The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-25
CITY IN BRIEF

A. 0. H., will give party at A. o. U.
w. hall. II South Seventh street next
Monday evening. Dalys orchestra has
been secured for the occasion.
Park Policeman Fred ]. Schroeder
who was stationed on Kenwood hill.
has severed his connection with the
park police department to accept ap-
pointment to the plain clothes force
of the city police department. He will
be succeeded ON the park police force
by Frank S. Beach,
A tank of oxygen, like that used in
motion picture theaters, exploded with
terrific force while being filled last
Sunday in the East Side branch Of the,
Twin City Calcium stereopticon COM
pany, IS Fifth street northeast. VIM
dows were shattered by the blast,
which shook the building and was
heard for blocks. Roy Gordon, an en-
ploye, who was filling the tank, es-
capped uninjured.
Attorney General Simpson has filed
papers with the Minneapolis and ST.
Louis Railroad company in a suit
which he will bring for the recovery
OF taxes alleged to be due through
omitted return in it's gross earnings
report for the past four years. The
court will be asked to give the state
judgment for s44,9S5.25. Locating of
these omitted earnings is due to the
activity of the public examiner.
Commissioner Nye Of the CONNER
cial club has received word from j. p
S1lvernail of Rochester, N. Y, that
the National Speech Arts association
has accepted the invitation of the pub
lie affairs committee to meet in Min
neapolis Junue 81, 1912. The associa-
ton is made up of prominent educa-
tors who are devoted to the develop
lnent of elocution, dramatic art and
phonetics.
Willis Edward Dodge, Minneapolis
lawyer, died last Sunday afternoon,
following an illness that had confined
him to his apartment for the last four
months. Mr.. Dodge was at one time
general attorney for the Great North
ern railroad, but had engaged in pri-
waite practice in Minneapolis for the
last seven years. Since 1907 he was
the senior member of the law firm of
Dodge & Tautges with offices in the
Metropolitan building.
Fred A. Briggs, now in Saltwater
prison, has not been permitted to see
Peter Juhl, friend Of Jerry Mccarthy.
According to the prison authorities,
Briggs and Juhl will be kept apart.
Even on holidays, when the prisoners
are allowed to mingle and converse
with each other, these two men will
not be permitted to visit each other
& Thomas c: Power Of Helena, Mont.
who recently purchased the Mcdonald
building and several stores in the
White Enamel block on Fifth street
north from the Heffelfnger Realty
company, purchased another part of
the block Tuesday. The store and Of
fees at the corner Of Third avenue
north and Fifth street, with frontage
of 81 feet, was added to the Power
holdings at a consideration of about
$4,000. Another large deal the same
day, amounting to about $4,000, was
the sale Of 10 lots to the Security
Bridge Co. The property was owned
by William S. Hewitt 1t has been
partially occupied by the offices, stor-
age houses and barns of the bridge
company.
day instructed the city engineer to
submit an estimate of the cost of in
stalling an electrical generating plan
at the new filtration plant. Owing to
the committees inability to reach an
agreement with the General Electric
company on a rate for electricity to
operate the machinery at the plant
committee members asked that an in
vestigation be made as to the feasibil-
ity Of installing a municipal electrical
plant to furnish the power. In the
event that the estimate of the city en-
gineer is such as to allow the council
to build the plant, it is probable that
ali the machinery at the filtration
plant, including the electrically driven
centrifugal pumps, will be operated by
power from the city plant.
City Attorney Fish Monday ruled on
a question long disputed in Minneapo-
lis by declaring that the city of Min
neapolis had no authority to compel
property owners to clean sidewalks
outside the fire limits, or the buisenss
district of the city. Mr.. Fish said that
all ordinance had been passed by the
city council in 1891 requiring that all
sidewalks within the fire limits must