The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-08-17
Gbe Irish STANDARD
Office: 6e5 Second Ave. So.
TELEPHONE. TWIN CITY 273
CITY IN BRIEF.
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The Ladies Temperance Society OF
St. Anthony parish will meet tomor-
row afternoon at st. Anthony hall.
Mrs. P. l.. Collins will tell the members
about the doings of the National Con-
vention at Cleveland, O., which she
recently attended as delegate.
The Minneapolis public schools will
open Wednesday, Sept. 4th. The first
Monday in the month being Labor
Day. and Tuesday bsing Minneapolis
day at the state fair, the juvenile pop
ulation of the city will have longer
vacation than usual
The abstract and title insurance
plant of the Minnesota Title Insurance
company was sold by Receiver James
D. shearer Wednesday morning to Ell
bridge G. Cooke, of the Minneapolis
Trust Co., for the sum of s26,500. Re-
ceiver shearer is selling off the differ"
ent departments of the defunct COM
pany by piecemeal.
uS MtHIcdpCllS BASEBALL CluO Is
playing at home once more and is at
present engaged in an all important
series with the Toledo's, the league
leaders. Five games will be played
with Toledo and if sll are won by the
home team the result will be that Min
neapolis will have a chance for the
flag. The team is now in third place
and in good fighting trim. The best
baseball of the year may be expect
ed during the next three weeks. The
game this afternoon will be at Nicollet
park at $3.50 and tomorrow afternoon
at Minnehaha park at the same hour.
The proposed special charter election
Is now in the courts and will have to
fight for existence before it can be
thing that is to happen. Patrick J..
Breen, the insurance man, and at one
time Democratic nominee for County
Supt of Schools, is the citizen who has
come to the front as the champion of
the taxpayers who are against the
election. He has secured A. B. jack
son to represent him, and that gentle
man at once secured an order to show
cause from Judge Simpson and filed it.
This order compels Livingstone A. Lyd-
lard and Charles H. Hubert to appear
and show cause why an injunction
should not issue restraining the hold
ing of the special election
Preparations are nearly complete for
the East Side carnival which opens on
Central avenue and Broadway today at
booths ever erected in this city has
been prepared for the queen of the
carnival. The East Side merchants
have joined with vim and vigor with
the intention of making the event one
long to be remembered by residents of
the city. Mammoth tents are in the
course of erection tor the large shows,
the inerry-go-round and the largest
Ferris wheel ever constructed in Amer
lea are nearly ready. while the electric
company is busy completing their elec-
trio tower, which. when fully lighted,
will be visible from every part of the
city. The committee has engaged some
of the best acts that money can buy
Lotto, the human arrow. champion
high diver; Professor Thompson, the
fearless high wire walker; the Thor
leys in their marvellous bicycle and
unicycle acts; NJ. Roland. the famous
Frenchman. in his grotesque comedy;
clown, acrobats, and other attractions
The carnival will continue for one
week.
Patroln1an Healy. Tod Quinn. fire.
men Of fire station No. l. and a half
dozen men living in the neighhorhood
were the principals in a row at Third
street and Sixth avenue south, early
Monday evening. Quinn was walking
up Third street with young woman,
who was crying, when Patrolman Healy
stopped to ask her what the trouble
was. Quinn resented the policeman's
action and in few moments the two
men were engaged in a free-for-all.
The two rolled about the street, un-
mindful Of dust and dirt, for a few
minutes, with honors about even. Then
the f1remen went in to help the police
men. When they did so, a half dozen
or more colored men took part. The
latter pulled up weeds by the roots and
with the dirt ends hammered firemen,
as wall as policemen. The war was
a merry one with the city employees
gradually winning out. The patrol wag-
on was soon on the scene and the
belligerent Quinn was taken to the
Central station, where he was charged
with interfering with an officer.
At we'll attended meeting held in
the mayor's reception room wednes