The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Jan. 80.

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For the Week Ending Jan. so.
The Arkansas legislature reelected
James h. Berry (dem.) United States
senator.
The firm of Chaffe, West & Co., cot
ton dealers at New Orleans, failed fos
1921 600.
Postmaster General Bissell denies re-
ports that he contemplates resigning
from the cabinet.
Wisconsin cranberry growers are in
need of aid, their marshes having been
destroyed by forest fires.
Wisconsin Gran berry growers are in
need Of aid, their marshes having been
destroyed by forest fires.
A train load of ore valued at $780,
600 left the Independence mine at Grip
pie Creek, Col, for Denver.
Brazilian troops under Gen. Pinha
were routed by the rebels near Santa
Marta with loss of 246 killed.
A company has been formed at Ash
land, Wis, to build a road from that
place to St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Capt J. b. Sawyer, the oldest loco
motive engineer in the United States,
died at Denton, Tex, aged SO years.
John y. Thayer, a state senator of
Indiana, died at his home in Warsaw
from the effects of a stroke of paralysis.
Sidney NJ. Kellogg, assistant post
master continuously for forty-seven
years at Erie, Pa. died at the age of Is
years.
A stringent bill against prize fight
ing and race-track gambling was meet
ing favor IN the North Carolina le5is-
lature.
Fred Hoffman, United States COM
missioner of D county, o. T., has been
assassinated by unknown persons near
Taloga
Over 800 families in Racine, Wis,
were receiving help from the city. The
men were willing to work, but could
find none.
Mrs. Eliza beth Jervis, widow of Joel
Jervis, died at Amityville, L. L., at the
home of her son, aged 100 years,
months and 2 days.
Charles X. Hughes, Jr., is accused of
using $40, 900 fraudulently while cashier
of the First national bank of Lima, O.,
and has been arrested.
Rev. Virgus Swope, Baptist preach
err, was shot near Patesville, KY, by
Ed Pullman, a lunatic, who used q
double barreled shotgun.
Milton b. Matson, arrested at San
Jose, CAL, was found to be woman,
and she admitted having lived in
masquerade for sixteen years.
Daniel NJ Hardwick shot and killed
George Ward, his brother-in-law, at
Mexico, Mo-, and then killed himself.
Family trouble was the cause.
Willie Bush and his brother tried to
light fire with gasoline at the or
phans' home at Logansport, Ind, and
one was killed, the other fatally burned.
Receivers were appointed for the
Bucyrus Steam Shoveland Dredge COM
pany of South Milwaukee. The liabil-
tiles were $259, 675 and the assets $461,
e41.
Commissioner Miller has prepared a
notice, copies of which will be posted
in every city and town, calling atten-
ton to the provisions of the income tax
law.
The work of the special examiners Of
the pension bureau in Washington has
fallen into an arrearage of over 10000
cases owing to the recent lack of ap-
preparations.
The unknown NAH who died by fall
ing from train near Detroit, Mich.
has been identified as Rev. Henry Lieb-
hart, D. D., Of the Methodist Book
concern, Cincinnati.
The aggregate gross earnings of thir-
ty railroads in the United States for
the third week Of January was SO, BAL
all, an increase of $50, 3O2 over the cor
responding period year ago.
Maj John Gilbert died at Palmyra,
N. Y, aged SO years. He was known
from one end of the United States to
the other as the man who set up and
corrected the proofs of the first Nor
mon Bible.
Frank Larrabee, the Chicago cleo
trician who cut the throat of his tickle
mistress, Fife King, last October, was
found guilty Of murder in the first de-
gree at San Francisco. His sentence
was fixed at life imprisonment. ...
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