The Irish standard., 1892-05-21

ST.. so PER YEAR.
used for Minneapolis city work for the
1 past seven years, and hence before il
could be allowed to take the place OF
that in use it was subjected to the most
thorough tests Several car loads tested
last week showed most satisfactory
record, and so manifest was its superior
ity that it received the recommendation
of the experts and the adoption of the
committee. About five hundred barrels
have been ordered for immediate con-
sumption, and it is thought that from ten
to twenty thousand barrels will be con-
sumed during the season This is a big
victory for Mankato cement, placing it
upon the top of the heap so far as Min
nesota and the Northwest is concerned.
| NORTH DAKOTA.
Father James E. Connolly, of Crooks
ton, will build church in East Grand
Forks costing $4,000. The building will
be of brick and stone and nearly one
third of the money reqnired for it's erec-
ton has been already raised Work will
soon be commenced and rapidly pushed
to completion.
Gov Burke has called an extra session
Of the legislature to meet at the state
capitol on Wednesday, the first day Of
June. Three subjects for the action Of
the legislators are specified in the cali.
First, provision for the choice of presi~
Dental electors by the people; second,
provision for the canvass of the returns
Of the approaching election; and third,
an additional appropriation to the states
! Worlds Columbian Exposition fund
| Mrs. Marian McCanna died recently at
! Cando in the sixty-ninth year Of her age.
She was of French and German descent
and was born in Canada. Hers had been
d life of usefulness, having brought up
and educated eleven of her thirteen chill
I OICA1 W. OCSo1AO ssCoA SAolAOA5S vi SdO1l
any community might speak in terms of
the highest praise. Shs was conscious
| till the last, and just before her death,
received the last sacraments of the
Roman Catholic Church, of which she had
been lifelong and consistent member,
| SOUTH DAKOTA.
! The Watertown Public Opinion says it
will bet ten cents against red herring
that the South Dakota delegation will
never vote for Benjamin Harrison at
Minneapolis. He will be nominated by
acclamation before South Dakota is
reached in the roll CALL
WISCONSIN.
| The remains of Patrick O'Sullivan, the
man conyicted OF completely in the mur-
der of DR.. Cronin, who died at Joliet
prison, were brought to Monroe from
Chicago and buried from his home in
! Adams, twelve miles from Monroe. Until
| y
Adams and respected by all that knew
him. His family had always had good
reputation end O'Sullivan was no excep
ton. When hel left Adams five years ago
he went to Chicago and engaged in the
ice business, in which occupation he wtaEs
at the time of his arrest All during the
| famous trial his friends still believed him
innocent, and that is now the general be-
lief. The funeral took place from the
little chapel OSullivan attended when
living there, and the remains were buried
in the church yard beside those Of his
| parents, who died number of years ago.
| VIM. H, F'rawley, the prosecuting at~>
torney in the Russell poisoning case at
Eau Claire, is brilliant young Irish
American. He is under % years old and
was born in Dane county, Wis. He re-
moved to Eau Claire about six years ago,
his elder brothers, r. F. and M, S. Fraw-
Icy, having established themselves there,
the former in the practice of law and the
latter as principal of the high school.
VIM. Fl. graduated from the law depart
ment Of Wisconsin University in 1888
and Immediately commenced the practice
of his profession in that city. He was
elected district attorney as q Democrat
in Che fall of 1890 He is conceded on all
hands to be one of the ablest young law
yers in that section and as a public
prosecutor has been distinguished by
vigor and vigilance. The authorities of
Ramsey county, Mimi, will remember
for some time his struggle of months to
get the burglar Joe White out Of Minne-
sofa, in which struggle Frawley persisted
through municipal, state and federal
courts until he finally landed White IN
the Wisconsin penitentiary. Of the sixty
or more prosecutions the district attorney
i has instituted, all but two or three have