The Irish standard., 1894-06-16
THE IRISH sEANDARD SATURDAY., JUNE IS ~

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the man who was directly working il
told Mr.. McGrath that If he picked out
the red card they would give him 1000
He had nothing at stake, picked up the
red card and apparently had won the
$4,000. They then told HIM that they
could not, pay him the money until he
showed that he was worth $1,000. Mr..
McGrath straightway made for the First
National Bank and drew out 81 600 for
the purpose, he informed the cashier, Of
buying q farm. He had $25 himself,
making the amount $l,625. He was met
by the same man, this time with horse
and buggy and taken back to the side
show. He showed up his sack of money
which was taken from him while two
men held him and the man who took it
left and was seen no more. Mr.. Nc
Grath then saw what had been done
with him.
NORTH DAKOTA.
William Stackhouse, q farmer eight
miles east of Cando, lost his barn, 700
bushels of wheat and some oats and all
his harnesses by fire, recently. No in
surance.
The Mayville state normal school
board, at their last meeting elected the
following faculty another year: Prot. l..
B. Avery, president; DR.. L. G. Wooster,
department Of science; DR.. P. NJ. Mag
nussen, Psychology and methods; Mrs.
NJ. V. Mustard, history and geography;
Mrs. II. s. Hunt, matron. This is the
same faculty as at present, with one ex-
ception. The closing exercises for the
year occurred Thursday afternoon. The
citizens of Mayville have arranged for q
Trail county farmers institute to be
held there on June 26 and q. The en-
tire state agricultural college faculty
| and other prominent authorities will be
present. -
SOUTH DAKOTA.
William Mcdonald, aged 107 years,
has recently moved from Nebrask to
Tyndall, s. D., to live with his son. BE
doesn't look over 80.
Attorney F. l.. Fheger, of Centerville,
had most miraculous escape on the
10th inst., from being either killed or
seriously injured by young farmer
named Spore living south of town.
Flieger had been pushing some litigation
for client against Spore which greatly
angered me latter, Spore came to town
! about 2 o'clock, went to Morton & Cope'e
hardware store, purchased revolver aud
passed up street by Flieger's Office.
Flieger happened to be standing in the
doorway at the time when Spore turned
| around and fired three times at him at
very close range. One'bullet struck the
sidewalk near his feet, one lodged in the
door casing on line with his knees, the
other went whizzing down the street,
passing at least 20 persons who were
scattered along the walk. Spore was
locke d up.
w. Fl. Casey and Miss Katie Joyce
we're married at St. Patrick's church,
Erin, on the 9Th inst, Rev. Father Red
din officiating.
Mr.. Peter Kelley died June LIST. of lin
gering consumption aged 81 years. He
was one of the oldest citizens of Stanton,
st. Croix county, and highly respected
by all who knew him. His remains we're
buried in Stanton June 4th.
On Wednesday of last week DR.. John
sons house on Arch street, New Rich
mond, which was occupied by Mr..
Thomas Hughes, caught fire and was to-
tally wrecked. Mr.. Hughes started q
quick fire of light wood and had gone to
the barn to do the chores. When the
women got up they discovered that the
house had caught fire around the chin
ney, and was too far advanced to be ex'
tinguished. An alarm was given and
promptly responded to by the fire de-
partment, but some little time was OK
perienced in getting stream on the fire
by reason of the stand pipe which was
attached to the hydrant. The loss on
the house lie about $500, with $1,000
insurance. A large part of the contents
were gotten ont, but it was impossible to
save everything although the crowd took
hold with will and did I'LL they could.
Mr.. Hughes loss amounted to $500 or
$700-partly insured.
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