The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-06-04

I Meagher had passed comfortable night,
and was standing the journey nicely.
They come by the 500" route to St.
Paul, and will probably arrive here on
Wednesday noon by the Omaha.
NORTH DAKOTA.
The date for the North Dakota Press
association has been settled as June Ia
and Is at Fargo. An interesting pro-
gram is announced, and among the
speakers are Gov. Burke, Hon. w. r.
Ball, A. L. Cary and Alden j. Blethen.
| About forty teachers We're present at
the teachers institute at Jamestown last
week. Miss Bates Of Valley City had
charge Of the exercises. State Superin.-
tendent Ogden and Senator Worst de-
livered addresses.
Judge Mcconnell, of Fargo, decided that
physicians giving expert testimony be-
yond the limits Of their own counties are
entitled to $40 per diem for such service
the same as though they had testified in
their own county. This decision was
given in connection with tue malpractice
suit of Cantrell VS.. Mclean.
| The Fargo Republican, speaking OF the
arrival of Maj. Mclaughlin, Of Standing
Rock Agency, in the city with seven In
dian police accompanying him, says:
Major Mclaughlin is very prond Of his
Indian police. Every one Of the seven
who are here, were connected with the
| fight in which Sitting Bull was killed,
and on which occasion they conducted
themselves with great bravery. Their
names are Captain Red Tomahawk. Who
shot Sitting Bull, Corporal Little Sol
dier, and Privates Cross Bear, Looking
Elk, Running Hawk, Rcd Thunder and
Mag Pie Eagle. They ars fine looking
lot of Indians
! SOUTH DAKOTA.
! a telegram announces the sudden
death at ST. Louis, Mo. of Jamee Car
ney. Mr. Carney was for six years 8
member Of the Deadwood city council.
At the time Of his death he was tha
Secretary Of the Lawrence county Re-
publican central comsnittee
The richest find ever made in tine
Black Hills has been uncovered at the
Cora mines at Galena. 1t is silver oresy
from which assays running as high as
$1,000 per ton have been received. a.
local expert states there are sighted in
the mine from 60 to 70 tons of ore that
will average $4,000 per ton.
Miss Viola Fuller, of Mitchell, S. D.,
has applied for space in the Wonaan's
Building OH the Worlds Fair grounds
for unique and beautiful opera cloak,
the only one Of it's kind existing. The
garment, and circular in design, is cona~
|Iposed entirely of certain small and parti"
cularly delicate feathers OF prairie
chickens. Only five or six feathers Of
this peculiar kind are found on single
bird, consequently tho cloak represents
bot only ten years patient labor, but the
| Blumage Of hundreds Of birds. The
feathers were sewed to the foundation
ope at time and deeply overlapping, and
nbw form light even surface Us smooth
aAthe birds breast. The cloak is trimmed
in ptler fur, which is also a product of
Dakota
| WISCONSIN.
The Catholic knights of Wisconsin
will hold their annual convention at
Ashland, beginning July 19.
Attorney General O'Connor has ruled
that State Superintendent Wells posi-
ton in the teacher-certificate question
was wrong and that tho school board and
the superintendent of schools are the
sole judges of the qualification Of the
teachers in the Milwaukee schools.
James Mcdonald, son Of the late John
Mcdonald, for many years resident of
Hudson, died last week in st. Paul, of
consumption. The deceased passed his
boyhood in Hudson where quite large
number of his relatives still reside. The
funeral occurred from the Catholic
Church and was largely attended.
One of the most important Catholic
gatherings held in Wisconsin for many
years will convene at St. Francis Sem.
mary on July -. It is termed do
cesar synod and will be in session for
three days. Prayers in honor of the
Holy Ghost that God may guide the
synod in it's deliberations will be recited
in all the masses offered up by priests of
the Milwaukee archdiocese from now
until July 12
The officers elected by the La Crosse
Catholic Truth Society, organized as
direct result of j. G. Whites anti Cath
olic lectures, are as follows: President,
NJ. F. Hayes; vice-p president, J. J. Kavan-
augh; recording secretary, Ben Volz; cor