The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-03-28
Gbe Irish STANDARD
Office: rs Second Ave- S.
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CITY IN BRIEF.

sergeant THOMAS H. Garvin has re-
ceived notice from Mayor James G.
Haynes that he mas been promoted to
the rank Of lieutenant of police, the
appointment TO so into effect April 1.
Chief of Police Corriston has in
structed all members of the police
force to arrest all volators of the
hunting ordinance, which prohibits
shooting within tho city limits. Sew
cral persons have been injured because
of the violation of the law
Demand for Minneapolis bonds is
heavy in the East, according to the
report of Dan G. Brown, city COMP
trol'er. who has just returned from
Chicago where he delivered 100000
worth Of school and park board issues,
to N. w. Halscy & Co. The balance
of the issues will be taken over on
April ! and May /.
John Nordvelt, a travelling man who
was injured by walking off platform
of the Minneapolis & st. Louis depot
was awarded $3.50 after the Judge told
the jury he would grant a now trial
unless it raised the verdict from 81,
first decided on, to $780, This is the
first time that verdict is known to
have been increased.
T. ]. Moriarity, as administrator Of
the estate of Thomas J. Spain, has be-
sun suit against the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul Railway company to
collect $4,000 death loss The claim
il, that at Lake City there was a switch
stand erected too near the track and
that in riding by on a freight train
Spain was knocked off and killed.
n. A. Leslie, proprietor of IL lodging
house at 513 Washington avenue south
was severely burned about the hands
and face Tuesday morning, by the eX-
plosion of q gasoline stove in the rear
Of tho hotel. Leslie, who was only
partly dressed at the time, aroused tho
other guests and then ran in his bare
feet to the No. ! engine house. The
blaze was soon cxtinguishcd by the
1irelnen with Il loss of about $500.
Three more suits have been filed in
the Hennepin county district courts
rs a result Of the collapse of
grandstand at Northrup field last fall
during the progress Of a football game.
Tho athletic association is made the
defendant. John A. Knowles claims
the muscles of his neck We're straine5
and that his right foot and ankle We're
injured, combining him to his bed for
six weeks. He thinks he ought to get
about $4,000. Kathleen Rowe and the
third aggrieved person figure their in
jures quite as serious
Commissioner r. NJ. Durham Of the
United States bureau of labor is still in
the city, investigating labor conditions,
especially the relation which the cost
of living has to the prevailing stand
ard of wages. During the past few
days he has been through the various
factories of the city and has also Wis
tied the milling districts, and his i'm
preston is that wages. on the whole,
have gone up, though he does not de-
ny that in some instances things are
not as favorable to the worker now as
they were four years ago.
Captain George Leonard Winslow.
one of the first steamboat captains on
the Mississippi river, who has been a
resident of Minneapolis for many
years, died at $3.50 Wednesday after
noon at his home, 2705 Stevens avenue.
Captain Winslow was So years of age
and was born in Lowell, Mass. At the
age Of years he came west with the
family and settled in the northern
Mississippi valley. At an early age,
he took up the duties of a pilot of one
of the river boats, being one Of the
first to run on the river.
Somewhere on the worklouse
grounds and facing south, a building
will be erected for treating tubercular
patients. but the exact spot has not
yet been decided upon, although the
Board Of Charities and Corrections
held a meeting at Camden Place Tues
day with the idea of arriving at some
definite conclusion at once. Joseph
Chapman, Jr., who has visited such
homes in several large cities, made a
discussion regarding the new Mime
apolis home. At the next meeting it is
expected that the exact site will be de-
cided upon and work commenced at
once. The light and heat for the new
building will be furnished by the crc-