The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-01-20
CITY IN BRIEF

the douglas ScnOOl, Qled IN ner office
in the school Wednesday. She suf-
fered a stroke of apoplexy shortly
after school convened. She remained
unconscious until noon, when she
died. Her sister, Miss Fannie M. For
ester, a teacher in the Central high
school, was called to the school. The
sisters lived at 1856 Portland avenue.
Miss Forester had been connected
with the Minneapolis schools since
1886. She was prominent in the Min
neapolis Teachers club and in all
school activities.
City Bacteriologist Corbett fixed the
Minneapolis death rate from typhoid
fever at 11.6 per 100000 people for
1911 in his first annual report on water
conditions in Minneapolis issued Mon
day. In 1910 the typhoid death rate
was SIS, more than five times as
large. The normal death rate from
typhoid fever has been fixed at 30 in
cities of the Minneapolis class. DR..
Corbett's report covers the amount of
hypochlorite used in the treatment of
water at the reservoirs, the bacteria
found in raw water. the number found
after its treatment, the sewage bac-
terra found and the number of typhoid
deaths each month. -. .t~
Petrol Edwards, his wife and three
small children, 3116 Thirty-ninth ave-
nue. south, had narrow escape We'd
nesday when they awakened to find
their home in flames. Mr.. Edwards
seized the two older children, one I'M
der each arm, Mrs. Edwards grabbed
the baby, and all in their night clothes
dashed through sheet of flames to
the front door. They escaped I'M
scratched. The cottage was burned
to the ground. The loss is estimated
at $1,000. Mr.. Edwards said he had
$500 insurance on the house and fur
niture. The fire is though to have
been started from a defective flue.
Mr.. Edwards had left a fire in the
kitchen range.
In the most exciting basketball game
ever played on a Duluth court the As
cension team of Minneapolis last Sat
urday night defeated the Catholic A. G.
quintet of the Zenith city by the score
Of 81 to 80. At the end of the actual
game the score was tie and an extra
five minute period was played. It was
in the extra period that the Assem-
sions won when Arthur Barry, man
ager of the Minneapolis team, shot a
foul in the last minute. Never before
have Duluth basketball enthusiasts
witnessed more spectacular and ex-
citing contest. Both teams hattled
neck and neck throughout the entire
game and the guarding in the extra
period Of play verged on the sensa-
tional.
Charles M. Holt, instructor at the
University of Minnesota, and director
of the Minneapolis School of Music,
Oratory and Dramatic Art, comes to
the rescue Of the many persons in the
state who have insisted that they have
seen robins here during the past two
weeks. Prof. D. Lange of st. Paul,
considered one of the best-posted men
in the Twin Cities on bird subjects
has just held that these robins" were
probably evening grosbeaks driven
south by the severe cold. Mr.. Holt
also claims considerable distinction as
bird man, having been the represen-
tative of BIRD Lore" New York
publication, for the past four years He
says he knows robin when he sees
them in flock within IA miles of Min
neapolis since the first of the year.
Thomas Henry Shevlin, president OF
the Shevlin- Carpenter company, died
in Pasadena, Cal. He was 60 years
old. It is said his death probably was
due to uraemic poisoning. He had been
his active interests in business had
been assumed by his son, Thomas l.
Shevlin. Mr.. Shevlin was taken seri-
ously i'll about year ago and was un-
der the doctors care until the time OF
his death. He recently took a TRIP
abroad with Hovey c. Clarke. His
death is said to have been FASTENED
by the death of his wife in April. 1910
According to his associates in bust
ness, Mr.. Shevlin had been a different
man since her DEATH He had beer
identified for many years with the
lumber business. He leaves an estate
estimated to be about $4,000, 200
Thomas Henry Shevlin was born ii
Albany, N. Y, Jan. 8, 1852. He was the
som of John and Matilda Shevlin. Hi.
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