The Irish standard., 1907-06-01
CITY IN BRIEF.


worth s32,545. according to an in
ventory filed Monday in the Office Of
the Judge of probate. Notes on mort
gage security represent the bulk of the
estate.
The body Of Thomas Edward Penn,
who died suddenly on Saturday of last
Benson, Mimi, where he was employed
as stenographer, was brought to Min
neapolis Sunday and was buried from
the undertaking rooms of John M.
Gleason at 10 a. m. Tuesday. He was
2e. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
tan Penn. reside at 90 Tenth street S..
and he had brother and sister in this
city.
The state board of examiners at law
Tuesday reported to the supreme court
the list of persons who had passed the
recent examinations and recommended
that they be admitted to the bar. The
following are the successful applicants:
II. ~. I1duS, 11c111y I1dIlJC, a. l "a
Cary, j. L. Erwin. H. G. Spaulding, 6.
W. Funk, Rasmus Hage, B. c. Rogers,
O. F. Harkee, A. j. Irwin, w. L. Cliff,
Henry Weber, w. H. H. Franklin. r.
N. Chaffee, H. L. Hoidale, Albert Ru-
mig.
Suit has been commenced to recover
from the city the back salary claimed
by W. e. Munger and Peter Quist dur
ing the time they were under suspen-
sion from the Minneapolis police force.
Summons and complaint were served
upon Mayor Haynes at noon Wednes
day. Munger claims $3.50 and Quist
$407.50 pay from Oct. l to March 81.
Both claims have been assigned to John
NJ Rees, the attorney, who appeared
for Munger at the trial in which he was
name.
Mrs. A. Wynn, 305 Fifth street south,
line stove explosion at the home Of
DR.. W. A. Angel, on Monday of last
week. died at the city hospital Tues
day morning. Mrs. Wynn was taken
to the hospital suffering intense pain
from the burns which covered the
greater part Of her body, but after sew
eral days at the institution, she seemed
to improve and strong hopes were ad-
vanced for her recovery She regained
consciousness, but never cared to talk
!. Of the accident which resulted in her
death.
William Wood, better known among
local horsemen and many friends as
Billy Wood, died Tuesday in ST.
Mary's hospital. He was an unusually
stout man, weighing 34S pounds at the
time Of his death, requiring a SPECIAL
made casket at the Connolly undertake
ing parlors. The deceased has dealt in
horses, buying and selling, for the last
20 years. He had a host of friends
The dead man had been employed for
some time at the sales stables of R. j.
Dickey on Midway, prior to his last
sickness.
James E. Harris, 1925 First avenue
S., manager of the Northwestern Bot
Ting company, has returnd to his
home after an absence of three weeks
Harris disappeared from Minneapolis
May 8. Mr.. Harris is in poor health
and is unable to tell where he has been
except that he came to" in Billings,
Mont, and Immediately started home
A few days after leaving Minneapolis
he walked into his brothers hotel in
Spokane, Wash, and said that he
would return next day to explain his
absence. He never returned, and as
serts that he remembers nothing Of
visiting Spokane.
Minneapolis lacked but little of being
the scene of another fatal grade cross
ing horror early last Wednesday even
ing, when an Eighth and Central car
was struck by Northern Pacific
switch engine on the crossing at
Eighteenth avenue northeast and Cent
raj avenue. Two Of the passengers
were slightly injured. and most Of the
others were badly shaken up and some
what bruised. Charles Duffy, los Chest
nut avenue, sustained fracture Of the
right ankle, and Mrs. Mary Lundgren,
living at Twentieth avenue northeast
and Central received injuries that may
be serious. There is no Waterman at
the crossing after o'clock.
At the Metropolitan.
Great as was the interest ornon1