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tainment on Tuesday evening, No
vember goth. at Odd Fellow hall, COR
ner 22nd and Central avenues.
The marriage Of Miss Mabel EN-
NETT, daughter of MI. and Mrs. George
Emmett, and Francis Edward Shields,
took place in the Church of the I'm
maculate Conception Thursday morn
ing Of last week. Rev. Father Moran
read the service. A breakfast followed
at the Emmett residence and then the
young couple left for an eastern trip.
Father Vaughan, the dramatic ora
tor, who opened the lecture course of
the Teachers club on Nov. 2, will again
appear before the club with his lecture
on the Merchant Of Venice" This
will be the second event in the course,
and the lecture will be given at the
First Baptist church, Monday evening,
Nov. 10.
There have been 72 diphtheria cases
reported to the health department
since Nov. is. OF these the Third and
Eleventh wards have had IL each, and
the Twelfth ward 10. There has been
one death. This is not above the aver
age number Of cases for this time of
the year. During October there We're
$50 cases and seven deaths, and it is
not thought that the November record
will raa ~, that amount
According to Washington dispatch
es, William Henry Eustis of Mime
apolis, has filed protest with the
supervising architect against the Sc
lection of a public site in Minneapo-
lis north Of Hennepin avenue. The
petition states that the Minneapolis
business center is moving south of
Hennspin avenue and that the pro-
posed new building should be erected
east Of Nicollet and south of Sec
ond street. Tho treasury department
had formally set Monday as the date
for hearing from Minneapolis proper
ty owners, and business organizations
as to their preference for the location
of the new building, but this date has
now been changed until Nov. 2s.
At the meeting held last Saturday
afternoon at O'Clock, an agreement
was reached in the railroad switch
men troubles, which have been hang
ing fire. the switchmen being granted
an increase in wages Of four cents an
hour for Chicago and the Twin Cities
and all west Of Chicago. while the
section east Of Chicago receives an in
crease Of three cents. The Switch
mons Union Of North America and all
railroads west Of Buffalo have been
awaiting the settlement and have ex-
pseted an agreement such as was
granted. The meeting was attended
by the general managers Of all rail-
roads entering into both Chicago and
tho Twin Cities, together with officers
Of the Grand Lodge Of the switchmen's
Union Of North America.
John Baxter, formerly a resident of
Minneapolis. and who was supposed
to have died several years ago. has re-
turned to this city after an absence of
over ten years. Baxter was at one
time employed as engineer at the Cen
trail high school, but gave up the posi-
ton on account of i'll health. and went
West. He says that he Joined in the
search for gold in the Black Hills, and
later went to South Africa, where he
continued his search for wealth. Some
time after he left Minneapolis a dead
Bakers, and was buried as SUCH
Friends or relatives have not heard
from him since he left here, and he has
boon mourned as dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Bradley of 1910
Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Bradley of 171O
Dupont ave. n, and Henry NJ. Hogan,
were quietly married last Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. T. f.
Cullen of the Immaculate Convention
church.
The twenty-sixth annual convention
Of the American Federation of Labor,
which opened in Minneapolis Monday,
comes on the heels Of one of the most
notable victories that organized labor
has scored in years in the field of ma
tional politics. According to John H.
Mitchell, president of the Anthracite
Coal Miners union and the second
vice president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, the next congress will
have no less than IL men who are
wholly devoted to the advancement
Of the cause of organized labor. This
even dozen of national representatives |
come from widely divergent parts of
the country and they show gain of !
nearly so per cent in labor's quota in
congress. Mr.. Mitchell and the other