The Irish standard., 1910-04-16
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CITY IN BRIEF.

and was buried Thursday afternoon.
AS 10 per cent of the pupils in the
public schools are mentally unable to
keep up with the rest, according to
Prof. ]. 3. Miner of the University of
Minnesota, who has been conducting
experiments along this line, he hopes
that special school for backward pu-
pills may be established in connection
with the university model school,
Mrs. Alice A. Shevlin, wife of Thorn
as H. Shevlin, passed away at 9:45
o'clock Thursday morning after a long
illness. Mrs. Shevlin was a daughter
of the late Stephen c. Hall. She was
born in Whitehall, Mich, Feb. 20, 1864,
and was married to Thomas H. Shev-
lin in Muskegon, Mich, in February,
1882.
Typhoid fever Is no more in Min
neapolis and the hypochlorite of lime
treatment of the river water did it,
says DR.. P. M. Hall, city health COM
missioner. Since the treatment start
ed Feb. 25, the number of new cases
reported has decreased steadily. Now
there is none. There were GIL cases
of the disease and "a deaths in the
city from Jan. to April 1.
Levi M. Stewart has leased a part
of the Elder Stewart corner" Henne-
pin avenue and Fourth street to Sam
uel Friedman, for 1000 years. This is
not the famous corner itself but the
north 50 feet of it. In addition, the
lease includes the SO by 80 feet on
which the Fire & Marine Insurance
cumpanys building stands. The lease
is on the basis of $1,000 foot for the
Fourth street frontage.
Negotiations which have been in
progress to secure property at Fourth
street and Third avenue south on
which to erect a Jail building for Hen
repin county, came to a standstill yes
terday when it was found that the
county commissioners had no way of
obtaining in the immediate future any,
thing like the sum of money required
to obtain possession of the lot. The
property is owned by Andreas LELAND
and could not be acquired by the coun-
ty for less than $125,000.
Of the SOL jobs found by the state
free employment bureau during March,
nearly three-fourths came through the
Minneapolis bureau, which found jobs
for over $500 men and 926 women. The
St. Paul bureau supplied work for 500
men and PIG women, while the Duluth
bureau supplied places for SOB men
and 264 women. The large number of
jobs furnished through the Minneapolis
bureau cut the cost of the state to II
cents for each person given work. In
Duluth the average cost for each per-
son was 80 cents and in st. Paul, IS
cents.
After gallant struggle lasting more
than four months, the switchmen of
the Northwest have voted to call off
their strike. 1.-THE men go back I'M
conditionally," said President Frank T.
Hawley, announcing the result at
strike headquarters in st. Paul Tues
day night. Letters and kilograms pour
ed into headquarters, bringing the re-
%1,1 of ,o0info nf tho
2,973 men who walked out Nov. &c.
2,O43 voted on this question. The vote
stood 1858 for disseminating the strike
and 800 for continuing it.
Mrs. A. T. Rand, wife of A. T. Rand
president of the Minneapolis Gas Light
company, died Friday, April 8, in New
York Mr.. and Mrs Rand left Mime
apolis to spend Easter vacation in the
East. Mrs. Rand was taken ill with
pneumonia on March IL at the Wal
dorf Astoria hotel in New York Mrs
Rand is survived by her husband, one
daughter Mrs. Allen West of ST. Louis
and one son, w. c. Semple, of Janney
Semple, Hill & Co. The funeral tool
place from the family's residence, Vine
and Franklin avenues, this city, last
Monday afternoon.
Michael O'Connor, 42O Tenth avenue
north, teamster for the Thompson.
Mcdonald Lumber company, was
thrown from his wagon at Eighth
street and Central avenue last Wed.
nesday night, when his horses rar
away, and so seriously injured that he
died shortly after reaching the city
hospital. O'Connor was on his way
to the lumber yards, ia Seventh
street northeast, when his team be.
came frightened by a rapidly passing
automobile. The horses SHE'D sudden
ly to one side, causing him to lose hi
balance. He fell on his head, break.
ing his neck.