of ''The
Grill,'' which adjoins the Rathskeller
OH the ground floor. Mr.. Lally says
that he had experimental to see
whether Minneapolis would support
an exclusive cafe, such as the Raths-
keller was, and had been impelled to
the belief that it would not He de-
clared that he should continue the
buffet on the ground floor, and added
that the restaurant, under it's new
management, would be run OH lines
which have made 1.-THE Grill" sue
cess, having no connection with the
bar.
The regular tests of the health de-
partment indicate that the water on
the East Side is gradually becoming
pure. At the last meteorological ex-
animation of specimens taken from
schools in that section of the city, but
one showed traces of colon bacilli, and
specimens from the water mains Sc
cured by DR.. J. Frank Corbett, the city
bacteriologist, show absolutely no evil
dences Of their presence. DR.. P. NJ.
Hall, health commissioner, intends to
take specimens Of city water from
both the East and West Sides this
week and subject them to thorough
examination, the result Of which will
determine almost to certainty, he be.
lieves, whether any part Of Minneapo'
lis is still getting infected water.
John Duffy, international secretary
of the Carpenters and Joiners of Amer.
lea, in his first visit to Minneapolis, ad.
dressed an audience of some 300 car.
penters, cabinet makers and mill.
wrights last Saturday night at Century
hall, and spoke right from the
shoulder. He appeared to be mar
singularly we'll fitted for the position
he fills; and, without the least apparent
effort, without any attempted flights