The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-19
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


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For the Week Ending Jan. 10.
The eighteenth legislature OF Oregon
convened at Salem.
The fourth session OF the Washing
ton.legislature convened at Olympia.
It was reported that Japan had do
eided to continue the war with China.
Ex-Gov. Chadwick died suddenly at
his home in Salem, Ore, aged IS years.
The livery barn of N. w Wilson, OF
Alton, Ill, with contents and eight
horses was burned.
David Pagen, 80 years old, frozo to
death in his cabin on Kings mountain,
near Abingdon, Va.
Gov. Mckinley sent . car load OF
provisions to the starving miners of the
Hooking valley in Ohio.
Joseph 81. Meeker's sugar refinery
near Lecompte, La, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being 100000.
Henry Mueller died at the old sol
diers' home at Kearney, N. J., at the
age Of 100 years and months.
The Nebraska legislature ratified tho
republican caucus agreement by elect
ing John M. Thurston senator.
In his inaugural address Gov: Nor
rill, of Kansas, warned his hearers to
cease talking about Reputation.
Col. Ulysses G. scheller-Debuol, .
former member Of Grants staff, died
at Galena, Ill, while at breakfast.
Gov. Hastings was inaugurated at
Harrisburg, Pa, parade and display
of fireworks following the ceremony.
Lava from volcano on one Of the
New Hebrides islands flowed IS miles
to the sea, devastating many villages.
The dredge Mount Waldo was sunk
in gale in the Gulf of Mexico and
nine of those on board were drowned.
The committee Of seventy has pre-
pared bill to the legislature which
will wipe out police courts in New York
city.
The Michigan Legislature in joint
session. elected James Mcmillan and
Julius Burrows as United States sena-
tors.
Sixty of 1875 dairy COWS examined at
Charles City, Ia, were found to be suf-
fering from tuberculosis and were
killed.
All the trolley lines in Brooklyn, with
one exception, were tied up by strike
of their employees, who numbered near
ly o,oOO.
Gov. Hogg, of Texas gave way to
Charles Culberson, who took the oath
at a joint session of the legislature 1T
Austin. ......
3. II. Barnum, a Mormon elder, haa
organized a church Of his faith at
Grapevine, w. Va, with twenty-four
members.
r. w. Joplin was appointed postmas-
ter at Elizabethtown, KY, succeeding
Mrs. Benjamin Helm, sister of Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln,
George u. Hear and William L. Chand-
Ter were reelected to the senate by tina
legislatures of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire respectively.
Rev. John Schneider, of the Metho-
dist church at Fort Howard, Wis, de-
clares he will expel any member Of his
church who persists in dancing. :
Eliza Mohney, aged SO, and John
Mohney, aged 81, after a married life
of forty-fve years, and having ten chill
dren, were divorced at Harrisonville,
Mo.
The Rhymes and Roberts families,
near Douglas, Ca, had trouble in a
lawsuit, and Mrs. Rhymes and two
daughters stabbed the three Roberts
girls.
The restitution among the people in
st. Johns, n. f., was said to be dread
full. The relief officers and soup
kitchens were surrounded by hundreds
OF persons.
At Paris, Tex, Mrs. Isaac Parr pre-
vented wreck on the Frisco. She
discovered bridge on fire and stood in
the bitter cold for nearly two hours to
flag the train.