The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-05-27
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For the Week Ending May ~.
The Baptist national anniversaries
Iconmenced in Denver. Col.
Hugh O'Neill, the Irish leader, died in
Ulster, Ireland, aged Is years.
Mayor & Ulman, wholesale grocers at
Brunswick, Ga, failed for s2SO,000.
Walter o. Odds has been elected chief
justice of the supreme court Of Indiana
Flames among tobacco factories at
Winston, N. c., caused loss of $3.50,
600.
Stockmen in South Dakota have suf-
fered great losses by recent storms in
| that state. .
The grand jury at Norwalk, O., in
dicted dozen prominent men for
gambling.
Flames in the Arbuclxle Brothers COT
fee mill in Brooklyn, n. Y, caused a
loss of s250,O00.
Observer Charlois at Nice discovered
three planets of the twelfth and thir-
teenth magnitudes.
John Downey's cottage in Buffalo, N.
Y, was burned and three children per-
ished in the flames.
Two mad dogs bit twenty persons in
Chicago in the neighborhood of Forty
eighth and West Lake streets.
Great forest fires were raging near
South Willimantic, Mass, and over 800
acres of timber had been burned.
| Fire destroyed the American Tubing
& Webbing company's works at Prov
idence, r. L., the loss being $3.50, 900.
Twenty-Five horses belonging to the
Peoples Quitting company were
burned to death in fire in Chicago.
Flames in Chicago in the building oc-
cupied by the DIR. Price Baking Powder
company caused damage of s115,00O.
Seventeen business houses and resi-
dences were destroyed by an incendiary
fire at Montfort, Wis. Loss, 100000.
The immense plant of the Beatty
glass works factory at Tifin, O., was
damaged by fire to the extent of $780,
900.
The Elnira IN. W national bank
closed It's doors owing to the financial
| difficulties of it's president, d. c. Robin
son.
The establishment of the King Iron
| Bridge company at Cleveland, o., was
damaged to the extent of $150,00O by
| fire.
Mrs. Gottlieb Fox fell over dead Sun
| day during the observance Of commun-
ion in church near Upper San
duslzy, o. ......... .....
The extensive wine vaults of the
Eschenauers at Bordeaux, France, were
destroyed by fire, the loss being 1000,
600 francs.
Students at Grant university, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, hauled down the stars
and stripes and substituted flag of the
confederacy.
John Wilson, of Mulberry, Ark. !,
eloped with his niece, Mabel Summers
killed Wilson:
George Landlord shot and instantly
killed his wife at Marietta, o., and then
| shot and killed himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
! Will Neal (colored) was lynched by
negroes near Willian.sville, Miss. for
assaulting the 6-year-old daughter of
jackson Comfy, also colored.
Edward McDuffie, of Maiden, Mass,
lowered the American 25-mile road BIZ
cycle record by riding the course in /
hour IL minutes SIS 2-5 seconds
Heavy frosts were reported along the
line of the Central Branch railway in
| - 81,
ing crops were greatly damaged
The ak polishing and finishing de-
! partments of the American AK & Tool
company at Douglas, Mass, was
burned, causing loss of 100000.
| The receivers of the Reading road
have ordered reductions in the wages of
miners at several collieries from $40. 70
to sSper week. Some of the miners quit
| work.
! BY decision of the courts at Omaha
| the Union Pacific company will be com
PEELED to build a tine railway station at
! Omaha, as it agreed to do more than
ten years ago.
! Mrs. Annie Peterson was sentenced
| to the state prison for two years at Co
umbus o., for smuggling small saw
to her husoand in Jail, by which he
| made his escape.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Archer &, Pancoast Manufacturing
company at New York. The concern
has assets of ST. 900, but was unable
to meet notes which fell due on May Is
and which went to protest.
| Her Income Gone.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, May 24-Alrs. Har-
| riot Rearher StOwa'S source IF income