The Irish standard., 1894-06-30
MINOR II EWS IT EMS.

| For the week Ending June 20.
Gen. Frye's commonweal army n
rived at Washing ton.
Robert Tucker, the oldest negro Il
Indian territory, died at the age OF III
years.
The supreme court at Colum bus, O.,
declared the cigarette tax law consti.
tutional
William Stacy, Of Iowa Falls, L.,
was hanged by mob in Texas FOL
land swindling.
The Hyatt school slate factory al
Bangor, Pa, was destroyed by fire, the
loss being 100000.
Mrs. John Freeze. living near Joliet
Ill, gave birth to bankruptcies two
girls and two boys.
j. Frank Aldr;ch was renominated
for congress by the repu blicans of the
First Illinois district.
!, Carrier pigeons made the distance
between Milan, Mo-, and Chicago (810
miles) in three hours.
In convention at Montpelier the Yer
mont republicans nominated g. A.
Woodbury. for governor.
A cyclone struck the town of Keigh-
ly, Kan, nearly wiplng it out of ex-
istence and killing several persons.
E. c. Knappe, bookkeeper of the
Chicopee national bank at Springfield,
Mass, confessed to embezzling $25, 900.
: In storm at Brazil, Ind, the tower
of the city hall was blown down, the
bell completely wrecking the build
ing.
Frederick Bahr, of New Brunswick,
n. j., killed his wife and then him
self. He is believed to have been in
sane.
At Frogs Crossing, KY, J. p. Mad
dox and Mrs. Lewis Maddox and her
two children were killed b y railroad
train.
The wife and three children of
Benito Garcia were drowned ear
Brownsville, Tex, by the upsetting of
q boat.
A son was born to the duchess of
York, wife of Prince George of Wales,
the heir presumptive to the British
throne.
Marietta Albani, the greatest con-
tralto singer of the century, died in
Paris. She was the wife of Count
Pepolo.
William Arthur Parson, aged 20,
Frank b. Skeeles, aged 10, and Walter
Bulwer, aged 10, were drowned at
Toronto.
Dr.. Joseph P. Thomas. president Of
the Kentucky Medical association and
a writer on scientific subjects, died at
Hopkinsville.
Graduates of the Nebraska state
blind institute refuse to leave the asy-
lun, claiming. they are entitled. to
mai ntenance.
George p. A. Healy, one of the
greatest portrait painters of the CEN
tury, died at his home in Chicago,
aged 81 years.
Rev. Charles Warmkessie, o. Shamo-
kin, Pa, committed suicide, and at the
same hou~ his nephew was killed by q
train of cars.
The populists met in state conven-
tion at Deer Lodge, Mont, and nomi-
mated George w. Reeves for justice of
the supreme court.
Mrs Carrie Reid was shot and killed
in the office where she was employed
in Chicago by an unknown man, who
then killed himself.
Col. S. II. Boyd, ex-minister to Siam
and ex-congressman, died at fishing
resort near Springfield, Mo-, where he
had gone for his health.
The faculty Of Yale college has ap-
proved the report of committee rec
the abolition of the annual
exercises.
Gen. William F. Wheeler, who To-
Gated the first line of telegraph in
and was a pioneer railroad
builder, died in Helena, Mont.
Mrs. Lizzie Halliday, convicted Of
the murder of Mrs. McQuillan in Mon
ticello, N. Y. was sentenced to death
by electricity early in August
The twenty fifth annual reunion of
the ARMY of the Potomac was held at
Concord, N. H., and Gen. A. $. Webb,
Of New York, was elected president.
Henry Capus, a negro who attempted
to assault three young ladies at Mag
nolia, Ark, was swung to a limb by
q mob and his body riddled with bull
lets. t4
While suffering from the effects of
Indulgence in liquor Joseph Misterman
fatally stabbed his wife in Chicago
and inflicted mortal wound on him
self.
Violent storms swept over Iowa,
and portions of Illinois,
Wisconsin and Indiana, doing much
damage. Six persons were killed by
Nofad AhO1ifIOntaf Dead.