The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-25

when he decreed the property left by
Mrs. kenny's sister should be divided
between all of the heirs instead Of
among the sisters.
The state board of control has
turned into the state treasury $780,
1924, being the earnings of the diff
ferent state institutions for the month
of January. The Saltwater prison re-
ports receipts Ct $s,67139. Other state
institutions report as follows: Anoka
asylum, $15.74; Hastings asylum,
$27G; Fergus Falls hospital, $255.O7;
Rochester hospital, $516.15; st. Peter
hospital, $3G316; Faribault school for
the blind, $62.14; Faribault school for
the deaf, $71.40; Faribault school for
the Predetermined, $3.50; Red Wing
training school, $19s14; st. Cloud re-
formatory, $2,27S.74; Duluth normal
school, $150.25; Mankato normal
school, s23G.27; NIoorhead normal
school, $40; st. Cloud normal school,
$20S.35; Winona normal school, $177.-
70; state university, Minneapolis,
81, 1925.
| Two more deputy oil inspectors were
named Monday, making the list of ap-
polntments under the new administra-
ton complete. P. J. Moran of Fari-
! iS hn
and L. ]. Catlin of Delano for Wright
county
| The house committee on roads and
bridges Tuesday agreed to the pro-
visions of the Deegan bill raising the
prohibition against county boards ap-
propriating more than $500 to be ex-
| pended in any one township in year.
| The law, it is said, has been violated
scores of times, and the Deegan bill
| aims to legalize practice that origi-
mated from law which after being in
force for many years was repealed.
S. G. Olmstead has asked Judge
Brill of Ramsey county for writ of
mandamus against G. NJ. Treat chief
! ranger of Court Minnesota, United Or
der of Foresters, to compel the chief
ranger to give him the password. The
court undertook to dismiss Olmstead
during controversy, but he remained
a member, and he demands that he
receive the password.
Governor John A. Johnson, the
first native born AIinnesotan to be
elected governor of his state, Mon
day received call from II. S.
Kennedy, Chicago man born
in Minnesota on the day of the
admission of the state into the Union.
Mr. Kennedy was born at st. Peter,
the home of Gov. johnson, on May II,
1858, the day of AIinnesota's admission
into the sisterhood Of states. He was
connected for some years with the
grain trade in Minneapolis, and is now
engaged in the commission business
at Chicago. Mr.. Kennedy is visiting
old friends in the state, and Monday
called to pay his respects to the first
native of the state exalted to the posi-
ton of it's chief executive.
Mary Edgerton Monfort, widow of
Dclos \. Monfort, died last Monday
night at the home of her son, Fred
erick ID. Monfort, 354 Summit avenue.
after long Illness She was pioneer
| of Minnesota, first reaching this state
in 1854, when she came out on visit
from her native place in Delaware
county, New York.
Rev. Arthur B. G. Dunn, who lee
tured in st. Paul last fall on the SUBJ
ject. The Human VIOLIN" and who
w;lS accorded Il warm reception by the
large audience that was attracted to.
another lecture in this city Feb. %.
Father Dunn closely held the atten~
ton of his hearers by his interesting
manner and clever delivery, and the
wish was expressed at the time that
| he would make another visit to the
city. His subject next week will abe
The Average Man, and it is said
that it fully equals his former effort
! in interest. The lecture will be given
for the benefit of Father L. A. Prin~
| TONS church, and is scheduled to take
place in Mozart hall. The lecture
| deals with the belief that man is es.
! sentially noble and only accidentally
| defective, and that lifes great pur-
pose is not in the temperatures Of the
| world, but rests only in the infinite.
Eighty-one candidates received the
f, third degree of the Knights Of Column
bus at the hands of st. Paul Council
1 No. 397 Wednesday afternoon. The
comforting of the degrees took place at
Elks hall before an audience Of over
800 members of the organization from
out of the city. The number Of candi~
dates. eighty-one, that received the de-
gree breaks all records in the history
of the state lodges and was freely CON-
mented on by the visiting members.
An invitation had been extended to-
the different lodges Of the state and
| other states to attend the ceremonies
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