The Irish standard., 1894-09-22
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For tie Week Ending Sept. 10.

For the Week Ending Sept. 10.
Scranton, Pa, suffered loss Of
/ $25o, 600 by . blaze in the business dis
trict.
James Barrett was hanged at Eddy,
j n. NJ. for the murder of John HOLMAN
atsSeven Rivers.
Adam Forepaugh's circus stranded
ut Button, o., on account of no funds
to pay employees.
Alexander l.. Poller, American con-
sui general at San Salvador, died there
from yellow fever.
Sam johnson, 21-year-old negro,
sold himself to Col Stark Oliver at
Selma, Ala, for $50.
Thirty persons lost their lives and
1900 buildings were destroyed by a fire
in Chung King, China.
: Sixty-fourth ANIMAL assembly of the
opened in Columbus, O.
In decision at Des Moines, Ia,
Judge Spurrier held the mulct liquor
law to be constitutional
The new Planters house in st. Louis
was thrown open to the public. The
hotel cost over 81, 900, 900.
The forest fires in Wisconsin were
extinguished by the first heavy rain
that has fallen since June.
NJ. L. Davis, of Little Rock, Ark,
rendered his resignation as American
consul at Merida. Yucatan.
William jefferson. colored man
who claimed to have been 110 years
old, died in Champaign, Ill.
Bandits made an unsuccessful at
tempt to wreck the Chicago express Of
the Big Four at Hazelridge, Ind.
Leonard Blodgett, of Luzerne, N. Y,
aged IS, attempted to assault a girl and
fatally wounded both her parents.
Since the inaugural tion of the pres
ent administration at Washington, l.
597, 1888 sill yer dollars have been coined.
An order for the transfer of more
than half the regiments of the army
to new posts was issued by Gen. Scho-
field.
Maj. Thomas Turtle, one of the best
known officers of the engineer corps Of
the army, died in Washington, aged 50
years.
During fit of insanity Mrs. Absa-
lom Wiser, of Marshall ILL.,, threw
hot water on her husband, causing his
death.
The German coke workers Of Penn
sylvania have resolved to remove to
Douglas county, Wis, and take up
farms.
At Pittsburgh Cyclist Tyler lowered
the mile record for a quarter-mile track
to 2:os. and 9-year-old boy rode a half
in lila.
Police Justice Coouey, of Dubuque,
Ia, was attacked and beaten by q
prisoner on whom he had just passed
sentence.
The republican central committee
of Nevada requested Senator Jones to
resign because of his change of polit-
ical faith.
Elliott defeated Carver by one bird
in the concluding shoot of the series at
Kansas City, thus regaining his title of
champion.
John Nelson, who five years ago
murdered Nels Carlson, an old miser,
at West Superior, Wis, was arrested
in Chicago.
Boilers from the democratic party
met at Carson, New, and nominated a
state ticket headed by Theodore VIM
ters for governor.
The official report of the French
wheat crop of 1898 shows a total of
ISL, ,OO2, ,7s1 hectolites, against 81, 1872, $50
hectolites last year.
George Case won the tennis cham
pionship of Iowa. Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska by defeating j. w. Beck
with at Kansas City.
Thirteen indictments for murder
were returned by the grand jury
which investigated the negro killing
near Kerrville, Tenn.
At North Enid, o. T., the Arlington
hotel and eight of the most substan-
tial business buildings were destroyed
by an incendiary fire.
The Logansport lind. presbytery
has resolved to establish at Cedar Lake
q resort similar to the Chautauqua
assembly in New York.
Robert Tyler Jones, a grandson Of
President Tyler and the first male
child born in the white house, is in dire
poverty in Washington.
Mrs Helen L. Grier, charged with
poisoning her sixth husband, was
found guilty at Spokane, Wash, Of
murder in the second degree.
The worlds bicycle record, 1888, in
a 6-mile competition road race, was
broken in Chicago by Tracy Holmes,
who ran over the course in 1890
The only son of Count Vincent Mer-
cader, owner of estates near Vienna.
Austria, has been found employed in
Carnegie's mills at Braddock, Pa.
Mayo- Farr, of Kenosha, Wis, is de-
clared to be ineligible because he is
not a property owner and proceedings
have been begun for his removal
Before the waterways convention at
Toronto L. E. Cooley advocated con-
struction of a new canal on the Amer
ican side in preference to altering tho
WeIland.
The Court Blasts Her Hopes.