The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-04-09
THE NORTHWEST,
Important Happenings in Various
Sections, as Cleaned from
Our Exchanges.
SUICIDE OF A BANK CASHIER.

/ A Pioneer Settler Of Dakota County
| This State, Passes Away
Near Rosemount.
Miss Anna Fay, of St. Peter, has been
elected to fine position in the Humboldt
school, Minneapolis, at a salary Of 1850
per year.
The recently organized division of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians ST Ellsworth
will give a grand entertainment Easter
Monday. The Young Ladies' band of
| Luverne has been invited to he present,
George Scott, ST., OF Eagan, Dakota
county, aged about ninety years, died On
Saturday the 26th ult after in illness OF
several months. The funeral was held
from St. Peters church the following
! Tuesday.
| William Morrison and w. B. Ankeny,
late OF Omaha, Neb., and men OF consider
able MEANS have decided to establish a
large iron and brass foundry at Little
Falls, and expect to- he ready for business
abont May L.
| p. E.. Hayden has purchased the valu.
able property west Of the by-gone lake at
Graceville known as the s'woods,' from
Dsniel Mullen OF St. Paul, WHO made a
flying trip to that village last week, made
the daal and returned to ST. Paul.
Thomas O'Connor and wife will leave
St. Peter in few weeks for Minneapolis,
there to spend the rest Of their days.
The aged couple are among the Few re-
maining pioneer citizens and many Of
their old friends will miss chair genial
faces, says the Herald Of that city.
Wednesday afternoon of last week Mrs.
Ed. Walshe, of Avoca, received tsae"
gram summoning her to. ST. Paul whore
her daughter, Mrs. Ed Delaney, is dan
gerously sick She left Thursday morn.
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Agnes and Teresia, for St. Paul.
Even Evenson, an old residentof From.
tenac, was found dead Sund morning,
having suicided by poisoning. He had
not been seen alive since Friday after
noon, 50 it Is supposed that he ended his
life that night. Deceased was intemper-
ate, and it is supposed that remorse led
to the deed.
Horace Anthony. assistant cashier OF
the First National bank OF Kasson, COM
mitted suicide there Oh the 3ist ult, by
shooting. No cause for the rash act CAL
be assigned. His work was all straight
and he was highly esteemed by large
circle OF friends. He leaves a widowed
mother, one brother and two sisters.
st. AIMS Catholic church, LIE Sueur
was burglerized Friday night, March 81
tie thieves taking the chalice, the tive
wells, the candlesticks and other articles
to the value of $50. The next afternoon
the chalice and ono of the wells were
found upon the street, where it is supposed
they were dropped by the miscreants.
The work of moving the German
Catholic church at Hastings was begun
on Monday of last week The church
will be placed between the school house
and parish house back from the street
Ed. Frank has the contract for moving
the same. The new church will be o1
brick. Casper Schilling has the contrac
for the foundation and is now getting Out
rock for the same.
I James Murphy, one Of the pionert
settlers OF Dakota county, died suddenly
at his residence near Rosemount, Satur
day, March 26, aged seventy eight years
He was native of Kilkenny, Ireland, but
4 came to America in 1848, residing first al
Paterson, N. j., afterward removing tx
Dakota county whore he has since re-
sided. His wife and five children sur
vive him who have the sympathy o.
their friends. The funeral was hele
from the church of the Guardian Angels
Hastings.
The many friends of Mr.. Will Meagher
now at Harvard college, Boston, will re-
gret to learn that he is suffering from al
attack of bronchitis-the outgrowth o.
la grippe, it is thought-and that in con
sequence he is compelled to leave hi
school. His mother, Mrs j. F. Meagher
of Mankato, has gone east to visit him
and will accompany him to Asheville
, North Carolina, for months sojourn a
that latitude, after which they will return
home. 1t is believed that this attack il
only temporary, and that short rest viii
restore him to his accusto good health
u, John Furey after a long and sever
sickness, passed peacefully away at min