The Irish standard., 1893-12-16
MEMOIR n EWS ITEMS.
" nor q tn. week Ending Dec. IS.

The Bank Of Willow City, N. d, was
placed in the hands Of receiver.
"A receiver was appointed for the
Minnekahta state bank at Hot Springs,
s. ID.
Eighteen youths, forming two gangs
OF pickpockets, were arrested in Chs
cago.
The Akron lO.) Iron company went
into the hands of receiver with Hablll-
ties Of $4,000
The Louisiana state lottery is prepar-
ing to move from New Qrleans-prob~
ably to Honduras
The Citizens NATIONAL bank at Grand
Island, Neb., the oldest bank in that
city, closed its doors.
Col Alton r. Easton. who won fame
In the Mexican and Black Hawk wars,
died at st. Louis, Mo.
The supposed gold find at Gladwin,
Mich, proved to be white sand with a
mixture of oxide of iron.
James billiard and Mark De Witt
were arrested at Youngstown, o., for
making counterfeit money.
Jacob B. jackson, governor of West
Virginia in ]ss0-s4, died suddenly al
Parkersburg, aged IS years.
ing TO agricultural department reports
for the month of December.
C. w. Williams. the noted trotting
morse breeder of independence, a., has
lost nearly all of his fortune.
Charles Crannels killed his wife. who
was suing him for, divorce at Green
castle, Ind. and then shot himself.
William Edison, pioneer nanufac-
turer, died at Fond du Lac, Wis. He
had slept in a coffin for twenty years
The plant of the Dealers Distilling
company at Hammond, Ind, was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $500, 900.
The big betting establishment and
tannery of James Davis at Pawtucket,
r. l., were burned, the loss being $685.
600.
D. Gutlohn & Co. and Charles NJ
Landberg, importers of furs at New
York and Philadelphia, failed for $l4O,-
600.
Edward Webb and Samuel Kerr took
their owa lives in Chicago because they
were out of work, needy and despon-
dent.
Moonshiners waylaid United States
Marshal Winnie Robinson in Missis-
sippi and after killing him burned his
body. :, p,.ixss
Statistics of the ]akee+. -.
season just closed .,now that freight
was carried :. unprecedentedly low
ratc<s,.
Leaving her two little ones to 20
downtown at Kansas City, Mo-, Mrs.
Nichols returned to find them fatally
burned.
The search. of the Paris police for
anarchists will probab bly, result in the
expulsion Of many foreigners from
France.
A nolle prosequi was entered at Mil
waukee in the case of Judge Jenkins,
charged with embezzlement and illegal
banking.
Eight persons were killed in the tax
riots at Portenico, Sicily, and the heads
of the sheriff and his wife were paraded
on poles.
The next national enca1npment of
the Grand Army of the Republic will be
held in Pittsburgh, Pa. beginning Sep.
TENDER 10.
J.W. Davidson, deputy clerk, dropped
dead from apoplexy while in the act
of swearing witness in court al
Findlay, O.
Thousands of letters containing
money have been stolen ut South Bend,
Ind, and government officers were in.
vestigating.
Twenty thousand dollars a month
will be required to feed the unem-
ployed miners in the upper peninsula
of Michigan.
j. w. Edwards, who lived near Full
ton, KY. fatally shot his wife. tried TO
kill his sister-in-law and then ended
his own life with bullet.
Ben Minter and Bob Wilkens me.
Rroes) were lynched at Berlin. Ala,
for robbing astore and killing Reuben
Smith, clerk who slept therein.
John Sims. bricklayer at Dover,
Tenn, killed his wife and then blew
ont his own brains. His inability to
effect reconciliation with his wife was
the cause.
For numbering his wife and Mrs.
Arthur Hern and burning their bodie.
in farmhouse Matthew Biteon was
sentenced at GAINESVILLE, Wis, to life
imprisonment.
Fred Fern. the American who was
connected with the Cara outbreak in
Mexico and who turned states evil
dence. was found fatally shot in Rio
Grande City. Tex.
Commander in Chief Adams, of the
G. A. R., has issued an official circular
asking all comrades to report any per-