The Irish standard., 1894-03-03
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The Second Congregational church
ct Rockford, Ill. was destroyed BY drs,
the loss being 500, 90. ..ss
N Cornell trustees have voted $500 to be
used in finding che students responsible
for the recent fatal hazing.
Judge Gillett, Of Lake county, Ind.
instructed the grand jury to root out
the Roby race track crowd.
Drought has transformed the once
fertile and prosperous Rio Grande val
ley into vale Of desolation.
The Golden Rule bazaar and contents
were destroyed by fire at San Fran
cisco. the loss being $3.50, 900.
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton reelected Mrs Stevenson, wife of
the vice president, as their head.
John w. Fanchor, who disappeared
from Columbus, O., twenty-four years
ago, has been found in Colorado.
Mach Wright, prominent farmer,
and two young companions perished in
q snowstorm near jackson, Tenn.
DR.. Samuel L. McFadden, spiritual
medium and healer famed the country
over, died at his home in Chicago.
Lillian Durell, an opera singer, died
in New York of consumption She had
been on the stage for eleven years.
Tired of life Lotto McAlpine, farm
er's daughter near Sycamore, Ill, swal-
lowed dose of strycbnine and died.
Charles M. Clancy, sheriff of New
York county, died from pleuro-pneu-
monia at his residence in New York.
An earthquake shock at Arcadia,
Neb, Jared windows like heavy thun-
der and shook plastering from ceilings
Second Comptroller Mansur decides
that Gen. Sickles may draw pay as
retired officer us well as congressman.
Three hundred negro converts, men
and women, were baptized in the freez-
ing water of creek at Springfield, 0.
Mrs. Brewster was chosen by resi-
dents of Shullsburg, Wis, for the post
Office. defeating three male candidates.
Judge Willis, of St Paul, decided
that newspapers taking sides in a case
on trial are guilty Of contempt of court
Wisconsin, was appointed consul gen.
eral at St Petersburg by the president.
The populists propose making Kan
sss the fighting ground this year,
where their batteries will be concen-
trated.
Prot. Carl Wilhelm Knudson, the
astronomer, died from Bright's disease
at South Norwalk, Conn. He was born
in 1878.
Friends of the movement for negro
emigration to Africa will hold state
convention in Birmingham, Ala,
March II.
Mrs. Allen Francis, formerly of Illi-
nois, died at Victoria, b. c. She in
troduced Abraham Lincoln TO the girl
he married.
Twenty-seven saloonkeepers at Free
port, ILL, were fined for operating slot
machines and ordered to discontinue
the practice.
Joseph Dick, full blooded Creek In
dian, was shot to death near Eufala, I.
IT,, for the murder of another Indian
named Grey.
The Missouri supreme court has sus-
tanned the law making it felony for a
bank officer to receive deposits when
the bank is failing.
Mother Mandelbaum, of New York,
notorious the country over as shop
litter, died at Hamilton, Ont, of COM
plication of diseases.
/ The Waco (Tex.) Electric Railway &
Light company was placed in the hands
of receiver with assets of $500, 900 and
liabilities of 100000.
Cornelius Reardon, of Freeport, Ill.,,
obtained a Judgment of $4,000 against
the Illinois Central railroad company
for the death of his son.
Adolphus Adcock was found guilty at
Aurora ILL.,, of attempting to kill his
sweetheart and was sentenced to eight
years in the Joliet penitentiary.
Harry Hall, railway employe at
Ottawa, Kan, fatally wounded Mrs.
Leeds, widow, because she refused
his suit, and then committed suicide.
George Custer was instantly killed
and William Rose. Charles Carson and
Andrew Ohm were fatally injured by
an explosion Of gas near Philadelphia.