The Irish standard., 1895-02-16
THE NORTHWEST
Important Happenings in Various
Sections, as Cleaned from
Our Exchanges.
MINNESOTA LABOR BUREAU.
A Bill Prepared Under It's Direo-
ton to Regulate Employment
in State Institutions.


in State Institutions.
Mrs. James A. McRae, wife OF the
cashier OF the Big Stone county bank,
Gracevllle, this state, died in that village
on the 2 / inst, of paralysis of the brain,
aged u years.
Mrs. j. B. Cranaeie, aged 80 years, died
in Waverly on the 4th inst. The funeral
of deceased lady took place from St.
Mary's church and the interment was in
the Waverly cemetery.
r. Robinson, OF Robinson & Rowe, St.
Paul, known 10 nearly every printer in
that city as "B b" Robinson, nickname
given him by his comrades in company
E, Fourth New York infantry, during the
war, is dead. "Bob" volunteered at the
age of Is as a fifer. After serving three
years he was honorably discharged at
Brandy Station, Va, but again re-en-
listed in Battalion Forty-nine, New York
volunteers, and at the end of the war wss
mustered out ar Washington defences in
1866. Mr.. Robinson was member of
James River Lodge No. 80, I. Q. O. F.;
Star Encampment No. 10 and Canton
Huron No. s, Patriarchs Militant, Huron,
8. d.
Speaker Van Sant ia an open and
avowed candidate for the Republican
nomination. for governor in 1896, says q
St. Paul dispatch. He has been ap-
preached by several parties who ara also
candidates for that position and asked to
allow the Use OF his name for the second
place on the ticket, but hes declined to
entertain ths proposition.*Jehn III Gibbs
is also candidate and will contest with
MIR. Van Sant for the support Of South
ern Minnesota. In the event that Com
gressman TawDey is not a candidate for
denomination. which is not likely to be
the case, however, Mr.. Gibbs may with
draw as a candidate for governor and &C
in for scat in the national house to sue
ceed MIR. Tawney. In becoming candi-
date FOR governor Mr. Van SAINT is follow
ing in ths Footsteps Of Ex-Gov. Merriam,
whose advent into political life WAS
made as speaker.
The Minnesota Historical Society met
Monday evening at St Paul and received
from the Institute Of France copy Of
the report of the "OommitSee of History
and Scientific Researches, Sitting in the
Ministry Of Public Instruction." upon
the question Of the source Of the M,ssiss-
ippi river. The committee refers to
Glazier's claims as "unjustifiable preten-
sions," and adds the following: "At the
congress of geographical science held in
Berne in 1891, Mr.. Hurlburt procured
the formation of q committee to examine
the question, and in it's report the COM
mittee has clearly established the facts
and exposed Mr. Glazier's fraud. x
a. mission with which J. Y. Brewer wss
charged in 1889 by the Minnesota His
torical Society and volume published
in 1898 in the Minnesota historical COL
lections by the society, containing the
memoir OF Mr.. Brewer, have closed the
discussion. AS to scientific de-
bate, it is done. The explorations of Mr..
Brewer leave no further room for contro1
versy" This bulletin from the Institute
of France has been translated into the
English language by Col. William P.
Olough, member of the executive coun-
c1l of the Historical Society, and the
translation has been filed with the
original document in the archives of the
society.
a bill prepared under the direction Of
the state labor bureau was introduced
Monday by MIR. Schurmeier, Of Ramsey.
It is intended to regulate the employ
ment of prisoners confined in the state
prison, reform school, reformatory and
municipal workhouses. Following is the
substance OF the measure by sections:
Section makes it the duty of the court
imposing sentence to discover the busi-
ness or trade in which the convict has
been engaged and to certify the same to
the sheriff, who shall transmit the infor-
nation to the warden or other chief
officers at the time the convict is COM
mitted. Section makes the regular
employment of all convicts compulsory
except in cases Of sickness and all such
prisoners shall be taught some trade or
handicraft. Section 8 authorizes the
warden to change prisoners from one de-
partment to another as may seem for the
welfare Of the convict. Section abro-