The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-03-23
CITY IN BRIEF

Alderman McInerny, chairman of
the council roads and bridges COM
mittee, said recently that the govern
ment was taking possession OF the
alley in block 40, ON which the new
postoffice is to be located, without
legal right. No application was ever
made to the council to vacate the al
ley, and it remains a public thorough.
fare until such action is taken, ac-
cording to Alderman McInerny. -
Mrs. Margaret V. Jennings died last
Sunday at her residence, 1913 Laurel
avenue. She was 70 years old. Six
sons and four daughters survive her.
They are John, Thomas, James, Pat
rick, Peter and Robert, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Tadford Of Saskatchewan,
Mrs. Margaret Clemens of Superior,
Wis, Mrs. w. T. Gallagher and Miss
Anne Jennings, of Minneapolis. The
funeral services were held at Duluth,
Wednesday.
The Sixth ward is to have it's bath
house. The city council ordered the
purchase OF the site last week. With
the site purchased it is conceded that
the council will proceed to erect the
bath house itself. The site purchased
is at Washington and Cedar avenues,
at busy Seven Corners, the very heart
OF the neighborhood to which the aid.
ermen desire to give cooling baths
The site is described as lots No. l.
and 3, of rearranged lots No. 9 and
10, town of Minneapolis. The price
is $4,000.
Automobile racing as a feature
event at the Minnesota state fair
Sept. 2 to Z, will probably be elimin
ated this year from the list of at
fractions and decorated auto parade
substituted. The announcement that
this big drawing card would in all
probability be withdrawn this year
and that patrons of the fair had seen
the last of automobile racing, is made
in the initial appearance of the "Min
nesota,' publication edited by the
managers of the Minnesota Agricul
tural society, in the interests of the
fair.
General Manager Horace Lowry o.
the street railway company told the
council committee on street railway
extensions and Tenth ward residents
Tuesday that if the city would agree
to postpone pavement between the
car tracks on Lake street until the
spring of 1918 he would extend the
Emerson avenue line from Thirty
sixth to F'orty-fourth avenues NORTH
Immediately. Members of the com
mittee favored postponement of the
paving, agreeing with Mr.. Lowry tha
it would be poor policy to pave unit
the ground over the new sewer IL
Lake street had had time to settle
The committee adjourned subject t.
the call of the chair, to give oppor
tunity to arrange the Lake street mat
ter if possible.
Chief Of Police Mealey said Tues
day that Louis Spencer, arrested il
connection with the investigation o
the poisoning of Simon O'Malley ant
4-year-old Bonnie Reade, whose tern
in the workhouse expires Thursda!
morning, would go unmolested by thu
police. He said all failed to presen
any evidence against the man. Chic
Mealey declared that the only mean
of solving the poisoning mystery wa
to locate the drug store which soil
the strychnine placed in the cand.
eaten by the victims. This, he de
clared, seemed to be impossible. TIL
report of City Chemist Roberts tina
he had found distinct traces of strych
nine on the beer pail used in tn
O'Malley home at 1918 Washington
avenue south on the night of the poi
soning and that he had found NJ
traces of poison in the beer itself will
not facilitate the solution of the mys
terry, according to the chief. 9Th
theory of the chemist that the strych
nine got onto the pail from the finger
OF some one who handled it is ur
Goubtedly correct" he said. "But
doesn't help u.s."