The Irish standard., 1897-08-28
FROM THE CAPITAL.

7. +. Kelleher arrived home from the
East Sunday morning. just in time to
miss the picnic.
Dan Coughlan, of Chicago, M. c. Soul
ly, of Marquette, Mich. and John Nc
Dermott, of Saltwater, were visitors in
the city during the week.
Div. No. 4, Ladies' Auxiliary A. o. H.,
gave a lawn social ON Wednesday even
ing at the residence of L. Fahey on
Alice street for the benefit of some
needy members.
L. j. Tierney and family will leave
shortly on a visit East. They will visit
the sea shore, Philadelphia and other
Eastern cities. and will be away about
a month.
Div. No. 3, Ladies' Auxiliary A. o. H.,
gave their first annual outing at White
Bear lake on Tuesday. The attendance
was very gratifying and most enjoya-
BILE day was spent.
A general meeting of all the divisions
of the Ladies' Auxiliary was held at
Cretin hall on Monday evening to COM
plete arrangements for maintaining
table representative Of the Daughters at
the lawn fair and festival of the Sisters
of the Good Shepherd. A bicycle is to
be contested for, and other prizes Of
fered The cause is very worthy one
and the Auxiliary is to be commended
for their action. But it is peculiar fact
that they absolutely refused to enter any
contest for the benefit of the A. o. H. at
their annual picnic at Russell Beach ON
Saturday last, it being understood that
they would not enter any more con-
tests as society.
The morning papers of Wednesday
contained a startling story Of holdup
on St. Anthony Hill Tuesday night, the
victim being P. V. Daily. 1t transpires
that there was no holdup, but quarrel
of some nature between Mr.. Daily and
Mr.. Garrow.
The annual picnic of the A. o. H. at
Russell Beach last Saturday was attend
ed by fully 1000 members of the order,
with their friends. The picnickers had
taken with them the A. o. H. band and
a string orchestra for dancing. Patrick
E. Murphy was chairman of the whole
affair and acquitted himself most cred
itably. Judge J. w. Willis delivered an
oratorical address Of great merit on the
history of the A. O.. H., of which he is
an ornament. He was followed by Rev.
Fir. John F. Gleason, who delivered an
eulogistic address on the Irish race in
America. recounting in rhetorical style
the many good qualities they possess as
citizens of the republic. The prizes in
the athletic sports were awarded as fol-
lows:
Ladies' 100-yard dash-Miss Gardner,
Minneapolis; Miss Geraghty, St. Paul;
Miss Snyder, St. Paul.
50-yard dash for boys under twelve
years-T. Egan. T. Powers, Pat Conroy.
5O-yard dash for girls under twelve
years-Sarah O'Halloran, Maud Schram,
Catherine Dresser.
5O-yard dash for boys under sixteen
years-Mat Moroney, Michael Egan,
William Powers.
Fat mems race, 100 yards-T. White,
Tom Carey, J. T. Brady.
1O0-yard dash for men (open)-Harry
Caul1ield, T. ]. Murphy. Clinton Web
ster.
10O-yard dash, members A. o. HI.
P. Gibbons, c. P. Murphy, Thomas Muir
ply.
100-yard hurdle race. P. Gibbons.
R. ]. Mccormack, c. P. Murphy.
5O-yard dash, married ladies-Mrs.
Morarity, Minneapolis; Mrs. D. ]. Sui
livan. Mrs. Pepper.
Hop, step and jump. ]. Kyle, Bob
Mccormack, T. Coleman.
Standing broad jump-C. P. Murphy.
P. Moroney, E. S. Sullivan.
Standing high kick--P. A. Egan, R.
Connolly.
Standing high jump-C. P. Murphy, P.
A. Egan, P. Moroney.
Putting the shot. P. Gibbons, R. J.
Mccormack, j. ]. O'Brien.
Boat race, one mile, for doubles-M.
O'Rourke and D. H. Burke, Bob Clark
and P. Conroy.
The Grand will open it's doors for the
lovers of the drama tomorrow night.
The beautiful play house has been reno
waited and looks much improved in ap-
pearance. "Chimmie Fadden" will be
presented during the entire week and
the popularity of the play will doubtless
draw big houses The second weeks at
traction will be Harry Martell's success
full production, "The South Before the
War"