The Irish standard., 1893-08-26

+ It has been reported again that Bishol
Marty, OF Sioux Fails, has resigned il
Forder to assume the rectorship OF the
new Hill University at st. Paul. Arch
bishop Ireland was asked as to the truth
Of the report last Monday, and said that
it was absolute nonsense. Bishop Marty
had not resigned and had no intention
Of doing so. There was nothing in the
report whatever.
Coroner Spring was notified Tuesday
that Eugene Haley, farmer living about
six miles out on the Cedar Lake road,
had dropped dead from an unknown
cause. Haley has always been looked
upon as healthy man. He ate hearty
supper and stepped out of doors to finish
his evenings work. He suddenly reeled
and fell dead. The cause is supposed to
be heart disease. He leaves wife and
family.
Mr.. John Moore of Dublin, Ireland, is
on visit to his brother-in-law, Capt.
John w. Doyle, 25O8 Fourteenth avenue
south. Mr.. Moore has been in the gen.
eral post Office in Dublin for the past
twenty three years. Being in poor health
he crossed the ocean to. try the pure air
Of Minnesota for few months and is
rapidly convalescing. He admires Min-
neapolis and thinks it one Of the finest
cities in the world.
Kelly & Lamb is the name Of q new
firm now doing business at II Western
avenue. They are both practical steam
! and hot water engineers and are gentle.
men who deserve the liberal patronage
of the public. When desiring estimates,
for all systems of steam and hot water
heating apparatus, natural and fan ven-
tilation and gas-fitting, Messrs. Kelly &
Lamb will be found an excellent firm to
apply to.
The family of Mike Quinn, wife and
four children, and the family of James
! Nolan, living respectively at 256 and 258
Second avenue north, we're poisoned in
some mysterious manner Sunday after
| noon. Shortly after dinner everyone was
taken violently i'll. Several of the chill
dren suffered acute agony. Medical as
sistance was called and by night both
families we're reported as doing we'll.
diseased pork is thought to have been
the cause.
Collector of Customs Geraghty has
received telegram from Acting Treas
urer G. P. Hamlin, of Washington city,
that Prince Yeorekite, of Japan, with a
suite of attendants and dignltariee, had
arrived at Vancouver from whence the
party will proceed to Chicago to do the
fair. Col. Geraghty has been requested
to notify his deputies along the border
to extend all courtesies to the prince and
his party, and such notice has been given
by telegraph.
There came before Judge Hicks Mon.
day morning the matter in which the
Minneapolis Mill company brings suit
against the Minneapolis & st. Louis Rail-
way company for the possession OF the
land on which the tracks of the railway
company are laid in the milling district
at Tenth avenue south. The suit has
| been tried three times in five years, and
gone to the supreme court as many, the
defendant winning in the lower court
each time and the decision being reversed
in the upper court.
At the regular annual election of offic-
ers of the Young Ladies' sodality held
last Sunday afternoon at Holy Rosary
church, the following young ladies were
elected for the ensuing year: Misses
Annie Mulligan, prefect, Mary NJ Murphy
and Nellie Hamilton, first and second as
sistant prefects; Rose Mulligan, treas
urer; Addie Woolsey, secretary, and Mag
gle Crowley, sacristan. The young ladies,
with six others whom they will select,
will constitute the council of the sodal-
ity for the next year.
Hennepin county real estate upon
which the taxes have been delinquent
since 1879 will be sold Oct. II, in accord
ance with the law passed by the last
legislature. Attorneys generally con-
slider the law unconstitutional and are
advising the holders Of property liable
to this sale to carry the matter to the
courts. Couaty Auditor Cooley says
that there can be no gain by an appeal
to the courts, for even if the law should
prove invalid the taxes will stand at
their full value aud must be paid at
some time or other. The present law,
on the other hand, allows persons own
ing delinquent property to bid in the
tax debt for Is per cent of its face up to
1881 aud for SO per cent since then.
At the Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception last Sunday morning, Rev. P. j..
~ Town.