The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-06-07
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
Items 81 Interest Clipped From Our
~. Exchanges for Readers Of The
Irish Standard.
VERY SAD DEATH AT BENSON.
John n. Collins Accidentally Drinks q
Large Quantity Of Oarbolc Acid
and Expires.
MINNESOTA.

The many friends OF Rev. Father Tori,
OF Sleepy Eye, will be glad to learn that
he hes so far recovered as to be able to
a.ttend to his duties.
D. d. O'Neil, of Benson, has pur-
chased the dray formerly owned by Jno.
Quinn, and will attend to the wants OF
the public in that line in the future.
Joseph Fogerty, Of Cascade, planted
corn on the 9th of this month, and it
was not up the first of this week. The
corn had sprouted, so there was no tear
OF it's not coming.
The remains of Mrs. Conway, of Eyota,
we're buried from st. Johns church on
Tuesday forenoon. The funeral was
largely attended by friends and neigh
bors Of deceased.
1'hos. McCabe, the Rochester painter,
das finished painting ST. Bridget's
church and parsonage at Carrollsville.
and gone to Ohatfeld. where he has
several large Jobs of painting.
The remains of Anthony CauleY, who
died in Montana a tew days ago, was
bronght to st. Johns, sibley county,
and inferred according to the rites Of the
Catholic church on Sunday. the 25th ult
Thomas Casey, one OF the popular
conductors on che Waterworth line,
shipped his household goods up from
Willmar to Benson on Tuesday, and
moved them into the house formerly &C.
cupied by roadmaster Lynch. He ex-
peoted his family arrival Friday.
Patrick O]vany, of Rochester,, spent
Part Of the winter in Ireland. He ex-
perienced very disagreeable weather
nearly all the time he was there. For
two months there was not a pleasant
day. He reports stock very high there.
Good COWS sold for from 1856 TO $125;
2-year-oId heifers from $50 to $50, and
yearline steers about $40 each.
1t becomes sad to announce this week
enc Of the most distressing accidents
that has ever shocked the inhabitants of
Benson. Last Sunday morning, between
the hours of 8 snd 10 o'clock, John II.
Collins, one OF Benson's brightest and
most estimable young men, went from
his home to the post Office for the morn
ing mail. Before returning home he
stepped into T. w. Stones drug store,
and while there 1t is supposed he started
to take some medicine for a severe cold
and an attack of the grip, from which he
WAS just recovering. But be mistook a
bottle containing carbollc acid for that
containing medicine, and filing out g
dose Of the deadly poison drank it of
before discovering his mistake. Drs.
Scofeld and Green were Immediately
summoned and rushed to the sufferer q
aid, but no skill could battle that potent
agency Of death, and it's helpless victim
succumbed in less than a quarter of an
hour after the fatal draught. Deceased
was brother of Register of Deeds j. G:
Collins, His mother, brother Timothy
and sister Kate Collins, who we're in
Minneapolis at che time, were summoned
home and they arrived that night. De-
ceased was born in Wabasha county.
Minnesota. in 1858, and came with his
parents to Swift county, where he has
since resided. John was the only son
diving at the home of bis aged parents at
the time Of his death. and to them his
sudden taking off is most terrible blow
indeed. The funeral took place on Mon
day. Services were held in the Catholic
church at Benson, of which deceased was
a member, and the remains escorted to
che DeGraf cemetery, where the inter
ment took place. The ceremonies at the
grave were conducted by Rey. Father
O'Connor. The funeral was the largest
and most generally attended that ever
left Benson, and the people of that vii
lage sincerely sympathise with the sor-
rowing friends, and extend their condol-
ence to the grief-stricksn parents.
DAKOTA.
/ Bishop Stanley has announced that
work on the Catholic buildings at Jane
town has been discontinued.