The Irish standard., 1895-01-26

MINOR NEWS IT EMS.

I'd For the Week Ending Jan. 33.
The Texas cotton palace at Waco
was destroyed by fire. 5. #1= . ..=9. 81. 81 IS.
The Merchants bank at Bingham
ton, n. T.. closed its doors.
Twenty families in Rusk. Wis, were
said to be in astarving condition
Thomas e. Hersey, OF Newburyport,
Mass, killed his sweetheart Emma
Ellery, and himself.
Nora and Alice Norris (sisters) were
killed by the cars on a crossing near
South Whitley, Ind.
Hay dealers from all parts Of the
country met in Cleveland and formed a
national organiza ton.
The lower house of the Indiana leg
islature adopted resolution favoring
the annexation of Hawaii
Bill Cook. the famous outlaw, was
landed in the United States prison at
Fort Smith, Ark, Monday.
A. t. Hay, lawyer and inventor, died
at Burlington, Ia. He built the first
all steel bridge in the world.
President Diaz notified Guatemala
that she must give in to Mexico S de-
mands or suffer the consequences.
Resubmission was carried in the
South Dakota senate by a vote Of &c to
49, 1t had previously passed the house.
President Saenz Pena,sof the Argen-
tine Republic, resigned on account OF
q difficulty with congress over his cab
met.
Col. William B. Remy, judge advocate
general of the navy, died in Somer-
vile, Mass, after several months i'll"
ness.
The New York Fur Cutting COM
pany;s big factory in Williamsburg, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire, the loss be-
ing S2Ao,ooo.
A cyclone struck Covington, Tenn,
and blew off the top of the courthouse
and demolished dozen residences and
score of barns.
Fosters livery stable in Kansas City,
Mo-, burned at o'clock Sunday morn
ing and twenty-one horses perished.
Total loss, $10.5Oo.
Enraged because his wife had sold
chickens to buy sugar, James O'Brien,
Of Chilliccthe, O., fatally wounded her
and then shot himself.
Three thousand persons are receiy-
ing food daily from the soup kitchens
at st. Johns, n. f., and the number Of
destitute is increasing.
James Robinson. of Bridgeport. N.
j., was taken with a paralytic stroke
while viewing his dead sisters body
and died in short time.
A bill was introduced in the West
Virginia house providing for electrocu
tion as the means Of capital punish
ment instead of hanging.
Edward Solomon, the composer, at
one time the husband of Lillian Rus
sell, the comic opera singer, died in
London Of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Ida Carroll. aged Ys years, died
in Tishimingo county, Idaho. She was
married eight times and was the moth
,er Of twenty six children.
A committee represen ting 100 desti-
tute families in Yuma county, Col, has
sent out an appeal for clothing, pro-
visions, coal, seed and grain.
Sampson Pope alleges that he was
cheated out of the goyernorship OF
South Carolina and asks an sinvestiga
tion by the United States senate.
"A bill will be introduced into the
Connecticut legisla ature to prevent the
employment in shops of married women
whose husbands are able to support
them. .. .
Corporal Ed Nolan of the Nineteenth
infantry was notified at Fort Wayne,
Mich, that he had fallen heir to S1O,-
600 willed him by his father, who died
recently.
After married. life of sixty-six years
Mrs. Elizabeth Stansbury died at Mas
sillon. She and her husband were cred
tied with being the oldest married
couple in Ohio.
While taking in clothes at Canton, n.
Y, Mrs Gertrude Holmes was stricken
by paralysis and dropped dead. Her
stepmother saw her fall and went into
fit, dying almost Immediately.
The school board of St. Joseph, Mo-,
has decided that no pupils using cigar
cites will hereafter be admitted or al
lowed to attend the public schools. An
active war against cigarettes has been
waged there for some time past.
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