The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-05-28
THE NORTHWEST,
Important Happenings in Various
Sections, as Cleaned from
Our Exchanges.
AN ECCENTRIC CHARACREF

Who Fixed Out a. Miserable Exist
ence and Died Worth Twenty
Thousand Dollars.
MINNESOTA.
During the next month the Winona
Normal School, will graduate 80 scholars,
the Maokato 49, tho St. Cloud 29, and
the Moorhead %.
J. r. Doak, of Slayton, vice-president
Of the league of Republican clubs, was
stricken with apoplexy last Friday, and
has been very i'll ever since. Small hopes
are entertained for his recovery.
! At the horse exhibition held recently
at Adrian some Is or l6 as fine blooded
| horses as we're ever seen in the west were
exhibited. The judges were Messrs. M. T.
0 O'Brien, J. A. Guthrie and w. M. Welch.
The Rev. T. J. Gibbons, of St. Paul, will
lecture at ST. Mary's hall, Waverly, on
May 30, his subject being "How to Insure
Success in Life" TIE proceeds of the
! lecture will be used for the benefit of st,
| Mary's church.
| Michael Gaffney, one of the old resi-
| dents of Olmsted county, died at his home
two miles north of Rochester on Satur-
day, May Il, of paralysis, aged Is years.
The funeral services were held at ST.
Johns church, and largely attended.
Carver county will dedicate soldiers
monument on June II at Waconia. The
monument is of white bronze, twenty five
feet in height and cost $4,000. On the
same day 8, reunion Of the ex-soldiers'
society of Carver countys.takes place, and
a very large gathering is expected. Prom
| inent speakers will address the multitude
Bishop McGolrick, of Duluth, took
such a deep interest in the grand educa-
tional work being done by the Christian
Brothars' school at Cork, on his recent
visit to Ireland, that he promised gold
medal to tbs student composing the best
essay giving the reasons for the success
of their school, The examination for the
McGolrick medal takes place next month.
| The West Hotel, of St. Cloud, was sold
to J, e. Hayward, proprietor of the Grand
Central The consideration is said to
have been $4,000 AS the West was re-
opened very recently by Geo. H. Wood
house, recently Of the Park Hotel OF Fer
gus Falls, and nothing had been said to
him about the change, the sale places him
in a rather unpleasant fix.
! J. G. O'Brien, Winona county's auditor,
| has received letter from the secretary
of state, calling attention to the new
election law and some Of it's provisions.
The secretary submits an opinion from
the attorney general holding that each
town or village must provide it's own vot-
ing booths, and not the county or state.
TIE secretary suggests q conference Of
| the town chairmen or clerks for the con-
sideration of the law and the advisability
of purchasing supplies at wholesale.
The latest political sensation at Fergus
Falls is the refusal of Senator John B.
Hompe to serve on the Peoples party
county committee, to which he was
elected. He left the committee room and
requested that his place be filled, as he
was unwilling to serve in party run by
the Donnel]y Fish crowd. He is in favor
of having the Darlington Phelps com
mittee call state convention of the AL
lance party and to ignore Donnelly's
Peoples party entirely.
Thomas Duffy, aged SO, living in Town
of Lyle, eight miles south of Austin, died
quite suddenly last week. He went out
from the house before breakfast, and not
returning, a search was instituted, re-
sulting in finding the prostrate form near
a hay stack. The cause of the sudden
death is not stated, but the man had suf-
fered severe attack of the grippe pre-
viously, which may have affected him
thus He was bachelor in good circum-
stances, owning farm and considerable
money.
! Last Saturday there died at Fisher,
Mimi, an eccentric character named Eli
Ebor, at the age Of ". For the past II
years he lived in rude hut erected in
the timber, and eked out a precarious
existence from the sale of vegetables and
fish. 1t is generally believed that be
died possessed of upwards of 800 600, he
often having asserted that he had thous-
ands of dollars buried near his place Of
abode. Already about one acre Of cleared
and two acres Of timber land have been
dug up BY parties eager to find the hid
den treasure, but no money has been