The Irish standard., 1911-04-22
CITY IN BRIEF

articles on sale at The Irish Standard
office, 226 4th st. S. The stock in
cludes white prayer books for first
communion.
Division No. 1, Ladies' Auxiliary to
A. o. H.. will give dancing party
at A. o. U. w. hall, II South 9TH
street, next Monday evening.
Homer o. Parkhurst, pioneer re-
tail grocer, whose father, Orrin Park
hurst, established the business at 14OS
Hennepin avenue in 1866, died Mon
day morning at st. Barnabas hospital.
The deceased was So years of age
and was a native of Vermont.
The vacancy left open in the may
or's office by the resignation of arch
lie" tombstone, former orderly to the
mayor, has been filled by the appoint
mentof H. G.. KiXmoeller, stenogra-
pher to the commercial agent of the
Wabash railroad. Mr.. tombstone was
not stenographer, but was account
ed as valuable man IN the mayors
office. In making the new appoint
ment Mayor Haynes decided that he
would select a stenographer who
could take criminal confessions for
the police department. The new or
derby will rank as sergeant and
draw a salary of $95 month.
Minneapolis will soon be in the half
million class il the birth returns keep
increasing as they have in the last
few months. The official bulletin of
the health department for March, out
already, shows $40 births. This is not
quite as many as in January, when
there were 557, but January shattered
all known records and the depart
ment hardly expected that figure to
be topped. There were 1924 deaths,
many of them from pneumonia. How
ever, the contagious diseases are low
for a month like March. There were
five deaths from typhoid, far below the
record of the last year when the cpl
demic was still on, three from scarlet
fever and eight from diphtheria.
Division No. Z, A. o. H., will have
an exemplification of degree work
Thursday evening, April 9th, at Nc
Elroy's hall, corner of Seventh and
'Nicollet. A large class has been
formed, and the Degree team of Div.
No. 1 will exemplify the work, after
which social session will be had.
The Laurel flats. Fifteenth street
and Laurel avenue, considered at the
time they were built the finest apart
ments near the downtown district,
have been sold for $4,000 including
site. Real estate men look upon the
sale as another evidence of the in
creased demand for property in the
neighborhood of upper Hennepin ave-
nue.. The flats were owned by James
H. Babcock and sold to Herman M.
Noack and Theodore Streissguth. The
property is short distance from the
new Catholic pro-cathedral being
erected.
By the appearance at the morgue
last Sunday of o. w. Ostlund of Elk
celsior, an Instructor at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, the man killed by
a street car on Ninth street and
Fourth avenue south, late Saturday,
was positively identified as Charles
Wilson. Mr.. Ostlund is cousin of
the victim. After an investigation by
the claim agent of the street railway
company, it was given out that the
car was not going at an excessive rate
of speed at the time and that Motor
man Johnson did all in his power to
avoid the accident. Johnson made the
statement that he reversed his power
and applied the air brake as soon as
he saw the man, who was crossing
the street, without looking up and
stumbled directly into the fender of
the car, which could not be brought
to a stop in time. He denies contin.
uing on his way without stopping.
The trial Of James r. Canterbury,
former fire chief of Minneapolis,
charged with grand larceny in the first
degree, developed traits Wednesday
afternoon of quite sensational ma
ture. 1t was while Mr.. Canterbury
was on the stand and was undergoing
a rather gruellng fire Of cross-ex-
animation by Assistant States Attor-
ney Lind. Mr.. Canterbury admitted
making false testimony before the in
vestigating committee Of the city
council in connection with the sale of
property to the city for a site for a
fire department repair shop on the
East Side, and came as a surprise.
All the flags on the various fire sta
lions were flying at 1lalf-mast We'd
nesday, for BILLY" West is dead Will
lam IT. West engineer of No 6 Eli