The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-01-11

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$4,000, has been approved by the fire
department committee of the city
council Under the rule the salary Of
the chief engineer is raised from $3,675
to $4.o41.50: the first assistant from
s2,21o26 to $2,431.27, and the second
assistant from s1,967.96 to $2,16475.
Inc Two district chief engineers get
raise to $3.50, from $1,000. All the
llnsmen are raised from $1,041.s6 to
$l,14604. The captains will get 1890
INSTEAD Of $1,000, the lieutenants
$1,149.4S instead of $1,o45.44, the engi-
neers $1,229.05 instead of $1,11732, and
there is also general raise of 10 per
cent in the first, second and third
grade pipemen.
Rev. j. NJ. Cleary addressed the peo-
pie of st. Lawrence church at an en-
tertainment given by the young ladies
of the parish Thursday evening. Other
, numbers of the select program of a.
musical and literary nature, were an
instrumental trio by Miss Mae Red
mond, piano, Mr.. O'Brien, violin, Mr..
Larkin, cornet; vocal solo, Miss Lou
Use Nightingale; reading, Mrs William
Larkin; piano solo, Miss Josephine
Little; vocal solo, Miss Angie Mallett;
violin, Earl O'Brien; reading, Miss
Frances Garvey, violin solo, Earl
o'Brien; vocal solo, Miss May Kidwell.
The farce comedy. BOX and Cox" con-
cluded the entertainment, with Miss
Mary Hammersley as Mrs. Bouncer.
E. Clutter as Mr.. Cox, and John Stew
art as Mr.. Box.
Gross earnings of the Minneapolis
postoffice for the calendar year ending
Dec. 81, 1907. amount to over a million
and a half dollars The exact figures
are $1,527,154.46. The figures for 1906
wexe 452,439.51, showing an M
crease of s74,714.95 during the past
year. The figures go away over the
gross earnings of the st. Paul post
office in 1907, which were $1,O02,474.39.
A further comparison, showing up the
big business of the Minneapolis office
as compared to st. Paul. may be seen
by the figures for December. The re-
ceipts here in December amounted to
| $153,3S1.97. This was an increase Of
1e per cent over the previous month.
The figures for December in the ST
Paul office were $9S,776.39.
There We're is more deaths in Min
neapolis last December than during
December 1906. A total of 265 deaths
is recorded for the city in the report
of the health department for Decem-
1907. That Minneapolitans live to ripe
old age Is shown by the report. OF
the total number of deaths during the
month II persons We're over so years
Of age at the time of death. That is
considered an unusually large percent
age. The total death list includes 149
males and 116 females. Pneumonia.
claimed the majority Of lives, taking
As during the month. There were is
deaths from heart disease, an increase
of two over the previous December
The other deaths recorded were at
tributed as follows: Typhoid fever, 6;
diphtheria, 6; tuberculosis, 80; cancer,
IA; accidental. is. and suicides, 4.
The Sanctuary Choir Boys of Holy
Il Rosary nhl1ro1, will %Ic IN
operetta, "The Bogus School Inspec-
tor" on Friday evening, Jan. 17th in
Holy Rosary Hail. The work has been
entirely rewritten by Mr.. Vontom, the
choirmaster, who has also written es-
pecially three additional songs to be
introduced in the operetta. The work
as the proceeds will be for the benefit
of the parish and this is the first oc-
casion on which the choir boys will
| have given an entertainment cxclu-
sively, the attendance will doubtless
be very large. The program will con-
clude with a series Of beautiful tab
| ASouA VANoAloS vi llNIIlS plClulCS, luUSs
trating songs. The idea is novel and
unique and has been devised and ar
ranged by Mr.. dc p Vontom, the mu-
steal director. The st. Thomas Ca
diets will also give a drill.
BY a vote Of 10 to 1 the special
council committee has adopted a 9
cents maximum rate as basis on
which franchise will be granted to
the General Electric company. Action
was taken after two long sessions
Wednesday and it was not until late
in the afternoon that decision was
reached. Platt B. Walker, Jr., urged
the retention of the Walker ordinance
rates, but the positive refusal of rep
resentatives of the General Electric
company to accept the schedule named
! fhorein and tho dociro of OfhorS tho