The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-04

MINOR n EWS ITEMS.

MINOR IN EWS lIEM6.
For the week Ending nov. I.
The central and business portion Of
Dunbar, PA. was destroyed by fire.
Emile Gilman was 6eheaded at Ber
lin for the murder of her husband
| The sugar crop Of Cuba for the sea-
son of 1894 Is estimated 1t 1000, 600
tons.
| Mrs Harriet Van Derburg (colored)
died at Sheffield, Ill. at the. age of Ito
yearA
Florence Shea, the oldest man in
tO3 years
The chief mosque and several houses
were burned at Damascus, Egypt, the
loss being $1,000, 900.
Mrs. Christina Bordner. of Lewiston,
Ill, attained the 1o4th year of her age
and was in fair health.
Alexander Rockwell, lineal de-
scendant of African kings, died in New
| Orleans, aged 100 years
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, rich woman Of
Peoria, H., donated 100 acres of land
as permanent state fair site.
By the carelessness of Mra. John
Foley, near Anoka. Mimi. her two lit
tie children were burned to death.
Fife Smith, quartered in the female
section of the Peoria I'LL bridewen for
vag-ancy, turned out to be man.
In leading sortie against Rifians at
Melilla the Spanish Gen. Margallo was
! shot dead with seventy of his men.
Two trotting horses, Golden Church
| and Ben, valued at $40, 600, were burned
to death in a fire at St Joseph, Mo.
Emperor Francis Joseph accepted
the resignation of the entire Austrian
cabinet, headed by Count Won Taafe.
The Non-Partisan National Woman's
Christian Temperance union met in
fourth annual convention in Chicago.
Very Rev. Edward Sorin, founder of
the university OF Notre Dame, Ind, is
dead. He was born near Paris in 1914
The weekly pay law passed by the
last legislature was declared unconsti-
tutional by the Illinois supreme court
Treasury statement for the month of
October shows receipts OF $26, 600, 900.
The expenditures amounted to so. $780,
O00
Cowed when given the oath OF his
own country, Jun Jeclz Lin confessed
in Chicago to the murder OF Jung Din
Kok.
Potter Palmer has given 5000, 900 for
the construction of woman's me-
mortal building on the lake front, Chi
cage.
King Herod, a colored resident of
Atchison, Kan, celebrated his 1851
birthday. He was born slave in Rich
mond.
Santa Anna, the crack racing mare
ct the Santa Anita (Cal.) stables. died
OF lung fever. She was valued at
$50, 900. ....
Hezekiah T.. Hosmer, :ex-chief justice
of Montana. died in San Francisco at
the age of "a. He was born at Hender-
son, N. Y.
Gold ore worth from 81, 600 to SO, 900
per ton was discovered in the lowest
level in the Victoria mine near Colo
RADIO Springs, Col.
of the Postal Telegraph company, was
fatally shot by crank while in his Of
fee in New York.
Leonard Forbes Beckwith, who has
just gone insane in New York. recently
purchased $500, 600 worth of property
in Curtisyille. III,
Maj. Decker, 1.-THE smallest living
man. is dead. He was a. years old,
weighed seventy-hve pounds and was
thirty two inches high.
At Hernesand, port on the Gulf of
Bothnia, the Norwegian bark Nordst-
jernen ran into Il small boat and sunk
it, drowning ten persons.
Edgar H. Palmer. d lawyer of Yer
million, O., so years old. threw himself
in front of train and was killed. FL
nancial reverses the cause.
Highwaymen attacked mail coach
near Brunswick, La, and killed the
mail carrier and passenger, but
failed to secure any booty.
Justice Williams at Syracuse, n. Y,
has declared unconstitutional the law
of 1892 which gives women the right to
vote for school commissioners.
Arrested for stealing, Miss Edith
Hastings, prominent young lady of
Saudusky, O., ended her life by swal-
lowing quantity of laudanum.
The reorganized National German
American bank at ST. Paul, which
closed it's doors during the financial
stringency August 4, has resumed bust
ness.
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Tool Her Own Life.