The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-10-15
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\ card social will be given next
Friday evening by the parishioners of
st. Charles church. at the church
parlors, Fourth street and Thirteenth
avenue S., to which the public is in
vited. There will be refreshments
and number of valuable prizes.
Patrick Cotfey, an esteemed resi-
dent of the East Side whose home is
at 1919 Washington street, and en-
ployed in the flour mills, met With a
shocking accident last Saturday night.
While ut work he fell Il distance of
over 40 feet. to the pavement. The
unfortunate man is at the Swedish
hospital in an unconscious condition
and it is feared he cannot recover.
The card party and dance by Divi-
sion No. 3, \. o. H., will he one of the
pleasant social events of the coming
week. The event is scheduled for
next Thursday night at a. o. U. w.
hall. 229 Central avenue. There will
be dancing, music, cinch and forty
five, also Il smoke social, all for %
cents. There ought to be big at
tendance.
The state officers of the Ladies'
Auxiliary, \. 0. H.. are working dill
gently on the plan to increase their
insurance policy to 81 900 and hope to
have it an accomplished fact by Jan
uary I. When they have secured 500
applications with $1.OO for each they
will then proceed as per instructions
of the recent convention. and issue
policies of $1,000 to these applicants
who pass the medical examination.
Daniel w. Lawler and Thomas JEFF
ferson McDermott will address a big
Democratic meeting at Germania hall,
in the First ward, next Monday even
ing. They will talk on the issues Of
the campaign and will be followed by
local candidates. On the same even
ing Congressman Lind will fire little
hot shot at the opposition over in St.
Paul. From the first of next week
the campaign will be decidedly warm.
Turn out, voters, and hear these splen-
did orators.
Division Superintendent Jerry o.
Connor, of the $780," was visitor to
Minneapolis Thursday. Mr.. O'Connor
and family have recently removed
from Rhinelander to Osceola, Wis
Both Mr.. and Mrs. O'Connor are en-
thusiastic Hibernians, and a joint fare
well reception was rendered them by
the A. o. H. and Auxiliary of Rhine
lander on the occasion of their leav-
ing. They received the best wishes of
their friends and many handsome gifts
as a remembrance from their friends
in that city.
Frank II. Cashier will receive the
Democratic certificate of nomination
for alderman Of the Ninth ward, ac-
cording to the recount made of the
ballots in the city clerks Office Thurs
day morning. Castner was found to
have lead of five votes over o. E.
Larson, the present alderman. In all,
929 ballots We're recounted and the
committee found that Cashier had 4G7
and Larson 4G2. The original official
count gave Larson 456 and Cashier
4G7. The recount was made by Rich
ard Hanson. Anthony T. Grotte and
A. r. Choate, appointed by Judge G.
r. Elliott.
In its answer to the $4,000 damage
suit of County Commissioner NJ. w.
Nash for the publication of false and
derogatory statements about his polit-
zeal career, the Voters league lamely
pleads justification. The answer was
served upon the plaintiff Monday. 1t
asserts that the matter published be-
fore the last campaign was gathered
by the league and that it chad reason
able ground to believe and did believe
the publication to be true" Further
on, it says the statements against
Nash We're honestly made in the belief
Of their truth. Either the league does
not want to show it's hand or it cannot
supply the evidence looked for. De-
velopments at the trial, which will
not be called until January, will reveal
the true status of the case.
1t seems probable that there will be
trouble at the Great Northern car
Dhops in st. Paul between the Great
Northern company and the employees.
The company has posted notices to the
effect that an eight-hour day will here
after be in force, cutting down
weeks work to 81 hours. Few of the
men are working for fixed wage,
most Of them being paid by the hour.
The working day was cut down last
spring from 10 to 9 hours. AS the
tracks about the shops are filled with
rolling stock and needed repairs, the
employees feel that the company can
have but one reason for reducing the
working hours and seem to think that
that reason is the desire to bring about
cut in wages. 1t is stated that many
of the Great Northern machinists are