The Irish standard., 1911-05-06
CITY IN BRIEF

give d Cdiu party dlu QdnCG TUESDAY
evening, May %, at A. o. U. w. hall,
II Seventh street south.
Leslie Thomas Ryan, 342S Forty.
third avenue south, died at the City
hispital last Saturday. His death
was self inflicted. He was found the
previous night at the corner of Lake
street and Nicollet avenue in an un-
conscious condition He was "a years
old and married. Domestic troubles
are supposed to have been the cause
OF his act
Minneapolis lost one OF it's pioneer
residents Wednesday in the death of
Nathan Gardner Longfellow, a civil
war veteran and member of the orig
inal Home Guard that undertook
to defend the settlers at the Falls of
St. Anthony against the threatened
attack of the Sioux Indians in 1852
Mr.. Longfellow was sc years old at the
time of his death, so of which he
spent in Minneapolis.
Fire which is supposed to have orig
mated from crossed electric wires
early Thursday morning partially de-
stroyed the livery stable and barn of
Boocock & Saunders, 1920 Garfield
avenue south, burned two horses to
death and did considerable damage
to rigs of different kinds that were
stored in the barn. About SO horses
were rescued by. firemen and en-
ployes of the barn.
A meeting of the deputy labor COM
missioners, factory inspectors and as
sistant factory inspectors will be
held in the Offices of the state labor
commissioner at 10 a. M, May 8. At
this time details of the work of the
department will be discussed, and
plans for the improvement OF the
service will be made. The meeting
is in the nature of get-together con
vention to allow the labor bureau
employees to become better acquaint,
ed with each other and with the work
OF the department.
At a meeting last Saturday at the
office of the Northwestern Agriculture
list of delegation recently appointed
at mass meeting of farmers to go to
Washington and protest against the
passage of the reciprocity bill, officers
were elected. Henry Feig of Atwater
was elected chairman and P. V. Col
Inns Of Minneapolis, secretary. Mr..
Collins was chosen spokesman of the
party. T. j. Meighen of Preston, Hen
ry Feig of Atwater, j. R. Morley OF
Owatonna, w. F. Schilling of North
field, o. M. Larson of Madison, R. A.
Wilkinson of Lake Elmo, p L. A. Fer
guson of Minneapolis, G. H. Rustad of
Kerkhoven, John T. Winnings of Eden
Valley and P. V. Collins of Minneapo-
lis will CO.
After an experiment covering two
months, whereby the details of police
from headquarters reported at D. m.
and 10 p. IN. instead OF at 6 p. IN. and
9 p. M, the old order OF procedure has
been reinstated. The change was first
made to Illustrate yeggmen, who, ap-
parently, choose to operate about 4
a. M, when the first night detail went
off watch, leaving many Of the beats
comparatively unprotected, but the re.
suits have not been gratifying and the
chief decided to return to the former
schedule, as most of his men were
dissatisfied with the change and little
good seemed to have been accomp.
lished.
Edwin w. Herrick, resident of Min
neapolis since 1868, and wealthy real
estate man, died at the Northwestern
hospital Tuesday Of pneumonia. The
illness was contracted on a trip from
California last week. Roy D. Herrick
the only child, was notified by cable
and left England on his return trip
several days ago. The only other liv.
ing relatives Of Mr.. Herrick are two
lis, and Mrs. Harriet Stone, California
Mr.. Herrick was born in New York
and later settled at Cleveland, Ohio
He came to Minneapolis from Ashtab
ula, Ohio, in 1867, and after a short
trip back east moved out here perma
nently. He at first associated with
his elder brother, William w., under
the firm name of Herrick Brothers
Many of the big enterprises of Mime
apolis were aided by Mr.. Herrick
among them the old Academy of Mus
ic, which was at one time the finest
theater in the northwest.
Rosa, the 8-year-old daughter Of
John Hogan, 3010 Grand avenue, was
struck by an automobile and seriously
injured last Friday, when she stepped
from a Lake street car at Lyndale