The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

GrOry, vice president and treasurer.
Articles were also filed by the Rush
City Starch company, Rush City, Cap
ital stock $4,000. Incorporators, ]. P.
Johnson, G. NJ. Johnson, John Ander-
son and E. j. Boyle.
Superintendent w. p. Barton of the
poor department will, it is said, sue
ceed himself when the board of char
tiles and corrections holds it's annual
meeting, July Z. Frank Mcdonald,
superintendent of the workhouse, also
has show of succeeding himself,
though there will be other candidates
for the Office. The new city physician
will be selected from the list of names
presented to the board by the medical
associations. A delegation of busi-
ness men called on Mayor Jones Tues
day in the interest of Mr.. Mcdonald.
The mayor said he would not dictate
his wishes in the matter of appoint
ments to the board of charities and
corrections.
Contracts for road work to cost
$4,000, to be done at once on the stock
yards, Edna, Excelsior, St. Anthony
and Brooklyn roads, were awarded
by the county commissioners Monday
This is but one batch of contracts
out of the $4,000 worth to be let this
spring. I'VE are endeavoring to ex-
pend the money we have in the way
that will benefit the most people," :"
said County Commissioner Andrew e.
Smith. I'VE have complaints from all
parts of the county about the roads,
but every year we are making as
many permanent improvements as
our appropriation will permit. In
time all the county roads will be ma
cadamized and in the condition they
should be-
Louise King, the wife of John Fl.
King, whose little son Freddie, was
shot down by the Columbia Heights
trio, kalderwit, Kolb and Hammond,
seems to have found her domestic life
unhappy and Wednesday mysteriously
disappeared from her little cottage,
taking with her her 4-ycar-old son and
7-year-old daughter. Mrs. King hired
an expressman to cart some personal
belongings away from the little Colum-
bia Heights home, taking with her her
two children. Her husband left home
early Wednesday morning to go to his
work as a parquet floor layer, hand.
ing Mrs. King $40 to pay the grocery
bill. When he returned home about
z o'clock that night the little home
was deserted, and another sorrow
added to the unhappy lot of King.
With the May increase included,
the enrolment of children in the pub
lie schools mounts to 42,063, going
over the $4,000 mark for the first time
This will make an increase of nearly
1000 over the total enrolment of last
year. The actual increase is GAG, but
there is another report due and the
fifty-four necessary to make thou
sand increase will probably be found
before June 9. The new pupils re-
ceived in May numbered 4S4. Natur-
ally this number increases the ranks
of the unfortunates who can attend
school only half of each day. There
are 1923 pupils on half days, distrib-
uted among the schools as follows:
Clinton, rs; Douglas, 2; Grant, "a;
Greedy, 20; Harrison, 50; Lowell, As;
Sidney Pratt, 35.
Two men we're smothered to death
and several othrs narrowly escaped a
like fate in a fire which gutted the
Flour City Lodging house, 2O4 Henne-
pin avenue, at S:45 Tuesday morning
1t was at first supposed that one of
the men was Frank Green, laborer
DR.. ]. Foley Tuesday afternoon iden-
titled the man supposed to be Green
as Frank Allie, a shoemaker, who
about year ago came to Minneapolis
from Lynn, Mass. He was 43 years
old. His remains were removed from
the morgue to the undertaking rooms
of Welander & Barquist, 1880 East
Franklin avenue. The other man was
William Fox, laborer aged 40 years.
His home is at Ottawa, Canada. where
he visited relatives about two weeks
ago. Since his return he has been at
the lodging house. The fire started
on the second floor, and it was there
that both men met death. Two
negroes and white man escaped by
going down ladders. When the blaze
was discovered by John Becker, clerk
of the lodging house, there were only
a few men in the hotel. All of the 81
transients who had been there the
night before had gotten up, and the
few that were left were dressed and
in their rooms.
H. V. Jones, the crop expert of Wat
son county, returned Monday from his
inspection trip throughout the south
west. His report on conditions while
showing 100000 bushels less than
the Government conditions on May 10,
is conservate reading summary of
the situation as he found and gauged