The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-04-28


will he a notable one.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
According to census just taken the
population OF County Kerry is 100000.
The Saskatchewan Herald predicts
an Indian outbreak in the Northwest
territory.
Three thousand shoemakers are on a.
strike in Berlin, and ship builders in
Schwerin have struck.
Reported that negroes at Bessemer,
Ala, excited over the hanging Of
one of their number, threaten to burn
the town.
The committee on revision of the
French constitution have invited Pre-
miec Floquet to give his views on the
revision.
Edward Purdon, founder of the Irish
! Farmers Gazette, and Lord Mayor OF
Dublin in 1880, died at Lakewood, near
Liverpool, on the 28th ult., aged 70.
Korena Knutson, young Norwegian
widow, mysteriously disappeared from
Eau Claire with her infant child some
time ago, is believed to have suicided.
AT Waterford The county court Judge
iii the case Of MIR. Pyne, NJ. T., set aside
his sentence of six weeks' imprison.
ment under the crimes act, holding that
it was illegal.
| DR.. McCabe, Of the Irish Prisons
Board, has been appointed Medical
Commissioner, of the Irish Local Gov.
eminent Board, in successlon to the
late DR.. Croker Kind.
During the last fortnight the Ameri-
can donations to the National League
have amounted to $4,000 The dona-
tions Of the home branches of the league
in the same time reached 63s7.
The jury in the case of Nj. E. Billings
for the murder Of County Attorney
Kingsley at Waverly, Iowa, brought in
a verdict of murder in the second de-
gree. The verdict gives general salts
faction.
The Centennial hotel, at Butte.
Mont, was burned Tuesday night.
Jesse Glidden, night clerk, was burned
to death, and Frank Lincoln, deputy
postmaster, was fatally burned. Loss
on building $4,000.
Thomas Joseph Condor, member of
Parliament for East Tipperary, has
been arrested for offenses under the
Crimes act. He was admitted to bail.
He subsequently addressed crowd at
Mitchelstown.
The board of aldermen of New York
passed over Mayor Hewitt's veto the
resolution curtailing his power in the
matter of displaying flags on the city
hall. This is the outcome of st. Pat
rick's day row.
Speaker Carlisle says there is no ques-
tion that there is serious opposition
among the Irish to the appointment
of Mr.. Phelps as the successor of Chief
Justice Waite, but tremendous press
ure is being brought to bear in his be-
half by the members of the Supreme
Court.
a New York dispatch of April Is
says Bishop T. Y. Ryan of Buffalo,
Mgr. Quigley, Vicar General of Charles
ton, Va, Bishop M. A. Burke of Chey-
enne and the Rev. Father Castaldil of
Bishop Ryan's diocese, who December
3, 1887, sailed for Rome to attend the
Pope's jubilee. have returned, and
Bishop Ryan was asked his Impressions
II tie jnbiiee.:: :: Tbe newspapers have
hardly done it:jj Istie Int their descrip-
tipns,..' he said. 1T was the most mag.
pai&dait aud imnpitessiya scens: / ever
a&i VT and II ieNer expect IS see
it's like again. wish you would cor
rect the reports about the Pope having
tainted from exhaustion during the !
Jubilee celebration; also that he is in
bad health. They are entirely untrue.
The Holy Father is feeble and much
smaciated, as is natural for man of
n1s advanced years, but he is wonder
July active, his faculties are perfectly
clear, and during one of the three
audiences we had with him he spoke
:or,an hour and a half without showing
my sign Of fatigue.