The Irish standard., 1909-11-13
CITY IN BRIEF.


The Johnson memorial fund 10 nov
about $4,000.
Foreigners in large numbers are at
tending the city night schools to learn
English and United States history.
Many of them are Finlanders.
Judge Mclaughlin and Sheriff Han
son, of Grand Forks, N. D., made a
brief call at the Irish Standard office
last Wednesday. They were in the
city on official business and returned
home on Thursday evening.
In Minneapolis milk remains at I
cents a quart, but rumor places the
price at cents in the near future.
Eggs have jumped from IS cents in
August to 81 cents, present price, while
butter has climbed from % to IS cents
for the best grades.
John ]. courtney's place, s32 Sec
ond avenue south, has been remodeled
and enlarged and will be open to the
public today. The interior is elegant
iy furnished in the most up-to-date
style and has every accommodation for
patrons.
The National Monthly, the Demo-
cratic magazine published at Buffalo.
N. Y, by Norman E. Mack, can be
found hereafter at the public library,
the Democratic ohiceholders of the
city having contributed two dollars
each for that purpose.
U. S. Senator Aldrich, of tariff fame,
was in the city Friday night and adj
dressed the bankers and their invited
guests on the need for currency reform
for the benefit of Wall Street finan-
ciers. He will speak in st. Paul to-
night.
Thirsty thieves broke into tne saloon
of Malachy Lehman, 800 Henneptn
avenue, early Sunday morning and
carried away several bottles Of extra
old whisky. They entered by prying
open the rear door. Two glasses on
the bar showed that they had taken a
"bracer" or two before leaving.
Frank Healy, city attorney, and M.
N. Thygeson, attorney for the Twin
city Rapid Transit company, who
went to Washington last Saturday to
ascertain the reason for the delay in
tho hearing Of the '.six-fer-a-q quarter
fare case, have discovered that it will
not be on the calendar until after De-
cember I.
Four rooms in the Van Cleve school,
Twenty-fifth avenue and Jefferson
street northeast, were closed by the
health department Monday and the
iberia. The situation is not serious
but it was thought best to take every
preoaution to curb the spread Of the
disease. Another school in South
town was closed for the same reason.
The order Of Richard X. Campbell,
chief Of the bureau of naturalization,
excluding Syrians from citizenship,
has been oountermanded by the de-
partment of commerce and labor, ac-
cording to word received in Mime.
apolis. There are about 300 syrians
in this city, and they are DESTROYS OF
becoming citizens. They certainly be-
long to the Caucasian race.
Supt. Mcdonald Of the workhouse
delivered very interesting address at
the Pillsbury house last week on the
institution Of which he is the head.
He declared that rs per cent of the
men sent to Single Creek for drunk
enness have braced up. The way to
reform them was to teach them to
work, and that is what he has been
doing during his administration.
"Mose," the Russian Jew, lies at the
city hospital with a fractured leg. Ev-
erybody knows "Mose" He has been
selling papers on the stredss for many
years, and SO we'll has he been patron
lied that he saved enough from the
sale of the papers to eneble him to
bring his parents from the land Of the
car to the land Of the free. He was
run down by a wagon last Tuesday,
driven by reckless Jehu, and it will
be several months before the familiar
face of poor "Mose" WIN be seen on
the streets.
The Minneapolis Retailers Associa-
ton in annual session Tuesday at
Hotel Nicollet elected John L. Lynch,
of the Model Clothing House company,
president of the association for the
coming year. The choice of executive
head of such an important body il in
deed great honor and one well de-
served by the successful incumbent.
Other officers chosen were: Vice pres
idcnt Frank D, Rubel; secretary and