The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08

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]. the city who remember Mr. Sterling
/ many acts Of kindness and generosit,
3 toward the Church and societies during
the part, will now be in position to show
! their appreciation Of his efforts by at
tending one Of these farewell perform.
Iances.
| A party Of prominent Minneapolitana
left Tuesday for an extended European
and African trip, to be Of four months
duration. The party consisted OF B. +.
Nelson and wife, together with their
daughter Bessie and r. 9. Jefferson,
wife and children. The party will reach
New York Saturday and from that port
steamer will be taken to Gibraltar.
Several weeks will be spent in sunny
Spain in viewing the principal cities and
q run will be taken up to Granada to
view the Alhambra By way Of south
ern France the trip will be extended to
Italy and from Rome the Mediterranean
will be crossed for trip up the Nile to
the first rapids. This trip will require
81 days, and the Nile will be seen when
| it is at it's best Through Syria the
party will then 90 to Jerusalem and
various other portions Of Palestine
About month will be spent in the Holy
Land, and Minneapolis will not be
reached again I'M il about the middle Of
April.
A man registering as James Flynn oc.
cupied room at Union hotel, 119 Nicol-
let avenue, on Monday night and was
found dead IN his bed by one of the
clerks Tuesday afternoon. The clerk
bad called him at noon, and Flynn an
swered that he was getting up He did
not. however, put in an appearance, and
ut S o'clock the clerk again went to his
room. He found the door locked and
was unable to gain an entrance. He
pounded on the door but received no re-
spouse. He finally obtained an entrance
into the room by way of the fire escape
and was Mortified to find Flynn lying
d I'D upon his bed, his feet upon the pill
lows and his mouth covered with froth.
Search revealed lauGanum bottle in his
inside coat pocket and card which read
sMy real name is John Dumas, address
SOL Twenty first avends south, city"
This name aud address were written
upon the back of a card bearing the
name of Harriet Lund, a midwife. Du-
mas is supposed to be barber who has
been formerly employed in the city. 1t
is not known whether he committed sui
eide or was taken with fit.
Kristian Kortgaard appeared before
Judge Smith Monday afternoon with his
attorneys, Capt. Hart and l.. r. Than,
to hear the result of the courts delibers~
tions as to the grounds for new trla'.
Judge Smith srated very briefly tha5 he
had examined his charge to the jury very
carefully aud failed to see wherein he
could have erred The only point in
connection with the trial Oh which he
had the slightest doubt was as to whether
the old embezzlement law would apply
to cases of this kind under the code.
The court was quite sure that if he were
on the supreme bench he should so hol',
although that point had not heretofore
been passed upon. After making this
statement, Kortgaard was called up to
the desk and sentenced to the state
prison at Saltwater, at hard labor on the
retormatory plan, which means at least
five years. A bond was offered and &C
cepted in the appeal. and the proposed
case will be settled January II in special
term. The eight other indictments and
bonds will remain against Kortgaard un~
It'll the case has been finally disposed OF
in the supreme court. This makes his
bond for that per:o of time $4,000.
MI. W. E. Sterling SO long and favor
ably known to the amusement loving
public Of this city, first as builder and
manager of the old Peoples Theatre, and
during the past few months manager OF
the New Peoples Theatre, has severed
his connection with that house, the stock
company unfortunately not having been
q paying venture And for that reason
his many friends have arranged to give
him grand farewell benefit as testi-
monial of their appreciation OF the service
he has rendered the public in the capac-
ity of theatrical manager, and it is earn
estly hoped that our citizens will
generously respond by this benefit their
liberal patronage. It was manager
Sterling who first introduced popular
prices thus giving the working people OF
our city the benefit of first class attrac-
tons at nominal sum. It is to be re-
grettel that an institution of the charact
or of the New Peoples Theatre could not
continue to prosper in city like MINI
eapolis, and expressions OF sympathy are
heard for Mr.. Sterling, and it to be hop