The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-12-28

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The farmers in the vicinity Of Island
and Hurricane lakes have formed
an association for mutual protection
against common foes. Among other
things the new organization promises
to prevent the taking of property on
chattel mortgages from any member
within year.
| A storekeeper at Link postofhce, in
the Black Hills. VINO has his eve on the
$4,000 reward, recently bound with
ropes and kept in his cellar for two davs
an itinerant Methodist minister under
the impression that he was the much
wanted Willie Tascott. The reverend
gentleman finally proved an allbi and
was released.
The midnight mass-that beautiful
custom Of the Catholic Church, VAS
celebrated in Grafton bY FIR Ksnney.
Mass was also celebrated at s O'Clock
Christmas dav and Father Kenney then
drove to Drayton, taking the members
of his choir with him and the new
church there was cOusecratod at 1890
am. The conservation was attended
with all the imposing features of the
Catholic ceremonial.
One day recently young man named
Armstrong. living near Vrrmilli m,
went to that city to fix himself up for
his wedding which was to occur the
same evening. While making his
rounds he stopped into Bridgeman's
shoe store, where, in some inexplicable
wav, a number of pairs OF shoes became
entangled beneath his overcoat. The
bride waited, but 10, the bridegroom
cometh not She Fl ially went in search
of him and found him behind the prison
bars with fine of $25 registered against
him for larceny. The wedding has been
postponed until the groom feels little
more at liberty to become Benedict.
| WISCONSIN,.
A party of hunters recently found the
body Of mau in the woods near Apple
ton. He had evidently committed
suicide by hanging.
| A fire broke out in the Humbird
Lumber comYanY's yards at Clayton the
other evening and destroyed six million
feet Of lumber. Loss $4,000.
Edward Baker, the Ironwood saloon
keeper, will have to stand trial for rob-
bing the Iron Exchange Bank at Hurley.
He was held in $4,000 bail by Judge
Calkins recently,
It is said that fully $50 deer have been
shot in the Washburn district this sea-
son. The total number slaughtered IN
Florence County since the 18th Of
October is estimated at 500.
The Milwaukee Press Club recently
instructed its president to notify Will.
liam Henry Smith to draw on the club
for fifty dollars to be used for the bene-
tit of the families of the two Associated
Press operators who lost their lives in
the Minneapolis fire.
Frederick Weyerhauser. the lumber
prince of Wisconsin, was in Ashland q
few days ago looking up site for the
erection of mammoth saw.mill. du-
plicate of the one at Chippewa Falls,
having capacity of 325, 600 feet and
employing over 500 men.
Two freights on the Duluth. South
Shore and Atlantic, thirty miles east of
Ashland, collided last Sunday night.
Kid Ryan was instantly killed and
Brakeman Connors fatally injured.
John Chattan, engineer Of the second
section, was internally injured,
John Martin, aged 8; Ambrose Dom
nelly. aged 10, and Bert Scheldon. aged
IL, broke the ice while skating on a
pond at Ironton, in Saulk county, a few
days ago. Martin and Scheldon were
dead when their. bodies were recovered,
but DonnellY was resuscitated. I,
The body of a young man who was
found on November 81. two and half
miles north Of Wrightstowa, has been
recognized as that Of Daulel Whalen,
of Marengo, ILL.,, by his brother, who
was visiting in this vicinity. Dan
Whalen was from Oc0nto, where he had
been at work anc was on his way homs
Gen David Atwood. proprietor and
editor-in.chief Of the Wisconsin State
journal died suddenly Of heart failure,
By his bedside were his wife and his
son and unmarried daughter. HIS only
other living ciilld. Mrs.E T.. Villas, was
at her home in Milwaukee. Gen, At
wood was unquestionable the most
widely known editor ia Wisconsin, an