The Irish standard., 1894-03-03
THE NORTHWEST.
Important Happenings In Various
Sections, as Cleaned from
Our Exchanges.
AN AUTHOR AND POLITICIAN.
Ignatius Donnelly, the Sage of Min.
niger, is Pretty Accurately
Sketched.

niger, is Pretty Accurately
Sketched,
T. r. Foley, of Aitkin, contemplates
building a large brick hotel at Brainerd.
! Minnesota grows every year 45,O00,O00
bushels of wheat, 100000 Of oats, o.
OO0, 600 of corn, and produces 472,0O0,O00
feet of lumber and 100000 shingles.
John d. Carroll, of st. Paul Park, has
secured the contract for the erection of a
Jail and sheriff's residence on the public
square in Worthington, Mobiles county,
for the sum of $9,655.
The st. Paul Globe denies authorita-
lively that either Mr.. p. II. Kelly or Mr..
Cutcheon, chairman of the state commit.
tee, made the remark imputed to them by
Republican papers 'that Cleveland
ought to have had his second term first"
The Murray County Independent, pub
lished at Avoca, says that arrangements
are being made to establish q circulating
library for the Catholic church at that
place. Carpenter Crowley has manufac-
tured fine large book case for the
library, which is very handsome piece
Of furniture.
The Washington birthday celebration
at Eyota, Olmsted county, was grand
affair. James Manahan, of St. Paul,
Rev. Fathers Herman Of Owatonna, Horan
of st. Charles, and Riordan OF Rochester,
epoke during the course of the evening
1t was conducted under the auspices of
the Total Abstinence Union of Eyota.
Sister Mary Crescentia, of the Order of
St. Francis, died at st. Mary's hospital,
Rochester, on Thursday, February Is.
The funeral occurred on the Saturday
following from the convent chapel. There
we're present at the ceremonies Rev.
Fathers Riordan, Horan of St. Charles,
Pivot and Kernan of Owatonna, Keller Of
Winona, and Maddox of Chatfeld.
M. Angel Van Hee, the founder of the
thrifty and prosperous Belgian colony at
Ghent, this state, died recently at that
place. He was one of those men born to
lead. Twelve years ago Canon Van Hee
of Liverpool and himself, guided by
Archbishop Ireland, selected that part of
Minnesota for colony. Angel came
with many relatives and now there is at
Ghent one of the largest Catholic par
ishes in southwestern Minnesota.
Up at Sacred Heart in this state, says
the Slayton Gazette, they are adopting a
new method of dealing with the liquor
business. The farmers in the vicinity Of
that sacred town have held a largely at
tended meeting and adopted measures to
secure the signature of 400 farmers to q
promise not to trade any more at Sacred
Heart If the people of the village persist
in voting to license saloons. It the farm
ers stick to their purpose and do not pat
| ronize the saloons the liquor question
| will be most effectually solved in that
town, for unless the village is large
enough to support saloons the traffic will
be most awfully dead there in a short
space of time. The only dead sure rem
edy for the liquor traffic is for the indi-
vidual to quit drinking.
The following sketch Of Ignatius Bon
| nelly of this state is given by the Denver
Times: Ignatius Donnelly is man of
brains, scholar and an orator. His in
tellectual qualifications are of high
order. If Ignatius Donnelly had never
entered politics he would be q greater
man in the estimation of his fellow-citi-
zens than he is. But Mr.. Donnelly's po-
Gtical aspirations and record have robbed
him of large portion OF his usefulness.
This man has belonged to almost every
party that has had it's door open. He has
been Republican, Democrat, Farmers
Alliance, Greenbacker. Populist and pos
sibly Prohibihonist. He has espoused
the cause Of every political faction that
would give him shelter and encourage
his aspirations. His weakness has never
made him dishonest, but it has made him
political maverick. The fice-holding
record Of the Baconian sage has been
confined to legislative annals Of lste
years. He manages to hold down seat
in the Minnesota legislature pretty regu-
larly. Some six years ago he was MEM
Der Of the lower house, when he spent
most Of his time in addressing his fellow
members upon whatever subject hap
pened to be before them. II was eati-.
mated, and the fgures have never bee,a
questioned, that I be Gactually singls