The Irish standard., 1906-06-02
Gaelic League Fund.
CITY IN BRIEF.

1E4th ST., died of bronchitis Tuesday.
The interment was at st. Mary's GENES
terry.
Tomorrow morning at the 1880
o'clock mass at st. Anthony of Padua
Church a class of over one hundred
boys and girls will receive first COM
muniOn.
Members of Hennepin Council,
knight of Columbus, will receive Holy
Communion in a body at the eight
O'Clock mass tomorrow morning at Inn
maculate Conception Church.
At the regular meeting Of the Wo-
mems Temperance Society of st. An
thony parish, to be held tomorrow
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock I'm st. An
thony hall. delegates will be elected
for the state convention at st. Paul,
June 10 and IA.
Daniel +. Nolan, wife and children,
have returned from Los Angeles, Cal,
where Mr.. Nolan was called to admins
lister the financial affairs of his broth
er, the late William G. Nolan, who
<was accidentally killed during the lat
ter part of December. While ell route
T home Mr. Nolan visited the ruins OF
San Francisco. The great disaster and
the conditions existing he says, are far
more dreadful than people imagine.
decisive split seemed imminent at
the meeting of the prohibition con-
ference held Tuesday evening at the
Y. NJ. C. A. building over the ques-
ton of the support that should lie Civ
en- by them to the candidacy of Mayor
Jones. But after lengthy discus
sion it was finally decided by an AL
most unanimous vote to throw their
strength to the present mayor in case
he is nominated, but as safeguard
the Prohibitionists will nominate Their
own candidate at the primaries.
President Roosevelt will not come
to Minneapolis during the time of the
National G. A. r. encampment in Au-
gust. Such was the information re-
ceived last Monday evening by Secre-
tary Wallace G. Nye, secretary of the
public affairs committee of the Com
mercial club, from Congressman
Fletcher. Included in the commune
cation was a letter from President
Roosevelt's private secretary, Mr.. Loeb,
who extended the presidents regrets
and stated that he would be unable
n to accept the invitations either to Min
4 neapols or Des Moines as previous
engagements had been made for all
of his time in August.
The extraordinary manner in which
Northern lumbermen, who have domi-
mated the white pine districts for years.
are purchasing immense tracts of tim
Der in other parts of the country is
evidenced by the latest purchase of the
Brooks canlon Lumber company Of
this city. The firm has just purchased
l11,OOO acres of timber lands in Flori-
da, all in one immense tract The
purchase represents an investment OF
100000 in one of the finest yellow
pine districts in the South. The timber
is located near the town of Orlando
on the Seacoast Air line and the At
lantic coast line, and will be held FOR
future development.
Martin Stevenson, 81 years old. Of
2436 Thirteenth avenue south, was
caught in the machinery of a stone
crusher, at which he was working
Tuesday afternoon, and slowly crushed
to death. Stevenson was engaged near
the machine when his clothes caught in
one of the cogs, and he was suddenly
whirled along the gearing to the hor-
strenuous efforts to extricate him. Be-
fore the machine could be stopped Ste
version was so badly crushed and man.
gled that he died within few min
utes after being released. The victim
leaves a wife and three children.
The stage of water in the chain of
lakes that encircle the city Of Mime
apolis is higher than it has been since
the memorable floods of the year 1892.
Thousands upon thousands of acres Of
pasture and farm lands are submerged
under one and two feet Of water. Near
~ every bridge approach over Mime
nala and Bassett's creeks has been
washed out, and in the majority of
cases has been rendered impossible In
consequence. The damage to prop
ty along the creeks will be consider
able improvements, the results Of
years Of toll and great expense alons
the shores Of all the lakes, have beer,
washed out. The flood this year, re-
sulting as it has from entirely natural,
though abnormal causes, is the best
Of evidence in the mind of City En-
gineer Rinker that any scheme to
change the course of Bassetts creek
Or dam up Medicine or any other lake
<or storage purposes would not only
be futile but foolish.
An automobile driven by Carleton
Johnson of Minneapolis collided with
the city street cleaning apparatus at
work near Fourth and Robert streets,