The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-16


appointed by Gov. Merriam, to receive
contributions of either grain or money
for the sufferers in Russia, and will be
pleased to receive whatever the people
wish to give at any time. Everything
should be i'll by February 1st, at the
latest. Lac qui Parle county ought to
make a liberal donation to this fund.
What is one, two or three bushels Of
wheat to many people? Simply nothing,
but when aggregated would make re-
spectacle showing.
NORTH DAKOTA
Mise Tena Curry, of Bathgate, an at
tractive young lady of that place, has
just proved up On 100 acres of choice
farming land.
It is rnmored around Larimore that a
number Of farmers there are buying
wheat for spring delivery. One promin~
| ent wheat raiser is said to have bought
| 100000 bushels.
| The Goose River Farmer says: Miss
Bemis has organized savings bank in
her department. of the schools which will
be known as the Model School Savings
| bank of Mayville, N. u.
| According to the Jamestown Alert, hay
is rather scarce article. Farmers are
independent this winter and do not have
to haul load from 10 to 20 miles and
sell it al So ton in order to get a little
money. Hay brings about $40 and haa
sold as high as $16.
! According to the Devils Lake News,
COL Lounsberry, who recently purchased
a farm near Bartlett, where he intends to
establish his residence, will soon return
to North Dakota and commence the work
Of writing a history of the state. He will
also publish q paper, but has not yet de-
cided whether it will be in Fargo or
Grand Forks.
The combination lock refused to throw
& bolt and the burglar proof safe in the
| National Bank of North Dakota at Fargo,
had to be opened by main force. An OK.
pert stripped the door by taking out the
! plates Of iron and steel one by one, by
means of chisels and wedges. m tho
meantime the bank was put to good
deal of Inconvenience.
A. Rjchland county farmer has figured
out that it would take kettle 400 miles
wide and 800 miles high to boil the potato
crop of the state for 1891. After wrest~
ling with figures FOR an hour, that if the
babies born in North Dakota during the
year were placed side by side, they would
cover patch Of territory quite as large
as the state of Massachusetts, that when
they cried they could be heard AGO miles
and that it would take 1877 barrels of
milk every "a hours to feed them.
| SOUTH DAKOTA.
+ II. G. Sessions, OF the seed wheat COM.
mittee, says that the sum of 1921, 900 has
been collected and paid over to the
treasurer.
G. Ell. Hille, of Pierre has secured
contract to put in g. committee system Of
water works at the Stephen mission to
cost S., 400.
! The board of directors of The South
Dakota Fair Association will meet at
Mitchell, January 13, to decide the loca.~
tion of the fair for 1892.
Little Johnny Mcbride, living near
Elk Point, was kicked in the face by
vicious horse he was leading. His cheek
was terribly lacerated and his cheek
bone fractured.
/ Henry Robinson, grave digger, met
with rather a peculiar accident at the
cemetery in Lead City. While unload
ing a tombstone, in some way his hand
was caught under the stone. When he
withdrew it he was minus his forefnger,
which had been cut off by the sharp edge
of the stone as clean as though by q
knife. The severed member was found
on the ground incased in the finger OF hin
glove.
81 WISCONSIN.
While coupling cars on the Northwest:
ern tracks at Milwaukee last Friday
night, William Manning, aged "a, was
} crushed to death. His parents reside at
!; Beloit.
The remains OF Joseph Newton arrived
last week at Red Wing, from Williston,
North Dakota. The funeral took place
on Sunday, January 10. Joseph Newton
was twenty-four years Of age. He was
born in Prescott, Wis, where he lived till
his parents removed to this city, since
, which time his home has been here
Some weeks ago he went to Williston to
engage in business with his brother and it
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