The Irish standard., 1892-11-26

resided for short time in Minneapolis
and then moved to Fergus Falls, where
Mr.. Byrnes engaged in business.
The new city officers Of Brainerd for
the ensuing year are: Dr.. Hens cad.
mayor; Wm. Williams IN, president OF the
city council; and A. F. Ferris vice -presi-
dent. CRY Attorney McClenahan, City
Clerk Farrar and City Engineer White
ley were all reelected by the council.
Mayor Hemstead made the following ap
pointments: VIM. Barron, chief of po-
lice; O. P. Erickson, John w. McGinnis
Moses Derocher and Henry Hurley, po-
lice officers, the last named one for East
Brainerd He also appointed James
Buley driver of fire team, and A. 81. Ben
nett janitor OF Central hose house ALI
the appointments we're confirmed by the
council. s4
William Hackett, one of the early set
tiers of the town of Shieldsville, Rice
county, died at his home in that town on
Monday, November IA, of pneumonia
He was a native of Ireland, and at the
time OF his death was sixty-tive years OF
age He settled in the town of Shields
vile thirty five years ago on farm On
which he continued to reside ever since.
He was an honest, kind hearted man who
was highly esteemeed in the neighbor-
hood in which he resided. He is sur
vlved by wife and two sons,
Thomas and William, both of whom are
grown to manhood. The funeral took
place from the family residence. The re-
mains we're taken to ShieldsviIle Catholic
church, where funeral services were held
by Rev. J. j. Slevin, after which they
were laid to rest in the cemetery.
County Commissioner @. p. De Mers
Of Crookston, Polk county, is circulating
petition, which will be presented TO the
coming legislature, praying that enough
seed wheat b. given by the state to on
able the farmers in the central and east
earn portions of the county to SOW their
farns next spring. Owing to the high
water of last spring, and also to hail
storms and cloud burst later in the
season, the farmers in several of the
townships in the eastern portion OF Polk
county had their crops entirely destroyed,
and chose who did any threshing did not
obtain over three bushels to the acre;
aid, added to the failure Of the c,op last
fall, for two years prior to that blight
! visited the crops in that vicinity, and tho
result was that the yield was barely
enough to pay the taxes and keep up the
interest on farm machinery. @t
NORTH DAKOTA.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer plainly
says: Prohibition doesn't prohibit and it
will have to 60. When the law was
adopted it's champions said that if upon
trial it proved Intellectual it need not be
persevered in. The law has been given
full and free trial and is to-day one Of
the least effectual Of the many ''fad" laws /
that cunber the statute books 1t has
got to go.
Judge Mcdonnell, |, of Fargo, rendered
decision last Monday in the suit brought
to decide who was entitled to the $1,000
reward for the arrest of Remington, who
murdered Flett at Arthur two years ago.
He decides that Sheriff McLaren ia not
entitled to any Of it, but that it shall be
divided between the Byrnes Bros, Of La
Crosse, and William Rose, at whose
house Renington's fiancee was stopping
when he was rrested.
| WISCONSIN.
On Tuesday, 18th inst, Mr.. Charles
Fitzsimmons, Of River Falls township,
and Miss Mary Marion, Of Oak Grove,
both in Pierce county, were married at
the Big River Catholic church by Rey.
Adolph Miller, in the presence Of large
number Of friends of the welded couple.
A few weeks ago priest from the
Boys Catholic school at Peoria, I'LL, took
five boys from among the Indian families
! in Bayfield, to the school. They were all
under is years Of age, and their names
are Jack La Poidte, Albert Gordon,
John Chingway and John and Peter
Soulier. The other night Peter Soulier
returned to Bayfield,, having tramped 600
miles, mostly on foot, after running away
from school. His brother and tho La I
Pointe boy were on the road. The two
others after escaping with the rest weak-
ened and returned.
Hon. q. 81 Ives, ublisher Of the Plain
dealer at PRESCOTT Wis, died Friday, No
yember 18, afisr 9 brief illness, aged 78S
Mr.. Ives was one Of the earliest settlers
I OF Iowa, and was the first sheriff of Des
Moines county. Some thirty years agos
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