The Irish standard., 1911-06-17
CITY IN BRIEF


charge Of disordery conduct in connec
ton with his attack with a baseball
bat on Napoleon Johnson, colored fan,
at Lexington Park, May 81, was con-
tinted in ST. Paul police court Tues
day until June 90.
The Hennepln probate court issued
an order Tuesday granting the petition
of the executors of the estate of the
late Levi M. Stewart for permission to
pay a 40 per cent dividend to all
the legatees except Leo. NJ, Lettie M.
Howard Winchester, who have taken
real estate or leases in lieu of part
of the cash due them. The total
amount to be distributed is $1s3,3274o
Some deficiencies in the reports of
vital statistics from Big Stone county
were found by Oscar Pierson, assist
ant secretary of the state board of
health, who spent last week studying
statistics in Big Stone and Travers
counties. Reports from these counties
place the death rate at 6.22 a 1000,
the lowest in the state. Mr.. Pierson
found the report in Travers county
accurate and the death rate reported
will stand.
John McMurven, who says that his
home is in Butte, Mont, was injured
Wednesday while employed in some
excavating work at Twenty-ninth
street and Irving avenue south. The
police surgeon who attended the man
says that the latter's leg became
caught in a cable on a dummy engine
and that it was badly crushed. Nc
City hospital
Several changes in local army cir
cles which will become effective July
were announced Monday. The
changes are made in accordance with
the reorganization of the war depart
ment. c. w. Taylor will become adj
jutant general of the department of
the lakes. Colonel T. c. Brodie, adju-
tant general, is promoted to adjutant
general Of the western district. He
has been in ST. Paul several years.
Ills headquarters will be in San Fran
cisco. Major Thomas c. Goodman,
chief paymaster, becomes chief pay
master of the central division at Chi
cago. Colonel D. Bannister, now chief.
surgeon, will go to Chicago and Colonel
r. 7. Thompson, chief signal officer,
Will go to San Francisco and several
clerks will also be transferred.
Following the alleged confession of
Irwin Bacon, 1908 18th ave. s., held in St.
Paul on a burglary charge, Detectives
ALFRED Johnson and Michael Neary late
Monday went to a barn back of ]. C.
Bloomgren's home, 1011 E. oath ST., and
recovered a suit case full Of property.
stolen from various places in the last
month. Several pieces of silver plate,
loot taken from the home Of o. c. Wy
man, $500 Park ave-, two weeks ago,
and about $500 worth of jewelry stolen
from a Hopkins store, together with
jewelry taken from Bloomgren's house
IL week ago, were in the suit case.
Plate worth about $500 was stolen
from the Wyman home and most Of
it was found in the cache underneath
the barn floor.
Theodore M. Knappen, who was for
many years we'll known among Twin
City newspaper men and who has in
recent years been engaged in the land
and immigration business, is about to
leave for Vancouver, B. c., where his
British Columbia interests will engage
his attention for at least year. Foi
the last year and a half Mr.. Knappen
has been secretary Of the Southern
Colonization company, whose head Of
fees are in st. Paul. In Vancouver
Mr.. Knappen will be identified with
large real estate corporation which
owns the properties surrounding the
Canadian Pacific railways new term
inals and shops. The railroad COM
pany will employ 5000 men at this
point thus creating a suburban city of
$4,000 or 10000 population.
Two Minneapolis men saw the
launching Of the Titanic, the biggest
ship in the world, at Belfast, Ireland,
May 30. The Minneapolis men were
D. D. Dayton and John c. Luker of
the Dayton Dry Goods company, who
are travelling through Ireland, Eng
land and the continent. In a letter
home Mr.. Dayton tells of the launching
and of his stay in Ireland. He is en-
thusiastic concerning the country. The
Minneapolis men have been the guests
of Herbert Brown, proprietor of John
S. Browns Sons, in Belfast, and have
made trips through the surrounding