The Irish standard., 1906-07-21

tured and the soldiers shot another
The remainder of the band escaped.
Mrs. Edmund w. Pettus, wife of
United States Senator Pettus from AL
ALBANIA, died at her home at Selma,
aged 50 years. She has been i'll since
her return from Washington at the
close of the session of congress.
At Mimi Novgord a fire which
broke out ragged for six hours before it
was checked. When it was finally ex-
tinguished 275 houses had been de.
stroyed and more than 5000 families
had been rendered homeless.
During drunken revels among Sla-
vonian laborers at Fogelsville, Pa, an
oil lamp was upset, setting fire to
boarding house. Eight frame houses
were destroyed and Stefan John Evon-
ic, aged IS, his son Michael Evonic,
aged %, and Michael Tebuth, aged 80,
were burned to death.
The battleships Illinois and Missouri
have had important changes made in
their mechanism, with view to safe.
guarding the officers and crew from
the liability of explosions of ammuni-
ton during gunfire.
A remarkable instance of the feeling
of Buddhists and Shintoists towards
Christians is furnished by the action
of their leaders, who have decided to
contribute voluntarily to the cost of
rebuilding the Christian church, which
was destroyed during the disturbance
in Toxic last September.
An imperial trade calls 1900 re-
cruits to the colors for service at Ye-
men.
Consul General George E. Anderson,
in a report to the bureau of manufac-
lures from Rio Janeiro, charges that
while some bona fide Brazilian dia-
mond mines may result profitably,
that country is full of schemes which
are either out and out frauds or which
are based upon claims and facts so
slight as to make them little less than
frauds.
The council of the empires accept
ance without amendment of parlia-
ment's bill appropriating $7,500,OOO for
famine relief came as surprise, but
has occasioned the greatest jubilation
in the camp of the lower house, as it
is regarded as vote of lack of conf
dence in the Goremykin ministry on
the part of the upper chamber.
Both Guatemala and Salvador have
accepted the tender of the good offices
of this government, looking to settle
0f fhnir 1ipforor1oo
San Francisco is arising from its
ashes with rapidity that surprises all,
and building is progressing on all
sides.
Secretary Taft will return to Wash
ington before the beginning of October
but will leave again in the course of a
week or two to enter into the Ohio
campaign, and early in November will
accompany the president to Panama.
The bureau of manufactures has
called attention to a decree issued by
the president of the French republic
June Is reducing the duty upon cod
fish imported into the Island Of Quad
eloupe from 1919 to $3.50 per 22O
pounds, this reduction to be effective
until May 81 next.
The prize Of the president of the re-
public, at one mile four and half fur
longs and valued at $4,000, was won
at Maisons-Laffitte by William X. Van
derbilt's Maitenon, with the American
Jockey, Ransch. in the saddle.
An investigation is to be made by
the interstate commerce commission of
the elevator, grain buying and for
warding business of the country, to
determine to what extent special ia
vors have been granted to them by
railroad companies.
1t has long been known that some
parts of the Vatican are unsafe; but it
has just been discovered that the pal
ace is practically falling to pieces.
Even the corner where the popes
apartment is situated needs strength
ening, and the pontiff is moving out.
The supply of guncotton stored in
naval magazines and on warships along
the Atlantic coast is said to have
shown such evidences OF deterioration
that orders have been issued for it's re-
turn and the issuance Of a new supply.
Shrinking molders of the Allis-C hal-
mers Milwaukee plant were absolved
by Judge Quarles of the injunction and
were informed that no injunction could
lie If they continued to conduct the
strike as had been observed since it's
beginning.
Three men were instantly killed and
score of others were injured, sever
al of whom are expected to die, when
a shanty at the O'Laughlin Bros.
stone quarry, near Bellwood, ILL.,, was
blown up with dynamite.
The American vice consul general at
Warsaw, Poland, cabled the state de-
partment that press correspondents
have been misled by erroneous reports
into informing their papers that there
was reason to fear massacres in War
saw and LODI.
DR.. David S. Jordan, in a lecture, To-
Gated the origin of the recent seismic
disturbance in Behring sea and proph-
esied the next center of trouble would
be in the vicinity of San Leandro and
Haywards.
Capt. William Henry Bunting, one Of
the few survivors of the crew of the
confederate ironclad Merrimac during
the civil war, died at the Norfolk, Va,
Protestant hospital, following an oper-
alton.
The Costa Rico congress issued q
decree placing cocoa, rice and sugar
plants, brooms and vermicelli on the
free list.
OF eight little girls who went wading