The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-09-16
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
II the Week Ending Sc

! For the Week Ending Sept. Is.
Benefits casino, a variety theater in
| Brooklyn, n. Y, was burned, the loss
being $3.50, 600.
| "A gas well with flow of 50.000,O00
cnbic feet a day was struck on farm
near Findlay, o.
BY vote Of 90 to the national COM
mission of the worlds fair decided to
adjourn sine die
w. o. Barney, treasurer of Defiance
] county, o., was found to be $4,000
! short in his accounts.
The town of Baldwin, Wis, was al
most entirely wiped out by fire, the
/ loss being over 100000.
] Joseph Dysart, lieutenant governor of
iowa from 1874 to 1878, died at his home
/ in Vinton, aged IS years.
Two men captured mail wagon at
Terre Haute, Ind, and gagged the
driver and rifed the pouches.
Coopers in national convention at
Milwaukee adopted a strong protest
against convict labor competition.
| Five children of F. w. Whitney, near
Silver Hill, Ark, were burned to death
while their parents were at church.
| George P. Kegaris, a Dunkard
preacher, hanged himself to a cherry
s tree at his home near Salemville, Pa.
Labachsville, Pa. a town of 200 in
hab;tants, is to be put up at auction
1t has been in one family for $50 years.
| In the trial trip at Philadelphia of the
cruiser Columbia all speed records were
beaten. She made 21.3 knots an hour.
! The grain elevator of the w. c. Fnh-
rer Milling company at Mount Vernon,
ind, was burned, the loss being $780,
600.
| Timber fires in the vicinity of Dead
wood, S. D., have destroyed hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty.
L. S. Meintjes, of South Africa, in
race against time at Springfield, Mass,
lowered the smile bicycle record to
1900 80
October 10 and 10 have been selected
as the dates for the annual convention
of the American Bankers association
in Chicago.
Quarantine has been declared
against Muncie, Ind, by several OF the
cities of the state owing to the spread
of smallpox.
In filling lighted gasoline stove
Mrs. Maxwell. of Clinton, Ia, was IA
tally burned. Her daughter Stella was
also fatally burned.
sss Striking Italians took possession of
the mining town of Beading, Pa, ter
rorizing the Inhabitants. Twenty
eight were arrested.
Paymaster John Mcmahon, United
States, navy, died suddenly of heart
failure at his residence in Dorchester,
Mass, aged 81 years.
James Fl. Walker. of Philadelphia,
and Joseph L. Kilrain, of Elwood, Ind,
died at the same hour on passenger
trains at Pittsburgh.
Justin Mccarthy has cabled an ap-
peal to the president of the Irish ma
tional federation in America asking for
continued financial support.
Adulp Krug, city treasurer of Seattle,
!, Wash, was found to be $135. 900 short
in his accounts. He had fed across the
border into British Colum bia.
Twenty-three men scattered through
jackson and Gilbert count ties, Ga, were
arrested with wholesale counterfeits of
silver dollars in their possession.
At Chil]icothe Richard Brown, col
ored, shot and killed Nellie Wolfscall,
also colored, whom he was about to
marry, and then fatally shot himself.
i. Some fiend or fends entered the
graveyard in Hudson, Wis, and pushed
over, broke and otherwise destroyed
twenty two of the most costly grave
stones.
George w. Dye. one of the wealthiest
planters in northeast Georgia, is dead,
and has left his fortune of over half a
million to the negro family who at
tended him for the last fifty years.
The following banks have resumed
business: First national at LIE Mars,
Ia, First national at MELVILLE, Tenn.
Commercial at Stevens Point, Wis.,,
Western. national at Pueblo, Col, and
Bank of Florence at Florence, Col
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