The Irish standard., 1894-02-10
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For tho Week Ending Feb. I.
Part OF the business portion Of 9las-
Cow, Mo-, was destroyed by fire.
Patrick Phillips shot at a. burglar st
Denver, Col, and killed his wife. s
Lehman Bros, Of Brooklyn. n. y.
dry goods dealers, failed for $500, 600.
Bob Burnett lcolored) was publicly
whipped at Russellville, KY, for steal
ing meat.
Mrs. Colfax, widow of the former
vice president, is said to be practically
penniless
Horner & Roberts, well-known river
coal operators at Pittsburgh, Pa, failed
for $780,
L. Schofeld, the first man to make
dron rails in the south. died near Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
An earthquake shock lasting ten
seconds was felt at Keller Cal, and at
Hawthorne,.N New.
Theodore Pabst & Co, importers of
glassware in New York for forty years,
failed for 100000.
Ives beat Schaefer in the final biz
lard game of The Cincinnati tourney by
q score of 900 to 434.
Harry Watkins one of the oldest
actors on the American stage, died at
his home in New York.
A wholesale traffic in the bodies of the
pauper dead is believed to have been
discovered in Milwaukee.
A Lutheran minister at Oshkosh,
Wis, has barred out of his church all
members of labor unions
Walter Johnson, Of Gloucester, Mass.
shot Miss Carrie Andrews and himself
ON account of love affair.
George Hurst who murdered Charles
Cage at Medley, Neb., was taken from
Jail by mob and lynched,
Gen. Lewis Richmond, prominent in
the rebellion and later in Official cir
Giles, died at Flushing, L. l.
After years of labor to solve the per-
petual motion problem Charles Heine
hanged himself in New York.
While attempting to save her s-year-
old sister 6-yearold heroine at Guth-
rie, Q. T., was fatally burned.
Ray 4. Lewis (rep.) was elected
mayor of Duluth, Mimi, by majority
of 1000 out of vote of 10000.
Senator Avery's bill for city farm
school for incorrigible youths passed
the Ohio house and is now law.
F. A. Sauner, q missing coal operator
of Middles borough, KY. was found in
Powell river, near Olinger station.
Many negroes about Monroe, La,
have been swindled by an oil warranted
Ito take the kinks out of their hair.
Wisconsin is expected to harvest
2, 000, 600 tons of ice this season. In
diana's crop is expected to fall short
Colored people who established col
ony in Marlboro township, O., two
years ago, have returned to Virginia
E. &. Brown, collector of the Spring.
field breweries at Kenton, o., is short
1884. He claims to have been robbed.
Frederick NJ Somers, editor Of Cur
rent Literature died at Southampton
the day after his arrival from America
! Reestablishment Of a military de-
partment of the south is contemplated,
with probable headquarters at Atlanta.
Ga.
Mrs. Southwall. an aged woman, and
Thomas Cape were shot and killed near
Forest City, Ark, by an unknown as
sassin.
A report that ex-President Harrison
would shortly marry the widow Of Lee
land Stanford called out an emphatic
denial.
Arthur II. Rowland, Boston civil
engineer supposed to have been
drowned, has been heard from in New
Jersey.
March the Northern Pacific Express
company will be succeeded by the
American on the lines Of the Wisconsin
Central.
After attempting to kill his wife
Godfrey May, Il Latrobe Pa.) dry
goods merchant, put bullet through
his heart.
Officials at Lebanon. Ind. rescued
Frank Hall, who assaulted Mrs. Akers,
from mob which had prepared to
hang him. .ot
John Roos, night Waterman at the
San Diego building on River street.
chicago, was murdered for his weeks
wages, tll.
Officer Albert Lanahan. of the Phil
iadelphia police force, committed sui
eide after killing his wife. No cause
was known.
Twenty-one pupils, seven of them
girls, were suspended from the Mount
'Horeb (Wis.) academy for attending
masked ball.
Mrs Celia Livers, who is only ~
years old, was convicted Of bigamy at
Franklin, Ky. She has had four hus-
bands in two years.
w. A. Ryan, the postmaster at Van
Horn, Ia, committed suicide rather
than submit his accounts to a post office
inspector for examination.
President Peixoto has offered pardon
to private soldiers and sailors Of the in
surgent forces in Brazil who apply for
clemency within sixty days.
The First national bank Of Arkansas
City, Kan, which was placed in the
hands of receiver June Is, 1898, has
been permitted to reopen for business