The Irish standard., 1906-07-21

The officials of the pension Office
! think they have discovered in Lyston
d. Howe, of Streator, ILL.,, the young
est volunteer of the civil war
Mr.. Brown, the American secretary
and charge in Salvador, will communi-
cate with Commander Mulligan, of the
Marblehead, and that officer will place
his ship at the disposal of the Ameri-
can legation, so that Mr.. Brown will
be in position to carry out the in
structions to proffer to the govern
ment of Salvador and Guatemala the
use of this American warship as a
place of meeting for the peace COM
missioners.
Judge Thomas B. Buskirk, in the
Orange county court sustained the
| third section of the demurrer of the
French Lick Springs and West Baden
Hotel companies against the petition
in quo warranto of the state of lndi.
ana for temporary injunction
against gambling at the resorts In
this section the hotel companies set
UP the allegations of the state in it's
complaint do not state facts suffi-
GENTLY to constitute a cause of action
against them
The hearing of the suit brought by
the state of Minnesota against the Du-
luth board of trade to secure a disso-
luton of that corporation and sell its
property was begun in the ST. Louis
county district court at Duluth The
action was brought against the board
at the instance of the Minnesota
Farmers exchange.
Georgia legislators adopted reso-
luton endorsing Jerome and Folk"
for the Democratic presidential term
| in 1908.
Sam Berger, the California amateur
heavyweight, gave Philadelphia Jack
| O'Brien the hardest six-round battle of
his career in the Quaker city.
BY vote of 1875 to 2, the lower
branch of the Georgia legislature
passed the so-called child labor BILL
Persians value the life of the Chris.
tian at 80 tomans (dollars) and the
maximum value of life of a Moslem at
1000 tomans.
w. H. Chadbourn, Jr., from Beaver,
Pa, where he has been engaged in the
United States government survey
service, has been appointed chief en-
gineer of the Chicago Great Western
railway and assumed charge of his
duties in that Office.
AS a result of coal oil explosion
Iva Ellen Keller, nine years old, is
dead at Muncie, Ind. Her three
months-old sister, who was lying on
the floor at the time of the explosion,
was fatally burned by the oil. The
father was seriously burned.
The Russian cruiser Novik, which
after breaking out of the harbor of
Port Arthur in July, 1904, sought to
reach Vladivostoll and was so badly
damaged by two Japanese cruisers Au-
gust 81, 1904, that She sunk off Cape
Enduma, Sakhalin, has been floated.
Player P. A. Dougherty, of the New
York and Chicago American league
clubs, will be reinstated on the pay
ment by him of a fine of $15O and by
the New York club of one of $25.
While opening a letter from his sis
ter which contained information that
he had fallen heir to $4,000, w. R.
Johnson, Kansas City, switchman,
40 years old. died from the rupture of
an artery near his heart
President Roosevelt has sent con-
gratulatory cablegram to Commander
H. II. Hasley, U. S. N, at Cavite, Phil
ippine islands, upon his success in TAX
ing the floating dry dock Dewey to Ma
Mia
Basing his opinion upon the testi-
mony already submitted to the fed.
eral grand jury in the Cleveland dis
trict. Attorney General Moody be-
lieves that the government has at last
secured the evidence which will lead
to bringing the Standard Oil company
to it's knees.
Alfred Belt, the well-known South
African financier, died in London. He
had been in bad health for some time.
Mr. Belt is said to have been the
richest man in London, and controlled
the output of gold in South Africa.
The council of ministers appointed
Maj. Alfred Dreyfus to the command
of the Twelfth regiment of artillery
at Vincennes.
Passenger train No on the Col
orado & Southern railway, carrying
hundreds of Elks to the convention in
Denver, was wrecked three miles
north Of Forbes Junction, Col. En-
gineer Martin J. Cullom was killed.
The cruiser Columbia has been or
dered to Boston and sailed from San
Juan with 300 marines on board. Of
these more than one-third are i'll with
fever contracted at Colon, Panama
A powder mill seven miles from
Ashland, Wis, blew up, killing three
men. Twenty others were injured.
The celebration of the French ma
tional holiday was marked by the OFF,
cial Journal publishing decree an
nouncinS Dreyfus' reinstatement and
promotion, and the inscription of his
name on the list of chevaliers of the le-
oign of honor.
The scene of tumultuous disorder
which marked the enactment of the
law restoring Alfred Dreyfus to the
French army was followed by bloody
duel at night, in which Under Secre-
tary of State Sarraut was dangerously
wounded by the sword of M. Pugliesi-
CONT
It is stated on good authority that
the assassin Of Admiral Chouknin,
commander of the Black sea fleet, was
a girl disguised in the uniform of a
sailor.