The Irish standard., 1894-12-22
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
FOR ehs week Ending Dec. 10.

FOR ehs Week Ending Dec. 10.
- 6xmueI Cohn & Bro. New York shoe
dealers, failed for s400, 600.
n A fire at Huron, O., destroyed the
Reporter printing establishments
& The Commercial bank at ST. Joseph.
Mo, failed for $270, 600; assets, $685.
COO.
The Kearney (Neb.) national bank
closed its doors with liabilities OF
about $125.O00.
The business portion of Stone Noun
tain, Ga. was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
The Kentucky superior court has
gone out of existence by limitation OF
the constitution.
Job Batty's Sons, an old Philadel-
phia carpet and yarn establishment,
failed for 100000.
Two gold leads of fabulous richness
were struck by drillers at Iowa Gulch,
southwest of Lillian, Col.
Eight clipping Kentucky couples
crossed the Ohio river to Jefferson
vile, Ind. and were married.
The damage by the recent earth
quake to the cathedral at the City OF
Mexico was estimated at 100000.
Lucy NJ Gruber sues Roswell E.
Messenger, OF Toledo. for s75, 900 dam
ages in breach Of promise to marry.
John Hall and his wife, New York
actors, were asphy xiated, Hall having
turned the gas on while he was drunk.
Thomas A. Edison has vetoed the
plan to have Corbett and Fitzsimmons
fight before the kaleidoscope in Mexico.
A Murphy temperance movement has
been inauyurated in Salem, o., over
LOCO having already signed the pledge.
An automatic telegraph transmitter
has been invented which, it is said,
will send 900 words "a minute over the
wire.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
near Upper Sandusky, o., to wreck the
nnsylvania's New York and Chicago
limited.
The remains of Count Ferdinand de
Lesseps were inferred in the Church
of st. Pierre de Chaillot, just outside
Of Paris. a..
The Easterly Harvesting company at
Minneapolis has made an assignment.
Liabilities are $3.50 743; claimed assets,
$685., Ol3.
A bill to prevent strikes on railways
has been proposed by Carroll D. Wright
and his associates on the labor CON-
mission.
The grand jury at St. Louis has re-
turned twenty indictments of men
charged with repeating at the last
election.
William Strausbaugh, q maker of
spurious coin, anG two confederates
were captured by federal officers at
Tiffln, O.
Utica(N. W road supervisors decided
to tax wheelmen three dollars a year,
the money to be used in improving ths
highways.
The republican state committee Of
California will contest the election of
James H. Budd as governor before the
legislature.
The Lexow idea has reached San
Fra ncisco, where the clergymen are
organizing movement to purify mu-.
nicipal morals.
Two masked men held up Smyth
Taylor at Greenville, Tenn, and
robbed him of $4,000 which he had just
drawn from a bank.
Examination of she books of the.
Central national bank of Rome, N. Y,
showed Cashier John E, Bielby to be a
defaulter for $4,000.
Frank Rowley, Of Wisconsin, has
been gran ted patent upon an express
car calculated TO withstand the as
saults of train robbers.
While talking with friend at South
Bend, Ind, Edwin Hardman, aged 19.
leaned on the muzzle of his gun, which
exploded and killed him. !
The number OF persons killed in
the recent earthquake in southern
Italy is officially stated to be eighty
six. In addition 500 were injured.
In the United States circuit court at
Boston the Berliner telephone patent
was declared void. Bell telephone
stock lost eight points in consequence.
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Crowley, and Alexander Carr, murderer
of Fl. O. King, both at Atlanta, Ga,
were sentenced to be hanged Feb
ruary s.
Owing to alleged unjust treatment
by the bishop of the diocese the Ro-
man Catholic population of Weiden-
thai, in Hungary, in a body declared
themselves Professionals
William OBrien, who was one of the
three men who held up and robbed an
Illinois Central train on Mayfeld
bridge two years ago, was killed in a
saloon quarrel at Whitney, Mo-
The official report of the attorney
general OF North Carolina shows that
during the past two years there we're
three legal hanglngs and eight lynch
ings in North Carolina. There has
been decrease of crimes against