The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-03-17
Gbe Irish STANDARD
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CITY IN BRIEF.

CITY IN BRIEF.
Shamrocks given free today to every
Svisitor at Archer & Meagher's Clothing
! Store. Nicollet Ave-, corner 3rd St
Standard Catholic Book Store. 81
4th st. s.. for Prayer books. rosaries.
and church goods. Catholic Family
,Almanacs for 1905, CSC.
Patrick O'Brien' Of DeGraff, this
state, a business man of that thriving
village. paid 4 brief visit to the Twin
Cities during the past week, where he
is we'll known, having at one time been
a resident of st. Paul.
Ralph c. Champliri; IS years of age.
is the latest acquisition to the police
force Of Mayor David P. Jones. Champ
lih has been street car conductor for
five years. He weighs about 200 pounds
and is six feet tall. He will don the
uniform of patrolman the first of
next month.
w. Frank Byrne of Butte, Mont.
manager of the Montant-Nevada Gold
Mining Co., of Goldheld. New, is in
the city in the interest of his properties
which are said to be among the richest
in that state. While here Mr.. Byrne
will be the guest of his brother-in-
law, John Fogarty, street commissioners
of the Fifth ward.
The present cold snap comes as re-
lief to the lumbermen of Minnesota,
and they are joining hands with the
coal dealers in celebration of the event.
It will be the means of saving the lum-
bermen large amount Of money, as a
great majority of them have many
thousand feet of lumber in the form of
logs that they will be able to transport
to the sawmills if the cold spell con-
( tinues.
Claude McClease, "bellhop" in the
Westmoreland hotel, st. Louis, Mo-. is
trying to find his mother who he be-
lieves is in Minneapolis. McClease has
asked Chief Doyle to help him in the
search. McClease was placed in an
orphan asylum in st. Louis in the year
1887, and since that time he has not
seen his mother. He has every reason
to believe that she is still alive and.
probably in this city.
A late number of the Hot Springs,
Ark, Sentinel-Record contains the fol-
lowing: P. H. Vaughan, Phi. c., late
of Minneapolis, Mimi, has taken the
management of Pollard & Co.'s drug
store. opposite the Arlington hotel. Mr..
Vaughan is a graduate in chemistry
and comes. highly recommended as
pharmacist and gentleman, and his
, ability has already won him friends
. among the patrons of this drug store.
Excelsior will now have its new $780,
900 bridge across st. Adams bay. II
the village and town election Tuesday
provision was made for funds for
widening the roadway leading to the
bridge. in accordance with the demands
!, Of the county commissioners. and the
latter will now fulfill their promise and
& build the structure. The board prom
Used to build the new bridge a number
Of months ago on condition that the
/. roadway should be widened to the reg
ulation width, and this was promised.
No action by the village and township
was taken until Tuesday, however, and
the county refused to let the contract
until O showing was made.
The board of park commissioners
committee on improvements, upon the
suggestion Of Supt. Theodore Wirth.
is investigating the matter Of removing
the unsightly refreshment shed. now
standing between the Lake Of the Isles
boulevard and the lake near Twenty
:. eighth street. It is likely that the
structure will be removed as there APP
parently is no pressing demand for the
maintenance of such an establishment
along the shores of the Lakes Of the
Isles, and for that reason the superin-
tendent believes there is no excuse for
; the liberation Of such structure. II
there is q sufficiently strong demand for
row boats on the lake 1t is likely the
park board will establish and maintain
its own dock and boat renting plant,
at some other less prominent place.
Soldiers who violate the rules Of the
service ere finding that the results are
anything but pleasing If detection fol-
lows the offense. Mark e. Christen-
sen. private Twenty-seventh battery,
field artillery, found guilty Of desertion.
is sentenced to be dishonorably dis
charged from the service, to forfeit all
pay and allowances due him and to be
confined at hard labor for two years.
John Steinberg, private B Company,
Twenty-cighth infantry, found guilty OF
disobedience Of orders, is sentenced to
dish6norable dicharge and confinement
at hard labor for eighteen months.
James f. Kenney. F Company, Twen-
ty-eighth infantry, found guilty Of, abb
sence without leave on several occa-
aiona in dishonorahlv DISCHARGED and,