The Irish standard., 1906-04-21

to the supreme court when Il lower
court sustains demurrer To an i'll
dictment.
The Chinese armies in Manchuria
are being actively increased.
The tifty-first annual reunion of
Scottish Rite Masons of the valley of
Chicago was held at Medinah Temple,
Chicago.
Jabez Balfour was released from
prison after serving sentence
Of IA years for wrecking the Lberator
building societies at London.
Mayor George w. Guthrie. of Pitts
burg. broke all records when he refused
a season pass to baseball games. The
mayor considers baseball passes form
of graft.
Lille Hlavsa. aged six. died at AL
legheny, Pa, of blood poisoning, fol-
lowing the eating of colored Easter
eggs.
The Wisconsin supreme court sus-
tanned the legality of the law permit
ting women to vote in school mat
tiers.
Capt. w. A. Powell, treasurer of the
Home Mission Board of the Southern
Presbyterian church. died at Atlanta,
Ga.
The new chief of staff Gen. Bell, as
signed Brig. Gen. Thomas Fl. Barry as
assistant to the chief of staff in addi-
ton to his duties as president of the
army war college board.
Virtue was it's own reward in the
case of Ernest Chapman, who picked
up checks totaling the sum of $780,
900, returned them to their owners and
was handed $40 bill for his honesty.
DR.. c. A. Earle, of Des PLANES, ILL.,,
received word that when the village
board can provide a suitable site and
maintain a library at cost of $500 a
year, Carnegie will donate $4,000.
Three members of the crew of the
British battleship Prince of Wales
were killed and four were injured by
Il boiler explosion while the vessel
was undergoing her speed trials at
Malta.
Marshall Field. the 2-year-old grand
son and heir Of the great Chicago
merchant, sailed from New York for
Europe with his mother. his grand
mother, his brother and his sister.
President Roosevelt and the dow
ager empress and emperor of China
exchanged greeting on completion of
the cable to China. /.
The heresy trial of Rev. Algernon
S. Crofsey in Batavia, N. Y, was con.
tinued until April 25.
Frank Eckers, former chief of pc.
lice at Ottumwa, Ia, and captain
in the regular army throughout the
campaign in the Philippines, died at
the Cook county hospital in Chicago
from injuries suffered when he was
struck by an electric car.
Miss Alice Bedinger died suddenly
at Louisville, KY. The attending ply.
sicians stated. that death was due to
earache and that the case has few if
any parallels in medical history.
A bitter race war is threatened at
Springfield, Mo-, as the result of the
lynching and baking of three negroes
declared to have been innocent of
crimes charged.
Springfield, Mo-, was thrown into a
frenzy of excitement by the killing of
a negro who attempted to hold up a
white youth and his girl companion
Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest of 100 members of the lynch mob.
who will he charged with murder.
John r. Walsh, whose arrest on
March 9 on the charge of violating the
federal banking laws while he was
president of the Chicago National bank
caused a sensation in the financial
world, was given fifth postponement
of his preliminary hearing.
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, Chinese
minister to the United States, takes is.
sue with Representative DENLY regard
ing frauds in issuing certificates and
raises the question of whether his re-
call should he demanded by the Amer
lean government.
Geronimo, chief Of the Apache tribes
of Indians, who is critically ill at his
home on Fort Sill military reservation,
said: Il am praying to the white
mans God who has made me man
fit for Heaven to spare my life for
few years longer. to spare it until am
freed from custody and see my people
in free homes"
The fifteenth continental congress OF
the Daughters of the American Revo.
luton met at Washington.
-Four persons were killed on the
streets OF Windber, Pa, in a clash be.
tween deputies and a mob of striking
miners who were seeking to release
from Jail 20 rioters who had been ar.
rested.
President Roosevelt, it is said, de.
sires to represent New York state in
the senate after the expiration of his
term as executive
Thomas G. Hoag, formerly business
manager and trustee of Northwestern
university, died at Pasadena, CAL.
Where he had lived several years. He
was born in Concord, N H., September
Z, 1925, settling in Chicago when the
city was a town of only $500 inhab.
itants.
Clifford Stokes. aged IA, and Louis
j. Schultz, aged 20, were drowned in
a lake near Taylorville. Ill. They at
tempted to row across the lake in an
old boat, which sunk with them few
feet from the shore.
After lying in the dead letter Office
at Washington over As years letter
from a young soldier lad of the civil