The Irish standard., 1901-01-12
CRY AND VICINITY /.
III. telephone call Of the 1risch Standard
IL 278, Mississippi Valley Co.
rERsELY TOLD.

sneak at the Immaculate CoACePIAon
ch,,rch tomorrow at the last mass.
a Herbert Conner, the artist, who had
hnen in the South for a year, has re-
turned to Minneapolis, where he Will
make his home in the future.
The Times and Tribune are again
challenging each others Calculations.
Like the pugilists they find it hard TO
get a satisfactory umpire.
Two men resembling Pat Grove tne
abductor of the Cudahy boy, were ar
rested here the other day by the lynx
eyed detectives, but they easily proved
they were somebody else.
st. Bridget Court No. 1874, Womens
!. Catholic order Of Foresters will give Il
card party at G. A. Il. Hail. l"en-
tieth and Washington avenues N. Oh
Monday evening, Jan. 2srd. All are
cordially invited.
Miss H. NJ. Lynott, of 1918 Elrst
avenue N, is the agent III thls Guy
for the Villa Maria Convent at From
tenac and the boarding school 1of
hoys at Lake City. She will furnish
any desired information concerning
either institution.
=, The marriage of Miss Catherine NJ.
Connolly. daughter Of Mr.. and MIS-. Il.
Connolly, to frederick %. Murphy OIL
the vrribune" will take place at the
church OF the immaculate Conception
:. next Wednesday morning at ~
O'Clock.
Mayor Ames says he wants to ar
range the police force so that major
ity OF the men in the service will De
native Americans. He is the first
mayor of the city to introduce knwo-
nothingism into politics, and he Will
be the last.
Eight dodgers at the Harvard hotel
on Washington avenue lost their lives
by suffocation by smoke from IRE
early Sunday morning. One was
Michael Monahan, aged IS, and a resi-
dent of Minneapolis for thirty years.
Rev. M. Mcintyre, assistant pastor
Of st. Stephens church, will leave st.
Marys hospital next week and go to
Florida for the winter. The prayers
of his many friends for his speedy
recovery will accompany the popular
nriest to the sunny South.
Edward Hickey, who was arrested
on suspision of being implicated i'll
the holdup of Olaf Olson near Grace
vile, has been released. Hickey
proved that he was in the employ OF
the Great Northern on the night in
question and not near the scene OF the
robbery.
Edmund O'Brien Kennedy, also
known as Featherstone, and who
' spent Is years in British dungeon as
an Irish political prisoner, will lecture
to morrow Sunday evening at st.
Anthony hall. Mr.. Kennedy, who, is
an interesting speaker will relate his
experiences since his arrest in 1882.
The admission will be free and all are
invited.
The following officers of the old
volunteer fire department We're elect
ed Tuesday evening at the annual
meeting of the veterans: President,
Matthew Walsh; vice president, J. B.
Gilfllan; treasurer, Frank Slocum; sec
rotary, Il. NJ. Snyder. Ex-Mayor
George A. Bracket, home from Alas
ka, attended the meeting. The an
nual banquet of the association will
be held on Thursday evening, Jan. "a.
A peculiar and fatal accident oc-
Cured Saturday to infant Hazel But
Ter, 10 months old, while playing in
the kitchen, 3O2 Twenty-sixth avenue
north. While the child was playing
the mother stepped into the dining
room for moment, and upon return
, ing she found the child head first in
pail Of dish water. The child was
pulled out, and physician was sum-
moned, but all effort to resuscitate the
child proved futile.
, William e. Finn was elected street
commissioner of the 9th ward by the
city council last Monday. The ward
is now thoroughly Democratic for the
first time in many years. Now, if the
first ward aldermen will get together
and unite on John Gleason for COM
:. missioner they will act wisely. The
Irish Standard is informed that alder
man Ryan favors Mr. Gleason. With
such an excellent candidate Aid. Foell
should find it easy to support him for
the place and such action would also
greatly strengthen Aid. Foell political
".
The veteran newspaper man, Mr..
Joseph T. Mannix, says in the Pioneer
Press: DR.. Ames has frequently de-
clared that he would take advantage
of the first opportunity to get even
with the "Micks." That Mayor Ames
was actuated by a desire to get even
is plainly manifest, for among the 105
men who are thus suddenly thrown
out of employment in midwinter there
are at least score Of men who have
earned the reputation of being honest,