The Irish standard., 1894-05-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending May 9.
a storm in Luzerne county, Pa,
caused a loss Of over 500, 600.
The steel casting works at Lima, O..
were destroyed by fire, entailing q loss
of $500, 900.
Atthe democratic convention at Mex
leo, Mo-. Champ Clark was renominated
for congress
Near Abilene, Tex, cyclone swept
trees, fences and outbuildings from the
face of the earth.
The state national bank at Wichita,
Kan. suspended with deposits Of s2O7,-
600 and assets of $4O0. 200.
The patents on type distributing ma
chimes, seed planting machinery and
fare registers have expired.
1t is reported from Seattle, Wash.
that Col. Fred D. Grant has bought the
Post-Intelligencer Of that place.
A. N. Schuster & Co, wholesale deal
ers in clothing at st Joseph, Mo-, failed,
with liabilities placed at $500, 900.
Henry Edick died at the house of his
daughter, Mrs Frank Headley, in St.
Joseph, Mich, at the age of lO4 years.
The National Stove Manufacturers
association in session in Chicago elected
George d. Dana, of St Louis, as presi-
dent.
Col Carpenter and Capt. Logan, COM
manding an army at Suffers Fort, Cal,
disappeared with $500 of the industri al
funds
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage completed
his twenty-five years of continuous
service as pastor of the Brooklyn tab
ernacle.
It WAS said that gold had been found
in tho state of Guerrero. Mexico equal
ing in extent the gold fields Of South
Africa.
At the annual meeting in st. Louis
of the National Union of Chiefs Of Po-
lice President Seavy, of Omaha, was re-
elected.
A Canadian patrol vessel seized the
American fishing boats Visitor and
Leroy Brooks while cruising in domin-
ion waters.
State Bank Commissioner Breiden-
thai has warned Kansas banks against
agreeing to pay notes in anything but
legal tender
Jesse p Farley, three times mayor of
Dubuque, Ia, and a pioneer railroad
builder, is dead. He settled In Du-
buque in 1888.
Chester l. Long was nominated by
the republicans of Newton, Kan, for
congress. He opposed Jerry Simpson
two years ago.
Fearing he would be hanged for using
q Cancelled postage stamp, Swede
named johnson drowned himself in
Boston harbor.
The German steamship companies
have ordered the reduction ofsteerage
passage rates from Italian ports to
New York to $40.
Twelve indictments were returned
by the grand jury as the result of the
investigation into alleged election
frauds in Chicago.
Favorable crop reports are received
from all sections Of the country except
the Pacific coast and the southern por-
ton of the cotton region.
Mrs. Mollie Page filed bill Tor di-
vorce in Chicago from her husband in
the morning, and meeting him in the
afternoon, was reconci]ed.
Discovery Of irregularities at Boston
has impelled Secretary Carlisle to order
an accounting of stock in all the bond
ed warehouses of the country.
William Crawford shot and killed
Jessie Lowery and himself at Jackson.
vile. O. They were lovers, but he was
out of employment and dependent
Three convicts in the state prison at
jackson, Mich, overpowered a guard
and tried to blow down the wall with
dynamite A catastrophe was narrow
ly averted.
Refusing to obey a request to go
around La Porte, Ind. Gen. Randall
and his staff were put in Jail. A deter
mined effort was being made to break
up the army.
Gov. Jonas Wolf. of the Chickasaw
nation. was indicted by the Chickasaw
grand jury upon the charge of embez-