The Irish standard., 1886-06-19
THE WORLD AT. LARGE.


the recent rioting was $4,000.
Part of the Samoan Islands are in re-
bellion against their king. Malietoa.
Three armed fishing schooners have
left New York for Canadian waters.
Henry Neidermeyer, contractor at
Youngstown, has fled, heavily in debt.
An effort is to be made in Los Angeles
to grow bamboo on all extensive scale.
James S. Kirk, the we'll known manu-
facturer of soap at Chicago, is seriously
ill.
Japan is to have national assembly
hall modelled after the German Reich
stag. re
All of the railroads in Louisiana are
run at loss so far as local traffic is con-
cerned.
The other New York Doodle aldermen
who are under arrest will be tried this
month.
A solid bed of alum 500 feet thick has
been discovered in Graham county,
Arizona.
A New Haven firm manufactures over
400 kinds Of barometers and ther-
mometers.
A lock is on exhibition at the French
Crystal Palace which has 3,647, 1886 COM
binations.
The prohibition issue is again to be
forced before the Republican convention
in Kansas.
Prince Alexandria opened the Bull
'garian- -Roumelian Assembly at Sophia
the other day.
Margaret Long, Of Lancaster, Wis,
died of grief because she was charged
with stealing.
At Des Moines, Ia., lately Henry
Furry was convicted of murder in the
second degree.
Prof. Gerritt Smith Rice, musician
we'll known throughout the West, has
died at Chicago.
At Rushford, Neb., an obnoxious law
yer and land agent named AIKEN was
tarred and feathered.
The abandoned soft coal mines in
North Carolina are to be reopened and
worked extensively.
Civil Service Commissioner Edgerton
denies the report that he
is going to resign.
William Walter Murphy, the consul
general of the United States at Frank
fort for many years, is dead.
Twenty thousand dozen of pineapples
arrived at Baltimore one day last week
from the West Indies.
A pocket of gold ore was recently
struck in Sultan mountnin, Colo, that
assayed $17, 800 per ton.
Th ominion authorities are consid-
erably agitated over fears of an Indian
outbreak in the Northwest.
Portland, Me-, is strictly enforcing
the rigid Sunday laws, which have hith-
erto been almost dead letter.
Jacqueminot roses, which sold for $3
a dozen last winter in New York, are
now to be had for cent apiece.
David Van Nostrand, the we'll known
publisher of military and scientific
books at New York, died Monday.
Gen. Hiram s, Sleeper, survey or gen.
eral of Kansas and Nebraska under Lin
coin, died at Kansas City Of hemorrhage.
Nova Scotia fishermen are greatly ex-
cited over the arming Of the American
fishing fleet, and serious trouble is
feared.
Cattlemen in Western Texas bave Or
ganized an association for the sinking OF
an extensive system Of wells for the
watering of stock.
The Corean government has issued an
educational law which requires all chill
dren between eight and thirteen years of
age to attend school.
The temperance people of Brooklyn
have begun crusade against Mayor
Whitney for licensing dram shops In
close proximity to churches.
The alleged Staten Island earthquake
a few days ago is now known to have
been caused by the firing of guns on the
United States sloop Juanita.
Vancouver, formerly known as Coal
Harbor, the western terminus of the
Canadian Pacific, is burned. Three
people are homeless.
A. lansing racentlv Michigan cele-