The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-29
MINOR IEWS IT EMS.
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Il For sthe Week Ending Sept. &c.
Five acressof ground sunk at Duryea
Pa, and twenty-six dwelling houses
were wrecked.
l The signal station ION the summit Of
Pixies Peak TO be abandoned by the
weather bureau.
Chinese agents in Europe and Amer
lea have been Instructed to purchase
all available warships s53 u
The Chicago Great Western is said
to contemplate the laying Of second
track through most of Illinois.
The United States gunboat York
town arrived ct the Mare island navy
yard, California, from Behring sea.
By a clause adopted by the New York
constitutional convention, bookmak-
ing is to be prohibited in the state.
The Commercial bank at Weeping
Water, Neb., closed it's doors with de-
posits of $4,000 and $50. 900 in loans.
In her trial trip the new battleship
Maine, which was built by the gov
eminent, made 1855 knots per hour.
Douglas Luce, who was born in 1905
and had lived under every president OF
the United States, died at Urbana, O.
On the expira ton Of his term in con-
gress Col. Breckenridge will resume
the practice of law in Lexington, KY.
Grand Exalted Ruler Friday has sus-
pended the charters of seven lodges
of Elks for holding sessions on Sun
day.
A fve-story business block was de-
stroyed by fire at ST Louis, causing q
loss of 5000 600. Five fremen were in
jured.
James G. Sheridan, who was con-
sidered without peer as race track
starter, died in New York from apo
pleSy.
Bishop Macs suspended the Catholic
young mems institute of Covington,
Ky. for dispensing beer at a recent
picnic.
Park opera house, the chief amuse-
m ent resort in Erie, Pa, for fort
years, was burned, entailing loss of
$4,000.
Old soldiers day at the Illinois state
fair drew out $500 veterans, who
were given free admission to the
grounds.
Joseph P. Gordon was sentenced at
Detroit to state prison for the rest of
his life for the killing of his little
daughter.
Jim Allen, a full-blooded Choctaw
Indian, was shot for murder at the
Pushmahata court grounds in Indian
territory.
The locomotive fremen in conven-
tion at Harrisburg, Pa, agreed not
to strike as long as contracts were
not violated.
Frederick Brown, we'll known as
the maker of Browns Jamaica ginger,
died at his home in Burlington, n. j. :,
aged 81 years.
Judge Ariel Standish Thnrston, Of
Elmira, N. Y, a supreme court Judge,
fell downstairs and broke his neck at
Braddock, Pa.
The whaling steamship Falcon
reached Philadelphia with most of
the members of the Peary arctic expe-
dition on board.
Toledo, (O) capitalists have pro-
jected canal from that city to Chi
cago, and engineers are engaged in
making surveys.
Suffrage women of Topeka, Kan, to
the number of 100 have agreed to re-
form woman's costume by wearing
Turkish trousers.
James P. Caven, general freight and
passenger agent of the Valley road,
was. found murdered in Cleveland, pre-
sumably by robbers.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers and Joiners of America in session
at indianapolis elected Charles Ovens
of New York, president.
Cyclist Searle failel to lower the
road record between Chicago and New
York, taking eight days and three
hours to complete the journey.
An unknown man entered the office
OF County Treasurer Scott at Sherman,
Tex, knocked him senseless and
robbed the safe of more than $1,000.
Senator Hoar, the new president, adj
dressed the national Unitarian con.
ference at Saratoga, which adopted
resolutions in memory of George Will.
liam Curtis.