The Irish standard., 1910-05-21
CITY IN BRIEF.

Sir Ernest Shackleton arrived at st.
Paul Thursday and lectured there in
the evening on antarctic explorations.
He has not made any date to speak in
this city.
The funeral of Anna Duffy Mayo
took place from the residence of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Duffy, 2915
Chicago avenue at s a. m. Thursday.
Interment in st. Mary's cemetery.
! Many local members of the Knights
of Columbus will be in Brainerd to-
morrow to institute a new council of
the order. Great preparations are be-
ing made for their reception.
| Boat services at Lake Minnetonka
, began last Sunday and the full sum-
! ner street car service went into effect
all over the line, regular minute
schedule cars leaving the Sixth street
north terminal.
| Battery 3D." First artillery, gave an
exhibition drill Friday night, at the
Armory for the benefit of the officers
and non commissioned officers of the
ST. Thomas corps cadets and the Uni
versity corps cadets.
! City Engineer Rinker is holding a
conference in New York with Rudolph
Herring, the expert who is making the
plans for the Minneapolis filtration
plant, in regard to raising one of the
storage reservoirs at Columbia
Heights ten feet in order to give ad-
ditional pressure
| Robert j. Martin has filed as Demo-
cratic candidate for alderman in the
3rd ward. He is native of Mime
apolis, has long been prominent as a
leader in labor circles and is strong in
his ward. as shown by the fact that
two years ago he was defeated for the
council by only 40 votes.
| Martin Hughes Gerry, fleet engineer
in the civil war under Admiral David
Farragut, died Tuesday at his home,
1888 Cedar avenue Mr.. Gerry made
an enviable record in the civil war
and when the Spanish war broke out
again rendered faithful service. One
son, M. H. Gerry, Helena, Mont, sur
wives.
A band of 50 Roumanian gypsies
were routed by police from the East
Side station Wednesday from a camp
ing spot at Marshall and 25th ave-
nues northeast The st. Paul police
had "shooed" them from the Midway
district into Minneapolis. The no.
MAIDS, ordered out of the city, departed
| towards Anoka on the river road. They
remind folks of Coxeys army.
For the first time in several years
President Cyrus Northrop will deliver
the commencement address to the
graduating class of the University of
Minnesota. AS it is his last year as
president Of the university, it is very
probable that it will be his last The
exercises will be held in the univer-
sity armory the morning of June 8.
Forty-six applications for citizen
| ship were heard by Judge Hale on
| Wednesday. The majority of the ap-
plicants were from Sweden, Norway
and Denmark, with one each from
| Scotland, Canada and Austria. No
more aliens will be naturalized until
the fall term of court.
! w. E. McEwen, state labor commits
! sioner, who is in Europe studying en-
ployers' liability legislation, writes
from Berlin that labor conditions in
| Germany are the best in the world. He
visited the Krupp gun factory and
found, he says, an ideal institution.
With Mr.. McEwen is George M. Gil
+: lette Of Minneapolis. They go to the
Scandinavian countries next.
| The newly elected board of directors
of the University Catholic Association
| 1IlcI ldSL dIuIOdy dllu SlcCtCU tHc 1Ol-
! lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, Frank Goodman; vice.
president, N. j. McHale; treasurer
Thomas Quigley; secretary, Miss
Helen McHugh. The annual picnic OF
the society will take place at Lake
Como on May 21st. This is always the
final event of the year for the organ
| iZation.
According to Henry c. Hanke, coun-
! ty treasurer, the property left by the
late Levi M. Stewart has been greatly
over estimated. His figures show that
Mr.. Stewart paid taxes on a total VAL
uation Of $1,320,373 in 1908. on an ap-
praised valuation of about so per cent
making the value Of the property about
&2,s4o,74S. Considering the rise in VAL
ue in the last two years, Mr.. Hanke
places the total estimate at about 3d.
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