The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-02-17
CITY IN BRIEF


Feb. u. to the extent Of excepting
Lake Harriet. There the warming
house will be kept open and the skat-
ing surface will be kept clear until Feb.
%, Washington's birthday, unless ex-
cessive SHOWS or persistent thaws
make it inexpedient.
The usual autopsy following the
death of a soldier in the regular army
service was performed early wednes-
day at Fort Smelling on the body of
Patrick McDermitt, ~ years old, a
United States infantry. McDermitt
private of Company I, Twenty-eighth
tai. Colonel Allen Smith, who per-
formed the autopsy, announced death
was due to pneumonia.
j. E. G. Robinson, city attorney of
st. Cloud, former mayor of that city
and former member Of the state sem
ate, died Monday night in the home
of his mother law, Mrs. Gagacki,
2O09 Fifth avenue south. He had been
ill for six months with heart trouble.
Mr.. Robinson was 46 years old. He
leaves his wife, Mrs. Hedwig Robin
son, and one child. Funeral services
were held Thursday morning in the
st. Stephens church. Interment was
in st. Mary's cemetery.
The cases of Mrs. Deitz, wife Of John
Deitz, defender of Cameron DAM"
and her children, which are set for the
March term Of the district court in
Eau Claire county, Wisconsin, may
not come to trial at the time expected,
according to friends Of Clarence Deitz,
who is now in the Twin Cities in the
interest of a magazine story dealing
with the history of the famous case
of his father, John Deitz. 1t is said
the supreme court of Wisconsin will
hear arguments on the appeal for a
new trial in the John Deitz case, now
serving sentence in the Wisconsin
penitentiary, one week prior to the
time set for the trials of Mrs. Deitz'
and children.
In close and exciting game Mon
day night the crack New York Ma
tionals defeated the st. Joseph five by
a score of Al to SO. The fasteners
showed that they are fully as good as
they have been touted and although
the score was close they seemed to be
able to make the baskets wherever the
Saints came within striking distance
of them. Although the Saint Joseph
five was defeated it put up a good
fight and was in the game all of the
time. The Nationals outweighed the
local players and this made it difficult
for the Saints to get the ball and keep
it, The work of Knable, Mullin and
Ed. Faber was the one thing that kept
them In the running. \
In one of the best exhibitions of
basketball ever seen on the Ascension
floor the crack New York Nationals
defeated the Ascensions last Tuesday
by a small margin. The Nationals
showed that they have one Of the best
teams in the country because Of their
victory over the home team, It being
the first time that the Ascensions have
ever lost game on their home floor.
Rev. J. F. Dolphin, pastor of st.
Stephens church, whose recent vaca-
ton took him to points in the West,
and who was early in the week report
ed i'll at Providence hospital, Seattle,
has almost entirely recovered from a
siege of typhoid fever. His many
friends will be pleased to learn that
he has passed the danger point.
The council on Friday night Of last
week passed the Peterson ordinance by
vote of IA to IL, thereby placing itself
on record as favoring the day labor
system of constructing city buildings
and bridges in preference to letting the
work by contract. This action was
taken in the face of an opinion from
the city attorney that such an ordi-
nance was without effect and that 1t
did not bind the council to do any city
work by day labor system. The city
attorney told the council that the char
ter imposed a duty upon its members
to decide in each instance whether it
would be more economical to do any
piece of construction work by day Ia
Dor or the contract method. When
the ordinance reached the council it
simply provided that all construction
OF city buildings, bridges, paving,
sewers and water mains be done by
day labor except when a majority of
the council thought it impractical.
Minneapolis national banks, in COM
mon with national banks throughout
the country, have been notified by
Comptroller of the Currency Murray
that henceforth directors shall be re-