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The Minneapolis Journal, March 7, 1913, p. 10

City News.

AROUND THE TOWN.

TO DISCUSS PORTO RICO MISSION. -- Rev. John Tellen will preach on "The Lutheran Mission in Porto Rico" at the Sunday morning service at St. John's English Lutheran church, Chicago avenue and Seventeenth street.

FINED FOR SHORT WEIGHT. -- Mrs. Fred Pavis today paid a fine of $15 for selling apples on short weight. She pleaded guilty to selling ten pounds when she should have sold twelve. She was arrested by William Pett Morgan, city weigher, who purchased apples at her store at 18 West Lake street.

STREETCAR HITS GIRL. -- Ruth Carlson, 22 years old, employed at 317 West Twenty-fifth street, while visiting in Northeast Minneapolis late yesterday, was knocked down by a Columbia Heights streetcar at Nineteenth avenue NE and Central avenue, while attempting to avoid a car going the other way. She was taken to her home, her injuries not being serious.

REMOVE OBSTRUCTING SHANTY. -- The shanty on Fourth street, just east of Nicollet avenue, City Sewer Engineer Carl Ilstrup said today, will be removed Wednesday after having interfered with traffic for more than a year. It covers a shaft leading down to the North Minneapolis tunnel, nearly 100 feet below the street level. The tunnel is almost finished and the shanty will be removed from the street as soon as possible.

PAVING WILL BE DELAYED. -- Uncertainty regarding bond issues now before the legislature was given today by Alderman Platt B. Walker as reason for his announcement that the paving committee, of which he is chairman, will not order new paving for 1913 construction at the Wednesday meeting, as previously announced. Plans laid to begin the work early have been held up pending legislative action.

MERITS OF PROPERTY EXPLAINED. -- Owners of the land between Marshall avenue and the river and Thirty-first and Thirty-seventh avenues NE, which is to be secured for park purposes, appeared before the board of appraisers today to testify as to the value of their holdings. The testimony will be considered by the appraisers as a basis for fixing values. The report will be submitted to the park board at its regular meeting. The appraisers are F. B. Chute, J. S. Bear, F. J. Percival, A. C. Danenbaum and L. A. Eggleston.

WOMAN'S SANITY QUESTIONED. -- Mrs. Mary G. Barrmore, 41 years old, who was discharged from the state hospital for insane at Rochester, Minn., May 9, 1910, and who has since been living with relatives in South Dakota, was today re-examined before Court Commissioner W. E. Bates. While detained in the women's ward in the county jail today she attempted to tear her clothing and said she would hang herself, according to Jailor Nels Clausen.

ACCUSED OF PASSING BAD CHECK. -- Accused of passing a fraudulent check for $20 on Mull Thompson, a barber at 927 Cedar avenue, Reuben Edquist, an attorney, 1512 East Twenty-second street, was arraigned today in municipal court. The specific charge was that of checking on a bank without funds. Edquist asked for a preliminary hearing and his case was continued until tomorow.

BRIDGE NEARNG COMPLETION. -- Soundings are being taken today for the approaches to the Crystal Bay bridge spanning the connecting channel between Crystal bay and the main body of Lake Minnetonka. R. E. Kirk and E. E. Terrell of the county supervisor's office are making the soundings. The bridge is complete except for laying the creosote block floor and filling the approaches. The bridge contract was let to the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery company for $41,800. It is estimated the filling for the approaches will cost $4,000.

WOULD ABOLISH DUMP. -- Declaring the dump on Riverside avenue a nuisance, especially because it floods Thomas hospital with ash dust, Dr. C. E. Dutton, city health commissioner, today asked City Attorney Daniel Fish to begin proceedings to abate it. "No more ashes and refuse will be dumped in the vicinity of the hospital if we can prevent," said Dr. Dutton. "The parties maintaining the dump have been promising improvement in conditions for a long time and we mean now to stop the nuisance entirely if such a thing is possible. Thomas hospital is doing too great a work for the city to permit existing conditions to continue." Attorney Fish served formal notice demanding statement of the alleged nuisance.

GROCERY WAGON HIS AMBULANCE. -- P. W. McDonald, driver for L. S. Johnson, grocer, 546 Pierce street NE, made a temporary ambulance out of the grocery wagon late yesterday to carry Ernest Oulette, 14 years old, 614 Taylor street NE, to a nearby house when the boy was knocked down and trampled upon by the horse at Fifteenth avenue SE and Ninth street. The boy has been riding with the driver and becoming chilled got down and ran beside the wagon until accidentally struck by the horse. McDonald picked up the lad, placed him in the wagon on a few sacks and rushed to the home of Daniel Elliott, 1042 Thirteenth avenue SE. The East Side patrol wagon took the boy to his home. He was painfully bruised but his injuries were not believed to be serious.

JUDGES FOR DEBATES CHOSEN. -- Judges for the final high school debates were announced by Dr. C. M. Jordan, school superintendant, today. The fate of the North and West High school debaters who will meet at the North High auditorium tonight will be decided by John Byers, George H. Carleton and A. C. Egelston. The debate between the Central and East High, which will take place at the East High auditorium tomorrow night, will be decided by H. N. Owen, Charles D. Gould and George H. Selover. The points on which the standing of the schools is based are determined by the number of judges voting for each team in the entire series. At present the North, West and Central have each five points and the South has seven.