The Irish standard., 1894-05-19

MINOR NEWS ITEMS,
For the Week Ending Nay IL.

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Chief Justice Raney, of the Florfds
supreme court has resigned.
] The village Of Palmyra, Neb., was al.
most totally. destroyed by fire.
], Gov. Flower, OF. New York, has signed
], the compulsory education bill.
Anew gas we'll struck near Fostoria,
o., shot steady fame 40 feet into the
air.
The steel casting works at Lima, O..
were destroyed by fire, entailing loss
Of $500. 900.
The loss to crops by last years
drought in England was placed at over
!. 800, 600, 600.
Thomas Burke, who was 100 years
old last Christmas, died at his home in
Merritt. Mich
Nine Coxeyites who captured the fer
ryboat at Zillah, Wash, were drowned
in the Yakima river.
Naval veterans Of the civil war dec
Grated Farragut's grave in Woodlawn
cemetery, New York.
The repu blicans of the Fifth district
Of Indiana nominated Jesse Overstreet,
Of Franklin, for congress
I Peter Wapsey, an Indian residing
near the village of Hartford, Mich,
died at the age of ITO years.
The freight depot Of the Pennsylvania
Railway company at Columbus, O., was
burned, the loss being 100000.
= A. N. Schuster & Co., wholesale deal
ers in clothing at St Joseph, Mo-, failed,
with liabilities placed at $500, ZOO.
New York men have commenced &C.
ton to secure possession of lands in
Lyon county, Ia, valued at $3.50, 200.
Over 5000 men employed at the ma
tional tube works in McKeesport, Pa,
went on strike for increased wages.
The dam at Lima, Mont, broke and
houses, barns, fences, haystacks and
all kinds Of stock were carried away.
A tank of benzine exploded during g.
6re in Bradford, Pa, aud at least thirty
persons were burned by the flaming oil.
Judge Worthington, in the principal
circuit court at Peoria, ILL.,, granted
twenty-seven DEGREES of divorce in one
day. i"
Ex-County Recorder j. P. M. Goodman
died at Ashland, o.. after having lived
thirty-nine days without eating any
thing:
Judge Westcott Wilkin, aged 81, and
for thirty years judge of the district
court; died in St. Paul from the effects
!. Of t.ll: .
widow resolved to relieve their mother
Of their care and jumped into the river
and were drowned.
Hiram J. Brendlinger, the second
mayor of Denver, Col. was found dead
in bed Half of his fortune of $500, 900
goes to a Chicago nephew.
The strike of coal miners at Pana,
I'LL, has been declared off. Two hum
dred and fifty of the strikers were not
permitted to return to work
Mrs. Frank s. Flint, widow of ''Sil-
ver'' Flint, for years the catcher OF the
Chicago baseball club, died in San
Francisco from consumption.
President Peixoto, of Brazil, has
broken off diplomatic relations with
Portugal because of the latter granting
asylum to insurgent refugees.
Passenger and freight trains collided
at Menomonie Junction, Wis, and En-
gineer James Jeffreys was killed and
four other men badly injured.
Five hundred strikers marched to
the mine at Evans, a., to induce the
miners to quit work, but were kept
out of the village by an injunction.
A motion to expel Congressman
Breckinridge from the Union League
club of Chicago was adopted by the
board of managers without dissenting
vote. d.
Severe earthquakes occurred in the
vicinity Of Mioko and New Pomerania,
N. s. w. and almost all of the houses
of the missionaries and traders were
destroyed.
A train on the Lehigh Valley road
was wrecked near Owego, N. Y, by an
insecure rail, and Willie Mahar, aged $,
was killed and thirteen other passen-
gers injured.
The four damage suits aggregating
$210, 600 against the South Fork Fishing
and Hunting club growing out of the
Johnstown food are to be heard at Will
Transport, Pc, next October.
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Moved TO Hladenshurg.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-'rhe Common
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torio B]adensburg, q village famous
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