The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-08-17
Standing of ths Clubs.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

William ]. Scanlan, the insane Irish
comedian, is said to be slowly passing
away in New York
1t is stated that the Tracian, the new
vessel lost near the Isle of Man Sunday
night, is insured for its full value, $780,,
900, in America.
Yesterday at Lavaltrie. Canada, the
two daughters Of Amede Lachance, aged
and 10 years, were burned to death in
their fathers house.
The government of Russia has decreed
that the children of Polish workingmen
and peasants shall be educated entirely in
the Russian tongue, and no other.
Gen. Schofield has ordered that all hos
pital matrons in excess of 100 now en-
ployed be discharged This is made
necessary by the provisions of the Army
Appropriation bill.
Charles Miller, a Pole aged 90, was
killed on the Hudson River Railroad near
Sing Sing, N. Y, yesterday. while walk
ing on the track. He had been in this
country but three days.
William Black, the novelist, is taking
Andrew Carnegie as the hero in a novel
Black is preparing. The novelist was
with Carnegie in his coaching tour
through the Highlands.
An official report shows that the Brit
ish export of tin plates from Jan. l to the
end of July this year amounts to 1877, III
tons, against 1885, 54S tons for the same
period in 1891, and 176, ,038 tons in 1890.
An estimate of the spring wheat crop
in Minnesota and the Dakotas places the
crop of the three States at 103, 900, 900
bushels, against 100, 100000 last year.
This is a very little below the average
crop.
The Clerical Central Committee Of
Rome urges the Catholic societies
throughout Italy to oppose the Liberals
vigorously in the elections, as a return
for outrages inflicted upon the Church by
the Liberals.
Hugh Daley, for many years city attor-
ney of New Haven, died yesterday Sat
urday last he was stricken with lock jaw
as the result OF a fall from hammock,
which inflicted a slight scalp wound. He
was So years Of age.
The Treasury Department has issued a
circular officially informing its officers,
employees and contractors and others OF
the act passed by Congress limiting the
time of daily service of laborers and me-
chanics employed upon public works to
eight hours.
Charles Phillips of Wilmington, DEL,
agent for the Wilmington & Northern,
and Baltimore e. Ohio railroads, and the
| United States Express Company, has been
missing since July %. Suspicion was not
excited until n week afterwards, when an
examination of his accounts revealed a
shortage of $1s,000
! "A fatal occurrence, costing three lives
is reported from Limerick. A boat with
| three persons on board was moored in the
harbor The three turned in and went
! to sleep, leaving a fire in the cooking
stove The fire set the boat ablaze, and
| all were burned TO death, the boat and
! cargo also being destroyed
The ceremony of investing with the pal
! lium the Most Rev. William Vaughan
| who succeeded the late Cardinal Manning
as Archbishop of Westminster, took plac,
/ in the Brompton Oratory, Eng, yesterday
| 1t was attended by a large number of the
highest church dignitaries and by severa
of the Roman Catholic peers. The cere
mony was one of great pomp and impres
! BiYeness.