The Irish standard., 1891-10-31
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Clipped From Our
Exchanges for Readers of The
Irish Standard.
BAD ACCIDENT ON THE 500.
Several Persons Killed in a Railway
Wreck Near Glenmount, Minn., Last
Monday Night.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
T1ua. ConDellv's barn with number
of horses and cattle, some grain and
farm mach merry. Is miles northeast o;
Luverne, was, DESTROYED by fire last
Saturday night.
Last week FellowsaDd Kiley threshed
1900 bushels of oats Or che farm OF w.
l.. Breckenridge two miles east OF
Rochester, time 9hours and SIS minutes.
How is that for an eight horse rig?
Mrs. Shankey, the mother of Michael
Shankey and Mrs. Dwyer. died last
week at her home in Avoca aged 81
years. Her funeral took place last Sun
day from the Avoca Catholic church,
the Rev. S. Condron officiating.
| A big yield of grain is reported by
Chas. II. Baldwin. of Beaver Creek
township. Part of his wheat Welded
80 bushels per acre and the rest Of it
| averaged so bushels. His oats yielded
IS bushels per acre and his barley SO.
! On November 4th, at the Catholic
church at DAYTON, near Anoka, will oc-
cur the marriage Of MIR. Frank J. Thiel-
man, of AnOka, son of Mr.. aud Mrs.
| Leonard Thielman, to Miss Julia A.
Nugent. of Dayton, and sister OF NJ. J.
Nugent. The ceremony will take place
at nire O'Clock in the morning.
With reasonably fair weather thresh-
ing in Rock county will be about COM
pleted next month. The grain crop, to
be sure. has been the largest ever known
in that section, but there are more
threshlng machines in the county, by a
considerable number, than ever before
and they are getting the work Well in
hand.
A pine land deal of arge proportions
was consummated Tuesday at Still
water, whereby John O'Brien disposed
of all his interest in the firm Of Ander-
son & O'Brien to John G. Nelson. The
amount of standing timber is estimated
at nearly 100, 900, 900 feet, and is mostly
situated 10 Northern Wisconsin. The
purchase price is not made pubic.
The mission at the Church of the I'm.
maculate Conception, in Faribaut,
commenced last Sunday at the 1890
mass, at which Right Rev. John Shan
ley, the eloquent bishop of North Da-
kota preached an eloquent sermon.
Services were held during the morning
and evening at which sermons were
preached by some of the ablest speakers
in the Church in the northwest.
| While threshing at the Clark farm
three miles south of Austin last week, d
spark from the engine caught in one OF
the stacks, aud before it could be- ex
tinguished the entire bulk Of the grain
consi i,ting OF six stacks, with about
| 1900 bushels Of wheat and oats, were
totally DESTROYED. 1t was only bY herolG
efforts that the machine was saved
The grain was owned by Clark e Hunt
ington. Huntington's share was in,
sured. Clark's is total loss.
The Austin pressed brick works, the
only one of the kind in the Northwest
was totally DESTROYED By fire last week
The fire originated in the oil room
shortly after the works shut down
The plant was owned by stock com
pany organized in 1887 with capital OF
100000. The bulk of the stock was
owned by Austin parties. the remainder
by st. Paul and La Crosse men. About
fifty men were employed, who will now
be thrown out of employment. Il
could not be learned whether the com
panY will rebuild this fall or not.
Mr.. Gotfried Bleifus, a prominent
farmer and old resident of Olmsted
county. living near Stewartyille. was
instantly killed last week on his farm
He and his SONS were husklng corn
from the shock in the field and loading
it into tie wagon as fast as husked
when the horses started forward. In
Jumping to catch hold of the reins to
stop them Mr.. Bleifus caught his foot
in some stubble and fell to the ground
striking his forehead on the hub Of the
wheel, and was rendered insensible.
The wagon passed over his body, and
when his sons went to his assistance
they found him apparently dead but he
was conveyed to his home and Dr..
Mosse summoned, who found upon ex.
animation that the mans back was
broken and life extinct.
/ Monday night at Thorson, nine miles
east Of GlenWood, while the regular
freight train On the 500 was standing