The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-11-28

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4 ti6cates from many Of our leading citi
lzens, will give the boys a fund Of nearl'
$500 to lnvest ia new uniforms etc.
The second lecture under the Univer
slty extension course was given las
Monday evening by Prof. Payne, o.
Mortified. who spoke on the sun. Tit
lecture was illustrated with a number
of stereoptican views taken very re.
Gently. The sun spots. some of which
were said to be 100, 900 miles across. &C.
cording to the latest theory, are caused
by the thrush of gases, and not by the
outburst as has formerly been claimed.
| The condition of G.. A. B. Weide. the
real estate dealer who wandered away
and was found in Minneapolis with
both feet frozen, is not noticably inn.
proved. DR.. Onage said Tuesday that
several days will elapse before it can be
positively decided just how much of the
frozen legs it will be necessary to am
putate, as it must first be determined
to what limits modification will be con.
fined.
That there will be a thorough investi-
cation of the business methods of the
American Building & Loan association
by Public Examiner Kenyon, and that
almost immediately, is now certain.
Letters demanding information as to
the stability Of the concern and calling
for Investigation of innumerable allega-
tions of crookedness in the concerns
transactions have been received fire.
quently of late and the charges will be
looked into as soon as the examiner can
get to them.
The North Star Boot and Shoe Com
pany's building and store, on Third
street north, between Hennepln and
First avenue north, burned Monday
night with all it's contents. entailing a
loss of $3.50, 600, fully covered by in
surance. The fire started about 9:45
o'clock, and made rapid progress. The
firenen worked under great difficulties,
as the night was cold and the fire diff
cult to locate. They did nobIy in keep
ing tbs fire in that building, as the
night was stormy. The FIRE threw some
500 girls out of employment. The COM
pany will resume business at once.
The auditing committee of the MIN
nesota State Agricultural Society held
a meeting at the Merchants Monday
afternoon, and after auditlnJ several
bills decided on calling meeting of
the general board Of directors on Dec.
Sth. This will be the last meeting Of
the old board. and the books and &C.
counts OF the society will be put in
shape to turn oyer to the new board
that is to tbe elected on the second Tues
ilav of January, 1892 The new board
will also elect officers. Several Of the
present members yesterday expressed a
desire that President Clough be re-
elected.
One ofthe liveliest council committee
meetings held for some time was that
of the committee on public grounds
and buildings Monday afternoon. 1t
was ail,caused by the bids for furnish
ing thecity with coal and wood. The
statemet of the city engineer showed
that aaoodnow,& Lawther were the low
est bidders, with the w. T. Bowan Fuel
Coma pany and the Nash & Ferguson
Fuel Company close behind. The re-
suit of the wrangle was that the bids
were all rejected and new bids will be
received. The meeting -savored more
of caucus than of a committee meet
ing, and lacked dignity.
One of the recent matrimonial events
was the marriage on Wednesday of last
week OF Miss Mary f. Stack to David
T. Garner, the ceremony being per-
formed at thee O'Clock mass at Ascen-
sion church by Rev. A. Christie. The
bride was attended by Miss Ellen
Hunt as maid of honor and the groom's
best man was Lieut.. T. E. Stack,
brother of the bride. A wedding
breakfast was partaken of by the rel
atives and friends of the happy couple
at their future home, 28l5 Third street
north. The newly married couple re-
ceived many handsome wedding gifts
from their admiring friends.
The gas committee of the council
pats itself ON the back and points to it's
work for the wear. When they began
they received from the old committee a
debt of $4,000, which has been paid.
Besides the city has been satisfactorily
lighted and the committee will turn
500 into the general fund. By little
scheming the committee saved about
81 600 month on electric lights. There
was an agreement with the company
that when the city reached the Limit of
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