The Irish standard., 1893-08-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Aug. 9.

OF LOUISVILLE, n.y., cduSeu y Aooo VI
$3.50, 900.
A. D. Baker, owner of the wagon
works at Mishawaka, Ind, failed for
1920, 600.
| r. H. Hotchkiss & Co., members OF
the New York stock exchange, failed
for $4,000
! Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, with her
three children, arrived at New York
from England.
Charles G. Otis, of passenger ele-
! vator fame, died at his residence in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Thousands of Austrians, Italians and
Poles were leaving Colorado for their
native countries.
A tornado at Philadelphia unroofed
, score of dwellings and factories. caus-
ing loss of 100000.
| n. Cort & Co., of New York, inn
| porters of tin, tin plate and other met
ais, failed for s35o,Oo0.
At Higbee, Mo-, five women horse
: whipped James Collins, who had IN
suited one of their number.
Knight. Leonard g. Co., printers and
; publishers in Chicago made an assign
ment with heavy liabilities.
Ten of the alleged slayers of 5. T.
Bradshaw have been held without bail
by Judge Bonney, of Quincy. Ill.
Pennsylvania iron millers have in
structed their superintendent to en-
ploy none but Americans hereafter.
| James L. Wright, one of the founders
of the knights of Labor, died at his
home in Philadelphia, aged 76 years,
! Snowdrifts a foot deep were found
along the line of the Haverhill & A,nes-
bury road on the hillsides of Amesbury.
Mass.
| Warren Bryant. for twenty-nine
years president of the Buffalo IN. ~
savings bank, died at the age OF e.
years.
| ALI the stables of the new driving
park at Connersville, Ind, were burned
and severa, valuable horses were ere
mated.
The Equitable Accident Insurance
company of Denver was placed III the
hands of a receiver. Its capital was
$3.50, 1000.
American sealing vessels report i'll
success off the Japanese coast. The
catch will be 80 per cent. less than was
expected.
Three masked men entered general
store at Pennington, n. NJ, ordered
hands up and secured $1,000 in money
and jewelry.
Railroad officials say there is an i'm
mense coal tonnage in sight and expect
the business to be four times greater
than last year.
Residents of Marion county, Miss,
celebrated the sentencing of William
Purvis, noted desperado, to hang by
firing 100 guns.
White caps took Mrs. Elijah Dalton,
of Borden, Ind, from the home of her
husband and whipped her terribly with
hickory switches.
Swift & Co., packers at the Chicago
stock yards, laid off 500 men and re-
duced the wages of the remaining en-
pioyes 10 per cent
Charles Mccormick fatally shot
Janette Neil at Jackson, Mich. be.
cause she refused to marry him, and
then killed himself.
The National Vapor Stove company,
Cleveland, o., made an assignment
with assets estimated at $125, 900 and
liabilities at 100000.
Under the ruling of the first comp
troller of the treasury congressman are
not entitled to mileage for attendance
on the extra session.
Corn and pastures in the Ottumwa
Qa.) region were saved by a heavy rain
Tuesday night, breaking drought OF
twenty days duration.
A yield of wheat of but thirteen
bushels to the acre-the smallest since
1685-is indicated in reports to the H.
linois board of agriculture.
Sixteen non-union boiler makers were
attacked in St. Louis hotel by twenty
five unionists. Knives and pistols were
used and score were injured.
Citizens of Glendive, Mont. gave a
coat of tar to white man and gar
ment of alabastine to his colored bride
and ordered them out of town.
| DR.. A. j. Starkey, of Harvey. ILL.,,
was enticed from his home to attend a
supposed patlent anu VIXEN Oh tHe
prairie was sandbagged and robbed.
The Cadwallader Touring mill at
Fostoria, O., was blown up by a boiler
explosion and G. Davis, secretary of the
mill, and &c. Myers, bookkeeper, were
killed.
| Mallory, Son & Zimmerman, one OF
the Oldest and most reliable livestock
commission firms at the Chicago stock
yards, placed their affairs in the hands
of a receiver.
|, Drought throughout Illinois and
other western states has affected corn
and pastures injuriously. Owing to
the low price of wheat some farmers
are feeding it to hogs.
Corn and pastures are drying up in
the Holland (Mich.) district and farm
ers have begun to feed wheat to their
horses, it being cheaper than corn and
oats. There are no signs of the drought
breaking.
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Can Deface Gettysburg.
! HARRISBURG, Pa. Aug 9.-Attorney
| General Hensel has refused the writ of