The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-14
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
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Irish Standard.
DESTRUCTIVE EFlRESAT BRAINERD

The Nlcollet House, Built Almost Twent!
Years Ago, With all Its Contents.
, Destroyed.
MINNESOTA.
M. Sweeney and wife. of st, Peter
who left to make their home in Califor
MIA sometime ago, have returned tf
make Minnesota their future home.
J Bernard Kelly, an old and respectable
pioneer of Belle Flame township, dieG
on Monday. He leaves all his acquain-
tances as friends to mourn their loss, o.
whom he had many.
Three sisters in the vicinity of St
Peter have given birth to fifty children,
One is credited with nineteen, one will
sixteen and the third one with fifteen.
Nicollet county may be proud OF this
formidable array of census statistics.
There was a wedding in Oshawa,
Nicollet county. Tuesday. The con
tracting parties were John Kennedy, of
that town, and Maggie Miller, of St
Peter, The event was proclaimed from
the pulpit of Belgrade church last Sun.
day.
I Quite an excitement was caused in
Jordan by the alarm of fire being given
at about 4 o'clock Saturday evening.
Upon investigation it was found that
Fred Erken's chimney WAS emitting
great volumes of fire and sm0Ke. but
was extiDguished without the assistance
of the fire department..
The ladies of the Rosary society of
the Catholic church of Rochester gave
a very pleasant social entertainment at
Library hall Tuesday evening. An
elegant supper was furnished by the
ladies. after which dancing was in
dulged in. The netreceipts were about
| wenty- five dollars.
MIR. and MISS O'Ferrall, of Roches-
Ter, entertained the Young people with
q progressive cincL party last Tuesday
evening, in the Cook house parlors, all
having a delightful time. Miss Brack-
enridge and Miss Faitotute CAPTURED
the ladies' prizes and M3ssrs. Stebbins
and Hymes the gentlemen's.
One of the most pleasant parties OF
the season was the one given Tuesday
evening in OshaWa at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Mike Kennedy. The music
Of the dance issued throughout the
house and many tripped the light fan
tastic toe to the strains of Larson q
band. An elegant supper was served
MI. McCabe, of Lake Jefferson, had
the misfortune on Saturday last to lose
two finely matched and valuable horses
by breaking through the ice on the
lake. Two sons of this gentleman were
crossing the lake in cutter with their
mother, when the horses and cutter
broke through at the same time; both
boys jumped and struck solid ice, and
with difficulty they rescued their
mother. The horses came up once but
sank Immediately.
On Sunday morning an alarm of fire
was given from the Fourth ward in
Brainerd, 1T being oecasioned by a fire
IN house on Second avenue, belonging
to John Hughes. The house was 0ocu-
pied bv Thos. MOONEY, who succeeded
in saving all his furniture. The fire
department subdued the flames before
the building was entirely consumed.
The house was damaged to such an ex-
tent that it is now worth but very little.
Wednesday night there was a sure
enough surprise party at the residence
of J. D. Kelly, of Madison, In honor OF
his father, who is looking after the
Kelly property during the absence of
the family at Minneapolis. There were
about sixty people present and gem
uine good time was enjoyed by all. The
surprise feature was complete. The
old gentleman declared ho was equal to
asked him to dance-Well, he just could
not refuse.
At 3:45 o'clock Tuesday morning the
property known as the Nlcollet house
Brainerd was discovered to be on fire.
An alarm was promptly given and the
fremen responded at once, but the
building being large structure and
full Of windows, it soon became evident
that il would be impossible to save it.
The building was three. story frame,
having been erected in 1872, 1t was
long occupied as hotel property, and
in early days it stood in what was then
the center of the town. The structure
was occupied by p. Doty, who lost all
his furniture and household effects jn
the fire, The gremises were valued at