The Irish standard., 1894-09-15
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Sept. 1s.

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For the Week Ending Sept. l2.
The entire business portion Of Malta.
Ill. was wiped ont By FIRE.
The Oklahoma county bank at South
Enid. 0. e, closed its doors.
Richard Smith, the we'll known type
founder of PhiladeIphia, died at Paris
Saturday, aged IS.
Thomas Osborn and Marcus Murphy
quarreled over hogs at Polkville, KY,
and killed each other.
Five va1uab BILE imported stations
owned by M. w. Dnnham were killed
by lightning at Wayne, Ill.
The forty-fourth anniversary Of the
admission of California to statehood
was celebrated at San Jose.
Mr.. and Mrs Orson Higgins were
killed and . little girl fatally injured
by train at Putnam, n. Y. j.
Don Pho Pico, the last Mexican gov
ernor of California, died at Los An
geles He was "a years old.
One-half Of the town Of Oakview,
Tex, the county seat of Live Oak
county. was wiped out by fire.
By rear-end collision in the Hoosac
tunnel near North Adams, Mass, two
men were killed and two injured.
The populists Of New York met at
Saratoga and nominated Charles B.
Matthews, Of Buffalo, for governor
w. T. Collner & Co, general store.
keepers at st. Petersburg, Pa, were
robbed Of $4,000 in bonds, notes and
cash.
Algernon FL. Wilcox, who is said to
have made 81, 1000 by fraudulent
land schemes, was arrested in New
York.
Twenty-four receivers Of Northern
Pacific branch lines have been abol-
ished by agreement, in the interest of
economy.
While he was sleeping in a Chi
cago hotel chair thieves despoiled
Pugilist Peter jackson of his watch
and. chain.
w. E. Breckman, a farmer, killed his
wife and Robert King, his stepson, at
Roseburv, Ore. Family quarrels led to
the crime.
Twenty-one laborers were killed in
Samara, Russia, by eight farmers, in
order to secure the wages that had been
paid them.
The Middleton PA. bank, the oldest
institution of it's kind in Dauphin
county, failed on account Of depression
In business.
The governor general Of Cuba has
been ordered by the Spanish author
tiles to restore the import duties on
American products.
It was reported that the Chinese
forces were corpersd in northern Corea
without supplies and were killing
their ponies for food.
At Cedar Rapids, Ia. Judge Shiras
decided contracts exempting railroad
corporations from liability for fires are
not against public policy.
Seven thousand visitors aided the
people Of Grand Junction, Col, to eel.
ebrate peach day. Specimens Of aston
ishing size were exhibited.
At the third annual meeting ia Kan.
Sas City of the Coucatenated Order OF
1oo-Hoo William e. Barnes. OF ST.
Louis, was elected grand shark.
While fixing the electric lights in the
tower of Detroit's city hall FL. French
was made a raving maniac by a shock
and was rescued with difficulty.
The Ohio state board of agriculture
announces that the gross rece pts from
the state fair were $25, 472, an increase
over last year Of over 90 per cent.
Astronomer Louis Garthmann, Oh
Chicago, claims to have discovered
vegetation on the moon with the tele-
scope which he recently completed.
Thirty-one persons were precipitated
into an area by the giving way of a
sidewalk at Nashville, Mich. Several,
1t is feared, will die from their inju-
ries.
W. y. Pinkston, seoretary-treasurer
Of the Western Iron Works company
of Butte, Mont, is $4,000 short, and
was arrested while trying to leave the
country.
Mary Fisher, Is years old, Of New
York, who had been deaf and dumb
for eight years, recovered speech and
hearing after having been stunned BY
lightning.
In his report on the Northern Pacific
Investigation Master in Chancery Cary
exonerates Receiver Cakes from all
charges, but finds Willard guilty OF
making unlawful gains as director.
"A Royal Gift.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. 12.-The sui
tan has again given practical evidence
Of his interest in America His mai