The Irish standard., 1906-08-18
Che Irish STANDARD
CITY IN BRIEF.

last Sunday. The funeral took place
from St. Stephens church, Tuesday
morning at 10 O'Clock and was largely
attended.
The weather forecast for G. A. R.
week by the redoutable N. Y. H." was
not exactly in line with what really
came to pass. but ii was not so
far out of the way There was not
quite as much rain as our local fore
caster had anticipated. something he
was as much thankful for, no doubt, as
the thousands Of others who enjoyed
the. weeks exercises.
John Meagher has finally entered
the list of Nicollet avenue merchants
as full fledged dealer i'll clothing and
gents furnishings, and hereafter the
busy corner at 800 3o2 Nicollet will be
conducted by the Meagher Clothing
Co.
While playing in the hayloft in the
stable Of Charles S. Pillsbury, 1900
Pillsbury avenue, last Monday evening
children set fire to the building and
a loss of $1,000 was suffered. The
stable is large stone structure and 1t
contained Il number of valuable We
hicles and team of horses, all OF
which were removed without damage.
The fire being in the upper part of the
building was hard to get at, but after
the roof had been burned the firemen
were able to extinguish the flames
without further damage.
Alexander B. Lyon, who died We'd
nesday morning at his home, 36OS
Tenth avenue south, was one of the
Oldest railroad men in the state and
was we'll known to all patrons of the
Milwaukee road, where he served as
conductor on the H & .. division for
the past thirty years. Mr.. Lyon was
a popular conductor and was famil-
.iarly known among his many friends
by the title Of Sandy" He was in
the railroad business FOR thirty-nine
years in this state, being with the Mill
waukee for thirty-four and with the
Northwestern for five years before that.
Death was caused by paralysis after
a lingering illness of several months.
He leaves a wife and three children.
The treasury department at WASH
ington has taken official cognizance of
the recommendation of the public at
fairs committee of the Commercial
Club that the new federal building be
located on the block between Hennepin
and First avenues and First and
L. Nelson, chairman of the committee
received Monday, the acting secretary
acknowledges receipt of the recon-
mendation for the proposed site. He
also volunteers the information that
the governments supervising architect,
who will look over the matter of
new location for the Minneapolis fed
eral building, will be in Minneapolis
about Aug. 81.
There were two deaths at the City
hospital last Sunday night, men
strangers in Minneapolis James
Lynch, 66 years of age, died OF cancer
after a sickness covering many years.
He was admitted to the hospital sew
eral weeks ago. having been taken sud-
denly worse in a Bridge square lodg-
ing house. He had lived in Mime
apolis but a few months, and was
without relatives in this part of the
morgue. Louis Folly, 33 years old, died
of tuberculosis superinduced by an at
tack of typhoid fever He lived at
Fulda, MIMI, and was brought to the
hospital from there several weeks ago.
The body was taken back there for
burial.
A pretty wedding of last week was
celebrated at the Church OF st. Law
renee Wednesday morning, Aug. s,
when Miss Margaret Morgensten was
married to Joseph P. Donohue. Of
North Minneapolis. The bride wore
a veil and looked very becoming in her
dress of French lawn simply but
daintily made. She carried a boquet
of white roses. Her bridesmaid was
Miss Maize Webster, who also wore
white and carried pink roses. The
bridegroom was attended by Andrew
Connoy. Mr.. and Mrs. Donohue left
that evening for Chicago and a trip
on the great lakes and will be home
after Sept. at 2101 Dupont avenue
north.
Elm Ellison, of Ellsworth. Wis, has
been appointed administrator of the
estate OF his daughter Millie Ellison,
who was murdered in Minneapolis a
short time ago. There was no opposi-
ton to the appointment. John H.
Rees appeared on behalf of the petit
toner, and Judge Harvey made the
appointment. The administrator is ap-
pointed at this time for the purpose Of
laying claim to money that it is said
can be identified as belonging to the
murdered girl that was found in a
safety deposit vault hired by Nathan
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