The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
THE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For tho Week Ending Hov. Id
Paris has decided to hold worlds
fair in 1900.
Secretary Hoke Smiths law firm Ct
Atlanta, Ga, has been Dissolved
The business portion Of the town OF
Portland, Ark, was wiped out by ire.
Weiss e. Goldstein, of Greenville.
Miss, shoe dealers, failed for $500, 900.
Rev. Or. Morrison. founder of the
Scotch Evangelical church, died IN
Glasgow.
Cincinnati wants to spread out, and
has plan to annex Is square miles OF
territory.
At Midd]etown O., the Gunckel
banking company assigned with liza
bilities of 100000.
The Thuber- Whyland company,
wholesale grocers in New York city,
failed for $500. 900.
John Palmer. the inventor of the
baggage check, died at Union City,
Mich, aged IS years.
B. Perry Collins, OF Washington, and
j. Salmon. of New York, were asphyx-
lated in a St. Louis hotel
Ben Hyams, well-known English
bookmaker, was drugged at a Liverpool
hotel and robbed Of 10000
The banking house of Glembicki in
Warsaw, Poland, failed with liabilities
amounting to 500, 600 rubles.
Grief for the sudden insanity and
subsequent death of a son killed Rev.
Henry Kay, of st. Joseph, Mo-
Prof. William l.. Shoup, who had q
national reputation as an author of
text books, died at Dubuque, Ia.
At Riverton, Ala, Mrs. Davis and her
daughter were killed by masked rob-
Der, who was then shot by son.
DR.. David Judlxins, chief of Lincoln S
medical staff during the war, died at
Cincinnati He was ~ years old.
Pansy McGregor, in the 1925 trot at
Holton, Kan, broke the yearling rec
ord, making the distance in 2:25H.
The Honduras government has apol-
ogized for firing on the American flag
and Uncle Sam is satisfied Herewith.
In an unofficial tr:a1 off Boston, the
new cruiser Columbia made the un-
precedented speed of 22.87 knots an
hour.
Fifteen cities near central Cuba have
declared against Spanish rule and are
in open rebellion against the govern
ment.
Three men attempted to hold UP a
train near Lincoln, Ill. They were
driven off after shooting Brakeman
Trott.
Herman and Otto Habeck, of Vein.
Wis, admit that they killed their
drunken father at the instance of their
mother.
Peter Barker, once wealthy man,
was arrested at Kansas City for snatch
ing women's pocketbooks ON crowded
streets.
The women white caps at Osceola,
Neb, who logged several girls three
weeks ago, were fined for unlawful as
sembly.
Ambrose and Joseph Smith were
killed near Mount Pincon, Ala, while
resisting arrest on the charge Of tres
passing.
Eugene Turpin, the discovcrer OF
melinite, has invented a machine to
combat the effects of tornadoes and
cyclones.
Remains OF the late Mayor Harrison
were inferred at Graceland cemetery.
Chicago, in the presence of relatives
and few friends
Frank Knox, aged over 100 years, an
ex-slave who had been barber in Lib
erty, Ind, for a great many years. was
found dead in bed.
secretary, has been indicted in Chics 60.
for stealing s35, 900 Of the Home Build
ing and Loan association.
The entire rolling mill plant of the
Whitaker Iron and Steel company at
Wheeling. W. Va, was destroyed by
fire. the loss being $4,000
Justice Blatchfora's memory was
honored by the supreme court ia Wash
ington Justice Fuller and Attorney
General Olney pronounced eulogies.
Joe Kirksey, Will Weiss and Bob
Mckinney were killed by an explosion
in a lumber mill near Beaumont, Tex.
and three other men were fatally in
jured.
The Little Red House" in which
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "Tangle-
wood Tales" 1.-The House of Seven
Cables and other stories is to be re-
stored.
The Salvation. Army.
New YORK, Nov. 15,-The congress Of
the Salvation Army convened at Car
neoie music hall in this city yesterday.