The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-17
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E For the week Ending Nov. -.
Novelli g Co, merchants at London,
failed for $500, 600. I'd.
Busch & Co., cotton and coffee mer-
lchants at Hayre, France, failed TO s.,
O00, 600.
Judge Allen q. Thurman celebrated
his 81st birthday at his home in Co
lumbus, O
The schooner John Shaw with its
crew of seven men was wrecked of
Oscoda, Mich.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
National Baptist congress began ct
Detroit, Mich.
The First national bank of johnson
City, Tenn, with a capital of 500, 600,
closed it's doors
John Donovan. of Bay City, will be
the, only democrat in the next Michi-
gan legislature.
The official vote ia The Seventh Ken
lucky district gives Owens (dem.) .
plurality of 1o1 votes.
A heavy fall Of snow was reported
throughout Illinois, Iowa, Indiana.
Michigan and Wisconsin.
George W. Scoggan, the well-known
race-horse owner and breeder. died at
his home near Louisville. KY.
Seventy persons were killed and
much property destroyed by an earth
quake at Tamagata, Japan.
Jack the Stranger" is again at
work in Denver. A Japanese girl of
ill-repute was his third victim.
More than 300 persons lost their lives
in an earthquake in Japan. sakata
was almost entirely destroyed.
Members of a Sharon (Pa.) maenner-
Choir ate cat which was palmed off on
them as a 'possum by an Ohio man.
The Arlington inn, a famous south
ern hotel located at Fort Worth, Tex,
was burned, the loss being $150,0oO.
The large warehouse in London
owned by the Terrebona Tea company
was burned, the loss being 100000.
The shulenburg & Boeckeler Lum-
Der company of ST. Louis made an as
signment with liabilities of $215, 200.
NOFGIAUCE IClu1uS "a tllS FdLcS Ok
yield of corn per acre make the aver
age 1917, the lowest in thirteen years.
Crazed by a protracted debauch, PEI
ter Pepper, a Louisville barber, tore
out his tongue and died in terrible
agony.
Residents of Indianapolis were
alarmed at the frequency with which
graves were being desecrated and
robbed
Almost the entire business center
Of the village of Frederick, S. D., was
destroyed by fire. The loss is put ut
800, 900.
Col John A. McCaull, of opera fame,
who fell on the ice and was paralyzed
in Chicago few years ago, died at
Greensboro, N. c.
A general order, commencing indi-
vidual soldiers for specially meritori-
GUS acts during 1898, was issued by
Maj. Gen. Schofield.
The body of the late car reached
St Petersburg and was escorted to the
cathedral by procession imposing in
length and makeup.
Gov. Flower, of New York, has
granted permission to experts to at
tempt to resuscitate man executed
In the electrical chair
The tug Crusader was burned at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, and Henry
Billings and Charles Whihen, fremen,
were burned to death.
Joseph LaCroix and Philip Wells,
his uncle, were murdered by Indians
while crossing Pine Ridge Indian res
ervation in South Dakota.
William sturges, the plaintiff in the
famous Sturges-Farwell litigation in
Chicago, and who broke down under it's
weight, died at Owego, N. Y.
John Karel, of Chicago, consul at
Prague, has been made consul general
at st. Petersburg, and Carl Jonas, of
Wisconsin, will succeed him at Prague.
Or. J., L. Marsie, who killed Jessie
Honaker in Owen county, KY, two
years ago, has been convicted for
third time and again sentenced for
life.
Three masked men attempted to rob
the Dank at sylvan uioVe, han. One
was woul, AIDED by the cashier and was
killed by his companions to prevent
exposure.
First grand lodge of the American
National Union of stenographers and
Typewriters was organized in St.
Joseph, Mo-, with membership of
thirty-fve.'
Mrs. Elizabeth Weyneth, aged 70,
fell against hot stove at her home
near Roanoke. ILL.,, and was burned in
such a manner as to cause her death
few hours afterward. Owing to her
teebleness she was unable to help her
self
Knew Detroit in Its Infancy.