The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-06-08

J: SATURDAY, JUN
that would tend to better the relations
now so unhappily existing between
capital and labor. Out of all this ear
nest, candid discussion much good
ought. to come.
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Mike Hurley, who gave very general
satisfaction as an umpire, and who Of
ficiated at all the games played on the
Minneapolis ball grounds this season,
rendered his resignation to Secretary
Morton Monday evening, and that gen.
t.eman finding that it vas final, accept
ed the same. Mr.. Hurley was man
both fair and impartial in his rulings
and withal gentleman on or off OF the
base ball grounds. ''Sandy" McDer-
mott now fills that not much to be
coveted position.
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The investigation now going on be-
fore the Board of Trustees at the
Rochester asylum shows that earlier
reports during the week sent out con-
corning the murder Of Taylor Combs,
an inmate were not lacking for facts to
bear out all statements regarding not
only the treatment of Combs but Of
every other inmate as well. There
ahould be no whitewash. If things are
las dark as now painted, it is time that
the insane institution at Rochester was
making radical change in its officials
and in the force employed therein.
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| Was every precaution taken known
to the ingenuity of man in the care and
protection of the great reservoir near
Johnstown? Was it in such a con-
dit1on as never TO have given the least
cause for fear or alarm to it's peoples
Was it's breaking something entirely
unexpected and beyond all human
power to avert? That thorough investl-
CATION which must soon follow can
alone decide. While fearful OF the re-
suits of such an examination, we can
yet sincerely hope that no man or mum
Der of men have been guilty of an act
of carelessness that could lead to such
awful destruction Of life.
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John T. PlunketU and his wife, Mary
II. Plunkett, of New York, well.known
leaders IN Christian Science movement,
by mutual agreement have annulled
their marriage ties because they felt
themselves no longer intended for one
another. The ex-wife has since ''mar-
ried'' B. Worthington without legal
form and Plunkett will soon follow
suit with the woman who has the least
spark of 'science." The matter Of
divorce has become such a farce in
this country that people calling them
selves Christian Scientists are now
ready to go it a step tarther-to marry
and part at will without any legal form.
The states prison ought to be the abode
of the Christian Scientist.
Nv
Rev. DIR. Miller, of the Centenary M.
E. church, doesn't speak very tiatter~
ingly of his Universalist or Unitarian
brethren, as evidenced by the following
remarks made by that gentleman early
in the week: Your papers will this
week recognize a band Of men On the
platform who have blasphemed the Son
of God all over the country. 1 tel you,
the people of Minneapolis need an
earthquake to wake them up and i'm
press upon them that there is some
thing more in their midst than dyna-
mite. God alone can waken the people
of Minneapolis to the realization of the
damnable doctrines that are being
preached every Sunday from the Uni
tartan and Universalist pulpits of this
fair city. You needn't talk to me about
the Christianity of Universalism or
Un1tarianism. l have been there my
self, and I know whereof I am talk.
ing" The Rev. gentleman, whose case
may be tended to by the Unitarians in
convention here tomorrow, perhaps
never got so much truth into one SEN
tence before in his life.
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The appalling scene of horror at
YOUNGSTOWN aud other cities devastated
by the food developed daring deeds Of
courage where leaset expected. Quiet.
unassuming Edward Will, of Cambria,
a young foundryman, whom no one ever
suspected Of possessing more than or
binary courage, is cited as one of these.
When the flood was at its height and
people went floating down the rushing
torrent in hundreds, Will rushed to his
boat and senseless to the pleadings OF
wife and relatives, showed his frail craft
far out into the angry current. Rowing
rapidly alongside floating roof upon
which a woman and two children were
kneeling with blanched faces. he skill
fully evaded the obstructl0ns that every