The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-12-05
CITY IN BRIEF.

Thursday evening Of next week.
Div. No. 3 A. O: n. will elect officers
for the coming year at the regular
meeting to be held tomorrow afternoon
at A. o. U. W. hall, 80 Central ave.
The basket ball season at Ascension
parish gymnasium will open next Fri
day evening with a game between the
Ascensions and Holcombs.
Jos. A. o'Brien and John J. Daley
have formed a to-partnership in the
Line Of undertaking and enbalming
The firm name will be o'Brien and
Daley and the location 20s Central ave
This ONCE is in receipt Ut the two
latest publications from the pen Of
Rev. G. L. Morrill,. One is entitled
'"The Moralist" and the other "Morrilrs
Pilgrimage" and both Of them are we'll
worth careful perusal.
The degree staff of Hennepin Coun-
ell Knights Of Columbus, accompanied
by Sir knights and their ladies, will
visit New Ulm tomorrow to confer de-
grees on members Of New Ulm coun.
Gil. On Sunday, Dec. 13, q similar
trip will be made to Green Isle.
Mark rieaney Of Silver, Mont, an
oid-time resident Of the mountain
state, passed through Minneapolis re-
Gently on his way to Belfast, Ireland,
where his parents reside and whom he
has not seen tor twenty-five years.
Mr.. Heansy will be absent about three
months.
The annual election Of officers Of
Hennepin Council knights OF Column
bus was held Wednesday night with
the following result: Grand Knight.
John G. Sheehan; Deputy, J. A. Cullen;
Recorder, M. e. o'Donnell; Financial
Secretary, J. Orton; Treasurer, J. M.
Schultz.
It is rumored that Alderman E. j.
Conroy will succeed Frank r. Corris-
ton as chief Of police the first of the
new year. Conroy filled the position
formerly under Mayor Haynes and
gave general satisfaction. He says
however, that he would not again take
the ONCE IL offered to him.
T. B. Walker is In Washington, D.
c., looking after tariff on lumber. He
has acquired his great wealth by the
tariff and does not want it removed
from lumber. He does not care If the
tariff on everything else is reduced or
taken off, but he will do his best to
keep it on lumber for his own special
benefit. And nobody seems to blame
him.
George Peterson Of Minneapolis, for
merly an alderman, residing at Forty
fifth street and Cedar avenue, fell
while alighting from wagon Tuesday
noon, and received injuries which
proved fatal shortly after being taken
IT, the city hospital. His skull was
fractured and he remained unconsci-
Gus to the end. He was the proprietor
Of milk route.
Seventy inmates Of the Hennepin
county poorhouse partook of the boun-
ty Of Superintendent John O'Donnell,
on Thanksgiving Day. The dinner
was served at noon and the county
charges, most Of them elderly persons
ate the delicacies provided with rel
ish. Superintendent o'Donnell says
the county house inmates look forward
for many weeks to an occasion such as
Thanksgiving.
. Robert Kennedy, 254s Bloomington
avenue. a switchman on the Milwaukee
railroad. sustained a crushed foot in
an accident at Hiawatha avenue and
Twenty five and one-half street last
Sunday morning. Kennedy stuck out
his right foot to kick something off
the rail in front Of an approaching
car He was taken to ST. Barnabas
hospital, where part Of the foot was
amputated.
Frank ]. Mead, veteran journalist,
died at the Swedish hospital in this
city last Sunday afternoon in the 7srd
year of his age. He was an old sol.
der, and the funeral, which took piece
or Thursday, was held under the au.
spices OF the G. A. r. The deceased
was a member of the famous First
Minnesota regiment and was severely
wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks.
On his return from the war he took to
newspaper work and remained at 1t
until last July, when he severed his
connection with the Boston Herald
and came back to die.
The proposed ordinance granting a
thirty-year franchise with the city's
privilege Of buying at the end Of every