The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-06


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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For tho Week Ending Jan. 9.
/ The Mississippi and Kentucky legis-
.lstures convened for business.
Cossack soldiers murdered 100 Cath
olies at Krosche Kowne, Russia
Most OF the business portion Of Red
Key. Ind, was destroyed by Gre.
Worthington G. Smith, ex-member
81 cong died at St Adams, Vt
The total number Of post offices in
operation in the United States is So. sos.
Missouri's state treasury shows q bal
ance OF t447, 800, according to the re-
port just fled
The Globe theater and several other
buildings in Boston were burned. the
loss being $500, 600.
East bound railway shipments during
1898 amounted to 8, 2o1 $50 tons, against
9. 749, $50 in 1892
Iowa is 5overrun with tramps, who
resort to force If pitiful story does
not bring food and shelter.
st Louis officers caught two coun-
terfeiters with complete outfit for the
manufacture Of bogus money.
{ On complaint Of. his wife, Charles
Kohler. Toledo peddler, was arrested
for a murder committed in 1884.
The Montgomery Iron company of
Port Kennedy, Pa, made an assign
ment with liabilities of 1890, 900.
+ Crazy from drink John Cummings
locked himself and family in burning
Omaha house and four persisted.
Three men were killed and several
injured by the premature explosion OF
. blast in a quarry near Boston.
Fl Worthington C. Smith, ex-member OF
congress and brother Of the late ex-
governor, died at st. Adams. VT
The biggest trust ever organized has
been almost perfected by the organiza-
tion of the saloonkeepers of Ohio.
Output of iron ore IN the Lake Su-
3perior region in 1898 was 6, 1875, 900 tons,
against 9, 074, 1913 the previous year.
Representatives of the foreign rela-
lions bitterly attack Mr.. Blount's Ha-
waiian policy in a minority report.
Railroad officials indorse President
Newells statement that the interstate
commerce act is constantly violated.
The year 1898 saw shrinkage in
value of stocks traded in on the Chica-
20 exchange OF more than $1S, 600, 600.
During the, absence of their grand
mother Lena West and Landon Bailey
were burned to death at Sedalia, Mo.
During the year 1898, IS, sS9, 1888 pieces
of money We're coined al Philadelphia,
according to the chief coiner's report
A company, with Senator Brice at it's
head, has secured leases of Indiana gas
lands and will pipe the product to Ohio.
Mrs. Flora Northrup, inguist, an
artist and a musician was found dead
on Gotham sand heap, a victim of
rum.
Thomas Payne King, who was in the
charge of the Light brigade at Bala-
klava, died from apoplexy at Wichita,
Kan.
Mrs. Ann Baldrige 1o4 years old in
October, fell at Terre Haute, Ind, and
broke her thigh. She could not re-
cover. ."
a: After twenty-three years of silence.
caused by terror, Mrs. Kuertl, living
near Valparaiso, Ind, recovered her
speech.
BY a vote of almost to / the prov
ince of Ontario declared for prohibit
ton of the manufacture and sale of
liquor.
Two hundred Of the unemployed at
Cleveland, O., marched to the city hall
and demanded that they be given work
or food.
Edward Mcmahon, the famous wrest-
Ter of the Scranton (Pa.) Athletic club,
died from injuries received while
wrestling.
A gift Of $4,000 to be expended in
the purchase of books was made by
John d. Rockefeller to the Chicago
university.
The Gloucester tMass) fishermen
Adu q 40AAAJ prosperous tS0As 1AAS SAANC
of the seasons CATCH being placed at
SO, 00o, 900.
Nathaniel Wheeler, president of the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
company. died in Bridgeport, Conn.
aged rs years.
The 4-year-old daughter of James
Turner, of Pennington, Ia, was burned
to death by having her clothes ignite,
from miners fuse.
!. l.. Quincy Hoover, Massilon TO-,
newspaper man. dropped dead white
walking the streets. His death is at
tributed to apoplexy.
= Louis SteinbnrR. Of Chicago, ~and
two friends bought thlrty-fve pounds
of brass filings, supposed to be pure
gold, and are out $4,000.
Orlando B. Potter, aged 20, and a
member of the Forty-eighth congress,
dropped dead in front of the Bucl<ing-
ham hotel in New Fork.
David j. Williams died at Saratoga,
N. Y. at the advanced age of los years,
His father lived to be 11S years old and