The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-11-23
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Clipped From Our
Exchanges for Readers Of The
Irish Standard.
RENvtLLE'S NEW STATE BANK.

Winona's Paid Fire Department. Elects
]. W. RYAN, of Milwaukee.
as its Chief.
MINNESOTA.
Moorhead has given up her arte3ian
we'll, after expanding $4,000 on it.
The Winona City Council has elected
j. w. Ryan, Of Milwaukee, chief OF the
paid fire department..
The Minnesota Iron Car Company Of
Duluth has begun work on it's first Or
der outside it's own business OF making
iron cars for the Iron Car Company Of
New York.
Many wild ANIMALS have been driven
into Anoka by the forest and prairie
fires around there. One man killed
large gray wolf within the city limits
FEW days ago.
A party consisting Of Chauncy M.
Depew, ex-canddate for che presto encv
and post prandial orator and railway
magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and
others were in Duluth last week,
DR. Chr Gronvold. of Norway, who
has had charge of the leprosy work Of
Minnesota for several years, reports
seven cases now In the state. They are
all males and range in age from rs to IS
years. E.
John A. Brown, a young man living
in Pleasant Grove township, Rochester
county, accidentally shot himself In the
right shoulder while out hunting Mon
day last, breaking his collar bone aud
shoulder blade. His physicians do not
consider his injury fatal.
Elezar Brown. a pioneer resident OF
Rosemount, died at his home, near
Spring Lake, Monday night. of infama-
tion of the liver, aged eighty years. He
leaves a wife and family and was highly
respected. The funeral took place from
the Catholic church in Inyer Grove on
Tuesday.
A boy named Legerman, living at the
West end Duluth. broke through the ice
Monday morning while skating In a
sheltered poid and was drowned. He
| was taken out Of the water and attempts
made at resuscitati0n, which were ap-
parenulv successful, but later proved
useless.
The O'Connor Brothers bank was in
corporated Saturday night, November
| 18th, as the Renvi]le State Bank, in
Renville, bv the following persons:
James O'Connor, Edward O'Connor,
Tim O'Counor, John O'Connor, M. J..
Bowling, J Brooks, j.. Ii. Dale, Carl
Henning. F.. M. Rich and w. F. Baade.
Capita! stock, $25. 900; stock all paid in.
A curious accident happened To- a
farmer the other dav in the vicinity Of
Owatonna. He was driving along the
road with load OF hay when suddenly
the ground gave way under him and the
whole outfit was preclritated ten or
twelve feet into peat bed that had
burned out. The man managed to save
himself and horses. but the hay and
wagon were burned.
The Martin County Sentinel tells this
story of how an old bachelor in that
county obtained wife: He went to a
machinery dealer to buy harvester,
but after looking the machine over
told the dealer that he would buy it il
he would also get him wife. The job
was undertaken, the man was intro
ducea to lady, terms agreed upon. and
the machine and wife were taken home
together. The strangest part is that
both have given excellent satisfaction,
and the farmer has not thought of re-
turning either.
The suspicion that there was foul play
connected with the death Of O'Neal,s
who perlshed in the recent Pendleton
block fire at Duluth, Is fast gaining
ground. The body, when discovered.
was on its back with the feet at the
head Of the bed. The head and arms
were badly burned, the skull was bare
and one arm burnt of up to the elbow.
The feet were also terribly burned.
The curious circumstances Of the matter
is that the bed on which he lay was
hardly touched BY fire and the furniture
Of the rest of the room bore but slight
evidence of contact with the flames.
/ "a singular fatality seems 10 attach to
the premises 1s6 Edward street, West
st. Paul. June 26, 1883. the house,;
which ii filled with dodgers, caught fire,5
and Mrs. Ida Lee, q wealthy widow, and
q child named Burmeister wer6 burned
20 death. The other night the house
was fred by . spark from q steam
thresher, and the owner. crime y z e|I