The Irish standard., 1893-08-26
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the Week Ending Aug. 2S.
The business portion of Winlock,
Wash, was destroyed by fire.
The Anderson Piano company at
Rockford, ILL.,, failed for 800, 600.
A large portion of the town of Dick
son, Tenn, was destroyed by fire.
The elections in France resulted in q
safe majority for the government.
Five persons were fatally injured by
lightning during storm at Denison,
Tex.
The FIRST encampment of the National
Farmers Alliance opened at Mount
Gretna, Pa.
Silas Wilson, known as ''bad ne
gro," was lynched 10 miles from
Leavenworth, Kan.
The governments experiment of
transporting reindeer from Siberia to
arctic Alaska is a success.
Drought still prevails in Indiana and
portions of Illinois and the yield of corn
| will be materially affected.
Yellow fever has broken out afresh in
Brunswick, Ca, and the inhabitants
, are said to be panic-stricken.
A monument to Abraham Lincoln at
Edin burgh, Scotland, was unveiled
with appropriate ceremonies.
In order to move the wheat crop Min
neapolis millers and elevator men have
decided to use checks and due bills.
Capt. w. Blythe, sheriff Of Miller
county, Ark, was said to be short in
his accounts to the amount Of $27, 900.
Missouri regulators took 14-year-
old girl from her home near W,arrens-
burg and gave her a terrible whipping.
Returns of Illinois assessors show
that the assment of the state in 1898 is
$761, 230, ,6s1, against s745, 754, ,l72 in 1892.
Thirty-eight buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at Birdseye, Ind, and
seventeen families were left homeless.
Oscar II. Burbridge, Chicago stock
broker, was said to be missing with
500, 600 in cash belonging to custom
ers.
In order to move the wheat crop
Minneapolis millers and elevator men
have decided to use checks and due
bills. q
The National Association of Fire En-
gineers is in annual session in Mil
waukee, nearly 200 cities being repre-
sented.
F. H. Bostwick, of Cleveland, claims
to have knowledge that China will ex-
pei all Americans if the Geary law is
enforced.
The Ohio Stone company at Cleve-
land went into the hands of receiver
with assets of $500, 900 and liabilities Of
$3.50, 900.
Bridget Prendergast, aged 90, who
has been in cataleptic sleep in an in
dianapolis hospital for two years, has
awakened.
A committee of seven from each of
the central labor organizations in Chi
cago was appointed to seek aid for the
unemployed.
Several hundred unemployed Mil
waukee laborers, after demanding
work of Mayor Koch, looted number
of fruit stores.
A circular has been issued by the
American Bankers association which
advocates petitioning congress to stop
silver purchases.
Herman Struck, of Pekin, ILL.,, has
brought suit against Revenue Collector
Wilcox for $95, which he was assessed
for campaign purposes.
At Bearden, Ark, the house of Abra-
ham Jones, a negro, was blown up with
dynamite. Jones and his wife and child
ere probably fatally hurt.
Charles Tart, federal prisoner, was
lynched by mob near Fort Smith,
Ark, for wounding Capt. c. c. Peete
with a gun during struggle.
Samuel w. Clark, the leading lumber
dealer of GAINESVILLE, O., has made an
assignment. His resources and liabili-
ties will approximate $1,500,0o0.
Gov. Altgeld has pardoned Joseph
Kota, of La Sale county, Ill. He was
sentenced to the penitentiary in 1889
for forty years for murder and is dying
of consumption. -:
The race horse Doctor R., 2:15N, pur-
chased some time ago from Indiana
parties, has been seized by the customs
officials at Sarnia, Ont, on the charge
of under valuation.
Alva Morricle, of Mount Vernon, O.,
was drowned in Gognic lake, near Bat
tie Creek, MICH. He was % years old
and member of the training class for
nurses at the sanitarium.
It is said Gov. Osborne will certainly
refuse to call an extra session of the
Wyoming legislature to elect senator
in the event of the senate refusing To
seat the appointed senators.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has closed a contract for special train
of Pullman cars to convey 400 prominent
Mormons of Salt Lake to Chicago to
celebrate Utah day at the fair.
Mrs. T. ]. Losing died at Kansas
City, Kan, after six weeks of treatment
by Christian scientists. She refused to
receive physician, and died protesting
faith in the Christian science method
of cure.