The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-06-16
TIE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, JUNE Is.
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


sS For tho Week Ending juno Is.
The Isaac D. Smead foundry company
sat Toledo, %, failed for 3s6o, 700.
Burglars opened the safe In private
bank at Bridge, Ont, and stole "a, 600.
Mrs Henry L Sweet and her 8-year.
old son were drowned at Duluth, Mimi.
Richard Croker, the ex- central power
Of Tammany hall, has sailed for Eu-
rope. :ss
Flames in the lumber yard district OF
Dubuque, Ia, destroyed property
worth $500. 200. 90, So. = $500
Sir Matthew Baltic, Degbie, chief
Justice Of British Columbia, died at his
home in Victoria ess-
Five men were seriously hurt and
property worth 1910, 900 destroyed in q
fire in Kansas City, Mo.
Congressman Breckenridge is no long
or on the honorary roll of the Union
League club of Chicago.
Col. Fred Grant denies that his sis
ter, Nellie Grant Sartoris, is to marry
Gen. Douglas, of Maryland.
Forest fires in Michigan swept q dis
trict mile wide and miles long and
wiped out the town of Sagoda.
Forty-seven graduates of the naval
academy at Annapolis were given
diplomas by Secretary Herbert.
The German national bank at Den
yer, Col, closed it's doors with deposits
of $s53, 1000; resources, $1,777,0O0.
Three members of ''suicide club
died within short time of each other
at Bellevue hospital in New York.
d. L. Hardness, dairy and food COM
missioner of Wisconsin, died at his
home in Berlin of blood poisoning.
An earthquake at Grenada and Al
mere, In Spain, DESTROYED a number of
buildings and killed several people.
Lack of rain is injuring the crop
prospects in nearly all of the western
states. Illinois corn is in good condi-
ton.
Four members of boating party
were drowned by the capsizing Of
their boat on a lake near Brewster,
N. Y.
Mrs. Lois Triton, who was the last
slave sold at auction in New Haven,
Conn, lin 1925, is dead at the age
Of 05. +.....
The American Investment company
at Emmettsburg, Ia, with capital of
$500, 900, went into the hands of a re-
ceiver.
In race lasting six hours on the
Thames the American yacht Satinata
defeated Wales Brittania- by seven
minutes.
Eleven persons were injured in q
collision between two trains near Still
water R. l., and the property damage
was heavy.
To check the tendency to lower
prices Wisconsin paper manufacturers
have decided to close their mills two
days week.
The three national banks at Dead
wood, s. D., were consolidated and
will be known hereafter as the First
national bank.
]. Samuel Slausen, president of the Ex-
thange bank at Ottawa, o., which
failed recently, has been indicted for
enlightenment.
A St. Bernard dog suffering from n.y.
drophobia bit five men and two women
in Dallas, Tex, three of them being
fatally injured.
Four jockeys were hurt and two
horses killed in the handicap steeple
chase, the first of the season at Haw-
thorne, near Chicago.
Alfred johnson, Swede laborer at
Delano, Mimi, cut his wife's throat
and then killed himself. Loss of money
had made him crazy.
Car thieves at Vincennes, Ind, bound
and gagged Claude McAlpin, who knew
of their work, and shipped him to
Mexico in a closed car.
Bill Dalton's brother, Littleton, has
identified the remains of the bandit at
Ardmore, l. T., as those of the notori-
Gus and much killed Bill.
King William, the largest horse in
the world, being 2771 hands high and
weighing 3,O27 pounds, died at Chester
ton, Ind He was valued at $4,000.
Officers were elected by the supreme
council of the Royal Arcanum in ses-
sion at Detroit, C. w. Hazard, of Mo-
nongahela, Pa, being chosen regent.
The national section of the Cadets of
Temperance held their annual conven-
ton at Hoboken, N. j., delegates from
all parts Of the United States being