The Irish standard., 1903-02-14

icy with reference to the construction OF an
| !sthmian canal war with Colombia was in.
evitable. In the house debate on the antd.
trust bill closed. The naval appropriation
bill was reported. 1t carries a total Of 49,
| S4S,420 and provides for large increase In
officers and men.
Most Of the time in the senate on the 7th
was devoted to the statehood bill. The COM
mittee on appropriations reported the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill. which
| carries $9.396.090 In the house the anti
rust bill was passed by a unanimous vote.
2a5 to O. Memorial services were held on the
Sth.
DOMESTIC.
Forty Bay City (Mich.) fishermen
are believed to have drowned in Sag
NAV bay. A storm broke up the ice
| on which their shanties stood.
Indicted coal men in Chicago are to
escape prosecution under the anti
trust law, but must stand trial for con-
spiracy.
Sixty-two marines on board the
United States receiving ship Franklin
died of black diphtheria.
A cyclone at Wilmington, Del, un-
rooted so houses and injured two men.
Orders have been received from
Washington that work on all vessels
now in the Mare Island navy yard be
completed with the greatest possible
dispatch.
Cole Younger has been pardoned by
Minnesota authorities and will be al
lowed to return to his old home in Mis-
souri,.
The American ship Florence, from
Tacoma to Honolulu, is believed to
have sunk with all on board.
Five Milwaukee fremen, including
Chief Foley, died from inhaling nitric
acid fumes at fire.
Representatives Of the allies are
striving to settle the Venezuelan affair
at Washington, wishing to avoid sub
mission to The Hague court.
The Diamond Match company, with
s1s,000.000 capital, probably will move
| headquarters from Illinois because of
restrictions on corporations.
Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur has been
assigned to the department of Cali
fornia and Maj. Gen. JohnC Bates will
succeed him at Chicago.
Col. G. R. Stormont has been appoint
ed commandment of the Indiana soldiers
home at Lafayette.
The anthracite coal strike commits
sion in Philadelphia completed the
hearing Of evidence and adjourned till
the 9th, when arguments will begin.
William PAUL. of London, barytone
Of the Castle Square opera company,
fell from sixth-story window of St.
Louis hotel and was killed.
J. Edward Addicks has withdrawn
from the candidacy for the United
States senatorship from Delaware
after an eight-year struggle.
Soft coal miners of Indiana, Ohio,
Illinois and western Pennsylvania have
been offered IL per cent. wage increas Sc
by operators at the Indianapolis wage
| conference.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
Western Military academy at Upper
Alton, ILL.,, causing loss of $4,000
| President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave
their annual reception in honor OF
congress.
The allies are now said to plan to
ask President Roosevelt to arbitratc
the question of preferential treat
ment regarding Venezuelan claims,
and, should he decline, to take the
matter to The Hague tribunal.
| At the coal investigation at Topeka
it developed that the average Kansas
miner earns only $3.50 year.
The Montana senate defeated a
woman suffrage bill.
President Roosevelt has been in.
formed that the Alaskan boundary
treaty will probably be rejected by
the senate.
Five men were killed in a railway
collision between two Rock Island
freight trains near Tecolate. N. M.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
, ing the seven days ended on the 9th
aggregated s2.3s1 .20O.657. The in
crease compared with the correspond
ing week Of last year was "a.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent from an automobile in New York
street to brokers' office in the Wal
dorf hotel.
Ministers of Central American re-
publics call on Secretary Hay at tho
state department and give informa-
ton concerning the disturbances in
those countries.
Gen. Corbin reports 10,s53.398 men
as fitted to bear arms in defense of
! the United States.
Thirty persons were drowned of
Duraborg reef by the wreck of tho
French bark Van Stabel
! A European war is threatened by tho
Russo-Austrian concentration of
troops on the Roumania frontier.
! The Morocco pretender was de-
feated at the gates of Fee by the sui
tan's troops, and $500 rebels were
killed.
Street car service is suspended in
Montreal, employees demanding more
wages and shorter hours.
The car has ordered the severe pun.
ishment of those 1893
men in all-who failed to comply with
their military obligations in 1902.
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