The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04
FROM THE CAPITAL.

1. III health caused the sergeant to
resign, as he has suffered considerably
during the past year and could not
continue under the strain of night
work. Sergeant Towhy, appointed on
the force i'll 1890, walked beat for IA
years and was one Of the most effective
men on the force.
Margaret O'IIern recently began suit
in the district court against the Great
Northern Railway company to secure
damages in the sum of $1,000. In her
complaint she says that she was a pas
! senger September 2, 1908, on a Great
Northern train. her destination being
Frdley. She alleges that the conduc-
tor stopped the train three miles this
side of Fridley and that she was forced
to walk the three miles in the rain to
reach her destination, thereby suffering
greatly from exposure. James Farrell,
who claims to have been passenger
on the same train bound for the same
point began suit upon the same
grounds for $500 damages.
II. e. Leonard, a prominent attorney
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, was found
dead in his bed at the Merchants ho-
tel shortly after 3 o'clock Sunday
morning. An autopsy by Deputy Cor
oner Whitcomb showed death to have
resulted from typhoid pneumonia. Mr..
Leonard was As years old and is sur
vived by widow and one child. Mrs.
Leonard arrived in the city to take
charge of the body. He was assistant
secretary of state under Governor
Peck, of wisconsin,; postmaster of
Chippewa Falls under President Cleve-
land, and held the Offices of city and
county clerk. He was member Of
the Elks and an officer of that lodge at
Eau Claire. The body was taken to
Chippewa Falls for burial
Governor johnson has appointed
Lieutenant Colonel George S. Whitney,
of Faribault, who will succeed Major
Oscar Seebach of Red Wing, as assist
ant adjutant general.
An attempt is being made by John
Walker of Blakely, Mimi, to secure
pensions for the men who served in the
war with the Sioux Indians in 1862
He was at the old capitol last Saturday
comforting with the adjutant general as
to the possibility of getting measure
through the state legislature provid.
ing for such pensions. Those who
served in this war were never sworn
into the United States service and
served the state only, so according tt
Mr.. Walker, it is the states duty tt
, provide for those who We're perma
nently injured at the time and for the
widows of those who have died as the
: result of wounds or exposure received
while in the states employ.
On the evening Of March the An
4: Gent Order of Iibernians will hole
/. their annual memorial exercises il
honor of Robert Emmett, the day bein;
the anniversary Of his death. Will,
the place has not been definitely decid
/: ed upon the exercises will probably b'
held in Mozart hall, and the ten divi
J. sions of the order in st. Paul will com
:, bine in holding them. A COMMITTEES
/, composed of J. J. Regain, state presi
j. dent; II. j. Clarke, state president o
the insurance branch and the presi
q dents of the ten local branches ha
q been appointed to arrange for the plac
+ and for the speakers of the evening.
r.. d. O'Brien, state insurance com
f missioner, Monday sent to the stat
j. treasurer nearly $4,000. being the
. per cent tax on premiums paid to tw'
i life insurance companies during TIL
: year 1904 OH Minnesota business. On
:. Milwaukee company has paid $21,
3G1 .OS, and Hartford company pal,
n So 1858.
: The only lobby so far in evidenc
i about the legislature is the lobby OF
ganiZed to defeat Representative Z. 7
NIannX's measure directed against tn
So called "oan sharks Of the large
cities of the state. The Mannix bill
aims to declare illegal assignments o
n wages upon which. it is said. loans ar
procured by poor people from the sal
e airy loan agents at eXorbitant rates o
I interest. Salary loan agents of ST
e Paul and Minneapolis are determine,
n to defeat the bill and are industriousl,
y circulating among members of the leg
= islature and urging opposition to tn
bill. Mr.. ManniX admits that the lobb,
' may succeed in defeating his bill, bu
> he is bringing pressure to bear upol
members in producing letters from
: large employers of labor, who say tina
e the system is curse to employees de
:, pendent upon their weekly salaries 70
e a living.
j A meeting of the cathedral commit
0 tee, which is framing list Of archi
: tccts to be invited to submit plans TO
the new cathedral, was held Monda.
afternoon at the Commercial club
!. Consulting Architect Glenn Brown, o
Washington, addressed the committee
on the suggestions that he has mad
concerning the plans for the new build
: ing. He explained at length the fitness
r Of the site for the type of structur
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