The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-05-05
CITY AND VICINITY.
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rERsELY TOLD.

Mayer Gray is vigorously prosecut-
ing an active campaign against saloon
keepers who sell liquor to minors.
During the month of April, accord
ing to reports of the police department,
fifty bicycles were stolen in the city.
A new street car route on Franklin
avenue is much desired by the residents
in that locality and they ought to have
it.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D.,
of Boston, lectured at the Lyceum last
Saturday evening on George Washing
ton.
The Ladies OF the Rosary society of
the Immaculate Conception church will
receive communion in body on Sun
day at o'clock mass.
Miss Marie Daley, daughter of the
late Frank Daley, is ill at St. Mary's
hospital. Miss Daley has been attend
ing school at Villa Marie Convent,
Frontenac, MINI.
Who is Evangelist Connolly who lee
tured on "The Devils Table at Lake
Street church last Tuesday evening?
Would he kindly furnish the Irish
Standard with his biography?
The Philippine exhibit at the public
library which has been open to the
public throughout the week in the past,
will hereafter be open to visitors on
Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays
only.
The Populists of Minnesota who
met in convention at Labor Temple
last Wednesday endorsed the admins
tration of Gov. Lind. They also COM
mended Charles A. Towne for vice
president on the Bryan ticket.
Minnesota postmasters will meet in
convention here May 22-25, to form a
state association. Favorable answers
to circular letters have been received
from the majority of stamp merchants
in the state.
Matthew S. Farrell, formerly propri-
etor of the Creamery restaurant, is a
patient at St. Mary's hospital, where
he has been for the past week. He is
suffering with stomach trouble, but is
rapidly improving.
Charles c. Hegener, who conducts a
barber shop in the Brunswick hotel,
was fined $40 last Monday on the
charge of violating the Sabbath, which
consisted in shaving customer on Sun
day in violation of the law.
City Treasurer Hubert Tuesday re-
ceived a check for $4,000 from the
Minnesota Beet Sugar company, being
the amount advanced by the company
in payment of the city's share for the
extension of the sewer to St. Louis
Park. =
Supt. c. NJ. Jordan, of v the city
schools, went to Oshkosh, Wis, last
Thursday to act as one of the judges
in the interstate oratorical contest, in
which Wisconsin,, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas and Iowa normal schools were
represented.
Rev. DR.. Pleasant Hunter, pastor of
Westminster church, will leave his con-
gregation on July I. He has been the
most liberal and broad-minded Scotch
man who has ever officiated in cler-
ical capacity in Minneapolis, and he
will take away with him the best wishes
of men OF every race and creed. =
James F. Blaine, formerly with An
thony Kelly & Co., but for the past six
months secretary of the Minnesota
Wholesale Grocers' association, has re-
signed to become assistant manager OF
the Slocum=Bergen- company. whole
sale grocers of Minneapolis.
A female prognosticator named An
ma Eva Fay was asked at the Lyceum
last Sunday, "Who will be the next
governor of Minnesota She labori-
ously and slowly spelled out "J-o-h-n
LIND" and was rapturously applaud
ed. They say that Capt. Van SAINT
heard of it in Winona and cannot sleep
o'nights.
A brilliant meteor was seen in the
northern heavens little after II
o'clock Tuesday night, and attracted the
attention OF many citizens who hap
pened to be on the streets at that hour.
1t travelled in line almost horizontal
. and left behind it stream of bright
sparks, which lighted up the sky for
several seconds. 1t disappeared from
view before it reached the horizon line.
The students of the university school
of mines will learn something of the
practical part OF mining during the
next month Thirty OF them left Mon
day for Idaho, under the tutelage Of
Profs. Appleby and Won Barnevelde.
They will examine the principal mines Of
the state, and be given an opportunity
to apply the theoretical knowledge
which they have absorbed from text
books. On their way west the class
will visit the big smelters at Omaha.
Among the students is Henry Lovett,
the nephew OF Judge J. H. Steele.