The Irish standard., 1913-06-07
CITY IN BRIEF

CITY IN BRIEF
Dennis Petruchio Conry, dean of thel
hotel clerks in the Northwest, has as
sumed the role of "greeter" at the Ho-
tel Radisson. Fourteen months ago|
Conry declared he was through with
hotel life, and opened a general store
in partnership with a relative at Sims,
Mont, in the Sun River district.
Trimmed and tanned, but recognizable,
Conry has resumed his old work.
Minneapolis postoffice receipts con-
tinue to" show larger increase every
month. The growth in May, 1918, over
May, 1912, was 1895 per cent. The
total receipts for May this year were
s194,079.65, compared with $171,S23.14
last May. The gain is said to be due
to parcel post. If the Minneapolis
postoff1ce receipts for the fiscal year
ending June 80 go over s2,25o.ooo the
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country. 1t is now the twelfth.
Only five of the nine members of the
Old Settlers association were able to
attend the annual reunion at noon
Monday at the old capitol, St. Paul.
They reelected officers. Those pres
ent were Major Benjamin Randall, 80,
N 1y,t
Saltwater; A. L. Larpenteur, 80, st.
Paul. Eli Pettijohn, 81, Minneapolis,
and John Baubany, "a, Taylors Falls.
At l o'clock the members, all of whom
were in Minnesota and at voting age
in 1S49, attended a dinner at the Mer-
chants hotel.
The project to change the name OF
First avenue south to Marquette ave-
nue. will come before the city council
June 10. At the last meeting the prop
osition was to have been submitted
but SO many matters came up that it
was laid over. On upper First avenue
one or two stores have anticipated the
proposed change by giving their es-
Establishments the name Marquette
Members of the committee in charge
of drawing up the resolution placed
before the council say that the senti-
ment favoring the change has in
creased since the proposal was made
A large billboard at the intersection
of Lake street and Minnetonka boule.
ward. and a 30 horsepower racing au.
tomobile, travelling at terrific speed
came near causing the death Of George
c. Douglas, son of the late Walter c
Douglas, Tuesday morning. He drove
the car through the billboard after h
had lost control of it on the road. A
broken collar bone was the extent O
his injuries. Douglas told Judge w
a. Kerr, his guardian, that he wa
alone in the car but F. H. Colwell o
st. Louis Park, said that he heard ,
woman's scream when the machin
crashed through the billboard. Afte
the car had passed through the bill
board, it leaped 80 feet in the all
turned completely around and hurle
itself wreck, in the ground.
While rcfrigerating three bodies a
the county morgue Monday afternoon
James Donohue, assistant morgu
keeper, was poisoned with ammoni
f, mes, nearly dying before he wa
brought back to life by three doctor
at the City hospital and the use Q
pulmotor. Peter Morton, morgu
keeper, first became suspicious tina
something was wrong when he faile
to hear the refrigerating machine
operation in the basement. He sal
he went to the basement to see whe
the trouble was, but could not fin
Donohue. He then went to Donohue
home, at 914 Sixth street south, nes
there. Morton returned to his off1c
in the morgue and while sitting the,
he said he had premonition tn:
something had happened to his assist
ant. He again returned to the dar
basement where he found Donol1u
lying on the floor unconscious. Wit
the aid of another man Morton RI
moved Donohue upstairs and sun
moned the doctors.
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