The Irish standard., 1908-05-16
! &be Irish STANDARD
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CITY IN BRIEF.

next dance at Columbus hall on Thurs
day evening, May 21. The committee
in charge is made up as follows:
James P. McKenna. P. Lydon, Joe
Coyle, P. j. Powers, E. A. Mathews,
Owen Cunningham, E. ]. Owens,
Daly's orchestra will play.
Tuesday evening the members of St
Frances Court, w. c. o. F., 424. turned
out in body to surprise their chief
ranger, Mrs. M. H. Cummings, at her
home, 2720 14th Ave. S. The evening
was spent in listening to a very fine
program. The members presented Mrs
Cummings with beautiful leather
travelling bag and buffet lunch was
served, after which all took part in
new and old time dances.
Chief Canterbury and the fire de-
partment committee of the city council
are at outs over the Reinstatement of
Timothy E. Stack. Some weeks ago
the committee requested the chief to
put Mr.. Stack on the pay roll and
assign him to duty, but the request
was fatty refused, as the chief says,
for the good of the service. Mr.. Stack
has served Is years or more and has
been injured on several occasions.
Herman Sand, 1914 Washington av-
enue north. and Morris Johnson, 1875
Twentieth avenue north, were arrested
Tuesday evening by Officers Mulhol-
land and Murray on warrants charging
them with the sale of liquor without a
license. Evidence in the cases was Sc
cured by plain clothes assistants Of
License Inspector Evans. johnson
was released late in the evening on
500 bail.
Mrs. Mamie Petersen, wife of Pro-
fessor Wilhelm Petersen, alderman
of the Eleventh Ward. died suddenly
Tuesday night, on the twenty first an
niversary of her wedding. at the age
of 43 years. Mrs. Petersen was taken
violently ill last Wednesday. She had
been ailing for some time, but no seri-
Gus results were feared until last
week, when she took a turn for the
worse and failed rapidly The end
came at 1880 o'clock
The Continental Casualty Co., Of
Chicago, through it's representative,
Mr.. D. H. Evans, general agent of the
company in Minneapolis, paid $4,000
Monday to the parents of Dr. F. X
Boucher who with his wife was struck
by the Great Northern Flyer at a rail-
road crossing in the town of Delano,
on March 11th. DR.. Boucher lived four
hours after his wife was killed and
therefore his parents were entitled to
receive the money. DR.. Boucher had
paid $12.75 on the policy which was is
sued the later part of February.
knights of Columbus of Minnesota
Tuesday elected officers and delegates
to the national convention at st. Louis
in August and concluded their state
gathering with musical and dancing
party in Elks hall in the evening. j.
H. Nightingale, Of Minneapolis, was
elected state deputy and the following
state officers were reelected: E. F.
Kelley, st. Paul, state secretary; Jas
E. Hickey, Mankato, state treasurer;
L. E. Gossman Crokston, state advo-
cate; L. F. Kennedy, Minneapolis,
state warden. Following are the DEL
egates: State deputy, ]. H. Nightin-
gale; past state deputy, Thomas B.
Hill, Winona; and j. F. Diefenback, of
Rev Wing. Alternates are: ]. E.
OBrien, Crookston; A. j. Eckstein,
New Ulm, and j. B. Rosenberger, ST.
Cloud.
Though there will be a big fight in
almost every district for the positions
on the board of county commissioners,
none will be more strenuous than the
Fifth. when Thomas ]. Hennessy of
Maple Plain comes out in opposition
to Andrew j. Smith, incumbent Mr..
Hennessy is one of the strongest Re-
publicans in the country districts, and
several years ago was candidate for
the county commissioners office, which
pays $1,000 a year, but met defeat at
the hands Of Mr.. Smith. Both men
have strong backing, but it looks as
though there will be more than inter-
esting developments, as in the Fifth
there are several candidates who are
ready to jump one way or the other.
The special council committee ap-
pointed to investigate the conditions
prevailing among the employees on
the various public works on motion
of Alderman Hill, Tuesday agreed to
recommend to council Aid. McCoy's
resolution that hereafter preference
be given to married men and heads Of
families who are citizens of Mnne-
apolis The motion also advises that