The Irish standard., 1893-04-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

tired, died In washington IN ms 0dd
year.
Gen. Robert Smith, war veteran.
died at his home in Hamilton, ILL.,, aged
So years.
The greater part Of the village q
Byng Inlet, Ont, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
William Everett (dem.) was elected
to congress from the Seventh district OF
Massachusetts, by IA majority.
After four years of open gambling
the gamblers of Springfield, O., have
closed up by order of the mayor.
The schooner Newell Eddy, with a
crew OF eight men, foundered on Lake
Huron, and all were supposed to be lost.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
an act authorizing state banks to IS
sue currency redeemable in gold and
silver.
Richard Verbyke and Isaac Monroe,
stillmen at the Solar refinery in Lima,
o., were fatally burned by q still blow
ing off.
A Wells-Fargo express car was
burned near Albuquerque, N. NJ, and
SIS, 900 in gold in one of the safes was
melted.
The Surrey lumber company's mills
at Dendron, Va, with 100000 feet of
lumber, were burned, the loss being
5000, 900.
Fred Badgerm, George Lyons and
William King were killed by the ex-
plosion of glycerine house at En-
porium, Pa.
Father Vandever, priest in the
parish at Butte. Mont, was said to
have squandered se2, 200 belonging to
the church.
Sixty of the provisional guard at
Honolulu were poisoned ~ some drug
put in their milk by their enemies, the
medicine men.
DR.. William Nelson M:Vicar, of Phil
adelphia, has declined the bishopric Of
Massachusetts,.
Jack Brady (eolored) has been
hanged at Benderville, N. c., for the
murder of L. D. Taylor, white man.
He confessed the deed.
Jacob Newman, Chicago lawyer,
was swindled out of $2s, 900 by an adroit
sharper known to his victim as Lyman
L. Lamb, of Akron. O.
The centennial of the ablishment
of the Catholic diocese of New Orleans,
the second in the United States, was
celebrated in that city.
Three Frenchmen named Triquois,
Alphonz Ranger and Cyrille Fourier
while scuffling ON raft at East Gray,
Me-, Saturday, were drowned.
The American ship Jabez Howes,
Capt. Henry, arrived in San Francisco
/ from New York, having made the vcy-
age of 1900 miles in 1o6 days. -
Eleven white caps, some of them the
most prominent men in Carrollton, Co.,
were sentenced in the superior court to
twelve months in the chain gang.
Col. Edwin II. Webster died at his
home in Be1air, Md. He was elected q
member of congress in 1859 and was re-
elected three ti1pes in succession.
A. B. Hepburn, who has just retired
from the comptrollership of the cur
rency, has been elected president of the
Third national bank of New York.
Col. William McMichael, aged So, a
well-known lawyer and assistant at
torney general under Gen. Grant, was
found dead in his bed in New York.
During the absence of r. A. Honea
(colored) and his wife their house near
Aberdeen, Miss, was burned and their
three children persisted IN the flames.
During recent storm in the oyster
growing districts along the Connecticut
coast the oyster crop was almost ruined,
the loss being estimated at over $780,
600.
Alexander Nickerson, a real estate
dealer of Sioux City, Ia, who had been
drawing money on checks when he had
no money in bank, killed himself Mon
day.
Miss Rose Mcdonald, who never rode
on a steam railroad train because, as
she stated they were an invention of
the devil, died at Uniontown, Pa, aged
80 years.
Dana Thompson broke the American
half mile swimming record in San Fran
cisco, lowering the time from Is min
utes and % seconds to IA minutes and
Ii SecOuuS
Chris .Eieman, farmer at Laona, I'LL,
while insane set fire to his barn and
thirty head of cattle and six horses
were cremated. Nieman then shot and
killed himself.
John Sweeney and Patrick Walsh,
first cousins, who were born in Ireland
seventy years ago on the same day,
died of old age on the same day in
Clifton City, Mo.
Extensive and rich deposits of tin
were found near Guyanjuato, Mexico,
the mines giving evidence of having
been worked by the Aztecs or some
other race centuries ago.
Miss May Miller: who is alleged to
have absconded from Omaha, Neb.,
with several hundred dollars belong
ing to her employers, was arrested
Monday IN Kansas City, Mo.
John H. Patrick, who had been an
employe of the pension Office in Wash
ington since 1861, was stricken with
paralysis at his desk and shortly after
being removed to his home died.
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