The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-10-05
CITY IN BRIEF.

H. will give a dancing party Tuesday
evening. Oct. Is, at A. o. H. hall, 10th
Ave. N. and Washington.
An "old time dance will be given
by the United Pleasure club at Third
Ward Republican hall. Plymouth and
Aldrich Ave. NJ, Thursday evening, Oct.
18th.
The first Of this seasons series Of
entertainments by Hennepin Council
Knights of Columbus will be dancing
party to be given to members and
their ladies next Wednesday evening at
K. G. hall.
Mrs. j. J. Courtney, $500 Girard Ave
S., is home from an extended eastern
trip. While absent from the city she
visited friends and relatives in New
York, Boston and Lowell.
The Junior Division of the Young
Mems club Of Ascension parish will
have a card party at the parish hall
Wednesday evening, Oct. 49, Refresh
ments will be served Tickets will be
15c each.
Division No. A. o. H. will meet
tomorrow afternoon at A. o. U. w. hall
on Central ave. The officers desire the
attendance of all the members as
some very urgent matters are to be
acted upon concerning the welfare of
all
The state will conduct a sale of
standing timber Oct. 81. State cruis-
ers met with the lizard at the capitol
and on their report state timber aggre-
gazing 100000 feet was selected to
be offered to the highest bidder. This
timber is located in Lake, st. Louis,
Itasca and Beltrami counties.
The state board of control Tuesday
awarded the contract for installing an
addition to the power plant at the Red
Wing training school to the Northern
Engineering company of Minneapolis,
for $2,19775. The contract for re-wir-
ing the buildings of the institution at
that place was awarded to Hartig and
HELLER Of Minneapolis for $4,000.
Rev. A. D. Williams who was hurt In
street car accident on the corner of
Lyndale avenue and Twenty fourth
street, September is, died Wednesday
affornnoyA %hA
sustained. He did not recover con-
seriousness up to the time of his death
which occurred at the home Of his
daughter. Mrs. Bradley Phillips, 2431
Pleasant Ave.
A second dividend to the creditors
Of the defunct Minnesota Title 1nsur-
ance and Trust company has been
ordered by the court. The dividend is
20 per cent and will require about
100000 to pay 1t. This makes
total Of 40 per cent that has been
paid during the six months that have
elapsed since the company went into
the receivers hands.
The consumption of beer in Mime
apolis during September was not nearly
80 great as in the previous month, and
in consequence the receipts from the
sale Of revenue stamps was considera-
bly, reduced. This difference is appar-
ent every year at this season and the
falling off in September is credited to
the cooler weather. Receipts for the
month past were s35.s0s, while in Au-
gust they amounted to s46,137.
William Campbell was murderously
assaulted outside Of Bob salter's sa-
loon, Second street and Second avenue
south. early last Wednesday evening,
and is now at his hotel the Norman
house, with a badly cut head, while
William Youngblad and H. thinner
man, his alleged assailants, are locked
up at the Central station charged with
the assault. Campbell processes to be
unable to give any reason for the at
tack He says that he has never seen
the men before in his life and had new
er exchanged a word with them.
]. Cavanaugh. a Toronto grain dealer
who has just completed business trip
to Winnipeg and through the Canadian
Northwest, when seen at the Nicollet
said that from all indications he feared
the wheat and oats crop throughout
western Canada would be light this
year. A great deal of damage had been
doneb frosts. Just how much 1t
would be hard to estimate, but he be-
lieved the total crop would be less than
100000 bushels. Mr. cavanaugl
was very much pleased with Minneap-
oils, regarding it as the best city in the
Northwest.
The magnificent sum of $1,000, $4,000
has been spent for new buildings in
the city Of Minneapolis during the three