The Irish standard., 1904-06-04
CITY IN BRIEF.

uOuluS WISH u GuSlilllu ullu 1feluuU.
he leaves New York this morning ut
10 o'clock on the Lucania of the Cum
ard line. On arriving at Liverpool he
will be Joined by his sister, whom
he has not seen for many years, and
both will make tour of Ireland.
Mrs. Emma Christensen, who was
i'll two days with smallpox, died last
Saturday ut her home, 1919 Madison
street NE. She had the disease in the
hemorrhagic form, the type being Il
very virulent one. 1t was not known
until after death that Mrs. Christian
sen had smallpox, and DR.. Hall inn
mediately set about to locate all who
had been exposed. The result was the
vaccination OF $50 persons.
Joseph Slagle, son of Dr.. C. G. Slagle,
3O7 Plymouth avenue, was fatally ill.,
jured in street car accident ut Pitts
burg Wednesday. He was badly
smashed in the wreck and there is no
hope for his recovery. Joseph Slagle
is 80 years old and has for ten years
been employed on the Pittsburg Leader.
After leaving this city about II years
ago he went to st. Louis and after
working on newspaper there for some
time went to Pittsburg.
Gordon Stanford, bookkeeper for
the Minneapolis Tribune, sustained Il
stroke of apoplexy Saturday of last
week and died at the Swedish hospital
a few hours later. Mr.. Stanford, who
was GU years of age and lived at 9O6
Fifteenth avenue s., was standing in
Thompson's drug store when he sud-
denly fell to the floor. While restora-
tives were administered, the Central
patrol wagon was called and he was
carried to the Swedish hospital where
he soon after expired.
Mrs. Elsie Sanford, who was badly
burned at her home at 100 Willow
street Saturday evening, died Monday
morning at 4:30 o'clock at the city hos
pital. The accident occurred while
Mrs. Sanford was preparing the even
ing meal over gasoline stove. The
sudden rush Of flames attending the
explosion of the gasoline not only ig-
nited her clothes and burned her body
badly, but the flames were also inhaled
into her lungs, thus precluding all pos
sibility of recovery.
Peter Fox, an officer attached to the
Second precinct, was struck on the
head with stone and badly bruised
last Sunday night. There was dance
at Broadway and Main street, and at
ter it broke up a crowd of men walked
along the street, seemingly engaged in
general and free-for-all quarrel. Fox
attempted to quiet the crowd, and in
the argument received the blow on the
head. George Cepoy and Andrew
Nowareny We're arrested and held for
participation in the assault.
Plans are on foot among many of the
residents Of South Minneapolis in the
vicinity Of the Northwestern hospital
and Greeley school to establish small
park in the block bounded by Tenth
and Eleventh avenues and Twenty
sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, in
what was formerly known as Sleeps
Lake. James E. Dougherty, Thomas
L. Clark and Andrew Anderson are in
terested in the affair, and are making
active preparations for the establish
ment of such a park in the near future.
James Irving, IA years old, was fat
ally injured in an accident on Central
avenue, between Main and Second
streets, little before noon last Satur-
day. While riding along the avenue on
his bicycle the boy collided with a
rig. He was knocked down and run
over, the horse kicking him in the
head, and fracturing the skull near the
base of the brain. He was taken to the
city hospital in an unconscious condi-
ton, where he died at 2:3O Sunday
morning. The boy lived at 4O1 Fourth
street southeast.
Mrs. Martha V. Ankeny, wife of A.
T. Ankeny, passed away at her home,
24O1 Clinton avenue, Friday, May 9th.
Mrs. Ankeny had been an invalid for
a number of years and about two
weeks ago alarming symptoms appear
ed, which were diagnosed as intestinal
paralysis. Mrs. Ankeny came to Min
neapolis with her husband in 1872 and
resided here continuously ever since.
She is survived by her husband, three
daughters, Mrs. Eleanore A. Mathews,
Mrs. Norton M. Cross and Miss Sara
T. Ankeny, and one son, Robert NJ. An
keny.
Fifteen Minneapolis mills resumed
their grind Tuesday as result of the
agreement of the railroads to accept
-four at rate equivalent to the lake
and rail rate in effect last summer.
Five Washburn- Crosby mills are now
running, three Observation-Disclosures
three Consolidated and four operated
by the smaller owners. Indications
are that the mills generally will now
begin another long run, as flour stocks
in the East are depleted, and the new