The Irish standard., 1904-03-12

The straw hat district in Baltimore
was never touched by the late fire.
Seven-eighths of the better quality of
mems straw hats in this country, it is
said, are made in the city mentioned.
How near you came to missing the
summer straw" can thus be seen.
In this weeks issue of the Irish
Standard appears portrait of the late
Father Danehy, reproduced from the
columns of the Minneapolis Daily
Tribune of March Z. 1t is life-like-an
excellent piece of work-for which the
Tribune deserves much credit.
Former State Senator Hiram T. Ste
vens died Wednesday afternoon in st.
Paul after protracte illness. Mr..
Stevens was an able attorney and for
some time had been president of the
st. Paul Bar association. He was
about 80 years of age.
The Russo-Japan war goes on
apace. All kinds of trouble has taken
place during the week at Hal Cheng.
Liau Yang, Niuchwang, Feng-Wang<
Chung and towns not heard from
where an interpreter is busily en-
gagged in getting their English pronun-
citation.
The Dreyfus case is on in Paris
again. The criminal branch of the
court of cessation took up the supple
mentary investigation last Monday and
this in itself will last several weeks.
The present war in the East may last
for years, but the Dryfus case is liable
to be with us long after it's finish.
The Western states are growing.
1t the diocese of Montana should be-
cut in two, thus making it possible in
the near future for the appointment of
two bishops instead of one for that
district, there need be little surprise.
Who will be appointed as Bishops?
Well, it may be Father Cleary, of this
city, and Father Heffron, of st. Paul.
q. r. Mcdonald, the recently elect
ed president of the Minnesota Edito.
rial association is a Democrat. So is
the vice president, in fact our Repub<
iican friends have been helping out
just this way for the past two or
three years. 1t is good as far as it
goes, but why not carry that nom
little further. YOU
can afford it in Minnesota and the
state will be the better for it.
The secretary of the interior has
sent letters to all the federal officials
involved in the Bonaparte- Woodruff
report on Indian territory affairs warm
ing them that if they retain public
office they must separate themselves
from private corporate connections.
This will hit Tams Bixby, but he wilt
not resign at once. Tams is not overly
and little talk of the above
nature will not disturb him.
That strenuous and renowned gen,
tleman of the wild and woolly West,
Cherokee Bill, hero, rough rider. noted
Indian scout, Texas ranger, ranchmar
and a terror to everybody and every.
thing, including himself, has been an,
pointed Jefferson guard at the
Worlds Fair at st. Louis by President
Roosevelt. He will draw his salary
under his real name, Elijah Kinkead.
but will spend it, no doubt, as Chero..
kee Bill in Rough rider fashion.
The Twin City Rapid Transit COM,
pany is said to have imported a num-,
Der of spoilers from Chicago lately for
Use on their lines here They are some.
what mixed. it is claimed, both male
and female spotetrs being employed.
The one thing particularly strange
about this is that it has been deemed
advisable to so to Chicago for the
festive spotter when there is so much
home talent lying around loose that
might be readily engaged.
Billy Edwards, known to fame I'M
this city as the big mitt man, and who
assisted very much in sending to
states prison a number of citizens
doing business in connection with the
Ames administration a year or two
ago, is in the tolls at Duluth. Mr..
Edwards was tried for swindling
country boy out Of small amount Of
money perhaps all he had, and it
took the jury twelve minutes to bring
in a verdict of guilty. Billy will now
have an opportunity of meeting old
acquaintances again at the prison city.
In a recent issue Of the st. Paul
Globe a poetic etfusion appears from
the pen of New Richmond, Wis.
man named Richards that has the true
Aenglish ring to it, though it's metre
is badly disiointed. 1t all relates to-
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