The Irish standard., 1906-07-07

Vice Admiral Doubassoff. whose
wounds from the explosion of bomb
thrown at him May 6 by native lieu
tenant have not healed. has gone
abroad. He will not resume his post
of governor, general of Moscow.
In attempting to get out of the way
Of freight train about a mile north
OF Orange, Va, two negro women and
two negro girls were killed by
Southern passenger train.
Ten thousand people were thrown
into wild panic during the perform
ance of Ringling Bros. circus in
Aurora, ILL.,, when violent and sud-
den windstorm partly wrecked the
main tent. One man was instantly
killed-a cripple, who was unable to
save himself-another man died of
fright, and seven persons were injured,
at least one of them fatally.
Detectives disguised as workmen
were denounced and nearly battered to
death with "knuckle-dusters' at
workmen's meeting at St. Petersburg.
They were removed to the hospital in
a dying condition.
Phoenix National, full brother to
Major Dangerfield, winner of 100000
sold for $500 at Sheepshead Bay. He
is chestnut colt by Handspring
Droit, and was bought by ]. w. May.
While James Patterson and his wife,
both nearly 80 years old, were visiting
their daughter at Millersburg, O., the
old man fell down the cellar steps,
breaking his neck. His wife fell over
with heart disease.
President Roosevelt extended to the
civil service employees, mechanics, and
laborers in arsenals, depots and d.
vision and department commanders
offices, under the war department, the
privilege of half holiday during July.
August and September, on Saturdays.
Rev. William Alexander, D. D. L.
D., professor of church history in the
Presbyterian theological seminary, died
at San Anselmo, CAL He was born in
1881.
DR.. Haugh, Of Dayton, O., sentenced
to be electrocuted for killing three peo-
pde, won't die at least until the snow
flies. The supreme court sustained the
motion for leave to file a petition in
error.
mot guilty." was the plea personally
made by Harry X. Thaw when ar
raigned on the charge of having mur-
dered Stanford White, before Justice
Cowing in the supreme court at New
York.
A bad wind storm struck the central
part of Towner county, North Dakota,
passing near Bisbee and Considine.
Seven buildings were destroyed, and
one man is said to have had his neck
broken in the wreck of his home near
Bisbee
Secretary Hesters statement of the
worlds visibly supply of cotton shows
a total of 3,114,466 bales against $685.
OIL last week. Of this the total of
American cotton is 1,759,466, against
1,S55,011 last week.
National prosperity far in advance
of the highest known records is en-
phatically indicated in the crop esti-
mate OF H. v. Jones, crop estimator.
The winter wheat production of the
United States he gives as 42O,OOO,OOO
bushels, 60,000,000 bushels over last
year, and the record crop of winter
wheat ever produced. Cotton and corn
are III exceedingly good condition, and
with hot July and August may also
break the record; but nothing but
wet harvest can lower the wheat crop,
says the Jones estimate.
Judge Britain R. Webb, for the past
eleven years reporter for the courts of
civil appeals at Dallas, Fort Worth,
Galveston and San Antonio, a lawyer
of note, and the author of several law
books, killed himself at Fort Worth
At the annual session of Imperial
guild, Ancient Mystic Order of Bag
men of Bagdad, the social inner organ
ization of the United Commercial
Travellers, at Columbus, O., L. c.
Pease, of Columbus, O., was elected i'm
perial ruler.
That the Panama canal will be COM
pleted in eight years from the present
time, is the belief of Chairman Shonts
Of the canal commission.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
northern Illinois branch of the Young
Peoples Christian union of the United
Brethren church closed its session at
Astoria. The subject of discussion of
the convention was missions.
The $4,000 art collection of the late
Harriet Lane Johnston, niece of Pres
ident Buchanan, and mistress of the
White House during his administra-
ton, will be preserved intact at the
Smithsonian institution.
A London art dealer has bought for
81 100000 the celebrated Hainauer COL
lection at Berlin Of German and Italian
art formed under the direction of DR..
Bode, of the Berlin museum.
Four persons, two of them a bride
and bridegroom of day, were killed
on the Philadelphia & Reading rail-
road at Gwynedd, Pa, by an excursion
train which ran down their carriage at
the station.
Frank S. Galley, son of Mrs. Samuel
Galley, widow of a millionaire oil oper-
ator, was arrested at Pittsburg charged
with en- attempt to rob the residence
of James B. Laughlin, president of the
Jones & Laughlin Steel company.
The supervising architect OF the
treasury has completed the plans for
the jamestown monument, marking
the place of the landing of the Eng
lish. The monument is to be an exact
miniature of the Washington monu-
ment. 1t will be 100 feet high.
Gov. johnson sent the following tele-