The Irish standard., 1906-06-09
Ube Irish STANDARD
TelephoneTwin City 27S
CITY IN BRIEF.

The Steamboat Excursion that was
To he given bv the Emerald Social club
Nav 9th was postponed to Sunday,
July 2sth. Parties holding tickets for
the original date set are requested to
return them to the committee TO De
exchanged for new tickets.
The Minneapolis letter carriers have
decided to hold their picnic this year at
Excelsior, the attractions of the new
trolley line proving the deciding point.
The date has been fixed for June 70.
There is hustling committee IN
charge of arrangements and lnstruc-
lions have been given it to spare no
pains to make this outing the biggest
and best in the history of the letter
carriers association.
Upwards of 14O boys and girls re-
ceived their first holy communion last
Sunday morning at st. Anthony OF "a
Qua church. The scene was an insplr-
ing one and the zeal and piety OF the
Youthful Christians was creditable to
their pastor and to the sisters in charge
of the parish schools. In the after
noon all renewed their baptismal VOWS.
The class it is said, was the largest III
the history of the parish.
The first heat prostration case OF the
season occurred Wednesday afternoon
when Adam Armstrong, living at FL
Nineteenth avenue south, fell on the
sidewalk at Tenth and Washington av-
enues south, completely overcome by
the heat and was taken to the City hos
pital in a state of collapse. Although
the weather Monday did not appear
unduly oppressive to the ordinary in
diyidual, Armstrong had all the synlp-
toms of a genuine case Of heat prostra-
ton. Once at the City hospital, how
ever. he recovered speedily, and later
in the evening he was able to go home.
The city council concluded all the
business relative to the lighting of the
city Tuesday. The bid of the Patter-
son Street Lighting company to main
tain the street lamps for the remainder
of the year for SO cents a lamr'was ac-
cepted. The General Electric Company
was awarded the contract for furnish
ing arc lights at $40 a light, and the
Minneapolis Gas Light company agreed
to furnish gas at 80 cents thousand
cubic feet The Climax Refining COM
pany was also given contract to fur
nish 5000 gallons of gasoline at 1879
cents per gallon.
Judge John Day Smith Monday
granted the defendants motion for a
new trial in the case of the state
against Emma Anderson, convicted
with Emma Yates of arson in the first
degree and sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary. 1t was asserted at
the trial and has since been urged by
counsel and friends that the Anderson
woman was merely a tool of the Yates
woman. who planned and helped, with
Edwin A. Perry, to burn the building.
The store over which lived two old peo-
pie is at 7OS Third avenue NE. 1t was
fired at night by Perry, according to
his testimony for the state, at the in
stigation of the Yates woman and the
Anderson woman, owners. This is the
first conviction on an arson charge
ever secured in Hennepin county. 1t
is probable that there will not be an
other trial and that Mrs. Anderson will
be given her liberty. Mrs. Yates is still
in the county Jail and a motion for
new trial is still pending in her case
James S. Lane, formerly an alder.
man from the Second ward and a wei
known business man on the East side
died suddenly at his home, 625 Eighth
avenue southeast early Monday. Flo,
several months Mr.. Lane suffered from
stroke:of paralysis, but of late he
had been improving and was able tc
walk around. When he arose Monday
morning he started to take his short
walk about his premises. Suddenl,
he sank to the ground in a helpless:
condition and was compelled to call fol
help. His daughter heard his cries. ant
summoning help, took him into thu
house, where he died shortly after
wards. Mr.. Lane was born in New
Brunswick in 1888, and came to ST. An
thony in 1852, and was one of the pion
eer lumbermen of the state. He served
eight years in the council as alderman
from the Second ward.
The residence of Peter D. Hughes
a solicitor for the Prudential Life In
surance company, 1901 Pleasant aven
ue, was struck by a bolt of lightning
at 6 o'clock Monday, and Mrs. Hughe
and her three children, who were seat
ed around the supper table at the tim
were knocked senseless. The bolt o
lightning followed Immediately upon :
terrific clap of thunder. which was tn
only one noticed during the entire du
ration of the storm of last Monda!
night. 1t struck the chimney, entered
the dining room and shattered the din
ing room table, around which the fam
lily was gathered, throwing Mrs. Hughes
and the three children unconscious t.