The Irish standard., 1892-01-30

u Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Flanagan pleas
! Iantly entertained party Of friends witt
j progressive euchre at their residence
312 Second street northeast last Wednes
day evening. Prizes were won by
Michael Flanagan and Miss Burke, o.
st. Paul. Refreshments were served
after the conclusion of the games
Among those present were Mr.. and Mrs
Timothy Bohan, Mr.. and Mrs. J. J.
Kinnane Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Elan.
nigan, Mr.. and Mrs. r. s. Broderick
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Woelffer, Miss Lille
Nagle, Miss Burke, of st. Paul, Mrs
| Gormley, and Messrs. O'Leary of Butte,
Mont, and Long of O'Neill. Neb.
Judge CAVITY Monday afternoon order
ed judgment for the plaintiff in the case
of James l.. Jarrett VS.. Mary Bohan and
others, to set aside deed to 40 acres of
lend on the East Side valued at $4,000.
Jarrett declared his mother, Elizabeth
Bohan, died intestate on Feb. l, 1860,
and that during her illness she signed a
blank quit-claim deed to the property,
and gave it to her husband. Soon after
Timothy Bohan succeeded in purchas-
ing the property. In 1882 Bohan died
and left the property to his wife, Mary
Bohan, and his son, Timothy Bohan, in
sorting the name of Lydia Jarrett and a
description Of the acreage in the blank
deed. The defendants will appeal their
case.
The St. Louis Hydraulic Pressed
Brick Company is to establish a large
branch house in the Northwest. The
arrangements were made by the Hewson-
Herzog Supply Company, of this city,
whose president, Samuel j. Hewson, has
discovered large bed OF the peculiar
clay used in making these brick The
plant must be where the clay is, and
cannot, therefore, be either in Mime
apolis or St. Paul. These cities will
each have an agency for the sale OF the
material, and the Importance in the
new mandatory lies in the fact that
the freight haul of 121@ cents per hun
dred from St. Louis will be saved. Its
capacity will be 100000 bricks per
annum and it will employ 100 men.
! The location Mr.. Hewson declines to
disclose.
The Unique Social Club, an organiza-
ton comprising many of the leading So
ciety young folks of South Minneapolis,
held it's third dancing party Of the season
last evening at Berglund's hall. There
| WAS large attendance and the affair
was we'll conducted and very enjoyable.
The following committees were in charge:
Master of ceremonies, Aid. W. Fl. Lackey;
reception committee, Ella Lawrence,
Julia Fox, Anna Mulligan, Rose Pilking-
ton, Kate Fitzgerald, Maggie Fallon;
floor committee, N. F. Dunn, P.J. Burke,
W. E. P1lkington, J. B. Miller, Ed. Cor
bett, J. Murphy. The following persons
are officers of the club: President, W. H.
Lackey; vics-president, Miss Frances
Burns; recording secretary, Miss Mamie
Pilkington; financial secretary, Miss
Annie Smith; treasurer, Mart Stapleton;
marshal, Jerry Murphy.
The state railway employees league
went into convention at the union depot
on Wednesday morning. The conven-
tions are of annual occurrence, and at
the meeting last January there were
nearly 400 present. The convention con-
| sidered a number of questions of para
mount Importance to railroad employees,
viz: How best to protect employees
rights to fair days wages for fair
days work; how best to prevent future
legislation calculated to reduce the earn
ing power of the roads and therefore
their ability to pay proper and fair prices
for labor, etc. The president of the Or
ganization is J. B. Copeland, of Crooks.
ton; secretary, J. G. Perry, Of Minneapo-
lis. The convention has a political
phase in that it proposes to work for the
election of candidates for the legislature
whose principles are known to agree
| with those of those of the league.
Last Sunday night w. F. Markoe
spoke at the st. Anthony Of Padua church
on the convention of the Catholic Truth
society recently held in New
York. Mr.. Markoe said that the society
had published more than two hundred
articles on topics of interest in the daily
press, which, allowing for the circulation
of the various papers would foot up to
over four million copies. Original pamph-
let's have been published to the number
Of 136,5O copies. Eight free lectures
have been delivered, and 1870 Catholic
papers, magazines and tracts have been
distributed in ;jails, reformatories and
hospitals. The society has 800 members,
who are scattered in nearly every state
and territory in the union, in Canada and