The Irish standard., 1904-02-06

|nfee canuluateS Tor the office of gov
ernor of the state of Minnesota, and
several other speakers, held forth ut a
gathering of $50 men at the fifth an
nual banquet of the Fourth Ward Re
publican club, held Tuesday evenin.
i'll the clubs wigwam at Western ave
hue and Ninth street. President
Roosevelt was strongly Endorsed. The
affair was scarcely Il love feast for
the candidates, as none of them ap-
peared to be especially happy in hav-
ing the others in such close proximity,
but no open war was declared. Judge
Grosscup's talk on the necessity for
the Republican party taking active
steps towards the legislative or judi
cial control of corporations was the
event of the evening.
Eight tlremen have been dismissed
from the department by Chief Can
terbury without explanation. Three
vacancies We're created by resigna-
tons. Those dismissed were J. G.
Penniman. pipeman, No. 1G; D. Z.
Bean, chemical, No. 2; John Cannon,
driver; Il. w. Eastman, driver, No. %;
G. w. Pierce, engineer, No. 3; John
Duff. pipeman, No. II; James Fryer,
pipeman, No. 10; NJ. Nj. Daley, pipe
man. Michael Sullivan. assistant en-
gineer. No. Z; Victor Swanberg, pipe
man. No. IL; and Solomon Cyrier,
pipeman, No. II, have resigned. The
appointments are George Davis,
Charles Meland. James Rydell, Archie
Williams. Frank Mitchell, Amos Their
rien, Fred Hokenson, Andrew Girls
void, +. w. Harris and Charles Whit
comb. Mr.. Harris is a colored man
and is the second of his race to be ap-
pointed to the fire department.
John Scullin, alias John Taylor, the
st. Louis diamond robber, started for
that city Tuesday night in the custody
of Detective Leo Killian, who arrived
in Minneapolis Tuesday morning. AL
though the local authorities did not
believe Scullin to be a dangerous man,
Killian says otherwise and the pris-
oner was carefully guarded. 81
wouldn't trust him an inch,'' said Kill
liam. Il arrested him before in St.
Louis and at another time saw him
''stand Off Dick Murphy of the St.
Louis force with a gum A second
occasion was in Chicago, when he
took the neck off beer bottle and
jabbed the jagged edges into the eye
of a bartender who had angered him.
OF course, he is one Of the smoothest
thieves in the country, and for that
reason all the more dangerous. AL
ways we'll dressed, he places himself
in a position which would excite no
suspicion
The annual report of the superin-
tendent of police was given out Tues
day. Superintendent Conroy COM
ments on the difficulty of Kidding the
city of obnoxious characters under the
present vagrancy ordinance, which he
says is easy for a professional Grim
inal to circumvent, and asks that a
new one based on the Chicago ordin-
ance, which has been adopted in Du-
luth, be passed here. The total num-
Der of arrests for the year is $3.50, an
increase of II. Property valued at
$S7,227 was stolen during the year
and IS per cent of this was recovered
The bicycle inspector recovered 5Gh
per cent of stolen wheels and every
saloon license. numbering 3S1, is paid
up. Superintendent Conroy points out
that the "candy stores" have been
closed out, three saloon licenses re,
voSed for cause, the closing of two
"fake' auction stores and the driving
out of the city of fakirs. The depart.
ment secured 215 convictions for fel.
onies, against 127 the previous year