The Irish standard., 1894-05-26
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

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For tho Week Ending May a8:
Snow to. the, depth Of 8 inches fell q
Bristol Tenn.
A fire in Annui province in China de
stroyed 1850 houses.
, The National bank of Pendleton
/, Ore, closed it's doors
Wheat touched 5sA cents, the Lowest
price ever known in Chicago
! The Traders bank of Tacoma
Wash, suspended payment for asecond
time.
The republican state convention Of
North Dakota will meet in Grand
Forks July II.
A gigantic anarchist plot to explode
bombs in various european cities was
discovered in Paris.
For killing his unfaithful wife, Will
liam McKeill paid the extreme penalty
of the law at Mobile, Ala.
Bradstreet's clearinghouse exhibit
for the United States shows decrease
for the week of $40 per cent.
With the gold exports of the last
week deducted, the treasury reserve
will stand at about $50. 0OO,O
The democratic congressional con-
vention of the Fifteenth Missouri dis.
trict nominated c. FL. Morgan.
The Manchester ship canal was for
mally declared open to the commerce
of the world by Queen Victoria.
Experiments with brand of smoke
less powder discovered by a Virginian
prove it superior to any yet tested.
The Illinois Congregationalists eel.
ebrated in Chicago the fftieth ami
versary Of their state organization.
The Ohio legislature adjourned sine
die. Among the bills passed was one
to hold but one session in two years.
At Dorseyville, La, Adolph Block
and Jules Lake engaged in a gun fight
with negro and all three were killed.
The worst wind and rainstorm known
In fifty years prevailed at Toronto,
Ont, and considerable damage was
done.
Peter Cruiser fatally shot Annie
Branz in Philadelphia and then killed
himself. No cause was known for the
deed.
A cloudburst southwest of Dunkirk,
N. Y, caused one of the most disas-
trous floods known there in many
years ..... ....
Property valued at $145, 900 was de
stroyed in Akron, O., by blaze which
started in Weary, Snyder & Wilcox's
planning mill.
Edmund H. Yates, editor and propri-
etor of the London World and the
author of many novels, died suddenly,
aged 50 years.
Illinois mine owners will try to set
tie the strike by offering to advance
the wage scale in the southern and
central districts.
Y The American Baptist Educational
society met at Saratoga, N. Y. The
report of the executive board showed
phenomenal growth.
Henry Jones, a negro wanted for an
assault on a 7-year-old girl in Lafay-
cite, La, was shot through the heart
by Sheriff Isaac Broussard.
{ John SCHNEIDER, of San Francisco,
supposed to be dead thirty-five years,
returned to st. Joseph Mo-, and
claimed fortune left by his father.
All the carpenters and mill hands in
Cincinnati were ordered to strike be-
cause the bosses refused to pay $3.50
Tor eight hours or So for nine hours.
William Perdue went to the home of
Squire A. w. Rumble in Nevada, Mo-,
and shot him dead and then took his
own life. A family feud was the cause.
Miss Abbie Gannett. of Minneapolis,
was awarded verdict against the
$780, railroad for $500 damages for
injuries received in jumping from 8
burning sleeping car. ..
Henry Woolwine was sentenced at
Mexico, Mo-, to six years in prison for
assault. He secured change of venue
TO Montgomery county and has, been
sentenced there to twenty years.