The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-12-21

Brule agency for the winters supply
for Indians. About 2oc head more will
be killed as soon as the weather becomes
colder.
/ The six-year-old son of Frank Sexon,
living IN the western part of Huron
county, fell into dry we'll Saturday
evening, sustaining injuries THAI may
prove fatal. His shoulder and one leg
is broken and head badly bruised.
Harry Brown. a brother, and Mike
Maloney. a cousin of Alderman Brown,
of Langdon, were visiting with him
last week. They came from the farm
near Young. Mr.. Maloney has been
down with the fever nearly all summer.
Beavers were never 80 plentiful in
the streams of the Black Hills as they
are this year. Box Elder, Rapid and
spring creeks are full of them. and
their dams can be encountered every
hundred yards on some OF these streams.
AN Indian named Crow Walter, who
had just been released from the peni-
tentiary, broke into the house of one of
the missionaries at White River and
stole everything in sight except the
bible. He was arrested and pleaded
guilty before Chamberlain judge, and
will get his old room back at the ''pan.'
A we'll at Clear Lake made a record
for itself few days ago. First colt
tumbled in and was rescued uniujured;
the next day another colt fell in and
broke its leg and had to be shot, and the
succeeding day another colt and a calf
tried their luck together, the COLI es
Gaping and the calf being drowned.
Hhe we'll is twenty feet deep.
The editor of the Washington Springs
Herald SCOTS to scorn the idea Of people
starving to death in that vicinity this
winter. An admirlng subscriber has
presented him with an onion measuring
eighteen inches in circumference, and
as there has been a salt bed recently
discovered short distance from town
he expects to live arom atically high un-
til the flowers bloom in the spring.
WISCONSIN.
Murphy & Sons, of Green Bay, re-
Gently offered the Peshtigo Lumber
Company the sum of 81, ,000, 900 for the
entire business of the company. The
offer included pine lands, tugs. barges,
etc. The offer was not accepted.
Rasmus Hansen, a farmer on his way
from Eau Claire to his home in the
town of Drom men, was robbed by two
highwaymen in the suburbs one night
recently. Que held the horse while the
other went through Hanson's pockets,
and got a few dollars and watch.
Michael J.. Caddigan. cutter in tn
shoe factory Of F. M. Marzluff & Go.
GAINESVILLE, committed suicide Monday
afternoon by jumping from the bridge
into the river. He was unmarried,
about forty years old, and probably ln-
sane. He came from Chicago last June.
The body was recovered.
At the county farm, Munroe, is a man
with his neck broken. He is conscious
but cannot move muscle of his body.
Will power is completely cut off from
the forces which it naturally would
govern and control. There is no hope
of his recovery, yet he cannot die; he
has lain in this condition over two
months.
Adolph Meyer, eldest son of Post
master Meyer, Of Boscobel, and L..
chief assistant, mysteriouslv disappear
ed the other dav aud has not since been
seen. He left two letters, one for his
wife and the other for brother-in-law,
whom he requested to care for his
family. consisting of a wife and four
children, until the fall of 1890, when he
said he would send for them. He
stated that he had gone to Kansas.
A fire starting in L,bby's drug store
at She'll Lake the other day destroyed
one-half of the business portion of the
town. The fire burned the buildings
on both sides of the street. Judge
Mead's store and the postoff1ce were
DESTROYED. The flames leaped across
the street, taking the Opera house and
every dwelling on that side with the
exception of a small brick building aud
frame hotel, the brick walls saving the
latter. The loss is $35, 900.
The BabY's Stocking.