The Irish standard., 1906-06-23
Singleton c Hardow has been arrest

Singleton c Handow has been arrest
ed in Pina~ Del Rio on an extradition
warrant, charged with defalcation by
the Spaulding Manufacturing company,
of Conway, Ark.
The heavy surplus of -four sent to
San Francisco by eastern sympathiz-
ers mas been sold by the finance COM
mitteee to the Globe Milling company.
OF the lot 100000 pounds sold at
$3.50 per barrel and 100000 pounds
at $3.1G.
Afte:' rescuing four sewer diggers at
st. Louis, Charles Basoli met his death
by waiting in a trench filled with sew
CT gas until the last man had been
raisei to the surface.
Frank Kelly, saloonkeeper, shot
and killed his wife at Weston, Mo-.
mistaking her for burglar.
While the northern portion Of the
province Of Chilli is suffering from
the most severe drought since 1900.
the southern extremity is eXperiens-
ing serious floods caused by heavy
rains.
A passenger train was derailed at
Progranitschnaia station, on the Chi
nese Eastern railroad and 100 persons
were killed or injured.
Two early morning fires did dam
age estimated at 100000 by complete
ly cutting a five-story Office building
and burning large livery and under
taking establishment Fifty horses
were incinerated in the latter.
President James B. Angel, of the
University of Michigan, delivering tho
baccalaureate address to the gradual
ing class of 1906, took for his subject
Honesty"
Because of worry over family affairs,
Bluford Chambers, said to be the
wealthiest farmer in Pike county. In
diana, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with razor.
In letter fled with the state depart
ment, w. c. Greene, president of the
copper company at whose mines in Ca
nanea the rioting occurred, charges
that agitators from the Western Fed
Grafton had been through the mines
melting the Mexicans, and tells how he
was warned Of the plot to dynamite the
bank and to inaugurate a revolution
against President Diaz.
New York's quarantine regulations
against Cuba was surprise to Cubans.
There have been only two cases of yell
low fever in the island since January
one in May in Matanzas province and
the other in June in Havana.
Louis Cipra, Of Cedar Rapids, Ia,
master of several languages and be-
lever in oriental religion and philoso.
ply, took a big dose of morphine and
then shot himself through the head,
dying instantly.
The six-story Ryan annex building at
st. Paul was completely Quilted by fire,
which burned fiercely all day. The es-
timated damage to the building and
the stocks IS between s45O,0OO and
100000.
The committee of 100, citizens OF
New York, organized to take measures
to establish an appropriate national
memorial to the late Carl Schurz, has
been completed.
Wheelock Harvey and Dave Neville,
said TO be wanted in New York on a
charge of robbing the First National
bank OF large amount in cash and Sc
curities, were apprehended at Fort
Worth, Tex.
The funeral of Representative Lester
of Georgia, who died at Washington as
the result of a fall in the Cairo apart
ment bcuse, took place from st. Johns
Episcopal church, Savannah, Ga.
The famous Virginia Silver" mining
case, in which is involved the title to
iron ore on state lands now under
lease, the value Of which is estimated
at $100,000,000, was argued and submit
ted to the Minnesota supreme court. If
the court upholds the states conten-
ton then all the lease-held mines of
the great steel corporation must again
revert to the state, and be redispOsed
of at public auction.
The Black Diamond express east
bound on the Lehigh Valley road was
wrecked near Sayre, N. Y, in COLI
sion with a freight train. The en-.
gineer was killed.
DR.. Francis G. Barnes was installed
as president of Illinois Wesleyan uni
versity at Bloomington, Ill. An ad-
dress was delivered by President Ed
mund ]. James, of the University of
Illinois.
LOS Angeles police assert they have
secured a confession from Mrs. Arila
Oohr Cfoo1ynn1o orrocfoH
for the murder of the woman's hus-
hand.
Mesfewi, the Marakesh cobbler, who
had been convicted of the murder of &c
women, instead of being crucified as
had been intended, was walked up
alive.
Representative Rufus E. Lester, Of
Georgia, was probably fatally injured
by falling through the skylight of the
Cairo apartment house, Washington.
Mr. Lester sustained internal injuries
and both legs were broken, his right
leg being crushed fearfully.
The appellate division of the Sill
preme court at New York handed down
decision affirming a judgment for
some $4,000 and large amount Of in
terest in favor of Wilhelm e. Zeller
against Joseph Letter.
The officials of California are agreed
that the insurance companies which
refuse to pay their losses in full will
not only be driven from the state. but
ruined before the world If the widest
publication of their methods can &C
complish that end.