The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-08-24
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
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Exchanges for Readers of The
Irish Standard.
COUNTY CONVENTIONS IN OAK.
Killed by lightning at PJalnview, Numer-
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County Crop Reports.

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MINNEsOTA.
Calvin K. Day has been appointed
postmaster at Detroit.
BARLEY Costello, a stage driver, was
Instantly killed by lightning at Plain
view.
John Jackson has been held to the
grand jury at Anoka on the charge Of
Killing Magnus Johnson.
Peter Fellows of Pleasant Valley fell
from a bridge with a load Of lumber
last Thursday and was killed.
-Four bears wandered into Red Lake
Falls last Saturday afternoon. Three
of them we're shot and killed.
The Austin State Bank will enlarge
it's capital stock, and change it's name
to the Austin National Bank.
Redwood Falls is going to have a new
hotel. George E.. Case viii! build it, and
}. A. Beard will be lessee and manager.
M. Harrlgan, OF Ellsworth, will do
nate sett Of harness to the managers
of the Catholic fair which will be held
there this fall.
st. Hllaire and the vicinity was visi~
ted by terrible rain and hail storm a
few days ago. Great damage was done.
No lives were lost.
Two Harbors report the following
shipments Of ore: Minnesota mine,
34S ,999 tons; Chandler, 236, ,493; Pioneer,
2,l68; total, 55s, $50 tons. -
Reports from authentic sources in
Moorhead say that the wheat crop of
Clay comfy will net not less than
], 800, 900 bushels Of wheat.
Willie Vining, a sou Of Mrs. George
Vining of Florence, WAS kicked by a
mule few days ago in tbs face and
sustained a fracture of the jaw.
The Minneapolis boom company's log
drive have reached St. Cloud containing
100000, 600 feet over 100 men are on
the drive. 1t will reach Minneapolis
within 20 davs.
The roller skating rink at Argyle
was totally destroyed b7 fire few days
ago. The Presbyterian Church and
other adjoining buildings narrowly es-
capped being consumed.
A postal service has been established
between Wakefield, Mimi, and Lake
Park, Iowa. a postoffice has been es-
tablished at Dugdale, Polk county,
which is supplied with the Carmen and
Mentor route.
A dry kiln is in process of erection at
the state prison grounds for a pail and
tub factory. It will have opacity of
50, 900 feet of lumber. Manager Covell.
who has charge Of its construction, is
now in the east looking over similar
factories there.
An insane soldier, name unknown,
passed through St. Cloud last Friday
morning from Ft. Keogh, Mont, and
while left alone for a moment gouged
out both his eyes with his thumbs. He
is raving maniac and his guards had
to chain him down.
A petition to Coy Merriam is being
circulated in Howard Lake for the
pardon Of Henry Bowers, now serving
term in Saltwater for manslaughter.
Bowers shot and killed William Bos-
we'll of New Richmond. Wis, in a
saloon fracas near that place July
1886.
James G.. Carlisle & Son, of Minnea-
polls, who were the lowest bidders on
the Job Of finishing the asylum building
at Fergus Falls, are not going to do the
work, as there was an ambiguity in the
specifications, the result of which was
they bid too low.
Walter z. Anderson, employed by
Dyer Bros, Minneapolis. was shot in
the face and leg, last Friday night at
Anoka, bY Will Little, who mistook
him for a highwayman. He claims
Anderson grabbed him by the coat
collar and he then shot him. The
wounds are not dangerous.
The latest news from Leech Lake
reservation is to the effect that the
Indians there are quarrelling over the
proposed treaty, they being about
equally divided. One Indian, relative
of Chief Falmouth, is said to have
been killed and more trouble is expect
ed. The runner who came in says that