The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-05
STATE T CAP1T AZ NOTES

Ut Is estimated that OF least 15O. 900 vis-
|-itors were III the city Wednesday. !:
The parade was the largest and finest
ever witnessed in the west. It took fully
four hours to pass the corner of Sixth
and Wabaaha streets. 'tss
The feature of the parade was the ,aiY-
ing flag, 2,200 children composed the
nag, and great credit fs due to Prot.
Congdon for the excellent manner III
which the childreA were trained.
| ALI the dttisions OF the A. o. H. post
poned their meetings this week, and gave
their halls over to the g. A. r. commit
tee for the accommodation OF visiting
veterans.
County President L. j. Tierney is again
at his post of duty, having been confined
to the house for two weeks by illness.
Division No. 1, Ladies' Auxiliary, were
honored at their last meeting by visit
from the state president, Mrs. J. j. DAILY.
The labor organizations have COM
pleted arran gements for their annual
parade and picnic Labor Day. Sept. 8th.
They expect a very large turnout this
year.
According to a local trade paper, Nc
CURE 4 Mulrooney, the popular Third
street commission merchants have b
corner on the garlic crop in France.
The Only accident reported by the rat
roads occurred on Monday evening in tllt.
Yards about half mile from the Union
depot. The regular No. Northern Pa
cific running into an Omaha trim, tele-
scoping the rear car and also crushing
into the baggage car of the Omaha.
Engineer Conlcy and Fireman Harris of
the Northern Pacific train, seeing there
was no possible way to avert a collis:o ON,
jumped for their lives and escaped with
few slight bruises. The coach of the
Omaha was fortunately empty, other
wise horrible death might have been
recorded
The ms11derers Of Thos. Curtin at Lake
Elmo seem to be still at large Another
suspect was arrested in st. Paul Wednes-
day. Henry Martin was arrested for
disorderly conduct and when arraigned in
the police court, was held without bail
en- suspicion of being implicated in the
murder. The murdered mans brother
ln-law, however, failed to indemnity Mar
tin as being one of the persons he saw.
Among the visitors in the city during
the week were Miss M. Grady, state N
s1lrance secretary of the Ladies' Auxil-
larry A. o. H., Mrs. A. Forcier, Miss For
IL,
Mr.. Elliott, of Saltwater,
The A. o. H. established headquarters
for visiting members to the G. A. R. En-
campment at Cretin Hall. The intention
was to have a committee continually at
the hall to receive and entertain their
visitors, but the demand for sleeping ac-
Communications for the G.. A. r. became
SO pressing that the hall was given IN
for that purpose. .5t........-.
The state fair is attracting large
crowds. Wednesday and Thursday, al
though the street railway company had
a continued string of cars, they were I'M
able to accommodate the crowds desiring
to visit he fair.
Martin MeDonough, who was shot by
Offcer O'Neill Monday morning, lies in
critical condition at the city hospital, and
is expected to die. McDonough, who is ~
years old, has been in the employ of the
Edison Electric Company. He was paid
Off Tuesday, and during the evening
drank considerable. About midnight he,
Frank Clark and a man by the name of
Flaherty, were acting in a. disorderly
manner, and the attention of the officers
Was called to it. A couple of hours later
they were found rushing the can" and
placed under arrest. A fight ensued.
with the result that O'NefN was COM
PEELED to use his revolver. O'Neill was
seen Wednesday evening, and was
shocked to learn that McDonpugh was
dying. He stated that two shots were
fired in the air, and the third at the es-
Gaping prisoner.