The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
MINOR u EWS ITEMS.
For tho Week Ending Dec. 3.

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For tho Week Eniilng Dec. 8.
The business portion of Tingley, Ia,
was destroyed by fire.
The Tacoma (Mash. national bank
closed its doors with liabilities of $212,-
600.
The North Platte (Neb) national
bank closed it's doors with liabilities Of
$4,000.
Mrs. Jacob schoppenhelm and her
two children were burned to death in
Are at ST Louis.
David Joyce, the Clinton Ga. lum Der
king, died in Minneapolis from paraly-
sis, aged SO years.
Footpads robbed William Dobster Of
500 in cash and a quantity of jewelry
in Chicago Tuesday.
Ex-Congressnan Daniel w. Connolly
died at his home in Scranton, Pa,
after brief illness.
King Humbert opened the Italian
parliament and expressed confidence
In the maintenance Of peace.
81. c. COPYRIGHT, the new sheriff, is
the first republican county official ever
elected in Shelby county, III.
The Wisconsin legislature will be
asked to pass alaw compelling saloons
to be closed on Memorial day.
An incendiary fire destroyed the coal
breaker of the Latin Coal company at
Latin. Pa. The loss is $4,000.
A fire in the New York dry goods
district did $780, 900 damage and seven
ty-fve girls had a narrow escape.
The American ship Richard Parsons
was wrecked on the coast of Mindor3
and six of the crew were drowned.
Another cut Of one-eighth of cent
per pound was made in sugar, bring
ing it to the lowest price on record.
Exposition hall and the First Bap
fist church in Omaha were destroyed
by fire, the total loss being s175,ooo.
George and Hannah Cord, aged 10
and respectively, were drowned in
the Wapsie river near Littleton, Ia.
Frank Waller, of Chicago, won the
twenty four-hour professional bicycle
race at New York, making 494 miles.
The city council of Abingdon, ILL.,.
has prohibited the practice Of hypno-
tism on anyone under 81 years of age.
Rev Dr. NJ Storrs. who defended
Prof. Briggs before the Presbyterian
general assem- bly,, died at Orange, N. j.
The city council of Jacksonville,
Fla, has unanimously repealed the
ordinance permitting prize fighting.
Benjamin w. Dorning, who was dis,
trict attorney of Queens county, N. Y,
for nineteen years, died at Sanford,
Fla.
Mrs Julius Goodrich was granted a
divorce at Milwaukee and within
two hours was married to S. Marshall
Conger.
Engineers are at work surveying for
the Atlantic G. Pacific railroad, which
is to be an air line from New York to
Chicago.
While returning FROM visit to Scot
land Mrs. Hannah Williams, of Chi
cago, jumped into the Atlantic and was
drowned.
= Twenty Armenian refugees who
reached Athens confirmed published
reports of the atrocities committed by
the Kurds.
Metamora, village in Ohio, was al
most obliterated by fire, seven stores,
a church and several residences being
destroyed.
Robert Halliday, of Creston, Ia,
aged IA, killed himself by swapping at
l. - fho hn
was unloaded.
One of the finest buildings in Utica,
N. Y, occupied by Comstock Bros,
wholesale druggists, was burned, the
loss being $126,ooo.
The president and directors of
Georgetown college have prohibited
the playing of football until the rules
have been changed.
While digging a sewer at Hunting
ton, Ind, q workman struck dyna-
mite cartridge and it exploded, injur-
ing five men, two fatally
A family of Ave Seminole Indians
was murdered on their reservation
near Santa Rosa, Mex. The tragedy
was the result Of an Indian feud.
Samuel Steele, one of the oldest
school teachers in Wisconsin, was
killed hy being thrown from his wagon
while on his way from Racine to his
home In Mount Pleasant
Justice Harlan has made ruling
practically deciding that where
party is indicted for the sale of cleo.
margarine if he can prove that he had
no knowledge Of the ingredients he
must be acquitted.
To raise money for charitable pur-
poses, society ladies of San Francisco
will have sole control. and perform all
of the labor connected with the issu-
ing of Christmas number of the San
Francisco Examiner.
Charity Hospital Burned.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec 8. = The
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