The Irish standard., 1894-04-21

.|was the happy father Of twins, boy and
Igirl, presented to him BY Mrs. Dryer on
St Patrick's day. A patriotic act indeed
Each succeeding anniversary OF the pa
tron saint will be more than ordinarily
celebrated in that household. May the
Dryer family live long and prosper.
f Last Sunday the st. Lawrence Total
tAbstinenoe Society perfected their or
lganization and adopted the constitution
land bylaws Of the Archdiocesan Union
and elected perm snent officers as follows:
President, Michael Cody; vice pres ident,
@. Litz; secretary, Miss Maggie O'Reilly;
treasurer, John Oonroy; board Of direc-
tors, John Flavin. j. Il. Walsh, T. A. Nc
Nierney. The society meets every Mon.
day evening at 8 p. m. Father GEMS
spoke on the merits of having total alb
stinence society in the parish and was
proud to see forty-six charter members
on the roll.
l. 1t is likely that the public will hear
another murder trial next week. The
case of The State against Joseph White,
who is charged with numbering James
r. Harris, is set for trial, and the county
officials are OF the opinion that it will be
taken up. White is charged with muir
dering the man for killing of whom Slim
Dugan If now serving life sentence in
Saltwater. It is understood that the
state will use neither Belle Brennan nor
John Feeley in the trial. Saloonkeeper
|Sheridan, howe ,er, will be one Of the
main witnesses, as we'll as the others
who testified when Dugan was on the
rack.
Annie Johnson, who insists in dress
ing in mems apparel, and who Is known
to the police as "Cowboy Pete" was
brought in from the workhouse Tuesday
morning on the order of Judge Mahoney.
The husband of the oman has persist
emily entreated the Judge to commute
his wifes sentence, and the Judge intend
ed to do so. Annie however, made her
appearance in the court room attired in
the Same suite of mons clothing which
she wore when arrested. This freak
spoiled all her chances, for the judge de
cided he could not turn her out on the
street in such grab. He therefore sent
her back to the workhouse to serve out
the balance of her ninety day sentence.
Is, The supper given by the Young La
dies sodality of St. Charles parish, last
Tuesday evening, was success fnan-
cially as we'll as socially. The supper
was served from tables prettily trimmed
with flowers and heavily laden with
sweet-meats which we're as literally dis
|spensed with as we're the happy smiles Of
The bright faced walters. Cards were
another feature of the evening which
were enjoyed by the participants in the
games, while the sweet strains OF Coop
ers band furnished music for the young
folks on the promenade. The young Ia
dies are to be congratulated for the sue
cess in their undertaking, which they
greatly attribute to the popularity OF
their pastor, Father Cleary.
Monday night the Misses Lillian and
Mable Gray we're pleasantly surprised
LILY party of young people at their pleas
ant home, 313 Essex street southeast.
Dancing and oard-playing we're the feat
'ures of the evening. Among those pres
emit were the Misses Kittie and Agnes
Downs, Annie Griffith Fannie Merrick,
Nora Morton, Berthe Monger, Maggie
Neish, Lizzie Oakley, Ada Howard.
Messrs. George Dalton, j. Oakley, j.
Parry, G.. Scott, Fred Howard, T. Nc.
Carthy, w. Fewer and F. Minor. The
prizes for being the best cinch players
were awarded to Miss Kittie Downs and
Fred Howard. The BOBBY prize, in the
shape of bottle of soothing syrup, was
carried off by Miss Aggie Downs and j.
Oakley.
John Sullivan, conductor on the Min
neapolis & St.Louis passenger train from
Chicago Wednesday morning, met with
an accident at Merriam junction which
resulted fatally. He attempted to alight
from the train while it was still going at
good rate Of speed and in doing 80
slipped and fell under the wheels. His
left arm was literally mashed and he
was otherwise badly hurt. Upon the
arrival of the train in Minneapolis the
unconscious man was removed to As
bury hospital, where the last sacrements
of the church we're administered to
him. He died at 2:30 o'clock in the
afternoon of that day. Mr.. Sullivan was
q resident of st. Paul and gentleman
of excellent qualities of both mind and
heart.
The marriage of Mr.. Robert Rogers to
Miss Mary Driscoll, was an important
event of the past week at the church OF
st. Anthony Of Padua. The ceremony
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