The Irish standard., 1905-08-12
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Telephone, Twin City, 273.
CITY IN BRIEF.

Prayer Books, Rosaries, scapulars
and choice line of religious articles
at the Standard Catholic Book Store,
81 Fourth street south, second floor
Next Wednesday evening the Rosary
ladies of St. Anthony parish will give
a social at the church grounds, Eighth
avenue and Main street northeast.
Music, games and refreshments.
Standard Catholic Book Store, 81
Fourth street south. Headquarters for
religious articles, including prayer
books, rosaries, bibles, scapulars, can
dies and pictures. Choice line of
books by best authors.
The council committee on ordinan-
ces Wednesday recommended for pass
age Alderman McCoy's ordinace to
regulate the speed of horses, mules
and other animals. The ordinance
provides that the animals must not be
driven faster than eight miles an hour
in the thickly settled districts, 25
miles an hour outside of the thickly
settled district and four miles an hour
over crossings.
The semi-annua. meeting of the
fourteenth year of the Mississippi VAL
ley Lumbermen's association will be
held at the West hotel, Minneapolis,
Tuesday, August Is, 1905. The first ses-
sion of the convention will be called
at 2 p. m. Reports covering the work
OF the association during the first half
of the current year will be presented
and other business of importance will
be transacted.
George Maskell, private in Company
l, Twenty-eighth infantry, was drown
ed in the Mississippi river at noon
Tuesday by the overturning of boat.
He and three other soldiers We're row.
ing across the river when the boat
was upset. Maskell was unable to
swim and sank almost Immediately.
His three companions swan ashore.
Maskell was about 80 years old and
had been with the Twenty-eighth regi-
ment about a year and half. The
body was recovered.
While P. Benson and his family were
away from their residence, 2514 Elliot
avenue, Tuesday night, burglars gain
ed entrance through rear window.
They succeeded in stealing a watch
and several small articles of jewelry.
Burglars also attempted to force an
entrance to the residence at 815
Eighth street south early Wednesday
morning. They were heard at rear
screen window, and when the police
arrived, the burglars had escaped.
The council committee on health
and hospitals Wednesday decided to
recommend for passage the milk ordi.
nance introduced at the last meeting.
The ordinance brings outside dealers
who do business in this city under the
jurisdiction of the local officials. Un.
der the old regulations a man could
not be prosecuted for shipping inferior
milk from outside of the city into the
city. If the new ordinance passes in
ferior milk or dirty milk cans can be
seized, even though sent from some
point outside of the city.
A fire last Friday night was started
in some mysterious manner in the
Cleveland Vapor Light company'a
warehouse at Twelfth and Irving ave
nues north, where it keeps it's supply
of gasoline, caused loss of about
$500. The warehouse was entirely
destroyed and several hundred gallons
of the gasoline burned f1ercely, threat
ening the lives of the firmen who
fought the flames. The inflammable
oil was kept in three tanks and 1t was
momentarily expected that the explo
sion would occur, but for some reason
it did not take place. It seems that
a minor explosion had blown the tops
of the tanks before the department ar
rived and the supply Of air prevented
any further explosions.
Elias William Mortimer, for nearly
80 years the city passenger agent o1
the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway
and prominent member Of the Crane
Army of the Republic, died Sunday
morning at his home, $40 Sixth avenue
north, after being practically an in
valid for the past three years. He Wal
we'll known in railroad and Crane
Army circles and leaves host O
friends. He was born at Hastings
England, May "a, 1887. He came tt
America in 1855, locating in St. Paul
where he first went into the bankin,
business. In 1868 he enlisted in Com
pany F, Fifth Minnesota volunteers
as private, and remained in the serv
ice until 1865. He was mustered ou
of the army as a first sergeant.
The bursting of tank, highly charg
ed with carbonic acid gas, attached tt
the soda fountain in the drugstore o
A. B. Crowell, 1912 Hennepin avenue
caused the death of w. L. Hughes,
young clerk, about 6 o'clock last Mon
day evening. The young man, VIII
was only 18 years of age, was in tn
basement attaching cylinder of cal
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