The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-05-17
CITY IN BRIEF

lHOnlaS Dewitt, 221 washington ave.
nue. south, Who was found dead in a
cell at the Central police station last
tured skull. according to Coroner Gil
bert Scashore, after an autopsy. 1t is
thought that the man fell down the
stairs. ,
Council acquisitions for purchases eS-
ceeding $500 will be eXacted according
to an agreement late Monday in the
special committee on proposed revision
OF the purchasing agency ordinance.
That the minor amendments We're re-
a request that he confer with the city
attorney to have them put into shape
for incorporation in the ordinance.
DIR. W. w. Folwell, first president Of
the state university, has returned from
a winter in southern Maryland to his
home in Minneapolis, where it is prob
able he will complete his history OIL
Minnesota before fall. He has but Co.
600 more words to write of the work.
which will fill three volumes. He still
has to write chapter on the White
Earth Indians. The material for the
history has been in process of gather
ing for many years. The work will be
issued in elaborate form for the Mime
sofa State Historical society.
W. j. Morrison, 271 Fisk street, st.
Paul. a brakeman on the Milwaukee
railroad. sprang to rescue a baby
daughter of Mrs. c. E. Harvey of Chi
cago last Monday night when the child
ran in front of a moving train at the
local Milwaukee station. Morrison tried
to catch himself, but slipped and fell.
The wheels of the engine severed his
right foot at the ankle. The mother
caught the dress of the baby before
Morrison could succeed in his effort.
The injured man was taken to the st.
Barnabas hospital, where it was said
he would recover.
Miss Frances a. Shaw, resident OF
Minneapolis more than 80 years, died
late Monday at her home. 2514 Hum
boldt avenue south, after an illness Of
two years. She was descendant Of a
New England family. Miss Shaw was
an author and With her sister, Miss
Marion Shaw, had done much literary
work. She wrote handbook of Gre
clan history and made translation
of the life of Victor Hugo from the
French. She made many other transla-
tons from German and French and
wrote several essays. She was the sis
ter of Major George Shaw, once editor
of the Tris uhe, and until three years
ago she was on it's editorial staff.
4 shrill whistle of warning sounded
by confederates posted on the outside
put a sudden check on an attempted
robbery of Dr. Charles D'AWright's
home, 221 Groveland avenue, early
TUESDAY, but not until after the unwel-
come visitors had trampled and de-
stroyed the Wright flower bed. The
burglars had climbed side porch, on
the roof Of which the flower bed had
been carefully and neatly prepared. and
. were about to enter window when
members of the household were arous-
cd. The cunrederates on the street saw
the movements in the house, whistled
warning, and in their haste to es-
cape the burglars on the porch roof
ruined the flower bed.
The first arrest in what he has
promised will be a crusade to watch
ice wagon drivers all summer was
made by William Petit Morgan We'd
nesday. Theodore Terp, driver for
the Cedar Lake Ice Co., working out
OF the yards at Twenty ninth street
and Blaisdell avenue, was arrested and
fined IS for having sold sc pounds OF
ice for so pounds to Mrs. c. McWil.
liams, S033 Grand avenue. Morgan saw
the driver delivering the ice as he was
passing on street car. He got off
made the driver take the ice back to
the wagon and weigh it. Mr.. Morgan
yesterday started series of lectures
that he said would be given at every
ice yard in the city before ice wagon
drivers and helpers. According to
Morgan the ice companies have made
all drivers responsible if they give
short weights, in their manner of is
suing ice to them, and Morgan said he
would keep up continuous crusade
to secure full ice weights all summer
U. c. A. Elects Officers.
Officers Of the University Catholic