The Irish standard., 1905-08-19
CITY In BRIEF.

and a choice line of religious articles
at the Standard Catholic Book Store,
81 Fourth street south, second floor.
Roger Vail has returned to Mime
apolis after an extended business trip
over the Northern Pacific road to
Pacific coast points. Mr.. Vail reports
everything prosperous in Spokane,
Seattle, Tacoma and Portland.
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 st. Anthony parish ladies of the
Rosary society will give the next of a
very successful series of lawn socials
Wednesday evening, August 80, on the
church grounds, Sth avenue and Main
street N. E. Music, games and re-
freshments. E,
Governor Johnson Tuesday an
nounced the appointment of Lester B.
Elwood, the well known Minneapolis
real estate man, as a member of the
state board of equalization to succeed
Titus Mareck, resigned. Mr.. Elwood
was indorsed for the appointment by
the business interests of the city gen.
orally.
Work on the proposed bridge over
Minnehaha creek at Cedar avenue has
commenced under the direction of
Bridge Engineer Chris Oustad. The
plans for the bridge provide struc-
ture of Al feet in length and 1S feet
wide, with two concrete spans. The
bridge will be about ten feet above
the normal level of the creek, and it is
expected that the work will be com.
pleted by October Is. The estimated
cost is $4,000.
Norris McInerny, 215 Seventh street
south, reported to the police Wednes.
day afternoon that about 500 pounds
of lead pipe had been stolen from the
rear of his shop. Shortly afterwards
the North side station te.ephoned
that 800 pounds of new lead pipe had
been found in wagon near the
Seventh street bridge on Hoag avenue.
When the drivers of the wagon found
that the officers were becoming too in
Quisitive, they jumped out and made
good their escape.
Harry George, a lad Of IL, with a
companion of about the same age,
took a dead wolf to the city clerks
Office Wednesday, and made an affi-
davit that he had killed it within the
city limits. Under the law he is en-.
titled to bounty of $3.50. The ami
NAL, he said, was killed with a shot
gun near the stone quarry at Fillmore
street and Eleventh street N. E. 1t
had killed about sixty chickens in the
vicinity and the boy had hunted the
wolf in true western style.
After several weeks of careful work
by detectives, thirteen prominent Min
neapolis chauffeurs were arraigned in
police court Tuesday charged with vio'
lating the speed ordinance. All but
two were given sentences of $25 or ten
days. Those two were Thomas Sheviin,
Jr., and E. S. Powell, who did not ap.
pear in court to answer to the charges.
Those who were fined were Horace
Lowry, F. B. Snyder, J. B. Jumper, A.
Miller, L. H. Piper, S. S. Thorpe, c. +.
Jaffray, T. Otis, M. N. Hartford, ]. e.
Fritschie and ]. B. "Burkholder.
The house of Mrs. John Fitchette,
at Lyndale avenue and Minnehaha
boulevard, was wrecked by the explo'
sion of an acetylene gas tank Satur.
day evening. A lawn party was in
progress, and no one was in the house
at the time excepting the servant girl
Hilda Blumbren, who was hurled out
of the back door in an unconscious
condition. A severed water pipe ex
tinguished an incipient fire in the
wreckage. The servant was severely
injured. The damage to the house
the whole lower floor Of which was
wrecked, is covered by an insurance
policy of $4,000.
Heirs Of Mary j. Bassett, with
whom the Twin City Rapid Transit
company has failed to come to terms
as to the price of certain Excelsior
property needed by the company II
extending its. Minnetonka line, have
forced the company, under the title o.
the Minneapolis & st. Paul Suburban
Railway company, to bring condemna
tion proceedings in the district court
A motion for the appointment of ap
praisers to fix fair valuation on th'
property was made Tuesday before
Judge John Day Smith. The LAM
wanted is the strip from Division
street to the Minneapolis & st. Loui
tracks, a plot 50x500 feet in dimen
sions. The ground has been grade'
by the company.
Sergeant Emmett Gotf of the mu
nicipal court detail, has received
letter purporting to have come iron
Swan ]. Lindahl, the policeman al
rested last spring on the charge o
stealing from the south side branch O