The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-09-23
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For the Week Ending Sept. 20.
/ The Mast, Bufford & Burwel Car
| rage company at St Paul failed for
! $1,000, 900.
Plans of an attempt upon the life OF
Emperor Francis Joseph were discov-
cred at Vienna.
| A gas we'll with flow of $4,000, 900
cubic feet a day was struck on a farm
near Findlay, o.
| Fire in the business center of En-
/ ty-fve horses were cremated;
Allen Frisby, day laborer at Oak
land, ILL.,, has received $4,000 in cash
left him by his uncle in Indiana.
! In New Haven pol women voted at
| the school elections. NoSwoman had
i ever voted before in Connecticut.
Twenty-Five buildings, including
three hotels, were burned at Schell
| City, Mo-, the loss being 100000.
Burglars blew open the safe of Will
bur & Co., wholesale grain dealers at
Phillips, Me, and secured $50, 600.
Footpads waylaid some twenty en-
ployes of a st. Louis firm on pay day
and robbed them of their earnings.
In answer to inquiries in the English
| house of commons it was denied that
there was any danger from cholera
Flames that started in livery stable
destroyed the business portion of Ow-
ingsville, KY, the loss being sl5o,ooo.
Roughs assaulted Rev. Mr.. Mersfel-
der, of Spencerville, O., for scoring
them from his pulpit, and he may die.
In a fight between Hungarian and
American workingmen at Benwood, w.
Va, five of the former were fatally
hurt.
| Preferring death to capture. Ed l..
\ Shepherd. notorious northwestern
srobber, shot himself near Perham,
MINI.
Masked men overpowered the watch
man at the Little Johnnie mine near
5000
In twenty-four hour bicycle contest
at Paris M. Lesna, of Switzerland, COW
cred 433 miles, surprising the previous
record.
Fred Miller and Will Kessler, two
young Germans, were instantly killed
by lightning while sitting in a house in
st. Paul.
Mayor Loughran, of Hot Springs,
Ark, shot at Alderman Cripps and
killed James Rainey. The mayor was
arrested.
! The Honduranian congress accepted
President Leivas' resignation and Gen.
Vasquez was elected president of the
republic.
Twelve business houses at Manis-
tique. Mich, were destroyed by fire.
The estimated loss is $15O,O0O; par
TALLY insured.
Leaders at Pittsb urgh, Pa, were TAX
!. Ing steps toward the formation of a new
. national associate EN- bracing all
f., labor societies.
Crippen, Lawrence & Co., Denver
loan concern, made an ASST gnment with
assets of nearly $1,oo0;oo0, which will
cover liabilities.
None but American citizens will
hereafter be given work at the big
plant of the national rolling mill at
Mcheesport, Ia.
A loss of 100000 was inflicted at
Spencer, Mass, by blaze which orig
mated in freight depot. Several fire.
men were injured.
Staples Green, negro, was hanged
at Livingstone, Ala, for murder. He
: prayed and sang on the scaffold and
confessed his guilt.
The trial of j. C. Brown for killing
Attorney c. S. Wesner in the court
room at Dahville, Ind, last May, has
been fixed for October II.
Redmond Burke was murdered at
Breckenridge, Mo-, presumably by
white caps He had been charged with
frequently beating his.wife.
Roy Emery, 5 years old, was run over
and killed by a train at Des Moines,
Ia, and his grandmother was kicked to
death by horse at Knoxville, Ill
For sixteen days forest fires had
ragged on the Laurel mountains in Penn
sylvania, doing immense damage. All
sources of water supply had gone dry.
Wellington Scrimshaw shot and
killed James Hyler at Partridge Point,
Mich, Tuesday in quarrel over a
woman. Scrimshaw gave himself up
to the police.
Louis Simmons, a white resident of
Mascoutah, ILL.,. Al years old, was
ducked in a pond for presuming to want
to marry Mrs. Emma jackson (colored),
no ;or1c