The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10

lightning. In this city many Of the
telephone and electric light wires
which had just been gotten into shape
since the hurricane two weeks ago,
were again tattered and tangled. The
wire in the southern portion of the
city seemed to suffer the most dam
age. The front of the liquor house of
Douglas & Leffingwell, A Third street
south, was struck by lightning, which
ran down along the electric wires into
the show window, SCATTERING and de-
molishing hundreds Of bottles, but do
ing no other damage. The lightning
played a similar prank on the wires
running into the West hotel. Nearly
every telephone and electric light wire
in the building was highly electrified
during the storm and many of the
guests and employees about. the place
were treated to sudden and unexpected
electric shocks.
A suit to recover damages from the
city and the Great Western Railroad
company for the vacation of First
street south between Twelfth and
Thirteenth avenues, has been filed in
the district court by w. H. Wander
burgh. The damages We're placed at
$4,000, and the papers were served
Wednesday upon Mayor J. G. Haynes
as representative Of the city, and upon
the officials of the Great Western.
The basis of the suit is the alleged
damage done to property owned by
Mr.. Vanderburgh on First street south
by the vacation of the street in the
interests of the Great Western road,
and the case is one that has been
in the courts in one way and another
for nearly year. The supreme court
has upheld Mr.. Vanderburgh's conten-
ton that private property cannot be
damaged for public use without ade-
quate compensation, at the same time
denying his right Of resorting to in
junction proceedings, as he at first at
| tempted to do. Mr.. Vanderburgh is
now certain that he is moving in the
right way to get his damages on his
property and he is determined to fight
the case to the end.
After a separation of "a years Hugh
Murphy, residing at 2315 Portland
avenue, Monday met his sister, Mrs.
Mary Cassidy, whom he lost track of
years ago when they left Ireland.
Back in 1850 the brother and sister
decided to come to America, and in ac-
cordance with this plan the sister
started first, expecting her brother
Hugh to meet her shortly after in New
York. She went to New York, as they
had planned, but upon Hugh's arrival
he was unable to find her. During
the first years of his stay in this
country Hugh Murphy wandered about
for many months in search of the sis
ter whom he had lost in New York.
His long search seemed to be in vain,
however, and after over year of
weary tramping he finally settled in
Minneapolis. He worked in this city
for many years, and finally by dint
Of energy and perseverance amassed
a considerable fortune. AS he felt that
old age was creeping upon him the
longing to hear from some of his kins-
men came upon him and he wrote to
one of his relatives in Ireland, A
correspondence between them devel-
oped the fact that the relatives in the
old country knew the whereabouts of
the sister from whom he had so long
been separated. From them he learned
that she lived in La Porte, Ind, and
without waiting further he went down
to Indiana to see her.