The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-03-24
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MINOR II EWS ITEMS.
s5s Tor ths Wesl Enaing MARCH u. sss
b Tho populists of Oregon havs nomi-
mated Nathan Pierce for governor.
After spend ding fifty yea1s s. Chinese
prison Mariana Gantasuo, aged III,
was reloased. ssS5s sss.
Mn. Mary Sheets died 81 Union, @,
from ! paraly stroke, aged l01 years
month and I day. #,.. ISL I.
Pugilist Corbett ID an interview says
he viii quit the arena after his fight
with Peter jackson.
At Centerville. Ia, burglars pried
open the door Of bank vault and stole
5000 silver dollars
Twenty-seven persons were arrested
and will be executed for attempting to
kill the king Of Corea.
Commodore William d. Whiting, re-
tired, ofthA United States navy, died in
New York, aged 20 years.
In an attempt to destroy q church in
Paris the anarchist who exploded the
bomb was blown to atoms.
The Union depot at Denver. Col, one
Of the finest in the country. was
burned, the loss being $500, 900.
Col. Allen Sells. one of the original
Sells Bros, of circus fame, died at his
home in Topeka, Kan, aged So.
ALI the lighthouses on Lake Michigan
have been put in operation, owing to
the early opening of navigation.
Nearly seven inches of rain fell at
Memphis in thirty-six hours. Mnch
damage has been done by foods.
Esther Jacobs was awarded $50, 600
damages in breach of promise suit in
New York against Henry B. Sire.
Two hundred Malays were killed in
fight with Spanlards on the island Of
Pautor: One Spaniard was killed.
Frederick Rumpe & Bros big mill
property at Philadelphia was destroyed
by fire. The loss is put at $242, ooo.
Told by companion in a jesting
way TO kill himself, Fritz Gighnaer, Of
St Joseph, Mo-, blew out his brains.
Minnie Schilling, Matthew Graham
and John Schremp were I: murdered in
one day in st. Louis by different per-
sons.
BY the killing OF two members of the
Hatfield gang the old Hatfield Mccoy
feud in West Virginia has been re-
newed.
Mrs. Annie Bailey, colored woman.
died at Philadelphia at the reputed age
Of 121. She was born near Chambers
burg, Pa. . .- ..,
Excessive rainfall has caused much
damage in Tennessee. Railroad bridges
have been washed away and houses
wrecked.
t.. Hundreds of people in Exeter hall,
London. celebrated the Goth birthday
of Neal Dow, the American temperance
reformer.
Imre Kiralfy's scheme to reproduce
the worlds fair Court of Honor in Lon
don this summer has been postponed
for a year.
Ministers at Kansas City, Kan, have
started a crusade against the numerous
lottery concerns which flourish through
out the state
{ In q sermon at st. Paul Archbishop
Ireland said foreign nationalism should
give place in church and state to
Americanism. .
Bill Nye announces that his present
lecturing tour, ending in Galveston,
Tex, in four weeks, is the last one he
will undertake.
|. In the chapel OF st. Joseph's academy
at St Louis twenty-five young ladies
took the vows which separate them
from the world. .s....
The Poorman lead mine in the Coeur
d'Alene district in Idaho has been
bought by English capitalists for half
million dollars.
Edward FL. Bennett and Charles P.
Spencer, two students at East Green"
witch, r. l., were drowned in the bay
while duck hunting.
The Illinois steel works at South Chi
cago started up, giving employment to
5000 mon. The works have been idle
since last September.
John Brady killed his wife aud blew
out his own brains in a Roman Catho-
lie church at Oakland, Cal. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
A populist paper at Wichita, Kan.
says If Secretary Carlisle issues moro
bonds million armed men should
march on Washington.
Elijah Harrison, non-union potter
Of East Liverpool, o., frightened by
threats of strikers, appealed to the
British ambassador for protection.
For assassinating II. g. Bouldin, .
wealthy planter At Wharton, Tex,
sixteen negroes were arrested and
were liable to be put to death by q
mob.
A yachting association has been
formed at Cleveland which will in
clude in it's membership all the MI.
portant clubs on Lake Erie and Detroit
river.
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