The Irish standard., 1893-12-09
MIN Oh .EWS ITEMS.

I6s - week Isndlnx Dss. q.
The Chioa trust and savinRs bank
vvsa placed s. the hands Of ! receiver.
Wap Soy, = Potts wattonis Indian
living nsar b ford, Mich, Il 1loyesrs
Old.
Il rsos.iyer - appointed tor the
Minnekahta stats bank s. Hot Spring.,
|6 ID. ;5s5sy 4. u S3l 5 s1SS
bronze statuo az Roxcoe ConIklinR
was unveiled Ii Madison square, New
York.
Eight thousand PERSONS In the Michi-
gan peninsula were sid to DO ia need
OF assistance.
4 The Haymarkst theater Building In
Chicago was damaged BY dre to tho az
tent OF 800, 600.
Flames in the worsted mill OF ]. r.
Cochran q Bro. ia Philadelphia caused
q loss of f9e5.000.
Republican and twelve other trotters
were burned to death at Burlington.
La Loss. e90. 600 Il. KIN
Grip is epidemic at Leavenwprth,
Kan. and In the last week there have
been twenty deaths.
The Citizens national bank at Grand
Island, Neb., the oldest bank In that
city, closed it's doors.
The Georgia house passed the bill
providing for the issue of currency
notes by state banks.
A fire in the store Of the Powers Dry
Goods company ut ST. Paul, Mimi,
caused a loss Of 800, 200.
In q At Of insanity John Dunlap. a
railway employe in Chicago, shot his
wife and himself fatally
The New York board of education
will try to put an end to cigarette
smoking among scholars.
John Davis was horribly burned and
his wife and child cremated In prairie
fire in the Cherokee strip.
st. Joseph (Mo.) thieves have been
robbing mail boxes and altering checks.
Several banks have suffered.
Crazed by business troubles 0. B.
Sawyer, Of Palestine, Tex. shot his
wife and then killed himself.
The influenza was increasing in many
places in Germany, and at some points
was largely Of fatal character.
Steamer Waldo A. Avery, grain laden,
Chicago to Buffalo, was destroyed at
Mackinaw straits. Loss, 100000
Gen. Miles reports that the Cheyenne
Indians in the territory reservation
are ill-housed, poorly clad and starving.
John r. Proctor has been appointed
civil service commissioner in place Of
q. p. johnson, removed by the presi-
dent.
Capt. Bassett has completed his sixty
second year Of continuous government
service. Daniel Webster made him q
page.
George w. Grandey, an authority on
English literature, died at Vergenness,
Vt, Of general debility. He was born
in 1912.
The Mary Lee Coal q Railway COM
pany went into receivers hands at
Birmingham, Ala, with liabilities Of
$500. 600.
Ricord Rousseau, president Of the
Banque Francaise in New York, fed
with at least $4,000 belonging to his
::
A shortage Of more than $4,000 has
been discovered In the accounts of
Lewis A. Arthur, treasurer of Bedford
Va.
Antoine Robert, the oldest native
born resident Of Frenchtown, Mich,
and the father OF twenty-seven chill
dren, is dead.
Martin Anderson murdered an un-
identified woman in the cellar of his
employers store at Omaha and then
killed himself.
Another big gas well has been struck
IN West Seneca, near Buffalo, n. Y,
the flow Of which is estimated at 1,000,-
300 feet per day.
Three hundred men will resume work
In the Pullman repair shops at. Will
mington, Del. this week at a reduction
Of 20 per cent. in wages
schloss s. Co., New York clothing
failed for $500, OO0 The
firm was ruined by its confidential man
ager, who embezzled SIS, 900.
The British steamer Asphodel went
ashore at Rehoboth, Del. 1t is valued
1T $500 and has cargo of sugar
valued at $780, 900. Tugs are at the
scene.
Hirschberg g. Co., of Boston. whole
sale boot and shoe dealers have made
an assignment. The liabilities are said
to be about 100000 nominal assets
the same.
M. b. Curtis, recently acquitted OF
killing Policeman Grant in San Fran
cisco, is in Austin, Tex. He. will buy
the Driskell hotel and will erect an
onera house TO cost 100000.