The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
ror the week Ending Aug. 2.

I For the week Ending Aug. 2.
! Willie Shultz, aged IL, and Charles
Bauer, aged H. were drowned near Bur
lington, Ia.
Emancipation day was observed at
various points by the negroes OF the
United States.
The Missouri national bank 1T Kan
sas City that failed recently has re-
sumed business.
Ripley & Bronson. iron merchants in
st. Louis, made an assignment with
liabilities of t15O,000.
Prairies fires swept over vast per-
ton Of country in Oklahoma territory,
doing immense damage.
Thirty five horses persisted in q fire at
the Kansas City (Mo.) stockyards
Loss, 49, 600; fully insured.
Robert P. Porter, ex-superintendent
of the census, has resumed control of
the New York Daily Press.
Buyer, Reich & Co., wholesale dealers
in fancy goods at San Francisco, suf-
fered loss of 100000 by fire.
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Russia where the disease is now cpl
demic show marked increase.
The third trial of Actor M. B. Curtis
for the alleged murder of San Fran
cisco policeman has been begun.
A Pacific express wagon was held up
on the streets of Wichita. Kan, by
three negroes and robbed of 81 800.
The Philadelphia Packing e. Pro-
vision company went into the hands of
receiver with liabilities of over $780,
0O0
r. 3. Shirley, of Carlinville, ILL.,, was
elected without opposition to succeed
]. j. Phillips as judge Of the Fifth dis
trict.
Daniel II. Burnllam director of works
of the worlds fair. was elected presi-
dent of the American institute of arch
itects
A barn on the farm of James Bunton
near ha Porte, Ind, was burned, and
nine horses and tramp persisted it the
flames.
George G. Thornburg and Charles
Asche have brought suit in the Pitts
burgh courts for divorce from the same
woman.
The 1O-year-old son of Charles john
son, of Arlington, Neb., deliberately
murdered his s-year-old sister by shoot
ing her.
School elections were held in all of
the'country districts in Kansas and the
woman vote showed an increase of 100
per cent
An advance of from 90 to SO per cent.
in insurance rates in the northwest has
gone into effect Schedule risks are
excepted.
Lucinda Bell (colored celebrated her
102d birthday at: Fort Dodge, Ia. She
washes clothes for living and works
every day. ~"
Striking lunnber-shovers at Ashland,
Wis, attacked the men who had taken
their places and injured them terribly
with clubs.
. Louis Irig, of Cladron, Neb.. died
after a continuous sleep Of three
months, caused by exposure to violent
snowstorm.
George Kistner, one of the fourteen
men in prison for the killing Of S. P.
Bradshaw at Kingston, Ill, admits he
fired the fatal shot.
The Cleveland (O.) Rolling Mill COM
pany closed it's plate, wire and rod mills
and steel works, throwing 5000 men
out of employment.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railroad company has armed it's train
men with loaded revolvers to protect
themselves from tramps.
At Paris, Tex, young couple
named Fisk quarreled and the woman
shot and killed her husband. They
had been married week.
The section of the Geary law provid-
ing for imprisonment at hard labor has
been declared demonstrations by Fed
eral Judge Ross at Los Angeles.
Three burglars entered the Offices of
the Newspaper Union in Chicago and,
securing the watchmen, robbed the
safe of SIC, 900 in notes and 800 in cash
Indian police have been placed along
the Rosebud reservation in South Da-
kota to prevent cattle belonging to the
whites being sold to the government by
Indians.
The two children of Farmer Lam
grain, living near Olga, N. D., were
burned to death and Langrain and wife
badly injured. Kerosene was used to
start fire.
The managers of the Farmers's Ele-
vator association st st. Paul, MINI.
have decided to close their elevators
rather than operate them under the
rules of the new law.