The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-13
u Or EWS ITEMS.

] % The courthonse and records were
q burned ats Aurora. Me-
The Gutsch Brewing company at She
al boyan, Wis. failed for Z LOO. 000s
The Citizens bank at Ogden, % tab.
closed its doors. It's capital yas 81 50, :
600. SIS u En-. 5s; sss s5ss=
Arcadia Kan, q town of about .. 900
inhab itants, was almost destroyed by
u fire.
the town Of Corwith, Ia, was destroyed
II by fire.
I The Globe theater and several other
buildings in Boston. were burned. the
loss being $500. 900.
New York democrats nominated w.
8 L. Brown and Isidor, Strans to fill va
cancies in congress. /.
The business portion Of Pocahontas,
Ark, the county seat Of Randolph
county, was burned.
William Lindsay was elected United
! States senator by the Kentucky legis-
lature to succeed himself
! Four men were killed and number
injured by an explosion in powder
,nill near Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
The Montgomery Iron company Of
Port Kennedy, Pa, made an assign
ment with liabilities of 1880, 900.
New Jerseys supreme court has de
clared unconstitutional the racing
laws passed by the last legislature
|. An alleged rabbi was said to have
carried on an extensive business in
granting divorces in Winnipeg, Man.
l. In ST. Louis Western Union Building
and Loan associations Nos. 2, 8, and
3 were placed in the hands Of assigneea
D. Lothrop & Co.. publishers at Bos-
ton, Mass, assigned for the benefit of
creditors. Liabilities and assets large.
Frederick H. Treese, of Newark, N.
T.. died in New York, aged II years.
He was member of congress in 1874
Maj. w. B. Moore pension claim
agent at Buffalo, n. Y. was arrested
for issuing, illegal vouchers tor large
sum.
A baby months old was offered FOX
sale in the east market at Indianapolis
by woman with whom. it had been
left.
J. Frazer was under arrest at Tam
pa, Fla, charged with assanlting 1--WE
little girls. and lynching was threat
ened
| The fftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Grand lodge of ma
SONS in Iowa was celebrated in Du-
buque
| Albert knop, treasurer OF the village
of Riverside, O., who has been missing
for week, lis $4,000 short in his ac-
counts.
To test the Florida law the Duval
Athletic club has arranged prize fight
between two negroes to take place
! shortly. ur 81
The Mingo Mountain Coal Il Coke
company at Louisville went into the
hands of a receiver with liabilities of
500, 200.
The Baldwin Grain company aud the
Atkinson Brothers, Of Oxford, Ind.
made an assignment with liabilities Of
$3.50, 600.
In battle in the State of Sac Paulo,
Brazil, the insurgents killed 500 of the
( government troops and captured the re-
mainder.
| Rival senates were organized in New
! Jersey. Holdover democrats secured
possession ana were. recognized by the
governor.
/ In bill for divorce ia Chicago Nor
ris IJakalske says, he was led ia the
altar blindfolded when be was but Is
years old.
| Three men entered the pawnshop of
Samuel Greenburg in Chicago in broad
| daylight and carried OF jewelry valued
at 400
In speech at Louisville Henry Wat
terson said the Wilson bill was s. make
shift and did not embody true tariff re-
| form IDEAS.
! The Southern Land and Improvement
company at Frankfort, KY, went into
] the hands of q receiver with liabilities
of $500. 900. me.yzsssrr
The unusually cold weather OF the
last few days In southern California
has seriously damaged the orange and
lemon crops
The Haynes Realty & Financial com-
! pany, conducting one OF the heaviest
real estate businesses in St. Louis, failed
for S175,o0o.
It is alleged at New Orleans tina. the
| Louisiana anti-lottery law has been
found defective and will not stand a
| test in court.
Charles L. Raymond, candidate Of
the regulars" was elected president
| Of the Chicago board Of trade, receiving
| 720 votes out OF ,243.
Sam Smith, It negro, was lynched near
Greenville, Ala. He had shot and fatal
/; " wounded f. L. Harrison, who was
attempting his arrest.
Charles Elliott, who killed William
McKeever, a colored miner at Column
bus, Kan, was acquitted. Many ne
| gro miners will leave the coal regions
on account of it.
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He Will Retire.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 1N-Hon. d.
NJ. Key, United States judge for the
Eastern district of Tennessee, states
that he will retire from the bench soon