The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
CITY in BRIEF.

at the Standard Catholic Book Store.
81 Fourth street S., second floor.
Mrs. Geo. w. Pasha, of Seattle, re,
turns to her western home tonight
after visiting few weeks with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. ]. MCGUIRE,
and other Minneapolis relatives.
Standard Catholic Book Store, 81
4th street south. Headquarters for
religious articles, including prayer
books, rosaries, bibles, scapulars, can
dies and pictures. Choice line of
books by best authors.
An ice cream social for the benefit
of st. Anthony church will be held at
the home of Mrs. A. F. Boran, 924
University avenue N. E., next Wednes-
day afternoon and evening. Admis-
sion Is cents. An invitation is ex-
tended to all.
Miss Rose Kane left Minneapolis
last Saturday evening for an extended
western trip. She will visit her
brother and sister in Seattle and will
spend some time in Portland, going
from there to San Francisco. She is
accompanied by her sister Miss Mar
garet Kane of New Richmond, Wis.
Fred Mayberry, foreman of North
ern Pacific switching crew, was de-
capitated in a railroad accident back
of the Minneapolis brewery at Fif-
teenth avenue northeast yesterday
forenoon. Just how he met his death
is unknown, as no one was in the i'm
mediate vicinity at the time. May
berry was 35 years old and married
He lived with his wife and family at
90S Third street north. He had been
in the employ of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company for several years
and was considered competent man.
The Minneapolis letter carriers have
practically completed arrangements
for their annual outing, which will be
held this year at Buffalo, Minn., July
%, on what are considered some of
the finest picnic grounds in the north
west. The letter carriers are plan
ming to take their families and friends
and are looking forward to a good
time. There will be boating, fishing,
dancing and number of athletic
events. Postmaster Hale and Assist
ant Postmaster Hughes have been in
,vited to attend and will probably ac-
cept. Q. A. Olson is chairman of the
general committee.
While Mrs. O'Malley, residing near
Seventeenth street and Clinton ave.
nue., ran over to visit neighbor for
a few minutes Monday afternoon,
sneakthieves entered the open door
and ransacked the house, securing $35
in cash. They were frightened away
while working on the second floor, oc-
cupied by another tenant. When the
woman on the second floor returned
home she found $40 which the burglars
had found, scattered upon the floor,
which seemed to show that they had
been frightened while at work, and
rather than be captured left the mon
ey as they ran.
Five South Minneapolis policemen
have been notified by Mayor Jones that
their services will not be needed after
August 1. The men dismissed are K.
Aasgard, D. ]. DAILY, Charles Main, L.,
B. Knudson and J. c. Mcdonnell. The
dismissals of Main, Daily and McDon-
nell came as great surprise to many.
These men have always been consld.
cred the best policemen at the south
station. Mayor Jones says Captain
johnson is responsible for their dis
charge and that he probably has cause
for what he has done. Mcdonnell has
worked a great deal in plain clothes
The names of the new men will be an
nounced in few days by Mayor Jones.
The estate of the late Colonel
Charles H. Wood, proprietor of the
West hotel, is valued at $513,650, ac-
cording to the inventory filed with
Judge Harvey Of the probate court
Monday. There is a mortgage of
100000 on the property, however, and
this brings the total figures down to
$113,650, The real estate, most of
which is in Minneapolis, figures at
$4S7,400. Besides this Colonel Wood
owned Northern Pacific bonds to the
amount of S2,175; stock in the Charles
H. Wood company amounting to
$4,000; shares in the Kettle River
Quarries company and the Sandstone
Land company amounting to s3,700.
and horses, clothes, diamond rings,
etc., amounting to S375.
A body, wasted almost to a skeleton,
was taken from the Mississippi river
Tuesday evening in the vicinity Of the
st. Paul lower flats. A shirt, pair
of trousers and a pair OF shoes was
the only clothing upon the body. The
body was evidently that of a man Of
about five feet nine inches in height,
weighing $50 pounds. ine clothes
were shabby and of cheap material,
A. wire wound about the body was the
only thing which tended to arouse any
suspicion on the part of the police. 1t
is thought that the body was towed
down the river by the wire into Ram