The Irish standard., 1894-10-13
THE NORTHWEST.
Important Happenings In Various
Sections, as Cleaned from
Our Exchanges.
AN EMBEZZLER ACQUITTED
Big Stone County Democrats Place
a Ticket in the Field That Ought
to Prove g. Winner.

| to Prove q Winner.
| MINNESOTA.
| The Populists in city convention at
Saltwater Tuesday renominated @. A.
Staples for Mayor. A very warm can
vass is promised.
w. @. Arons, who was brought to Wi
mona from Columbus, o., charged with
! embezzlipg $3.50 from the Winona Will
lowware Company, has been acquitted.
Arons now announces that he will bring
! suit against the Willowware company for
$4,000 damages for false imprisonment.
James Murnane of Rosemount, Dakota
| county, died Thursday, September 9th,
aged seventy five years. He was one of
the early settlers at that place, having
located there in 1856. The funeral was
held from ST. Joseph's Church, Rose
! mount, on the following Saturday, the
| Rev. Arthur hurley officiating.
Mrs. Louise Schmeltzer, tbs mother
| of the condemned murderer, Charles
| Ermisch, at St. Paul, was Monday cent
to the workhouse for thirty days for
furnishing her son while confined in the
county Jail with pistol and boz Of cart
ridges. The charge was aiding a prisoner
to escape, to which she pleaded guilty.
At the peoples party legislative con-
vention at Appleton, Tuesday, the Hon
John Mcclure was nominated for the
senate, while the Democrats, who held
their conven tion at Appleton on the same
day nominated Geo. Claggets OF Monte
video, for the same place. 1t would be a
hard Job to defeat Mcguire if Clagget
should withdraw in his favor, says the
Madison, Lac aui Parle county, Press.
On Tuesday morning OF last week
Thomas Hasdell and Miss Margaret Nc
Carthy of Benson, were united in mar
riage at the church of the Holy Rosary,
Graceville, says the Enterprise. MIR.
Hasdell is promising business man of
Benson. Miss CcCarthy is lady favor
| ably we'll known in Graceville, bsipg g.
sister OF Mrs. Simon Roach. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. A. Osteg OF
Clontarf.
Big Stone county Democrats have
placed the following ticket in the field:
County Auditor, NJ, J. Mcdonnell; treas
urer, e. Scheibe; sheriff, Frank Noon;
register of deeds, John Mitchell; clerk Of
court, N. O. Foss; county attorney, e. N.
Morrill,; judge Of probate, A. J. Sohofeld;
| for superintendent of schools, Mrs. DR..
Bert Robertson; county surveyor, E. "a.
Chapman; coroner, DIR. j. A. Freeborn;
commissioner End district, A. 8. Steph-
ems; commissioner Of 4th district, P. NJ.
Orton.
w. II. Tripp, member OF the legisla-
ture, from Minneapolis four years ago,
and now candidate for like position
from Duluth, was caller at st. Paul
Monday. MIR. Tripp says that Congress
man Baldwin is sure to be re- elected and
that he will be supported by the bueiness
men of the Sixth district, irrespective Of
party. He says that Town is generally
considered as too light q weight to repre-
sent city like Duluth and that it would
be q most unfortunate thing for Duluth
and the whole district to have him repre-
sent the district in congress.
Mr.. George Magone, of Aberdeen, s.
D., a former resident of Hastings. died ct
the residence Of his mother, Mrs. Cath
crime Cook, in Denmark. Dakota cour y,
last week, aged twenty six years, says the
| Hastings Democrat. He maintained his
consciousness up to the very moment OF
his death and swoke to those around him,
so that although his illness was Of long
duration the end was somewhat unex-
| pected. The funeral occurred from the
Church Of the Guardian Angels, Rev. J.
IA. Fitzgerald officiating. Interment took
place in the new cemetery. His surviv-
| ing relatives have the sympathy OF their
friends and nelghbors.
] Miss Mary Ann Chambers died of con-
sumption in Faribault, recently, at the
residence OF her mother, Mrs. John
Chambers, on Elm street, aged Il years.
Deceased was an estimable young lady,
possessed Of all those amiable qualities
of mind and heart which Rave her the
faculty Of making lasting friends Of all
with whom she became acquainted. and
though an Invalid during her entire resi-
dence there her friends were numerous
and her memory will be long and kindly
cherished by al. Services were held a
the church of the Immaculate Conoep.
ton, after which the remains were con