The Irish standard., 1893-05-13
MINOR N EWS ITEMS.
ror. -. week Ending May 10. 3

For tho week EnOluK MAs1y ASs
Inhuenza was raging in Rome, Italy,
over SO, 900 cases being reported
Mrs. Biddy Mckee died at her home
in Seymour, Ind, aged 102 years.
Large numbers Of negroes were said
to be leaving Tennessee for California
j. C. Lincoln, first cousin of Abra-
ham Lincoln, died at his home in Salem,
Neb.
i Severe earthquake shocks were felt
at Madison, Howard and Carthage in
South Dakota.
Colcumbets' ribbon factory at st.
Etienne, France, was burned, the loss
being 1000, 900.
C. A. Carr, William Helm and Ellis
Reed were killed by the fall Of tile
kiln at Casey, Ill.
Famine was said to be decimating the
population of the rural districts in
southeastern Russia.
The large dry goods store of j. 3.
Wells & Co. at U tica, N. Y, was burned,
the loss being 100000.
The supreme court of North Dakota
has decided the state prohi bitionE law to
be constitutional and valid.
Robert Downey, Richard Hoban and
Major Watson were swept over a dam
at Dixon, ILL.,, and drowned.
The Bank of Victoria at Melbourne
suspended with liabilities of 1000, 600.
The bank has many branches. -
The white caps in Jail at Brook
haven, Miss, have been sentenced each
to two years in the penitentiary.
1t was reported that wholesale ex-
pulsion of the 100000 Jews in the
kingdom of Poland had commenced.
The OFT & Brewer Pottery company
at Trenton, n. j., one of the Oldest
works in the country, failed for $137,-
900.
J. Fl. Ernest Woten, one of the best
known mining engineers in the world,
was found dead in his bed at Denver,
Col.
Lieut.. Col. Ely McClelland, surgeon
of the United States army, died sud-
denly at his residence in Chicago, aged
60 years.
Ignace Jan Paderewski sailed for
Europe from New York Saturday. He
expressed himself we'll pleased with his
American tour.
A locomotive and four freight cars
loaded with laborers broke through a
bridge near Abrens, Cuba, and twenty
men were killed.
One-cent pieces are being introduced
in Oakland, Cal, for the first time.
The smallest legal tender formerly used
was 'fve-cent pieces.
The defeat of the army bill in the
German reichstag caused that body to
dissolve and Caprivi to tender. his resig-
nation as chancellor.
The steamer Paris of the American
line and the ,Campania of the Cunard
line left their docks in New York for a
race across the ocean.
John J. Shea, of Lima, o., was paid
the sum of $10,920 for the loss of an
arm while in the employ of the Lake
Erie & Western road as yard conductor.
Cubans are reported to be planning 3
general uprising in June Five hundred
thousand Cubansdn the United States
are sa d to have enlisted in the move
ment.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
passed bill prohibiting the selling,
giving away OR otherwise disposing OF
cigarettes and cigarette papers to
minors.
The saloon of John Smock at May
wood, Ind, was blown to pieces by
dynamite, making the third saloon in
that place to suffer the same fate with
in a few weeks.
In the circuit court at Quincy, Ill, a
jury rewarded Joe Zimmerman $4,000
damages against the Electric Wheel
company for the loss of a hand sus-
tanned while cleaning machine which
was in operation.