The Irish standard., 1901-03-30
BRIEF MENTION.

injuries and diseases.
~ Walter McNalan, one Of the early
settlers of Wabasha county, residing at
Theilmanton, was a welcome visitor
/ to our sanctum during the week.
City Physician Byrnes and staff gave
a reception and banquet in honor of
the board of charities and corrections
at the city hospital last Wednesday
evening.
Miss Marie Larpenteur is spending
the Easter vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Larpenteur, 21O2
Hennepin avenue. The young lady is
teaching the winter term of school at
Mora, MINI.
v Richard ]. Fitzgerald, former resi-
dent of Minneapolis, and mayor Of
Great Falls, Mont, for two years, is
again the Democratic nominee for the
same position. The election will take
place the first Tuesday in April.
Rev. Nj. Falk Gjertsen, pastor of
Trinity Norwegian church and ex-
member Of the board of education, is
coming home after settling up his wom-
an scrape in the land of the midnight
q gun. He was in Liverpool when last
heard from by Professor Oftedal.
Doc Ames needs no bodyguard since
!, bathing in the springs at West Baden.
Fred Conner, the colored gentleman,
has been assigned to detective duty,
8nd no longer looks after the personal
safety of his honor The son of Escu-
lapius can navigate around all right
at present.
DIR. Shutter delivered a sermon Tues
day evening on the Responsibilities
of Liberty The plutocratic pastor of
Y the Universalists has but a faint con-
\ ception Of what liberty really is. He
ought to talk on something else for
the edification of his aristocratic flock.
On honesty, for instance.
II Old Deacon Nettleton, former editor
of the Tribune, is down in Mexico de-
Tending the Mckinley policy of i'm
perialism from ATTACKS on it i'll the
Mexican Herald. The deacon yields
3 facile pen and firmly believes that
might is right. TIe has an India rub
ber conscience Of great elasticity.
At the first annual reunion of the
Fifteenth Minnesota volunteers last
Wednesday night Doc Ames made a
speech beginning thus: 81 am mayor
! of Minneapolis, but everybody does not
know it, Those in the city certainly
. do, from the hoary-headed man Of sew
enty to the infant mewlng, ETC., in it's
mothers arms.
Aldermen Sutherland and Merrill
have returned from a trip to Cuba.
They have higher opinion of the ma
tives than Loren Fletcher has. One of
them says that not a member of the
Cuban congress has property worth
$1,000. If America assumes control of
the island the Cuban legislators will
soon be worth less.
Sam Hill expects to have as guest
J during the coming summer a distin-
guished prince of India, the macharaja
of Kuch-Behar. He met the prince at
sVenice, Italy, two years ago, and found
him delightful gentleman. He was
educated at Cambridge university,
England, and speaks English tluently.
Salisbury would call him ga black
man." for he is of dusky complexion.
Thomas Z. Cantwell formerly of
Minneapolis, died at Puyallup, Wash,
March 10, of consumption, aged 20.
4 He was born and educated in Mime
Sapolis and was well known. He had
Owed in Washington for the past ten
years. During the Spanish war young
Cantwell enlisted in the Eighth Cali
fornia regiment and was bugler for his
company.
Mrs. Mary Gallagher and 12-year.
old daughter are sick with typhoid
fever at the city hospital. Francis,
her 4-year-old boy, died on Monday
night. The poor woman, who is abso-
lutely destitute, lived with her two
i children on Third street n, near Sew
enth avenue, when fever entered the
4 household. The Vincent de Paul So
sciety is interested in the sad case.
The official publication of the annual
statement to the state insurance COM
missioner of the following organiza-
lions appears in this weeks issue of
the Irish Standard: Ancient Order of
Hibernians Life Insurance Fund Of
Minnesota, Ladies' Auxiliary A. o. H.
1 Life Insurance Fund of Minnesota,
Catholic Order of Foresters. Women's
Catholic Order of Foresters and
Knights of Columbus. They will be
found on another page Of this paper.
David>G. Gary, a travelling salesman
for Chicago jewelry house, died last
Wednesday at st. Mary's hospital from
+ an overdose of morphine. The patient
was found very ill, and was taken to
I. the hospital for treatment. His condi-
{ ton was so serious, however, that
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