The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-01-13
FROM THE CAPITAL.

Carl y. bye 1919 SncrDufne, check
clerk for the Minnesota Transfer COM
pany, was instantly killed by the fall
ing of safe which being loaded into
a car at the Transfer at 1850 a. m.,
Tuesday. The safe, weighing 1000
pounds, pinned him to runway board
and crushed his skull.
James Il. Crowley, whose skull was
fractured two weeks ago while he was
at work in the Minnesota Transfer
yards, died at Cobbs hospital at 1915
| a. M, Tuesday. No one knows exactly
how Crowley was injured. 1t is sup
posed that he fell from car. Crowley
was 80 years old and came to st. Paul
only short time ago. His wife lives
in Spokane
Miss Katherine Duggan stenograpll-
er in the city trcasurers office, is con-
graduating herself on the recovery of
her watch. which she lost during the
snow storm of last week. The time
piece was picked up in the snow at
Fifth and Wabasha streets by Min
ncapolis visitor, who q day or SO later
saw the advertisement of Miss Duggan
| in Il paper, and returned the watch.
| The Crookston Lumber company,
Monday paid into the state treasury
a check for $2,795, representing dam
ages for trespass on state timber lands
| in Hubbard county.
| The company purchased the right to
bought the land from tho state for
| agricultural purposes. The fact that
the land had timber on it, rendered
the sale by the state void, and the
company was charged with trespass.
An opinion of considerable interest
has been rendered by Assistant At
torney General r. A. Stone. 1t is in
relation to the law passed by the last
Legislature requiring notaries public
| lfter their names the date of the ex-
i )iration Of their commission as no.
aries public. Assistant Attorney Gen
| raj Stone rules that in case a deed is
| presented for record and it is shown
hat the notary who acknowledged the
| ignaturc did not place upon the deed
he date of the expiration of his COM
mission, as the law requires, the deed
:annot be legally recorded.
The register of deeds must send II
! pack for correction. The ruling will
&c regarded with considerable import
| nee by the real estate interests.
The city railway is giving n twenty
linutc service on the extension of the
lafayette line as far as Forest street
| When Phalcn Park was closed for tho
winter, the company ceased operating
he cars on the Phnlen line. The COM
| )any is also operating a twenty min
lite service on the Fort Smelling line
| Turing the afternoon hours. The SER
| vice has hitherto been thirty minutes
i Only one pardon was granted by the
state board of pardons Monday, and
the lucky individual was Arthur D.
Rees, of Minneapolis, who has been
serving ten months sentence for
grand larceny in the first degree. Rees
had his sentence committed from ten
to seven months and will be released
from the Hennepin workhouse. in a
few days. He was charged with TAX
ing 500 cigars from a Northern Pa
cific train. Out Of twenty applications,
Rees was the only one to receive
favorable consideration by the board.
The application OF Hannah Lund, the
Minneapolis baby farmer" was de-
MED, likewise that of Gilbert Gilbert
son, of Minneapolis, charged with en-
bczz]ing $4,000 from A. Booth &. Co.
He has only served one year of a
four-year sentence and the. board did
not think he had been punished enough.
The application for a pardon for w. ].
Van Auken, Of Minneapolis, was de-
MED, Van Aukcn was sentenced to
ninety days in the Hennepin work.
house, for gambling, nearly three years
| ago. He has been out of the state
since that time and is said to be in p