The Irish standard., 1888-05-05
NORTHWESTERN NUGGETS.
Items Gathered from Our Exchanges
of Interest to Every
body.
HE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
At Rochester are Making Active Prepara'
tions for Building Quite Extensively
the Coming Season.
MINNESOTA.

Red Lake Falls has q daily paper.
Rochester burglars have Sloo wortl
vf Barber Jim Sweets tools. ....
The Occidental hotel al Fergus Falls
got a ST. 500 scorching Monday.
| Benson will sink an ar5esian we'll and
brick yard is to be opened up.
The Liberty house, burned at Still
| water Sunday, WAS landmark built in
l84S.
Messrs. O'Day and Ryan, Of Adrian,
have their new creamery nearly ready
for occupation.
TIE ST. Croix is rising so rapidly at
Saltwater That work on the boom haa
been suspended.
T'he Atwater Press has been pur-
chased by Miss Julia O'Brien> OF
Kandiyohi county.
Larry Burns and family. of Brainerd,
have gone to Kansas City, Mo, where
5iley will reside i'll the future.
Rev. Father Soumis Of Beardsley, is
soon to leave there, having been as
signed to a parish in Renvi]le county.
Miss Mary Barrett commenced teach
ing in district No. 81, Hennepln coun-
ty, April 1G. It is her third term in
said district.
Winona saw mills are all running and
while the supply OF legs is ample for
the present. there will be trouble in
rafting from the Chippewa at the pres
ent stage Of water.
Goo1hue county farmer tried to burn
lid the chinch bugs by burning the
stubble in the fields, but they only
warmed up tha bugs enough to get
them out of the ground.
A bill for the relief Of c. A. Louns-
berry, Of the Duluth Herald, for money
advanced by him for clerk hire while
postmaster at Bismarck, has been fa7-
Orably reported in the senate.
| The Duluth Board Of Trade issues
it's annual report. The figures given on
improvements is $4.,259, 1881. The fall.
ing off in the grain trade is explained
away and the statement ventured that
it Was never on hrmer foundation
than now.
| Quite a number Of farmers com
menced seeding Thursday Of last week,
both north and south of Brainerd
Peter Gaffeny, of Cascade, James
Tieruey and e. Convey of Rochester
commenced seeding on that day, and
Mr.. Convey had 80 acres seeded Satur
day night.
Mrs. Nj. Sweeney, of Brainerd, lately
received back pension Of $500 and is
granted a monthly pension Of $12 and
three Of his children have been granted
pensions of So each q month. Her huS'
band was crippled during the Wal and
died some years ago. The pension was
very much needed, as Mrs. Sweeney
las been unable to do much for the
past year, and has a large family OF
small children.
The Sisters of st. Francis, at Roc}es-
ter, are making preparations toT build
ing quite extensively during tflA com
ing season. The constantly increasing
attendance at the Academy OF -Lour(ies
necessitates enlarged Accommodations,
and the Sisters have decided to erect an
addition to the academy the size OF the
present building. Work on St Mary s
hospital will also begin soon. May de-
votions at the academy were opened by
the blessing of a beautiful statue OF oul
Lady Of Lourdes just received fron
Paris. It will be placed in the chape
of the convent, and the statue previous
ly there will be transferred to the hos
pital.
DAKOTA.
Judge Spencer sentenced Bill King
at Huron to years hard labor in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary for assault,
with a deadly weapon.
The postmaster general has selected
Hon, M. T.: Mccormack to be referet
for Dakota postofice appointments, II
place of Gov. Church.
There Gre eighty lady school superin-
tendents IN the territory. Barnes
Beadle, Brule, Butte, Clark, -Kingsbury
Potter and Oliver counties are thu
honored.
The Oldest living resident in Dakot