The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-05-05

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missionaries, and 80 per cent of those
we have are senseless," said Marayan
Krishna, a Brahmin missionary to
America, in speaking at All Souls
Episcopal church. Kansas City.
The body of Walter ~. Somers,
missing cashier of the International
bank of Hulls, ILL.,. was found in the
cellar of residence adjoining his
home. He disappeared April IA, leav-
ing a deficit of $1,000 in his accounts
Somers had shot himself in the tenn
pie.
DIR. Hansteen, chief lecturer in tie
agricultural school at Aas, Norway,
declared his belief that moss is des-
tined to become the great popular food
for the masses, owing to it's cheapness
and nutritious value
I. V. Holmes, of Beloit, Wis, who
superintendent the construction of the
Monitor during the civil war, died at
the age Of IS years at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. George Siebert, at
Wheaton, Ill.
Henry c. Rouse, chairman of the
board of directors of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railways, died at
Cleveland OF pneumonia. He repre-
sented John D. Rockefeller in the lat
ters railway interests.
firing of life after lO8 years of
trouble, Mrs. Mary McKitrick, be-
lieved to have been the oldest woman
in America, committed suicide at
Uniontown, Pa, by cutting her throat
with a carving knife. She declare!
that God had forgotten her and neg
lected to call her.
Zion City's internal strife was at
white heat when Dowie. the former
leader, spoke to a handful Of faithful
followers in Shiloh tabernacle and Vol
iva, the head of the opposition, at the
same time addressed an audience of
1000 persons before the Zion college in
the open air
Former Assistant Cashier Henry G..
Coll of the First National bank of Mil
waukee was found guilty in the United
States district court on 10 counts of
making false entries in the institutions
books and of misapplication OF its
funds.
When called upon to pay for a so
cent breakfast in a restaurant at Of
tumwa, Ia, an unidentified man drew
a revolver and was killed after waging
running fight with the police.
Indiana will be one of the chief bat
fairgrounds of the fall campaign. Both
Republicans and Democrats are plan
ming for the hottest kind of a fight in
the HoOsier state.
Samuel B. Gully, II years old, for
mer member of the Central high
school FOOTBALL team, died at st. Louis
from injuries received in game play
ed more than year ago.
The Bayway Refining company's
plant at Elizabethport, N. j., was de-
stroyed with loss of 100000. Six
oil tanks blew up. The burning oil
flowed into Staten Island sound and
for time endangered shipping.
For the murder of 80 women, Mes
fewi, a cobbler of Marrakosh, was SEN
fenced by the Moorish courts to cruci-
fiXion. The butchers victims were
found buried under his shop and in his
garden.
Pref. Mathew Andrews is dead at his
home in Abingdon. III. For years he
was superintendent of schools in Knox
county. He was nearly 70 years old.
A letter received by the American
board of foreign missions says the boy
colt against American goods in China
has been declared off.
Socialism. coMmercialism, suicide,
and divorce were denounced as four
greatest evils menacing society by Ro-
man Catholic archbishops at imposing
ceremonies attending the jubilee of the
Baltimore (Md.) cathedral.
w. H. Dickey, superintendent of the
Deming IN. NJ public schools, in a
duel shot and killed U. Francis Duff,
superintendent of the Tuna county
schools. Dfcley was shot i'll the side,
but is not believed to be fatally hurt.
Safe blowers broke into the post Of
flee at lie Long, ILL.,, and secured
nearly $500 after demolishing the safe.
They are believed to be the same per-
sons who made an unsuccessful at
tempt at safe blowing at Rapatee
Gen. Kuropatkin is in Moscow su-
pervising the publication of his me-
moirs, a voluminous history of the
war. The author de.
tends his conduct of the campaign and
is bitter in his criticism of his superb.
ors.
Maj. c. B. Throop, of Belvidere,
ILL.,, committed suicide by shooting
himself. Dependency was the cause.
He served in the Fourth Illinois cav
airy and was later attached to the per-
sonal staff of Gen. Grant.
At .Quinnisec. Mich, over an acre of
ground went down with a great roar,
carrying a number of buildings with it..
The ground fell 100 feet, and it was
found to be a cavern over the work.
ings of an abandoned mine.
While eating dinner Henry e. Wads-
worth, for 81 years part owner and edi-
tor of the Laporte Qnd.) Argus, died
Friday of heart disease. He was born
March 3, 1899.
Vast crowds massed on the TrOca-
dero square in Paris to witness the I'M
yelling of the Franklin statue and ap-
plauded Alfred II. Smyth's declaration
that Franklin, as Carlyle said, was
"the father of all yankees"
Mrs. Theodore Sutro died at her
home in New York. She was one Of
the best known women in New York