The Irish standard., 1893-12-09

0ou AesAo' 4AoIo IL nObnln8 In this
generation OF education that wears
threadbare SO quickly as religious perse-
cution or prescription. In ten years from
now it is not unlikely tt at the children
OF the men who now compose the A. P.
A. will raise the money to build that
Minnesota monument to my dead friend.
Gen. James Shields.
WISCONSIN,.
"Prof." Walter Sims, the A. p. 4. or
ganizer who ewindled the Toronto Globe
before he left Canada, lectured recently
at Stevens Point, where the Gazette and
Journal condemned his TRADE against
the Sisters Of Charity.
Last week Michasl Harty, young
man who lives with p. O'Keefe, of Stan
ton, st. Croix county, broke both bones
in his right leg about halt way between
the knee and ankle. He was brought to
DR.. Wade's Office, Hudson, where the leo
was attended to and the sufferer made
as comfortable as possible.
Edward Harrington died at his home
in Somerset, St. Croix county, of an af..
lection OF the liver on Monday, Novera-
Der q. Two years ago he suffered from
an attack of la grippe, from which he
never entirely recovered. The funeral
services we're conducted by Father Fandy
at the home of the deceased, after which
the remains were conveyed to Hudson
for interment. & ri
Mayor Hopper, ct Eau Claire, has been
the recipient Of threatening i tier from
some unknown miscreant signing himself
A. T. A., who says that Il one Ryan il
not discharged from the police force,
Mayor Hopper may get what Mayor Har-
rison, OF Chicago, got from Prendergast.
Mayor Hopper save the letter TO the
press and said his life was ready at any
time to be sacrificed to principle which
underlies American institutions.
NORTH DAKOTA.
A farmer at Sabin, in the Red River
Valley, raised $500 bushels of potatoes
from forty five acres and has disposed OF
several carloads at seventy cents a bushel.
He sowed' wheat on last years potato
ground and it averaged him twenty-five
bushels per acre.
The Catholic fair held in Fargo during
last week was quite financial success.
according to the Forum. 1t closed last
Monday night. On Saturday night
Father Cassidy captured prize, as also
did James Ryan and W. H. MCGEE, the
last having carried satin comforter tor
being the homeliest man in Grand Forks.
Mr.. McGee is q good looking man, never
theless.
The Nelson G nnty Independent gives
the following agricultural item of inter
est: John Ryan, OF Bue, brought in on
Tuesday a load of pork weighing 1850
pounds, which he sold to J. p. Lamb & !.
Go. for six collars per hundred, bringing
something like e158.61 in cash. One pig
weighed over 476 pounds, and three 9TH
ers weighed over four hundred each. Mr.. /,
Ryan says he fattened them on frozen
wheat Of the crop Of two years ago. This ,
is an evidence Of what our farmers could
do il they diversified their farming.
7oura DAKOTA q
Gov. Sheldon, Of South Dakota, has,
selected May as South Dakota day at
the San Francisco midwinter exposition.
Bishop Marty was cbnsecrated in Feb
ruary 1880. Tn 1889 the diocese Of Sioux
Falls was established, taking il tho
whole State Of South Dakota There are
so priests ID the diocese 46of whom are:
secular, and Is regular. There are |46
churches with resident priests and 81 ],
without. The diocese contains no less,
than 100 stations, looated ID widely sop
.s1ated parts of the state. Sir acadelniea . !,
and fifteen psrocliiaI schools ffbhrnish thas
educational facilities The <Jath holic pop Z
ulation is 4O,Ooo, more Sofs
which i made ur of