The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-10-20
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For the week Ending Oct. III.
|. Mrs. Jetta Swarts died in Chicago at
the age Of 1O5 years.
Snow fell IN mtn count in Penn
sylvania to the depth Of 8 inches.
The MERGED bank at MERGED, Cal,
closed its doors with heavy liabilities.
/ The Tabor Amusement company at
Denver assigned with liabilities OF
$215, 600.
The First national bank of kearney,
Neb., suspended because unable -
make collections.
In the Belgian election. the II oerals
met with defeat. Uprising gums
were made by tl-* socialists.
Black f;.,ntheria was raging in the
lndia-a gas belt, especially in Ander-
sea, Elwood and Middletown.
The new issue of postage stamps was
rapidly being disposed of, the govern
ment sending out &c. 200, 900 day.
Experiments at an Omaha distillery
of making spirits from beet sugar mo-
lasses have proved very successful.
Louis Gimm, of Cleveland, rode 1888
miles 1,49o yards in day on his biz
cycle. surprising Spooner's record.
Edward Crate, one of the pioneers of
the far northwest, and the original
settler at The Dalles, Ore, is dead.
In the recent storm on the gulf coast
fifteen fishermen lost their lives on
Sand island, near Apalachicola, Fla.
Chester Hill, an Ohio village, was
almost wiped out by fire. The loss
will reach $751; 900, with no insurar~ q
Frank Mcintyre. James ..tofR and
Frank Britton, of New Brighton, Y.
y, were drowned 1s - the capsizing OF a
boat.
The French press is urging the gov.
ernr snt to declare war on Madagas
carnand immediately blockade its
Hprts.
Thomas b. Reed, of Maine, opened
the republican campaign in New. York
with a protection address at Cooper
union.
The directors of the Washington
Park club in Chicago decided to aban-
don racing, but will maintain the club
house.
Henry Fl. Green, classmate OF
Gen. Grant at West Point and Mexi-
can war veteran, died at Mora, N. NJ.
aged II.
Otto Zeigler rode a mile in 1850 at
Sacramento, CAL, reducing Johnson's
worlds bicycle record three-fifths of a
second.
A stranger distributed about $500 in
worthless old Indiana state bank
notes at Anderson, Ind, and disap-
peared.
Twenty-one persons were seriously
injured and property worth $40, 900 de-
stroyed by a train collision at New
Orleans.
William Pattison, an escaped mad
man, entered church at York, Pa. and
stampeded the congregation by firing
right and left.
T. L. Dixon, an ex-state official of
Kansas, makes affidavit that Mrs. Mary
e. Lease urged him to steal $40, 900
from the state.
Letter Carrier Smith rode from Chi
cago to New York on his bicycle in I
days ID hours and minutes, lowering
his own record.
The post office at New Albany, Ind.
was robbed during the noon hour of
$4,000 in stamps and several hundred
dollars in cash.
Charles b. Allen, alias Harry Con-
way, leader of a gang of bank swind-
lers, was arrested in Chicago and con-
fessed his crimes.
During riot among drunken Slavs
at Maltby, Pa, boy was shot dead,
two girls fatally wounded and two
persons badly hurt.
Willis Grifey (colored), charged with
assault on Miss Leila Berry (white),
was taken from Jail at Princeton, Ky,
by mob and hanged
Col. Breckenridge was suspended
from communion by the congregation
of Mount Horeb (Ky} Presby terian
church until Februi Try.
John Joy, who robbed man of FIVE
dollars, was sentenced to prison for
life by 2 San Francisco judge under
the habitual criminal act.
Through sign announcing world s
fair goods for sale the Chicago police
captured Miss G. H. Siske, who had
stolen vast quantities of goods from
hotels.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fang, who. after
separating from her husband, a
wealthy Denver brewer, had become a
recluse, was found dead in her home