The Irish standard., 1906-05-19
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Connolly & McDevitt, Funeral Di.
reetors and Emba'mers, .1se- 1871 W. 7th
ST., St. Paul, MINI. Tel. T. c. 284o;
N. w. Main 2127.J. Res, Dale 207.L.

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ST., st. Paul, MINI. Tel. T. c. 284o;
N. W. Main 2127.J. Res, Dale 2o7-L.
Word was received in ST. Paul We'd
neSday that Captain Edwin Bell died
Tuesday morning at the home of his
son. +. II. Bell. at Portland, Ore. Cap
tain Bell was one of the pioneer settlers
"t st. Paul He WAS in his ninetieth
year. The body will arrive in st. Iau
Saturday morning.
James Brennan, 243 Grove street, St.
Paul. b!acks,niths helper, dropped dead
at y. m, Tuesday while putting coal
| on a forge in West Seventh street, ST.
Paul shops. Of the Omaha road. AS
soon as Brennan fell, a physician was
summoned. but he died before aid could
arrive Coroner 4. w. Miller believes
heart trouble caused death. He was
unmarried.
The ST. Paul City Railway company
aldermen Tuesday night to grant Il :,-
cent fare from that city to Minnehaha
Falls.
Concerning the proposition, a letter
was read from c. q. Goodrich. vice.
president OF the company, saving that
| the request Of the council will not be
| granted. for the reason that suc,, Il
! concession would have an unsettled
| influence on the question Of fares Mr..
Goodrich said the company cannot
change its contract affecting fares
The Standard Oil company to-day
announced an additional advance in
tn" selling price on all high grades of
gasolenc Seventy TO seventy-two de-
srees test sasolene is advanced half a
cent a gallon wholesale. while all other
high grades are put up cent per
gallon.
An official of the Standard Oil COM
pany said today the demand for high
grade sasolene is unprecedented. owing
To it's heavy consumption in connection
With automobiles.
The retail price of the s:,solcne COM
monty used by automobile people is
thus advanced in Minneapolis To 81
cents Il gallon.
p. J. Ryan has been appointed sec
Ond assistant in the Office of the cG,in-
ty attorney, tn take the place of Hugo
O. Hanft. who has resigned to .ake
his seat on the bench of the municipal
court. MIR. Ryan is Il graduate of the
law school of the state university; and
has been in the office nf c. ID. ana t.
ID. O'Bricn.
An election contest has been inauEu-
the Second ward W. f. Busrbmann
has begun proceedings for q recount us
against William ]. Menu. who wls de-
clarcd elected by thirteen votes.
The petition of the contestant filed in
the district court sets forth the usual
errors. generally made in petitions of
this nature He estimates his nw,
majority III seventy-tive votes. us
| allegations cover the casting of tW,.l-
ty-five illegal votes in the eleventh pre-
cinct, misconduc, i'm permitting ~"
| ballots To be handled by others tl::..
| the clerks and Judges. mistakes in tina
| tally sheets. the counting of twenty
| five votes in the third precinct for
Menu when they ought to have been
| east for the petitioner and that ten
votes cast for the petitioner in each
prerinc, We're counted for Menz.
| Miss Annie Reilly. aged II. Twin" at
573 Carroll street. died Tuesday at st.
| Luke's hospital. following an operation
| for appendicitis The funeral will take
place tomorrow morning from st.
Luke; church.
! a. l.. I.arpcnteur honoreu by all
citizens as one OF the venerable pio-
| neers Of this city and state, celebrated
| his eighty-thira birthday Wednesday.
and at his home on North Dale street
quietly received the congratulations