The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04

Bank C1earings Heavy.-Bank clear
ings for the week were heavy, at
$22,941, 7o7.72 For the corresponding
week of last year the total was
/, $40, TAT ,549.67.
After Oratorical Honors-Fayette F.
! Leavitt of Hamline university, who
] won the honor of representing Mime
sofa in the interstate oratorical con-
. test, has gone to Topeka, Kan. to take
part in the contest tonight.
Publicity Office.-The Minneapolis
Real Estate board has rented the store
5 room at 3 Fifth street S, where it's
. chairman of publicity, G. l.. Sawyer,
will have his office and where the board
will have general headquarters.
& Scalded by steam-John Anderson,
engineer at the plant Of Swift & Co.,
South st. Paul, was severely scalded
by steam yesterday as the result of the
: breaking of gasket on a pump In
! attempting to stop the steam leak his
Joseph's hospital.
Goes to Sisters Funeral.-Detective
Percy DeLaittre received word this
morning that his sister, Miss Ada De-
Laittre, principal Of the high school at
! Minot, n. D., died there last evening.
She had recently, had an operation for
appendicitis. Mr.. DeLaittre left for
Minot today. to attend the funeral ser
vices.
vermiform Appendix Worth $4,000.
! james j. Whalen of st. Paul has
commenced suit for $4,000 damages
against the Hartin Coal company for
] injuries received in the bursting Of a
coal bin in the company's yards, Dec.
8, 1905. Whalen was foreman Of a
Northern Pacific switch crew, and when
/ in the yards at work the bin burst and
( crushed him. The complaint alleges the
injuries he received caused appendicitis.
Plucky Fireman Stops Horse.--Tony
) Segale, fireman at No. l engine house
st. Paul, made a daring stop Of run.
: away horse yesterday afternoon at
Seven corners He seized the lines
which were dragging and succeeded in
i stopping the horse after the wagon it
{ was attached to had crushed him
against fence and just as the animal
was about to impale itself on the fence
pickets. Beyond few bruises, Segale
was uninjured.
Presbyterian Mems Meeting.-Th
Presbyterian men Of Minneapolis arc
& to dine in Westminster church Tuesday
evening. DR.. John Balloon Shaw, who
is to address the meeting, established
a reputation for leadership in a for
2 ward" movement in New York city be
! fore removing to Chicago. Chairman
G. s. Cairns IS receiving great many
requests to reserve plates.
Coykendan Estate Foots $23,0O0.-
& The will Of Horatio G. Coykendal]
4 who died at Rochester on March %
was filed in>the probate court Of Ram
/ sey county yesterday. 1t divides a.
estate of $4,000 among three children
two sons, Gustave A. Coykendall o
I Asheville, N. c., and Horatio 6. Coy
/ kendall; and one daughter, Mrs. Bessi
Florence Stevenson Of Bloomington, II
U The petition asks for the appointment
of the two sons as executors.
4 Republican Club Meets.-A meetin
{ Of the Eleventh Ward Republican clu
Il will be held this evening to take actio
on the report Of the committee. 9
fifty-ive, recommending that A.
Ortquist receive the unanimous supper
Of the republicans of the ward as til
candidate for nomination as alderma
at the primaries. The meeting will /
d held at Franklin hall. Franklin an
s Seventh avenues S, and large atten.
ance is desired. -.- s ..Tt