The Irish standard., 1893-07-15
I MI ~ OR .EWS ITEMS.

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F ps, the Week Ending July 1s.
4 The Terre Iaute (Ind.) Car company
/ failed for $27O, 600.
/ The Hercules Iron Works company
Of Chicago failed for $500, 900. a,. @ .=s3S
I Josiah Stone, United States consul at
] Nogales, Mexico, died ID that city.
Mrs. Charles, Gollmer, Of Alton, III. ,
/ gave birth to her twenty second child.
James Corbetta and Peter jackson
have signed articles to fight next June
!, for q purse of $40, 900.
Misses Carrie and Pearl Plant isis
ters) started to walk from Muskegon,
i Mich, to the worlds fair.
Meeting accident IN Windsor Conn. }
swamp Mrs. Mary Media remained
without food for forty-one days.
/ A severe rainstorm flooded several
small towns in Dane county, Wis, and
great damage to property resulted.
/ Frank Boyes a demented farmer
near Wauseon, O., cut his wifes throat
( and killed himself. A daughter es-
capped.
! Clarence Woolsey and Walter Swan
! son were drowned while boating at
i Rockford, ILL.,. Tuesday. Their boat
capsized.
| The village of Fairville, a suburb of
st. John, N. B., was almost destroyed
| by fire. and eighty families were left
| homeless.
! The Arkansas state bank of Stuff
CART, and the Arkansas Farmers and
Traders; bank of Dewitt failed to open
, their doors.
| 1t was said that conductors and en-
! gineers on the Queen e. Crescent rail
road had robbed the company of goods
valued at $4,000.
| The Southern California national
bank and University bank at Los An
] geles, Cal, which failed recently, have
resumed business.
| President Moshier, of the Capital
national bank of Lincoln, Neb., was
sentenced to five years in prison for
wrecking the bank.
The private bank of John l.. Davis
at Auburn, Ind, made an assignment
and the Holt county bank at O'Neill,
/ NeO., closed It's doors.
| The bank at Lesueur, Mimi, the
Northern national at Big Rapids, Mich,
and the Citizens bank at Winneconne,
Wis, shut their doors.
! The New York & New Haven railroad
i lost s1xty-four freight cars and other
property by fire at New Haven, Conn.,,
the loss being 100000.
The statue Of P. T. Barnum at Sea-
i side park in Bridgeport, Conn, was
! disfgured by some vandal by being
covered with red paint.
| Augustus Hemenway. of Canton, Mo-,
invited the twenty-six public school
teachers there to a ten-day trip to the
| worlds fair at his expense.
| An engine ran into herd of steers
!. at st. Joseph, Mo-, and after killing
ten steers was derailed The engineer
jumped and was badly injured.
| j. S. Conover & Co., manufacturers
in New York and dealers in open fire.
places, CRATES and tenders, wood man.
| tells and tiles, failed for $4,000
4 The gross earnings of the Chicago,
! Milwaukee e. St. Paul road for the year
! ended June 80 were $33, 975, 054, against
! $50, 1885, sos for the previous year.
| The State bank at Shubert, Neb
closed its doors owing to the fight of
the cashier, G. V. Argabor ~ght, with
! s21, 900 belonging to the institution.
! The July returns ia the department
of agriculture make the average condi-
ton of wheat 76.6 per cent, rye, IS. 8;
barley, ss.s; oats, 1873. and potatoes,
| 1O1.1.
The banking house of w. F. Thorn
ton & Son at Shelbyville, I'LL, made an
assignment with liabilities of $500, 900,
involving hundreds Of business men and
| farmers.
! Prof. Lewis &. Gorton, of the Bishop
union school, Detroit, has been APP
pointed president Of the state agri-
cultural college in Lansing, Mich, by
| the state board of agriculture.
| The body of Charley West, a 14-year-
! old boy, was found under sidewalk at
Centerville, Ia. He had been missing
since July 5. Escaping gas from pipe
| is thought to have caused death.
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