The Irish standard., 1905-05-13
a touching and very benefiting eulogy
of the deceased. 1nterment took place.


at st. Mary's cemetery.
Lake City, Minn.-Daniel Cassidy, a,
laboring man, while attempting to
board the morning south bound pas
senger at Lake City Sunday morning,
April 80, missed his hold and fell be-
meath the wheels. One hand and one
foot were crushed and he received in.
jures to his skull which resulted in
his death an hour later. Three physi-
gained consciousness. Coroner ]. L.
Gengnagel of this city was called and
went up on the fast mail. An inquest
was held and the verdict reached that
deceased had met death through his
own carelessness. Deceased was
about 40 years of age. and had been
for some years employed as farm
hand west of Lake City. He had no
relatives in Minnesota as far as
known. 1t is said his home was in
New York.
Graceville, Minn.-The death of
Mrs. Bridget Foley, an old and most
respected resident of this county, oc-
Cured at her home about two miles
southeast Of this place Friday night,
April 2S, heart failure being the i'm
mediate cause of her death. The
funeral services were held in the
Church of the Holy Rosary ON Mon
day in the presence of large number
of relatives and friends, Rev. Father
Riley officiating, after which she was
laid to rest in Lakeside cemetery be-
side her husband whose death occur
red about ten years ago. Mrs. Foley
was born in 1929, being 76 years old
at the time of her demise. She came
to this country when young girl
and has lived in this vicinity since the
early days of its settlement. Her sur
viving relatives are two sisters, Mrs.
Honora Guilfoyle, of Graceville; Mrs.
Ellen Gile, of Decatur, H.; two sons,
Maurice Foley of Deadwood, S. D., and
Michael Foley of this place, and three
daughters, Mrs. Bridget O'Laughlin of
Trefants, Mich, Mrs. Margaret Clos
sop of Friday Harbor, Wash, and
Katie Foley who resides here.
Brainerd, Minn..-At the last coun-
Gil meeting resolution was passed
fixing the salary of the city assessor,
for making the personal property as
sessment, at $500, but Mayor O'Brien
promptly vetoed this and so it has
come up for a final test to pass it
over the veto at the meeting. When
it came to vote the council upheld
the veto by vote of seven to three.
Halliday, Opsahl and Miller voted aye
and Peterson, Gardner, Armstrong,
Baker, Squires, Farrar and President
johnson voted nay. Alderman Farrar
then offered a resolution fixing the
salary at $500. Alderman Halliday
asked that the resolution be amended
so as to read 5000 instead Of $500, but
the motion was ruled out and the reso-
luton was put to vote of to 4. Ayes
Gardner, squires, Peterson, Arm
strong, Baker and Farrar; nays, OPP
sahl, Halliday, Miller and President
Johnson.
Watertown, Minn.-Thos. Sexton, of
Watertown, aged 80, died at his home
in Watertown Thursday morning,
April 27. He was born in County
Glare, Ireland, in 1925. About 1849 he
came to the United States and at first
resided in the state of Maine, subse-
quently moving to Wisconsin. In 1860
he moved to Minnesota and for IS
years intervening between then and
now has been one of her active citi-
zens. He leaves wife and eight
children, one girl, Mrs. ]. B. Conley,
of Carver county, and seven sons,
John, Thomas, Austin, Patrick, Mich.
ael, Frank and William. He was
buried from the Immaculate Concep-
ton church of Watertown Saturday
following.
Faribault, Minn.-Samuel G. Nolen,
one of the prominent residents of
Richland, died Friday last at his home
in that town, death resulting from
general debility. He was native of
the state of Maine, where he was born
IS years ago. He resided in his ma
tive state until he grew to manhood,
when he went to Boston where for
several years he superintended the
work of an Ice company, doing an ex-
tensive business in that city.
He married Miss Elizabeth Swift,
March S, 1856, in Boston and had
hoped that he would be spared to cele-
brate their golden wedding next year.
In 1856 Mr.. and Mrs. Nolen came to
Minnesota and after visiting Cannon
City, then the county seat of this
county, they purchased large farm
in Goodhue county, just east of the
Rice county line, where they resided
for seven years, when they purchased
the farm in the town of Richland
which has since been their home. For
several years Mr.. Nolen kept a store,
during which time he served as post
master of the Richland postoffice.
He was public-spirited man who
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