The Irish standard., 1906-10-27
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CITY IN BRIEF.

Tor the Qedo at III O'CLOCK a. M IN the
chapel at st. Mary's cemetery by
Father McDevitt.
The third of the series of dancing
parties being conducted by the sham
rock Social club will be held Friday
evening, Nov. Q. at Maccabee hall,
Bloomington and Franklin avenues.
A social dancing party will be given
by Div. No. 2, A. O. H., Friday even
ing, Nov. 16, at the new Richmond hall,
Third avenue south and Fifth street.
Music by Cafarelli.
Iohn Egan will tender a reception
to Democratic candidates and serve a
roast. pig dinner free to the multitude
at o'clock tomorrow afternoon in
his hall at Bass Lake. The speakers
will be Frank Larrabee, Peter Vein
CART and ]. w. Pauley. All are in
vited.
This is a reduction of $40 per
lamp and went into effect July l..
1906. The average price of arc lamps
this year has been $50, SO that here
after they will cost 81 less. Charles
w. Patterson, president of the Patter-
son Street Lighting company. who
holds the contract for incandescent
lighting, has announced that he will
follow his usual custom of Offering a
reduction in the cost of maintaining
the incandescent gas service.
The council gas committee Monday
afternoon decided to advertise at once
for bids for street lighting for the year
1907. The board Of tax levy has al
lowed the street lighting department
$260,0Oo for 1907, decrease Of $4,000
below the amount allowed for this
year. reduction in the cost of street
lighting is expected by the aldermen.
AS per the announcement of the Cen
eral Electric company arc lamps will
cost but $50 per year in the future.
Mike Cantillon of Des Moines, Iowa.
named as owner of the Minneapolis
baseball club in the latest Milwaukee
transfer of that property, arrived in
Minneapolis Wednesday,. He was ac-
eompanied by August Koch, who
turned over the ownership Of the club
to Mr.. Cantillon last Monday after
having held the title continuously for
q number of weeks. Mr.. Cantillon de-
clares that in his ownership of the
Minneapolis club he is independent Of
any syndicate arrangement or outside
influence.
The wedding of Miss Margaret Tur-
nor Of this city and Daniel Burke Of
Blooming Prairie was solemnized at
the 8 o'clock mass Tuesday morning
Of last week at the Church of the
immaculate Conception, Father CAL
laghan officiating. The bride was as
sisted by Miss Anna Burke and the
groom by John Turner. A reception
and breakfast to the near relatives
and friends followed at the home Of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
n. Turner, IA Tenth street north. Out
Of town guests were Mr.. and Mrs
M. J. Seaman and Mr.. and Mrs. J..
Rogan, st. Paul. The newly welded
couple will reside near Blooming
Prairie.
That clever forgers are at work
among the merchants in Southeast
Minneapolis is evident from the num-
Der of complaints which have been
registered with the authorities recent
~, of bad checks passed by an I'M
known individual. The Northwestern
Book Store is the latest victim Of the
forgeries. A check for the amount of
$40, drawn by B. H. Stalks to G. H.
Meyers, on the Colorado National
bank, was returned Tuesday with the
Information that there was no account
under that name at that bank. N. A.
Anderson, manager Of the book store
has reported the affair to the authori-
the capture Of the forger. An investi-
cation was started by one Of the in
terested parties on the East Side and
1T was found that other merchants had
been having similar troubles with
forged checks.
The condition of the local flour mar
, ket has not improved any, many of the
mills doing q lighter business than
last week. Not a mill in the city is
running at its capacity, and should
the present condition of the market
continue some of the mills will shut
down. The demand for flour continues
to be very light and the sales are so
small that the shipping receipts for
s October will fall far below those Of
last year and will approach the low
record established by Minneapolis for
this month. American export trade
which is very light Just now, has