The Irish standard., 1906-09-08

one OF the proposed peace commission
ers, to the palace to inform him that
the government had no concessions to
offer or accept and no intention other
than fighting the matter through and
suppressing the instruction.
AS days and weeks pass with no ap-
preciable diminution of the Cuban rev.
olution, apprehension increases. The
most conservative testimony from the
country districts of the provinces of
flnar del Rio, Havana and Santa
Clara is to the effect that two-thirds
OF the people in the country and small
towns of these provinces are insur-
gents in sentiment If not in fact.
Speaker Cannon opened his cam
palgn tour in Maine in Augusta. He
praised Congressman Littlefeld and
ignored attacks made by Gompers.
The Milwaukee Mechanics Insur-
ance company and the fire victims of
the San Francisco disaster have
reached an agreement and losses are
now being paid under the safety fund
law under which the Mechanics oper-
ates.
America scored decisive triumph
over Germany in the first race of the
series for the Roosevelt cup off Mar
blehead. The American yacht AUX,
owned by Charles Francis Adams,
second treasurer of Harvard uni
versity, Won the initial contest by a
large margin.
Three miles from Ahwahnee, CAL,
Yosemite stage was held up Mon
day afternoon. 1t was driven by
Bright Gillespie, who took President
Roosevelt and his party through the
park on their visit there three years
ago.
Battling Nelson deliberately fouled
Joe Cans at Goldfleld, New, in the for
ty-second round of the best and long
est fight seen in many years. Both
men We're tired when the fight end ed,
but Cans was apparently the stronger.
A Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley
traction car stopped on steep hill
south of Peru, Ind, to repair broken
trolley rope and the Limited" COM
ing down the grade at a very high
speed crashed into the standing car.
Eighteen persons were injured, three
of whom seriously.
On the waters of Long Island sound j,
within view of Sycamore Hill, the
president of the United States re-
viewed the greatest fleet of American
warships ever assembled. There was
a ship of war for every state, As in all.
The dedication of a monument to
the late P. J. Mcguire, organizer of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America. was the feature Of
the observance of Labor day in Phila
delphia.
Henry Drenter, near Argo, Ia, shot
and killed Grace Reed, severely
wounded Sam Moore, a successful
rival and then blew off the top of his
own head.
A vendetta transported from Italy to
Tampa, Fla, resulted in the instant
death of Salvatore Conseneia, and an
unknown Italian recently arrived.
Ex-Gov. David r. Francis, of Mis-
souri,, has arrived at Vienna for the
purpose of presenting to Emperor
Francis Joseph the gold medal COM
memorative of the st. Louis exposi.
ton.
The cruiser Boston went aground
on Orcas island in the San Juan group
in fog while in the way to the
Straits of Georgia for target practice.
The cruiser was pulled off at high
tide and is apparently uninjured.
The body of woman known only as
annie" was found in lodging house
at Philadelphia where she had taken
a room with man called Dutch
Fred" The appearance of the body
indicated that the woman had been
hacked to death with Ratchet.
The British ship Wray Castle, from
Liverpool for San Francisco, has her
main deck destroyed, hatch coanings
buckled and sustained other damages
by fire.
Victor Thomas, one of the competi-
tors in the five-mile automobile race
at the old fair grounds at St. Louis,
was badly hurt when he lost control
of his 40-horse power machine in
rounding curve at so miles an hour.
Vice Chancellor Martin P Grey, of
the New Jersey court of chancery,
died at Wernersville, Pa, after an ILL
ness of several months.
Mrs. William Dunlap, of Freeport,
Ill.,, and Miss Nellie Murphy, of Apple
River, were drowned in creek near
Apple River. A heavy rain caught a
vehicle that contained eight persons
while an attempt was making to cross
the creek.
Frank Hanley was killed and D. J.
Stewart, Dan Reese and Thomas Grit.
fifth probably fatally injured at Abba,
Mo-, by powders falling from the
roof of the drift in the Jersey T..
mine.
Five hundred San Francisco molders
and core makers went on strike in
so foundries to enforce the demand for
an increase of Is cents day in
wages. The foundrymen granted the
demands.
Gen. Tumenoff, commander of a
brigade at the garrison at Warsaw,
was wounded but not seriously by five
revolutionists, who fired upon him
with revolvers as he was leaving his
residence.
The Oil City boiler works has ap-
pealed from the decision of Acting
Secretary Newberry in regard to the
installation of boilers for the New
York and Massachusetts and the mat
ter will be decided by Secretary Bona