Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-21

pounds of -four, wood and plenty of bedding,
and quite warm house. shngled; got pota-
toes,but are quite useless, being frozen; Ihave
boy working in st. Paul; received $50 from
him;-I work myself almost every day with
farmers for 81 per day; Father RYAN ALWAYS
treated me well, and | am well satisfied with
the country.
]. j. WARD,
very respectable and intelligent man. l
have plenty of woods 100 lbs flour and 200
TBS. meal in the house; my shanty is shingled:
have four children, one girl and three boys;
have plenty of bedding and clothing; nv
eldest girl is in ST. Paul, but young, also my
sister-in-law; | have a cow giving milk; got
potatoes, but they are useless as they are
frozen Here we may state Mr.. Wards shanty
was well banked up, as were all We visited.
JOHN KYNE.
have eight children; one stopping with Mr..
Clark in Gracevillc; my house is shingled;
COW gives one pint of milk per day; have
plenty of wood; was badly off for wood about
three weeks ago; have fifty pounds of flour in
the house and five sacks poi atoes, badly frozen;
fair share of bedding and covering; four chill
dren without Shoes left by O'Brien four pair
shoes for children and one pair for myself and
wife. Mrs. Kyne said: / am thankful to
Bishop Ireland; he told me when was short
to go to Father Ryan; 1 told Father
Ryan my husband was sick and
he told me he could not help me- John Kyne
told the party from Morris that we had about
five days provisions in the house; they left lis
five pounds of oat meal; l have done consider.
able work all fall, and got good wages. The.
committee are of opinion that the above family
require more nourishing food than they have
been receieving, as both husband and wife look
sickly.
Father Ryan's remarks: | told Mrs. Kyne
when she called on me expected car load of
meal, and would give her some when it came;
but her husband being sick, / could not make
him well. Mrs. Kyne said nothing to me
about destitutiOn-Only about the sickness of
her husband.
LAWRENCE FLAHE RTY
My house is half shingled; l will finish it
next fine day; have got one half cord of wood
a week ago; have now in the house 100
pounds of corn meal and 200 pounds of flour;
have eight children-one girl working in
st. Paul; had boy working in st. Paul but
he came home; got 81 from my girl; have been
working on the railroad at 50 per day, part of
the time, and S1.75 the remaining part; think
| will get no more work to do this winter; 1
priest; ~ told visitors aa f hgalnS' Norris ris
that in the first cold spell we were two days
without food, and had to burn the straw out
of the beds for fuel; that would not be UMPIRE
pared if / knew the storm was coming on; did
not tell the last part to the visitors from Nor
ris, nor did they ask me; / have no good bed
clothes, one feather bed and one straw bed;
left with them by Mr.. O'Brien, two pair hill
dreH's shoes, one pair wOmen's shoes, and one
of mans.
Comments of Communicative found in this
mans house COW, for which there was no
fu Flo owl I, {oIlo
could be made comfortable.
EDWARD MEALIA.
have six children, one COW, but no milk; I
have 200 pounds flour in my house, one-quar-
ter cord of wood; three weeks ago got wood
and was not short since; my daughter and wife
froze in the house; my house is not shingcd;
the carpenter came to late in the day to shingle;
| would not allow him to work on it; told
him l frOze in the house before and would
again. Morris visitors brought me fourteen
pounds OF meal, some flour, some bread, one
half pound of tea, four pair pants, one jacket
and coat, four dresses for women. told the
Morris visitors | went to the priest and told
him my wife was furnishing; the priest said
he would bury her if she died. Got $50 from
my boy from st. Paul. (From documents in our
possession this man received by express on the
30th of November $50, nine days before Morris
visitors.) Asked Mealia what he did with
said $50? A. Passed it all out in Gracevile
but S., which had in the house the time the
Morris visitors called; had also part of sack
of flour and wood; bought fifty cents worth
of pototoes from Mr.. Wolf, and paid for them;
[ got potatoes, turnips and meal before for
nothing from Mr.. Wolf; have poor bed
clothes, and not enough straw filling for beds
@. Did you tell the Morris gentlemen you had
flour? A. Sure, they could see it themselves @ AL
together how much money did YOU get from
hnVsc / hnyra in, fl,a hn,,c oio- lit
GracevilIe. Mr.. O'Brien left with
him one pair Of mems shoes, two pairs of
women's shoes and three pairs of children's
shoes.
Comments of the committee: Mealia's wife,
himself and daughter seem recovered from
their recent frost bites. The girl appeared
never to have been bad She fitted on 4 new
pair of shoes, and could wear them well.
She said the Morris people never offered her a
pair OF shoes, and she never told them she could
not wear them. We are of the opinion the
above family are not reliable, and are not ca
pa6le OF taking care of themselves,
prairie. We are also under
the impression they did not wish to tell the
truth, and, in fact, would not tell us what
they did with the $50. The shoes Mr.. 0 Bren
gave in our presence they Immediately took off
and put up, and none of the clothes given by
the MOTIFS visitors were worn by himself or
family.
Father Ryan's remarks: AIealia called my
house and told me that his family were fam
ishing for want of wood. ] told him / would
attend to it, and the same morning sent my
brother with one cord of wood to Mealia.
MICHAEL FLAHERTY.
cannot speak English; have nine children;
one boy was in st. Paul and came home; have
600 pounds of flour bought with boys money
sent from st. Paul; have two boys able to
work. my COW has milk; my house is shin
gled; have a load of wood, and was never short
of wood since commenced getting it from
the priest. Dillon O'Brien gave IN epair mems
shoes, two pair women's, and three pair Are
tics for his children
ANTHONY INQUIRE.
My house was burned down; l am stopping
with Michael Flaherty; l have three boys work
ing, one in Gracevile and two in st. Paul; got
$40 from one of them; worked out for four
teen days; got half a cord of wood from the
priest and twenty pounds of meal, but meal is
no food for any one; got also 100 pounds of
meal and twenty-five pounds of -four from the
priest; got from Morris visitors 200 pounds of
flour, biscuits and sack of old rags: there
they are outside the door, they are no use TO
anyone; ] have four sacks of flour now: ha We