The Irish standard., 1900-07-07
CITY AND VICINITY.
The telephone call Of The Irish Standard
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beautiful statue of St. Anthony to Holy
Rosary church.
A large number of Minneapolitans
attended the Democratic national con-
vention at Kansas City.
Books, religious articles, magazines,
at Catholic Book Store, IL Kasota
block, corner Hennepin and Fourth.
Miss Helen Gould and a party of
friends spent few days in the city
and visited Minnelaha and other points
of interest.
The Holy Name Society and the
Cadet Society of the Immaculate Con-
ception church will receive holy COM
munion, Sunday, at o'clock mass.
The Holy Name society of the Holy
Rosary church will receive Communion
at the 7.3o o'clock mass, Sunday. The
society meets at 23o in the afternoon.
DR.. J. K. Hosmer, the popular and
efficient librarian, has returned from
Montreal, where he attended conven
ton of the American Library associa-
ton.
Mass will be celebrated in the chapel
at Excelsior, at II o'clock every Sun
day morning during the summer. A
priest from St. Stephens church will
be the celebrant.
James WEIGH, the man who fired at
Judge Lochren some time ago in St.
Paul, has been sentenced to term of
four years and six months at hard labor
in the penitentiary.
Rev. and Mrs. Pleasant Hunter left
for the East on Tuesday via the Great
Lakes. They will sail for Europe early
in August Their many friends of
every denomination wish them bon voy
age. -
Last week was one of the busiest the
fire department has had this year. Dur
ing the week ending June 80 thirty-three
fire alarms were received. Thus far the
number of alarms received this year ex-
ceeds past years by large figure.
Twenty-Five Minneapolis teachers left
last Monday evening in a special car
over the Milwaukee road for Charles
ton, where they will attend the teach
ers' convention. This is the largest
delegation ever sent from this city.
A young man and young woman,
whose names are unknown, nearly met
watery grave last Sunday at Lake
Harriet. The sailboat in which they
were taking ride capsized and both
fell into the water. The young man
was able to swim and his companion
chung to the craft until rescued.
The picnic for the benefit of the St.
Charles church, at Minnehaha on the
f ,urth of July, would have been a
gra, >-success but for the rain which
pour. down in torrents in the after
noon and interfered with the progress
of the amusements on the program.
1t was bad day for picnics and out
door sports.
The sawmills OF the city, which were
closed for about tfreee weeks in conse-
quence of scarcity of logs, are again
running in full blast. The rain OF Tues
day and Wednesday increased the vol
ume of water in the river very materi-
ally and the logs are majestically roll
ing down stream to the great delight of
the mill owners and their employees.
Last Sunday at Minnetonka, Rollin
Delano, aged 80 years, was drowned in
about six or eight feet of water, and
within a short distance of his SWIM
ming companion. He was a resident
of St. Paul, where he was prominent
in social and business circles, and was
young man of good habits and we'll
liked. 1t seems that he was seized with
cramps and sank before assistance
reached him. All efforts to resuscitate
him completely failed.
Saloonkeepers were notified by the
police last Monday that the Jones
wineroom ordinance had become opera
tive and they were instructed to remove
their winerooms. A very few saloon
keepers had complied with the ordi-
nance. Others proceeded to do so dur
ing the day. Several who neglected to
comply with the ordinance were arrest
ed, and they will test the constitution
ality of it in the supreme court. Pend
ing decision the winerooms will not
be allowed to carry on the objection
able business.
Lieutenant Clark Elliott, with the
Thirty-ffth U. S. volunteers in the
Philippines, has written letter to his
brother, Judge C. B. Elliott, in which
he advocates holding the islands, claim
ing that the government will make
100000 for every 500 invested. 81
predict that in ten years the part of the
island we are now in will look like
Minnesota on account of the opportuni-
ties for lumbermen, and nothing should
induce the United States to give it up"
is the way he writes. Like his brother,
the judge, Lieutenant Elliott is dyed
in-the-wool imperialist for revenue
only.
Two, claimants in the estate OF Louise
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