The Irish standard., 1889-10-26

He was unmarried.
Aboutthe 1st Of last July Hama Hagan
and Andrew Olson left Brainerd to 6nd
work IN the vicinity Of Breckenridge
Olson returned last week, and reported
to Hagan's family that Hagan had gone
to Europe. He had Hagan's watch
with him, but said he had bought it.
He left and went to Duluth. Last
Saturday Hagan s dead body was found
ten miles north Of breckenridge, with
the skull broken ard throat cut. When
Hagan was last seen he was with Olson,
and it was believed that the latter killed
him for his money, some $50. Olson
was arrested at Duluth. Mrs Hagan
resides short distance east of Mahl-
llm s hotel in the Fourth ward, where
she and her five children are in utter
destitution.
! DAKOTA.
a crazy man attired in WOODEN shirt
and two pitchforks made things lively
around Faulkton last week.
Young Man-Too-Lazy aud Oldham.
! Fond fills Booze, two Sioux Reserva
tion braves, have signed the temperance
pledge in Yankton.
Reports from Washburn, McClean
county, say that destructive prairie fires,
are raging in that county, houses, barns,
quarries and hay-ricks being burned,
and many people rendered homeless.
Lawrence Jacobs, of Ledgerwood,
aged seven years, shot and instantly
killed his brother Elmer, aged twelve
years, on the 10Th inst. The two were
playing with a rifle and the shot was
accidental. -
| A. j. Mckenzie Of Dickinson was
struck on Jhe 10Th Inst. by a passing
train as it approached the station, and
died three hours afterward. Mckenzie
| was boss bridge builder for the Missouri
division Of the Northern Pacific.
Cowboys set fire to the prairie short
distance northeast Of Rapid City recent
ly, and the citizens had to turn out en
masse to keep it from entering the
town. 1T was finally checked after des-
| troying considerable property.
TIE night watchman of Hot Springs
bank shot cow the other night that
was wandering about back Of the build
ing, thinking burglars we're trying to
break into the place. 1t is reported
that the farmers Of HYDE county are III
bad shape for wintering stock, the sup
ply of both corn and grass bsing very
short,
Frank p. Rochaska, a Bohemian
farmer who resides near Pisek, Nd.
shot himself through the head with q
revolver last week and died soon after.
Rochaska was we'll known and highly
thought Of by his neighbors. He was
a young man in good circumstances,
ard no cause is assigned for the suicide.
He leaves wife and one child.
... WISCONSIN.
The body Of Sophia Nelson, who was
lost in the woods three years ago. was
found the other day three miles east OF
Bedford,
James M. Carpenter, proprietor Of
one of the largest dry goods houses in
Beloit, has failed. The liabilities are
$60.O00 and the assets between $50. 600
and $35, 600.
Edwin Kerwin died recently in Beloit
at the age of nearly one hundred and
three years. He was an Irishman by
birth, and had up to the last few years
enjoyed good health.
| Forest fires have been raging in the
wooded portion Of Fierce county for
some time past. Several houses, large
quantities of drv wood, grain stacks,
etc, have been destroyed.
While hunting deer in the woods GEAR
Poplar, a small station on the Northern
Pacific road, II miles south of Superior,
Rudolph Hanson, a Swede, was shot
dead with a Winchester rife by man
named Peterson, who claimed he took
him for deer. Peterson was arrested.
A picturesque runaway marriage was
celebrated at Milwaukee the other
night. Robert Dinsmore, a white-haired
patriarch from New York city, eIoped
with Mrs. Wilhemina Gustafson, OF
Chicago, a matron with silvery locks
and a poodle. The groom was 88 years
old and the bride sixty-two.
Thirteen cars and q locomotive were
smashed 40 at Eau Claire, Wis, in the
freight collision on the Northwestern
line near w ilson, Dunn county, last
week. One train was thrown down y
bank 60 feet high. Ben Chute, an
lodiclal, was thrown tIlrough u q wire fence
and All his clothes torn of, Loss to rail.
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