The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-04-01
CITY IN BRIEF

Tuesday, March 2S, at his home, 504
West Thirty-second street He was a
boolkecper for Wells & Co. His re-
mains We're taken to Lourdes Iowa,
for interment.
DR.. Frederick Moench and Bernard
D. McCabe were in Minneapolis from
LIE Sueur Center early this week in
connection with a new incubator that
may revolutionize the egg business.
The gentlemen met with many Twin
City people and will incorporate
company and establish mandatory
here, it is said.
Mrs. Earl Kelly, wife of Fireman
Kelly Of hook and ladder company No.
10, lies pa.alyzed at her home, 3O16
Sixth avenue north, as result Of a
.al! while boarding street car at
Thirty-first and Washington avenues
north Wednesday. 1t was thought first
that her back was broken. She fell
from the top step Of the car.
Mrs. Sarah Frances Dunning, aged
"a yea1s, wife of Joseph H. Dunning,
died last Tuesday at the home, gill
Chicago avenue. She is survived by
three daughters, Mrs. r. A. Latham,
ming, her husband and one son, Jesse,
all of Minneapolis. Services took place
Friday at 10 a. m. at the Church Of
the Ascension.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Kitz and
their year-old boy Herman were taken
from their home at an early hour
Tuesday nearly dead from gas poison
ing. The gas jet had leaked during
the night and filled the sleeping room
with it's fumes. The husband awoke
and managed to get to the window
and call for help. Neighbors re-
sponded.
The body of Henry Mauer, 60 years
old, was found in the ruins of the
Farrell lumber yard, st. Paul, last
Friday. Mauer was a Minneapolis
man, living with his brother-in D.
ii. Morgan, 1923 Jefferson street north
east, and was employed for 20 years
by the Northwestern Casket company.
"A bunch of keys found on the body
proved to be the only identifying clue.
The loss to the lumber yard is esti'
mated at $4,000.
Three thousand horsepower in cleo
trio current is to be contributed by
Taylors Falls for the operation of the
group of Minneapolis mills of the
Washburn-Crosby company. The ca
bles will be strung as soon as EN-
ployes of the Minneapolis General
Electric company can set up two tow,
ers. The cable will cross the river
about 80 feet above the water level
1t is expected that the new supply
will be available by April 1.
Excitement was rife for few mo
ments in the Frederick hotel, 327 Hen
nepin avenue, and the Astoria hotel
next door, Monday, when an explo
sion, said to have been caused by IL
Illuminating gas, blew the iron cover
of a manhole rs feet in the air, crack
ing windows in both hotels and shook
the earth for several blocks around
A small fire, caused by leaking gas
had been extinguished in the Apex
hotel, 314 Hennepin avenue, across
the street, only few minutes before
the explosion. 1t was said by gas ex
perts that the fire had been forced
from this building to the manhole.
While putting on a new tire on his
automobile Tuesday, Arthur Little
employed by the Cadillac Auto com
pany, 420 Fourth street south, was
seriously injured when the tire ex
ploded and a part of it struck him or
the head, rendering him unconscious
He was removed to ST. Barnabas hos
pital, where it was at first thought he
had sustained a fracture of the skull
but it is now believed he got only {
believed he will recover. Little is
married and has two children. He
lives at 1888 Aldrich avenue south.
According to ruling laid down by
John Lind, president of the board O
regents of the University of Mime
sofa, the board meetings, which pre-
viously have been considered as Sc
cret, will be open to the general pub
lie and the press. A custom of Ions
standing has held that the meeting:
are to be attended only by the mem
bers of the board and such people a:
they may call before them. "The or
binary matters which come before thu
board in the administration of the uni
versity affairs are open to the public,
said President Lind. The meeting!
of the board need be executive onl!
whom the merits and dement's of thu