The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the Week Ending Oct. q.
Mrs. M Try Pietred was beheaded ey
q train Dayton, 0.
Charles j. Melville, Is years old,
! world-famed.- as q bareback rider, died.
at Pittsburgh. 8.s
Commercial travellers organized q ma
tional league at New York with a mem
bership Of 100000.
Bandit Sontag has made confession
at Sacramento, Cal, with view to hav-
ng his life sentence reduced.
DIR. Foglesong was sentenced to soli-
tary confinement for life at Eillsdale,
Mich, for poisoning his wife. - - : +
Centerburgh, town in Ohio near
Mount Vernon, was almost destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000.
The September statement of circula-
ton shows $25. % per capita for an esti-
matedpopulation of 1906, 900
Muncie representatives have appealed
for the smallpox stricken town.
Three persons were killed ana three
others badly injured by the collision OF
freight trains near Edgewood, o.
Richard Noble, aged so years, we'll
known citizen of Mount Pleasant, Ia,
was gored to death by mad bull.
Twelve leading residents near Column
bus, Ind, were indicted by the grand
jury for cruelty whipping a woman.
A tin pail filled with American silver
coins dated previous to 1854 was found
hidden in the woods near Perth, Canada.
Foreign nations are contributing
articles to be woven into the S'interna-
tional peace rope" for the new liberty
bell
''Aunt Eliza Porter (colored), of
Atchison, the oldest woman in Kansas,
is dead She was born August lC, 1892,
in Kentucky.
Fire destroyed the immense car barns
of the Canton assilon Electric Rail
way company at Canton, O., the loss
being 100000.
Wilhelm Marquardt on the day that
he was to have been married, climbed
into a freight car at Chicago and blew
out his brains
A decision of Judge Shepard, of the
Bowie county district court, makes IL
legal over 1000 marriages in the county
of Bowie, Tex.
M. d. Bunch, POSTMASTER at Wither-
spoon, Ark, was fatally poisoned by
people against whom he testified in
hog -stealing case.
The state of Texas has perfected ar
engagements for fling suits to recover
over 1000, 900 acres of school lands un.
der the act of 1883.
Roughs attacked a meeting near
Jonesboro Ca, and in the fight two
men were killed outright and several
seriously wounded.
Some unknown person placed Il dyna-
mite cartridge between Eliza Dent and
Houston Kelly (coloredl at Paris, KY,
killing both of them.
Reports from the whalingo fleet in the
Arctic are to the effect that nearly all
the catch this season will be unusually
large.
Mamie Levandie, an insane Greek
sign painter, drew a roll of money
from his pocket at Pitts burgh, Pa. and
burned $3.50 before he was stopped by
the police.
Advices state that in an uprising
among the natives of Alaska many per-
sons had been killed, among them sew
eral missionaries sent out by the Amer
lean board.
Advices from Madagascar state that
George Muller, who was sent by the
French government to explore NADIA
gascar, had been attacked by band of
brigands and beheaded.
Two employees of the Greenwood ceme-
terry at Brooklyn. N. Y, had a quarrel
in the cemetery and as a result of a
fight which followed each killed the
other with sickles with which they were
cutting grass.