The Irish standard., 1892-07-30
THE NORTHWEST,
Important Happenings in Various
Sections, as Cleaned from
Our Exchanges.
THE FRANCISCAN BROTHERS,
Their Industrial School at Clontart
is an Institution That Deserves
Encouragement.

Encorag ement.
MINNESOTA.
Among the delegates from Anoka
county to the Democratic state conven-
tion will be John Coleman, T. M. Ryan
and John Cleary.
Ex- Mayor DR.. J. FL. Dorsey, of Glencoe,
received cordial welcome on his return
from Europe. The Glencoe cornet band
and large number of citizens met him
at the depot and escorted him to the
American House.
Five cattle owned by John Delaney, of
Marion township, Olmstead county, were
recently killed in a singular manner by
lightning during q severe thunder storm
which passed over that section. They
were grazing with their heads under a
wire fence. The fence was struck and
the cattle instantly killed.
Mr.. John Sweetman, of Currie, Mimi,
has been elected member of Parlia-
ment from the East division of Wicklow.
Mr.. Sweetman spent several years in
Minnesota and was recognized as an ar
dent lover of ireland and man of con-
siderable intelligence. He belongs to the
majority party in Irish politics and will
make valuable member in the House
of Commons.
Says the Austin Democrat: A happy
but unostentatious wedding occurred on
July 81, at Wykoff, Fillmore county, in
the marriage of Peter Hagan, of Hagan
Bros, Austin, and Miss Bessie Langan,
the ceremony being performed according
to the i'm mpressive rites of the Catholic
Church, by Rev. Father Dwyer. The
home of the bride has been of late at
Wykoff, but she is former resident OF
Austin, where she has Il great many
friends who will congratulate Mr.. Hagan
on his ,od fortune. The bridegroom is
business man we'll known and liked.
At the recent convention of the G.. T.
A. IT,, of the diocese of Winona the fol-
lowing officers we're elected: President,
Philip j. Warren, of Winona; vice -presi-
dent, Rev. S. Maddox, of Chatfeld; End
vice-president, William Kelly, OF Stew
artsville; secretary, William Burns Of Wi
mona; treasurer, Peter O'Hara, of Lanes
boro. The following were elected as
delegates to the national convention of
the G. T. A. u, OF America to be opened
at Indianapolis on Aug. 2: Rev. S.
Maddox, OF Chatfeld, MIR. E. G. Nc
Nally, of Winona, End MIR. Patrick J.
Scanlan, of Rochester.
Prof. James r. McCleary, who was
nominated for congress last week by the
second district Republicans, is native
of Ontario, Can, and was graduated
from the McGi]l University. He taught
eight years IN Wisconsin,, and for two
years was superintendent of schools of
Price county, that state. He was ap-
pointed state institute conductor of Min
nesota in 1881, and had been connected
with the state normal school at Makato
up to last month, when he resigned his
position to enter politics. His "Studies
in Civics," published four years ago, the
fruit of several years of labor, has given
him reputation in educational circles
and is widely used in this and other
states. He will meet Ignatius Donnelly
in debate next month and discuss the
issues of the day with that veteran poll
tician.
The Industrial school of Clontarf un-
der the care of the Franciscan Brothers
is diocesan institution that has already
accomplished a great deal Of good for the
souls of the young boys who are being
educated there. Quite number of the
orphan boys of the diocese are received
there and secured against the dangers to
faith and morals they would meet in the
world. The location is beautiful, the
climate healthy. The pupils are trained
principally in agricultural pursuits,
ample opportunities being afforded to
acquire thorough knowledge of good
farming as there is large farm under
successful cultivation. Three Brothers
are in charge and deserve not only praise
for their self sacrificing devotion, but also
encouragement Were they more numer-
GUS they could accomplish a greater
amount of good. The reverend clergy
throughout the diocese would help con-
siderably praiseworthy institution by
directing young mon who have voca-
tion to the religious life. toward the
Clontart community, which is approved Of
by the holy see, economically established