The Irish standard., 1893-06-03
MINOR n EWS ITEMS.
For tho Week Ending May 81.

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| ~ For tho Week Ending May 81.
The cholera has again appeared in
Hamburg.
The business portions OF Standlsh,
Mich, and Newton, Miss, were burned
Mrs. Jane Baumgardner died at West
Bridgewater. Pa, aged 107 years
Ex-Congressman Logan H. Roots, of
Arkansas. died from congestion of the
brain
Floods in the northwestern parishes
of Louisiana have made 10000 persons
homeless
A decree expelling the Chinese has
been issued by the government of San
Salvador.
The Bank of Puyallup. at Puyallup,
Wash, closed its doors, with liabilities
of $50, 900.
Three children were burned to death
| at the home of Samuel Skiles near
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Appointment bureau is to be opened in
New York city by the national repub-
lican committee
Large numbers of Mohammedans are
| said to be preparing to emigrate from
India to America.
Corrial Knitfin, postmaster of Hope,
Ark, was slain by tramps who shot
him from ambush.
Cililio Lucero was lynched at Las
Vegas, n. NJ, for the murder of sheep
owner and his herder
Scrip to the value of $1,000 was
found in an unclaimed valise which had
been sold in Montreal
| A. B. Moore, who killed his wife's
paramour, Henry Reynolds: was acquit-
! ted at Grand Rapids, Mich.
| The ST. Paul road is reducing it's
forces, 1900 men having been dis
charged within few days.
| A break in the levee north of Arkan-
sas City, Ark, put large portion of
| Desha county under water.
G. A. Beck's planning mill and box
factory at Milwaukee was damaged to
| the extent of 100000 by fire.
The Big Stone Gap Land company of
Tennessee, capitalized at 81. 900, 900, has
been forced into liquidation.
Members of the Presbyterian assem-
bly, are indignant because President
Cleveland spent Sunday on yacht.
| Chauncey M. Depew was reelected
president of the New York society of
the Sons of the American Revolution.
1t was announced that China would
terminate all relations with the United
States if the Geary law was enforced.
The tug John A. Macdonald, which
left Kingston, Ont, with a raft for Que
bee. was given up as lost with her crew
of eight men.
The national bank of North Dakota
at Fargo was closed by the examiner,
and the bank at Beresford, S. D.,
closed its doors.
It was reported that 5000 residents of
Paste, Ecuador. were suffering from in
fuenza and that fully one-fourth of the
cases proved fatal.
In southwestern Arkansas a cyclone
blew down large number of houses
and at Hope seven persons were in
jured, two fatally.
F. H. Milburn, aged 30, son of the
blind chaplain Of the United States
senate, cut his throat with razor in
Chicago while Respondent.
Jacob Sleeper, of Massachusetts. has
been appointed consul general to
Colombia, and DR. w. A. Anderson, of
La Crosse. Wis, to Montreal.
Purcell Thomas, an aeronaut, at
! tempt to descend from the Parade house
! roof at Buffalo with the aid of an UNI
brella and was instantly killed
Warrants have been issued for several
dishonest worlds fair gate keepers.
From 5000 to 10000 souvenir tickets
are said to have been purlo1ned daily.
Miss Blanche Weber. of Wyaconda,
won the $1,000 piano in the annual
piano contest at Hardin college, Mexico,
Mo. There were fifteen contestants.
The blooming mill. engine room and
boiler house of the Laci1awanna steel
; company at Scranton, Pa. were de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $685.
Curtis Purdue, treasurer OF the East
Liverpool CO., lodge of the Knights of
Maccabees, has disappeared, together
with all the funds of the order, amount
ing to several hundred dollars
A panic in a crowded church at
Garmersheim. Bavaria, was caused by
cry of fire and four children were
trampled to death and twenty-seven
women received fatal injuries.
The heaviest rainfall in years oc-
Cured throughout Tennessee, Missis
sippi, Arkansas and Louisiana and the
whole country was flooded and meal
culable damage was done to planters.
A Private Bank Fails.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 3O.-The lit
tie town of Ellettsville was surprised
Monday morning by the failure of the
WOrlev bank at EllettSville, a private