The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-06-30
NOR'WEST NEWS NUGGETS.
Items of General Interest to Read
ers of the Irish
Standard.
HOW Mr.. TIMOTHY COSTELLO
Qualities His Renouncement Of AL.
legiance to the Queen Of
Eng gland-
MINNESOTA.

England.
| MINNESOTA.
| Chinch bugs have appeared in Rice
county, but the wheat is almost beyond
injury.
s. Rafferty,, of Oronoco, reports chinch
bugs as doing considerable damage to
his barley.
D. c. Carwin, an old resident of Lake
City, has become raving maniac and
has to be confined.
A meteoric stone weighing 203 pounds
fell on the premises of A. w. Sias, at
Rochester, recently.
The Winona Mill company will build
new elevator with capacity of 1OO,-
600 bushels, costing $1,000.
A few days ago. at Clearwater, a
turtle was found on the she'll Of which
J. Whittemon cut his initials 81 years
ago.
Efforts are being made to establish a
mail route between Red Wing and
Ellsworth, Wis, via Hager and Bay
City.
A little daughter of ex-Sheriff Bartle.
son, of Fergus Falls, had her leg cut Off
below the knee Yesterday by being run
over by Car on the Northern Pacific.
The inquest in the Dols accident, at
Shakopee, rendered a verdict exonerat~
ing the grain employees from all blame,
as the killing OF the little boy was acci-
dental and unavoidable.
BY direction of the secretary Of war,
Acting Surgeon Clinton Noltz will pro-
ceed to St. Paul and report to the CON-
manding general, department of Da-
kota, for assignment to duty. Also
First-C Glass Private Frank L. Harrod,
signal corps, on duty in Moorhead,
Mimi, will be discharged from the
service OF the United States on the re-
ceipt of this order by the chief signal
service officer.
AT the Moorhead courthouse, June
Is, Timothy Costello took out his last
papers comforting On him the citizenship
of the United States. After Clerk Ras
musson swearing him to owe no alle-
glance to Queen Victoria, he said
though being born in ireland las an
Irishman) he never owed her allegiance.
He detested her government, which not
only sanctioned but encouraged the rob-
berry, determination and murder of the
Irish people, as at Mitchelstown. Ae
compared SalisburY's and Balfour's
conduct towards Ireland, to the conduct
Of the man who, while skinning live
eel kept carsing it for twisting and
turning instead Of remaining quiet.
Because the Irish, like every other peo-
pie, cannot remain quiet while being
numerically deeced to skin and bone
by unscrupulous English absentee land
lords, instead of honesty, or justice,
Salisbury and Balfour give them batons,
bayonets and buckshot. He was glad
to be citizen of the United States and
promised, as far as he could, to lift the
Stars and Stripes above England's
Union Jack, that to him, always seemed
to be the emblem Of treachery, robbery
and murder in whatever country it was
planted.
DAKOTA.
John S. Patten was elected mayor of
Sturgis, Saturday.
W. l.. Yardan, of Gayton, has been
granted pension.
Capt. John r. Dutch, Faulk county
member of the last legislature, died
while visiting In Illinois.
Preliminary rehearsals for the musi-
cal festival at Fargo began Tuesday.
There is every indication that it will be
a great success.
E. Nj. Lodewick, of Aberdeen, OAK,
was appointed by the comptroller of the
currency receiver of the insolvent Mad
ison, OAK, Divisional bank.
The body of an unknown man was
found Tuesday on a sandbar in Lake
Irvine north of Church's Ferry. 1t is
supposed to be case of suicide or mur.
der.
Word was received at Chamberlain
from Washington Tuesday that the
commission to secure the consent of
the Sioux Indians to the reservation
bill has been consented.
Min Kee, of Bismarck, decorated his
laundry last Monday night IN honor Of
sHarrison's q nominat alton. The white la