The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-03-21
CITY IN BRIEF.


James ]. HILL before meeting of
Ramsey county commissioners Mon
day, protested against their plan of
building a road through his farm, eight
miles north of st. Paul, and offered
instead $500 to build the road around
1t. The offer was accepted.
The proposition before the park
board to acquire a part of the triangle
bounded by Dell Place, Forest and
Groveland avenues, for park purposes,
has been laid on the table for time
at the request of Judge c. M. Pond,
who is interested and has gone out Of
the city, not to return until some time
in May.
Ter in this city, was sent to the st.
Cloud reformatory Monday morning
for passing forged checks. Laukhauf
was arrested several months ago but
was granted stay of sentence on the
condition of good behavior but the
stay was revoked last Saturday night
when he tried to pass bogus checks
to the amount Of $3.50.
At a meeting Tuesday afternoon of
the special committee of five appoint
ed recently by Mayor ]. c. Haynes, it
was decided that the Chicago. Mil
waukec & ST. Paul Railroad company
would be expected to make some
change in the present location OF the
Hastings & Dakota division tracks
within the city limits, but that the
company is better able to select a de-
sirable route than tho people, being
equipped as it is with a corps of en-
sineers and construction experts.
Prompt action on the part of the COM
pany will be expected. The commit
tee will take no definite steps along
the matter of grade crossings for
some time.
New buildings with an aggregate
frontage Of 512 feet have gone up on
Nicollet avenue in the last year. Added
together they would form a line of new
structures nearly two blocks in length
or the equivalent of % stores, each
With a frontage Of % feet. Among the
most prominent buildings erected on
Nicollet during the past year are the
Palace building, Fourth street; the
Donaldson building, at Seventh street;
the Plymouth building, being built for
John w. Thomas & Co., at Eighth
street: the Pierce Walton building, at
Ninth street, and the Hall building,
corner of Eleventh street. Allare now
occupied with the exception of the
Plymouth building, which is still in the
earlier stages of construction. Offices
i'm the Donaldson building have been
thrown open to tenants, those in the
Palace will be available in the near
future.
The Hennepin Council No. 435
knights of Columbus, held it's regular
meeting last Wednesday evening at
Columbus hall, 800 Nicollet avenue.
Nearly all the members of the council
were present, and at the conclusion of
the meeting a reception was rendered
to Rev. DIR. Kelly the eminent Chicago
divine, who has been visiting Mime
apolis for the past few days Dr. KEEL
ly, who was introduced by Father Gull
len of the Immaculate Conception
church. briefly addressed the meeting
on the scope and aims Of the knights
of Columbus which were, he said,
powerful factors in the religious and
social world of America today AS DR.
Kelly had to leave for Chicago We'd
nesday, his remarks were necessarily
few. J. l.. Murphy, on behalf of the
council, thanked Or. Kelly for his adj
dress. Earlier in the evening Dr. KEEL
ly spoke at the Immaculate Conception
church, Third avenue and Third street
north. His remarks were principally
on church building and the Importance
of diffusing good literature among the
people.
Taking sign in the Washburn az
-four mill, one of the largest in the
world and located in the heart of the
Minneapolis milling district, to mean
what it read, visitor in that institu-
tion Tuesday morning pulled hook
and thereby sent all the downtown fire
apparatus scurrying to the district
where above all others a fire is dread
cd. Changing up to the mill, the fire.
men leaped to the ground, whirled
long lines of hose from their carts,
loosened the ladders and took other