The Irish standard., 1905-11-04
lot approve of the transaction.

firm does not make settlement to-day
the trespass claims will at once be
taken into the courts.
Ingenious arebugs attempted to
burn G. L. Harrison's hardware store
at 2QS Plymouth avenue N, last Tues
day night. After Mr.. Harrison left,
the incendiaries entered the back room
and placed their apparatus, two
square grape baskets full of cotton
saturated with kerosene. They in
serted in each basket a long tallow
candle. The candles were lighted, and
when they burned down, the oiled cot
ton famed up, lighting up the whole
interior. A policeman turned in the
alarm. The first fireman to break in
found both candles still burning in the
blazing cotton. The flames were
quickly extinguished. Mr.. Harrison
says that he has had business troubles
with some persons living in North
Minneapolis, and that they threatened
revenge. He claims that these per-
sons were the incendiaries.
BY decision in a tax case handed
down Wednesday, Judge H. D. Dick
inson of the district court settles a
question of law which has vexed as
SCISSORS and administrators Of estates
considerably in the past. The case is
that of the state against Margaret H.
Hatcher. w. H. Hale was the admin
istrator of the estate, which amounted
to $4,000, and when the assessor called
May 16 he had made final settlement
and turned the property over to Mrs.
Hatcher. The law provides that in
such case the administrator, If he
held possession May 1, shall be as
sessed and that the county attorney
shall then issue citation bringing in
the distributee. But the assessor, to
shorten matters, assessed the property
to Mr.. Hatcher in the first place. AS
sistant County Attorney William G.
Leary argued that although this was
not following the letter of the law, it
was not valid defense as no injury
had been done the tax payer or any
inequality occasioned in making the
assessment. This Judge Dickinson
holds to he r0od law
John Smith, the desperate who shot
and killed Sheriff Harris Of st. Cro.x
county, Wisconsin. June 20. 1904. and
who committed several burglarles in
Minneapolis just prior to that time, is
now thought to be in hiding in Minne-
apolis. Persons who claim to Anow
Smith, have given the tip to the East
Side police and detectives are scour-
ing the city for him. It Is said that
he has been seen within the last few
days and his arrest is expected. Smith
was on an Omaha train near Little
Falls, Wis, when Sheriff Harris, who
suspected him of being implicated in
several robberies and murder in
Montana, walked up and grabbed him
by the collar. Without warning
Smith whipped a revolver from his
pocket, shot the sheriff in the neck
and leaped from the moving train. He
escaped in the woods, and although
posses secured the country for him he
was never captured. He was said one
time to be on a Milwaukee train head
ed for Minneapolis, but when detec-
tives met the train at a station out
side Of the city, he was not there.
If he is arrested here, he will be i'm
mediately turned over to the authori-
ties at Eau Claire, Wis.
A fire at the Maternity hospital,
22O1 Western Avenue, early Wednes
day night created panic among the
inmates and it was owing entirely to
the GOODNESS and prompt action of the
matron, Mrs. Mary I. Burnett, and her
nurses, that at stampede, which would
have undoubtedly resulted in serious
injury to some Of the patients, was
prevented. The fire started in q
clothes closet adjoining Mrs. Burnetts
room and is thought to have been
caused by defective chimney. The
matron was at the telephone when she
noticed the flames shooting into her
room from the closet. She immedi-
ately gave the alarm and then busted
herself in getting her patients out OF
the building. Many Of the women
were in a delicate state Of heath and
the alarm Of fire greatly excited them
The matron, with the assistance of her
nurses, managed to get them all out.
however, by the time the flremen ar
rived, and they were distributed
among the houses in the neighbour
hood, where they stayed until morn
n.y. as the house was so full Of smoke
.ven after the fire had been extin-
s ,ished that it could not be occupied
v ednesday night. The loss was about
50 70.
WITH THE DEAD.