The Irish standard., 1893-09-30
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Immigration into Canada TINS year
has proved failure
A police census shows nearly SO, 600
idle persons in Chicago.
The corn crop of Iowa this season is
estimated at 240, 900, 900 bushels.
Ten thousand persons welcomed Gov
overnor General and Lady Aberdeen to
Montreal.
Thomas S. Collier, poet and historian
died suddenly at New London, Conn.
of hemorrhage.
The large furniture factory of B. A.
Kipp & Co. in Milwaukee was burned,
the loss being $500, 900. .
Abe Wilsey fatally shot his wife at
Petoskey. Mich, and was in turn shot
and killed by Henry Six.
Solly Smith was knocked out by
George Dixon in seven rounds in the
arena of the Coney Island club.
| Sentenced to death at Birmingham,
Ala, for murder, William Bell has sue
ceeded in establishing his innocence.
| A federal union of the Central Amer
lean republics is planned. All but one
of the five presidents are said to favor
it.
An assignee was appointed for the D.
! ID. Merrill Stationery company, of st.
Paul Their liabilities aggregate $3.50, :
600.
The state of Tennessee has purchased
5000 acres of coal lands in Morgan
county and will set convicts to mining
coal
The Milwaukee national bank, which
closed its doors in July during the
height of the panic, has resumed bust
ness.
Lafayette Leroy, to whom monu-
lnent had been erected at Saginaw,
Mich, returned after eight years alb
sence.
e. D. Root, American vice consul at
Guaymas, Mexico, shot himself in the
head, dying therefrom. No cause was
assigned.
Willard. Morgan, one of the most
noted moonshiners in the country, was
captured by marshaTs posse in West
Virginia.
An attempt was made to burn Trim
ity Episcopal church in Chicago, but
the prompt efforts of some ladies saved
the edi6ce.
Missouri's railway commission has
ordered the resembling of regulations
to prevent passengers without tickets
entering trains.
For the cold blooded murder of his
wife in Chicago William Williams was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life
by Judge Tuthill.
Utah commissioners reported in
Washington that polygamous mar
riages in the Mormon territory, were
thing of the past.
Rev. E. D. Neill. the first resident
Protestant minister of St. Paul, is dead
number of books.
Benjamin Tennis. farm hand, con-
fessed that he outraged and then MUIR
eaered Agnes Wright, aged 9years, near
Hummelstown, Pa.
An armed mob looted the Chinese
houses at La Grande, Ore, and marched
the Cinnamon to the city limits and or
dered them to leave.
Three Bolduc children at st. Evari-
este Beach, Can, aged $, 8 and 8 years,
found some strychnine in bottle and
drank 1t and all died.
+ A resolution advocating formation of
a third party was wildly cheered at the
session of the Cigarmakers' Interna-
tional union at Milwaukee,
Gen. Martinez de Campos and Gen.
Castellvi were hurt and one soldier
killed and five wounded by an anarch-
list bomb at Barcelona, Spain
The Venice bridge across the Big
Miami river near Cincinnati was burned
by an incendiary. 1t was built nearly
half century ago and cost $4,000
The national council of the Order of
American Mechanics in session at Des
Moines, Ia, decided to change the
name to the Order of United Amer
leans.
Mrs. Henry l.. Stevens and Miss So
phia T. w. Morton while driving were
instantly killed at crossing on the
Boston & Maine railroad near Green
field, Mass.
Independence, Ia, is to have s25, 900
public building, donated by generous
resident. Ground has been broken for
the building and the work will be
pushed at once.
New gold reefs were discovered in
1tasca county, Mimi, the specimens
shown indicating that the new finds
are among the richest ever made in the
Rainy river district.
The Four Seasons hotel, built at
Middlesborough, KY, by the Cu1nber-
land Gap Park company at cost of
81, 00O, 900, has closed it's doors. 1t went
into the hands of receiver some months
ago.
Broke His Neck.
MAscouTAH. Ill, Sept. 81. William
Vottschoemer, prominent farmer re-
siding near st. Library, fell from his
porch Sunday while talking to his
family. His neck was broken by the
fall. but the coroner's investigation de-
veloped the fact that death was caused
by heart disease and that the man was
dead before his neck was broken. He
was an old settler, aged Is.
Train Wreckers Fooled.
STANTON. Ind. Sept. 27.-Attempt