The Irish standard., 1905-07-29
CITY IN BRIEF.

Prayer Books, Rosaries. Scapulars
and choice line of religious articles
at the Standard Catholic Book Store.
fl Fourth street S., second floor.
The total assessed valuation of all
kinds of taxable property in Mime
apolis is likely to be about $137 ,OOO,-
600, or more than $1,OOO,OOO above the
figures established last winter by the
state board of equalization.
Standard Catholic Book Store, 81
4th street south. Headquarters for
religious articles, including prayer
books. rosaries. bibles. seapulars, can.
dies and pictures. Choice line of
books by best authors.
The body of James Ballantyne
Hynd, the young Scotchman who was
drowned in the Mississippi river at
the east end of the Tenth avenue
bridge Sunday afternoon, July 16, was
taken from the river Wednesday, near
the platform between the old and new
power house, below the Tenth avenue
bridge.
Permits for two duplex fiat buildings
on Park avenue, near Eighteenth
street, were issued to c. H. Smith.
The two buildings will be located at
1901 and 1905 Park avenue, and they
will cost $4,000 and $4,000. G. w.
Lundquist has the contract for putting
them up, and it is expected that they
will be ready for occupancy by No
vember 1.
Charles N. Stockwell, the man who
has collected all of the evidence
against the alleged gamblers arrested
in the recent raid, will, it is rumored,
be offered position as detective OH
the police force. Stockwell's work
seems to be pleasing Chief of Police
Doyle and his appointment to per-
manent position would not be unex.
pected.
Charles w. Bongey, former state
labor commissioner, will be Superi1,.
tendent O'Donnell's right hand man
at the workhouse. At the recommen-
dation of Superintendent O'Donnell,
the board of corrections and charities
at the meeting Tuesday afternoon
elected Mr.. Bongey to be secretary to
the superintendent Of the workhouse
in place of ]. w. Hoban, who held the
place under former Superintendent
Frank Mcdonald and for several years
previous.
The body of Frank Eller, a boy, was
taken from the river, near Boom
Island, at Seventh avenue north, late
Monday, where it had been lying for
six weeks. Eller, who was a son of
Patrolman Thomas Eller, was wading
in the river, near the Crystal Lake ice
house, June 13, stepped into a hole and
disappeared from sight. He could
not swim and was carried into deep
water by the current and drowned.
The remains were buried at st. An
thony cemetery Immediately.
The new city directory goes Super
visor A. A. D. Rain a few thousand
better in the matter of estimating the
population of Minneapolis. The big
book, so far as the printing is con-
cerned will be finished this week and
the books themselves will be coming
from the binders next Monday. The
volume, which is numbered 33, con-
tains 124,3G5 names, and, using the
time honored multiple of IN indicates
that the present population of Mime
apolis is 279,821. This is gain of
7,144 during the year, as the present
directory shows only 121, 100 names,
exclusive of deaths, removals and
business firms, or a population of
272,S21.
Albert Anderson, 4S years old, 3135
Fourteenth avenue south, broke down
a scaffolding by his weight of 200
pounds, late Monday, and fell 1S feet,
sustaining serious injuries. He mount
ed the scaffolding to assist his son
Stan, Is years old, in shingling the
house, and carried bundle Of shin
giles. The scaffolding broke, and both
father and son were precipitated to the
ground. The son saved himself by
grasping a branch of tree, but the
father struck the ground, breaking his
right arm and right thigh, wrenchins
his back and suffering internal injur-
les. Anderson has been employed by
the city railway company at the
Bloomington avenue shops.
An important sale of property in the
upper Hennepin district was consum-
mated Thursday when 130 feet on
Eighth street just off the avenue was
sold to w. F. Bechtel of the North
western Life Insurance company for
$25,5OO. The sale was made by Lester
B. Elwood for Walter A. Eggleston,
agent for Charles M. Loring. The
property is just across the alley from
the carriage repository at the corner of
Eighth and Hennepin and across the
street from T. B. Walkers residence.
1t is understood that Mr.. Bechtel
bought the property as an investment
and that no immediate improvements