The Irish standard., 1903-08-22

Telephone, Twin City, 273.
CITY IN BRIEF.

Standard Catholic Book Store, 81
Fourth street south. Prayer books,
rosaries, scapulars and other religious
articles. Good books for young and
\ retreat for the priests of the arch
diocese of st. Paul, will begin at st.
Thomas seminary next Monday eve
ming and close Saturday morning.
Archbishop Ireland and Father Camp
bell will conduct the retreat
Through an error the death of Mrs.
Chris Fiemming, wife of patrolman
Flemming of II Twelfth street south,
was announced last week. 1t should
have been Miss Mary Flenming, IL
cousin of Patrolman Flemming, who
died at Mr.. Flcnnlngs house
At Il meeting of the Minneapolis brick
layers held last Wednesday night. the
union voted 10 ;lrl:>,, unless lll :.e!l'rrs
employed presented Il union card. The
contractors declared they would never
agree and us Il result Il general tie
up Oh all buildings is expected.
The police We're notified Wednesday
afternoon that the body of IL woman
had been seen floating III the river near
the falls. Captain Sinclair and PATROL
man Sullivan, Who We're sent from the
South Side station to investigate, found
Il crowd Oh the bank near Third ave-
hue south and First street, but the
body had disappeared.
James Matthews, WHO WAS arrested
last winter by his wife for no,l-sup-
port, was Oh ettneSday arrested and
brought before Judge harrison because
lie had failed to provide for his wife
as instructed by the court ut his first
appearance. lie said he would rath-
Ell so to Jail than to live With his
wife, and accordingly lie WAS locked
up i'll the county Jail until next month,
when he will be tried for noll-support.
Mrs. Mary Roycraft Corser, wife of
Elwood S. COrser, died last Sunday ut
the family residence, 1919 Vine Place,
at the age Of upwards of 60 years
Mrs. CorSer came to Minneapolis from
Buffalo, \. ", with her husband near
ly thirty-tive years ago and has re-
sided in Minneapolis ever since. For
some years she has been an invalid, and
lately her condition became worse, un-
til she died. Besides her husband
she leaves two daughters. Mrs. \. L.
Belknap and Mrs. II. A. Gale.
The alumni of the st. Anthony high
school met last Tuesday night, at their
hall, corner Eighth avenue and Second
street. y very pleasant evening was
enjoyed by all, though the program
was ilnprOmptu, and consisted Of
music, recitations and refreshments.
Minneapolis milkmen will make
third attempt to organize their forces
for their mutual protection and the
possible increase i'll the prices charged
for milk and cream. \ circular let
ter has been sent to J57 milllmen,
whose names are OH record in the
William d. Mccall, asking them to
meet at AleXander's hall tonight for
the purpose of organizing. The milk
men claim the profits of the milk bus
mess are not large and during the last
year and Il half the price OF feed has
quadrupled.
The Northwestern Miller estimates
the total crop Of spring wheat in the
three states at 1G3, 7G2,OOO bushels,
based OH the result of special inquiry
of the mills throughout Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, and the
government report as to acreage. Based
OIL the Jones figures for acreage, the
crop would, according to the Miller.
be 155,GOO,OOO bushels, instead of Ill.,
100000 bushels, at which Mr. Jones
estimates the crop. The average yields
taken by the Miller are: Minnesota, 10
bushels; North Dakota, II bushels;
South Dakota, ID bushels.
Six of the Minneapolis flour mills
We're closed down Tuesday. This is
the millers' answer to the recent add
vance in the price of cash wheat. They
decline to pay 81 a busllel OF even 9411a
the highest quotation for the best of
the old wheat OH the market Tuesday.
In preference to doing SO, they decided
to shut down. So far, the WasllDurll-
Crosby company has not reduced the
number of mills in operation at this
time. This company is said to own
practically all the wheat in store here
and with the supplies of hard Kansas
wheat that are now coming in may be
able to keep going until the new spring
wheat moves freely Anchor and i
mills of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COM
pany and mills c, ID, Il, and G, of the
Consolidated Milling company are the
ones shut down.
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