The Irish standard., 1893-10-28
NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Oct. ss.

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For the Week Ending Oct. IS.
A negro woman named Jordan died
in Little Rock, Ark, at the advanced
age of 129 years.
Lena Hill made new pacing record
at Dallas, Tex, for 2-year-olds, cover
ing the mile in 2:1sA.
FRYE of the directors Of the Madison
square bank in New York were arrest
ed on criminal charges
Stratton e. White, electrical and gem
eral implement dealers at Fort Worth,
Tex, failed for 3400, 900.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has secured control Of the Cleveland q
Marietta railroad of Ohio.
In row at Atkinsville, ILL.,, William
Griffith shot Dennis aud Martin Flynn
and a son of Robert Wyatt
Three children of Mrs Adelaide Crit
tendon fell into creek near Clayhalt-
chez, Ala, and. were drowned.
The lngham county savings bank of
Lansing, Mich, which closed its doors
last May, has resumed business.
A movement is in progress looking to
the uniting of all labor orders and
unions under a central authority.
Six counties in southwestern Kansas
have been almost depopulated by crop
failures and opening of the Cherokee
strip.
The estate of Miss Jane Holmes, of
Allegheny, Pa, estimated at 81, SOC, 600,
has been left to ten charitable institu-
tons.
"Lucky'' Baldwin, the California
millionaire, after twenty years on the
turf has decided to sell his string and
retire.
Admiral Mello has proclaimed Fred
erico G. de Lorena. a captain of rebel
war vessel, provisional president of
Brazil
G. G. Gaskin returned to Brooklyn
after forty-one years to find his wife
remarked and himself great-grand-
father:
coach on an Indiana & Illinois
Ehngham, Ill. Thirteen persons were
injured.
Fire originating in an. explosion of
gunpowder and kerosene in New Or
leans railroad yards caused damage of
500, 900.
James Mccormick, farmer, was killed,
together with his horses. at a crossing
of the Wabash road near Jackson
Vile, Ill.
A portion of the Lehigh company's
dock at West Superior gave way and
5, 900 tons of coal went to the bottom
of the bay.
G. NJ. Brinkerhof, Of Springfield,
Ill, who disappeared in July last, was
found in Toledo, o., by his son. His
reason is gone.
Arthur Bennett was lynched in
Georgia for poisoning the family of
farmer, He claimed he was hired by
another negro.
A prairie fire in Holt county, Neb.,
destroyed thousands of tons Of hay,
and In some places cremated horses,
cattle and hogs.
The male students at the Wesleyan
university in Middletown, Conn, have
formed a secret society to boycott young
women students.
For lynching the negro Smith at
Roanoke, Va. indictments have been
found against six persons, including
three police officers.
The British bark Florence Treat,
bound from Singapore to Shanghai,
was wrecked in storm and twenty
persons were drowned.
The firm of Frankenthal, Freudeu-
thai Il Co., wholesalers of clothing and
furnishing goods in Chicago, failed for
$3.50, 900; assets, $3.50, 0O0
Twice within eleven months has Mrs
j. Fl. Brewer, of Chicago, presented
her husband with twins. The first
were girls, the last boys.
James A. Demaree. for twenty years
grand reporter of the knights Of Hon
Or and founder of the order. died sud-
denly in Louisville, Ky.
Rear Admiral Walter W. Queen,
United States navy, retired, died sud
denly Of heart failure at his home in
Washington, aged So years.
Judge Mahoney in a suit in Minneap-
money distracted from the clothes Of
customer while in his premises.
John p. Brooks. chief of the New
York and New Jersey division OF the
United States secret service, died at his
home in Newark, n. j., aged GA years.
All the Canadian sealers have arrived
for the season at Victoria, B. C. The
number of sealskins taken this year
was 69,471, or $4,000 more than last
year.
Trains collided on the Fort Wayne
road at Monroeville, Ind. during a
heavy fog and four trainmen were seri-
ously and three passengers slightly in