The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-01-21


PAs s; Tin RE VIEW
Y Mrs. q Neil, 81 Chicago, has deposited
$4,000 TO the credit Of ArchbishOp Fee
han, son condition that like sum be
raised by friends for the erection Of 2 new
CHURCH in that CITY for the colored people.
The Archbishop has headed the sub
scrlption list with 81 600.
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sRev." j. q. White, the anti Catholic
lecturer, was arrested at Waukegan, ILL.,,
and fined for carrying q loaded revolver.
Considerable excitement has been oeca-
stoned at Waukegan as result o.
Whites visit and the mayor has forbid
den him to speak, lest the public peace
be endangered.
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/ The Earl of Kerry, who came Of age OF
the 18th inst, is the eldest son OF Lore
Lansdowne, and the heir to $4,000 acre.
scattered over nine Irish counties, anes
having q rent roll Of 8265,O00. II the
Young men does not act more leniently
with the tenants than his father has, he
will deserve to be placed in the category
of raok-renting landlords.
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The other day there died in New York
at the age of l08 an Irishman named
Pierce Crotty who had lived in that city
for 50 years. He was IA years old at the
time Of the Irish Rebellion Of 1898 al d II
wears old when Emmett was executed for
high treason in Thomas street, Dublin.
He left Ireland in 1910 and reached New
York the year after Jefferson had served
his second term of Office as President OF
the United States. The Irish papers Of
New York may have got some of his re-
.mlniscencss for publication.
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Bishop Cotter, OF Winona, has received
from Hon. John F. Healy, y. s. consul
at MADEIRA, historic cane. It is made
Of dark wood taken from the old Peres-
trello house at Porto Santa. It was in
this house that the wife of Christopher
Columbus, Felipa Monis de Perestrello:
was born. Perestrello, her father, was
governor of the island. He was, like
Columbus, sailor, and is reputed to
have been an explorer of some note. The
discovery of the Madeiras is by some at
tributed to him. The cane bears the
monogram of the bishop, mitre, and
the dates "1492" and 1892 inlaid with
cedar taken from rafter of the house.
in which Columbus lived during his
residence on the island.
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Sir John Thompson, the new premier
of Canada, is the son of Irish parents an6
was born in Halifax, N. s., in 1914. He
is ain active Roman Catholic, and won E
wide reputation by his great speech II
behalf of the Jesuit estate act Of the gov
eminent at Quebec, which the Ottaws
government was in vain implored to veto
in the interest of religious (in) equality,
The Orangemen of Canada do not like {
Catholic for prime minister of the Do,
minion. In reply to an Orange organ
which accused Sir John Of making plea
for federation for himself, hesaid: I have
no plea for liberation to make for myself
and want no sympathy through tolera'
ton in that regard. am not occupying
the responsible position which it is my
honor to hold through any effort Of my
own or any struggle of mine for political
distinction. I occupy that position simply
because those who were qualified to de.
eide, and who we're bound to decide
thought that could serve the state occu.
rying that position. am nothing more
than public servant and if ] SHOULD
succeed in serving the state we'll shall
have achieved the only ambition which ]
have in public life.
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The literary scavenger who styles him
self editor and proprietor of our con
temptible contemporary, the IL. A." il
hereby informed that his Orange rag has
been ANONYMOUSLY erased from our OK
change list. The fellow has no regard
for deoency or veracity. He denies tha
his nondescrlpt sheet is an organ Of
Orangeism and then proclaims himsel
an Orangeman who is proud of his vii
famous society. The following descrip
tion'of an Irish Orangeman is given fo
the special benefit of Edwerds J. Doyle
| An Irish Orangeman is man without
country of his own. He is man VIII
has voluntarily consented to live unde
another flag that he might persecnte an
other church. He is man who looks OF
the flag Of England because it is red
rather than because it is right. He is I
man t0 whnYo aunh rnl,1o prof o1tor+ ,,o