The Irish standard., 1908-11-07
CITY IN BRIEF.

Park will give a social dance Thanks
giving evening at their hall, to which,
members Of the Order in this city and
their lady friends are invited.
The prizes won by the dancers o:
the Sim Fan contest. held here re-
.>ntly. were awarded last Monday
evening at Columbus hall. Several
new members were enrolled.
Furnaces installed, repaired and
cleaned. Our heating device. the
Aeolipyle, saves rs per cent fuel, burns
coal to ashes. no clinkers. Place or
ders now. Aeolipyle Co., 212 S. 4th
street. NJ. ]. Mallon, Mgr.
Mrs. Margaret Williams died at the
home Of her daughter. Mrs. Fred Bugg.
113b Aldrich avenue north, Wednesday.
The funeral took place from the
Church Of the Immaculate Conception
Friday morning at o'clock.
The public letters and interviews Of
Judge Torrance, Judge Collins, Mr.. T.
r. Walter and other prominent Re
publicans in behalf Of Jacobson for
governor did not produce the desi-;d
effect. johnson carried the city by
10000 majority.
H. e. Lidman, who has been III
charge of the Offices of the Canadisn
Pacific steamship lines since the Off -
was opened in this city five years ago.
has resigned and is succeeded by T. ].
Burns as Northwestern passenger
agent. Mr.. Lidman will remain in the
the Northwestern territory for another
steamship company.
D. E. Pardell. alias R. E. Patten. rep
resenting himself to be an authorized
agent for the "Patten Magazine
Agency" Merchants Exchange, Min
Eeapolis was arrested in Albert Lea
Minn., Monday, on d charge of fraud,
Pardell claimed he had an arrange
ment with all 81 magazines to talza
yearly subscriptions for so cents each.
A number Of persons subscribed. He
was arraigned and sentenced to 90
days in the county Jail. Pardell, it is
said, worked the same scheme in Mini
neapolis and Duluth.
The news was received in the city
Thursday evening that John A. Schlen-
err, 4 we'll known business man. died
suddenly at Harlan, Wis, Of tuber-
culosis. Mr.. Schlener had been in poor
health for some months and had gone
into northern Minnesota, where he fail
ed to obtain benefit. He was So years
of ase and Is survived by his widow.
two children and his mother. The re-
mains arrived Friday morning and the
funeral will take place today at 2
wood cemetery.
Freak election bets are now having
their day. The first one to be paid
was that made by Leslie Mason thst
Bryan would be the next president. Nj.
Mason was to give his opponent, Cs-
car Alquist. ride through the streets
Of the city on wheel-barrow. He had
placard on him which read II bet Oh
Bryan" So sure was Mason that his
candidate would be the choice of tha
people that he made several other freas
bets, one Of them being. the rolling ci
a peanut down Nicollett avenue witn
a toothpick. In 1896 this same man
was obliged to ride donkey backward
for a mile in payment of bet OF
Bryan.
A mysterious theft, which at first ap.
peared to have been the work Of SAFE
crackers, was discovered by the pa
trolman on the beat at Mcmillan 4
Boardman's real estate office, 223 Cen.
trail avenue, late Wednesday night.
The safe door was found to be wide
OPEN and $22 In cash had been all
stracted. No violence had been used
however. and 1t is believed by the po-
lice that the safe had been left un.
locked. The door and windows were
fastened, and how the thief obtained
admittance is mystery. Detectives
Derrick and Wilson of the East Side
detail, are inclined to believe that q
skeleton key was used. No trace of tho
robbers has been found by the police
Deeds for ninety acres of land known
as the Castek farm, two miles from
Hopkins and ten minutes walk from
the Deephaven branch of the Mime.
tonka line, have been delivered to the
county. The deeds have been held ir
r. local bank pending the action Of Tho
county commissioners on the $11,o0t
bill presented for the property. The
bill was presented Monday and wa.
held up for a short time by the corn.