The Irish standard., 1905-08-26
FROM THE CAPITAL.

FROM THE CAPITAL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Flanagan, of
Sherman street, are the happy parents
of their first born boy, who was bap-
tized Francis at the cathedral on last
Sunday afternoon.
John F. Pewters of Hamline, in the
service of the Great Northern railway
at the transfer, has been promoted to
the position of chief clerk.
Joseph T. Barron, who received the
gold medal for scholarship at the re-
cent closing exercises at st. Thomas
college, will enter st. Paul's seminary
the next term. He is the son of John
Barron, formerly of Minneapolis.
Miss Henriette Searles of No. 8
Tilton street, who spent scholastic
term at Manchester college (Protest-
anti, then studied at the Convent of
the Visitation, St. Paul, for the past
year, decided to join the Catholic
church and after a course in Christian
doctrine instruction at the hands OF
Father Mccall, of the Cathedral, she
was baptized and received her first
communion on last Assumption day
Miss Searies is eighteen years old.
Maurice Dore has returned from an
extensive business and pleasure trip
east
St. Thomas college, Merriam Park,
has been granted a United States
government regular army drill officer
for the colleges new regiment Of
cadets, which it proposes to launch in
to army perfection inside of the next
two years.
T. J. Greene, the popular young
Irish-American politician of the court
house, is being groomed quite exten.
sively by his friends as candidate
for Clerk Of Courts.
Thomas M. Clancy, aged II years,
died at the home of his parents, 1856
Lafond street, Monday, August 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mcnamara were
given bad scare Monday evening by
an intrusion into their home on Rasp-
berry Island of an insane man. He
came to the house very late and after
knocking upon the door very loudly
exclaimed "I am the owner of this
house." Mrs. Mcnamara saw at once
that there was something wrong with
the man, and attempted to keep him
out, but he managed to force open the
door. Once inside, the insane man
chased Mrs. Mcnamara with pitch
fork. He succeeded in catching her
once with some of the prongs, but none
lodged with sufficient force to do the
frightened woman any harm. While
his wife was being chased about the
house, Mr.. Mcnamara armed himself
with club and stopped him with one
we'll directed blow. The insane man
is known as James Wilcox and resides
at 1000 East Minnehaha street. He has
been violent for some time and on one
occasion attempted to choke one of his
own children. He was examined in
the probate court and committed to
the insane asylum.
After eleven weeks of untold agony,
Mrs. Augusta Schmidt of Marine Mills,
Mimi, died at St. Joseph's hospital.
During that period she had been suf.
fering from burns received while burn
ing weeds and grass about her home.
Her clothes caught fire and she was
badly burned about the back and
breast Two large burns made holes
in the back and during her illness she
was compelled to lie face downward
in bed. The physicians had no hopes
fer her recovery from the first, but
her robust constitution enabled her to
keep up as long as she did.
James MeDevitt, a farmer living
near South st. Paul, had a fight with
two hold-up men on the German road
last Saturday night. McDevitt and his
brother had sold some grain for s14O.
AS James McDevitt was going out of
town a man asked to ride with him.
When they reached lonely part of
the road the man pointed revolver
at the farmer and, demanded his mon.
sy. McDevitt struck him, and fight
ensued While the two were heavily
engaged man leaped from the bushes
and began to help the stranger. Nc