The Irish standard., 1898-04-09
IN AND AROUND THE CITY,

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. LeDuc buried their
beloved and only daughter, Ruth, Tues
day, April s. The funeral was held from
the family residence, 2217 Twenty-third
avenue south to Holy Rosary church
where requiem mass was celebrated Nv
Rev. Father Murray. Interment was at
st. Mary's. Her death was caused from
consumption after lingering illness,
Her birth place was at Crookston, Mimi,
but she had lived in South MINNEAPOLIS
since child. She was II years old and
until her sickness her life seemed most
bright and promising and she was also
talented as musician. She was buried
beside her brother Wallace who died but
month ago, notice Of his death an
pearing in the Irish Standard at the time.
Inc sympathy Of the community goes
out to the bereaved parents, as this is the
second time within month that death
has visited their household.
Word has been received at this Of
lice from Cannon Falls, Mimi, announc-
ing the death of both Mr. and Mrs. jon
athan Flynn, early settlers in that vicin-
lty. Mr.. Flynn died on March 31st and
Mrs. Flynn on Monday last, the former
at the age of IS and the latter aged 70,
The deceased couple were the parents of
Mrs. P. L. Collins, a well known East
Side resident
John ]. Taaffe, for many years one
OF the best known employees in the local
office of the American Express Company
has resigned his position to go into bus
mess for himself. MIR. Taaffe has p,lr-
chased the entire outfit of John Dubay
including horses, wagons, drays, etc.,
and will hereafter devote his entire at
tention to this line of work This will
include house moving, safe and piano
moving and all kinds of light and heavy
hauling. ~ ! z
Miss Kathryn KavanuaEh and little
niece have returned to the city after a
visit with the formers parents at
Rochester, MINI.
William M. Regain, assignee of the
Century Piano company, has notified the
creditors of the company by circular
letters that the recent allowance by the
court of $1,033 fees to Alexander & Arc
lander, ex-attorneys for the insolvency.
has been accepted in place of SO, los
asked, and Mr.. Regain has delivered his
check for the former amount.
The chair Of English literature in the
state university is to be rendered to DR..
Richard Burton. The faculty has made
it's decision, the members having Of
ficially approved extending him an invi-
tation. DR.. Burton signif1ed to President
Northrop his pleasure in accepting the
offer, were 1t rendered. The regents will
take action next week in their meeting
as matter Of form. Dr. Burton made
so favorable an impression during his
recent sojourn as a lecturer, that the
opinion in his favor was unanimous.
-Four barbette gun carriages from the
arsenal in Watertown, Mass, were re-
shipped from here last Tuesday evening
over the Northern Pacific for Seattle to
be placed in position on Marrowston
Point, Puget Sound. Ten cars were
loaded with the various parts Of the gun
carriage machinery, which weighed &c.,
400 pounds. Two of the carriages are
for lO-inch breech-loading rifles and the
other two for 12-inch guns, all of which
have already been sent to the coast
Lieut.. Melville J. Shaw, of the United
States marine corps, and son of Geo. x.
Shaw, of the Minneapolis Tribune, has
been ordered to deliver a detail of 81
men from Portsmouth, N. H., to the new
ly purchased cruiser New Orleans.
Ignatius Donnelly, who is away on his
honeymoon trip, has heard of the efforts
of the Populists to force cooperation
and has written letter from New York
to Chairman Gibbs, Of the state central
committee, asking him to have the con-
vention In some other place than Mime
apols.
Tom Murphy, the ex-baseball manager,
formerly Of Minneapolis, now Of Seattle,
is in the city. Mr.. Murphy has secured
the management Of the Seattle baseball
team of the North Pacific League, AND
comes to look for men. He has held sew
eral consultations with the local man
agement and 1t may be that some Of the
players weeded out Of the Minneapolis
team will be farmed to Seattle.
Joseph Charbonneau, formerly head
clerk in Fryes ticket office, has returned
from Seattle, to which place he went six
weeks ago, with the intention Of making
it his home. He is Disguised with the
town and the climate. He says
that the most thriving institutions