The Irish standard., 1886-07-31
THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

IA NOW OIh pul1duGAI1upAiS0 Acso Oo~
tablished cooperative farm for
tramps.
There are twenty-five counties in
Kansas which have madstones in their
boundaries.
Since 1850 the native population of
the Sandwich Islands has decreased
from 81 ,453 to 40,014.
Santa Ann, Cal, is infested with a
band of wild dogs that are creating
havoc among the sheep.
A large industry is now carried on in
Europe in the manufacture of picture
frames from paper pulp.
A stage making it's way in the Can
adian Northwest territory was attacked
by robbers, who secured $4,000.
There is a movement in New Y ork to
make Joseph Cook the national stand
ard bearer of the Prohibitionists.
The Shoshone Indians are said to be
starving, and there is sure to be a re-
volt as soon as Chief Washokee dies.
Newport, r. l., is all torn up because
Of the discovery Of a corpse in {. we'll
that was used by half the population.
Ira Rowell, of the firm of j. s. Row.
ell. seed sower manufacturers. died at
Beaver Dam, Wis, Of blood poisoning.
George w. Williams Oft Topsham, Me. {,
has invented a machine for stamping
oilcIoth, and sold the patent for $780,
600.
Edward z. G. Judson (Ned Buntline)
died of heart disease at Stamford, N.Y.,
recently, in the sixty-fourth year Of his
age.
The two largest plates of glass ever
made in this country were 124x160
inches, and were made for St. Louis
firm.
The Pittsburg Humane society is
seeking to prosecute organizations
which insure the lives Of small chill
dren.
j. A. Oestreich, of Oconomowoc,
Wisconsin, killed himself with a re-
volver in a Chicago hotel one day last
week.
Mrs. Wording has presented the Da-
kota university museum with a NINA
ture cannon made from the rock Of Glib
raltar.
| Specimens from the famous Golconda
property of Senator Bowen Of Colorado
! are said to show immense quantities Of
free gold.
Emperor William was Monday the
guest Of the prince regent at Munich.
whom he greeted in the most cordial
manner.
Royal engineers have left Halifax for
British Columbia to examine and re-
portupon the best manner of fortifying
the Pacific coast.
| There was panic in stocks at Dead
! wood last week, Iron Hill leading the
list with a decline of SO. No reason is
assigned for the break.
Mrs. Fem, one of the early abolition
agitators, for some years the wife of
Andrew Jackson DAVIS, died recently
at Orange, New Jersey.
| All of the reduction works in the vi
cinity of Helena, Mont, are working
to their full capacity, and the output
for the month will be very large.
| tits stated that the st. Paul road has
consented to run limited express from
Chicago to Council Bluffs, in connec-
tion with the fast trains on the Union
and Central Pacific roads.
| Henry Bicknell, a lad residing in Ban
gor, Maine, killed his sister Matte
with gun which he supposed to be
empty. On witnessing the horrible
wound in her neck, the boy lost his
reason.
The logging camp and part of the
outfit belonging to Horrell Bros, OF the
town of Bridge Creek, Wis.,, was among
the losses sustained by the late forest
fires in the Eau Glare pineries.
John Horton, of Rochester, Mimi, 9
bridge contractor. arrived at Dubuque
Ia, lately, and proposed that high
way bridge be built across the Mississ.
ippi at that point instead of pontoor
as intended.
The Minneapolis steam laundry and dye
works is doing rushing business under th,
able management Off. e. Mercer, 2os and 2r
1 Second Street South.