The Irish standard., 1906-07-14

MED by his bride who was formerly
Mrs. Mamie Langhorne Shaw, of Vir-
ginia.
In addition to closing her frontier to
all Servian cattle, Austria-Hungary
has prohibited the bringing in of
timed meats from Servia.
The cruiser Charleston, with Secre.
tary Root and party ON board, arrived
at San Juan. P. r.
The Russian commissioners have
locked horns over the mode of expro-
priation and the method of disposal of
private estates.
The steamer Langdale. Capt. Kelly.
from Savannah, for Bremen collided
in the English channel in a fog with
the steamer Fishren, of Newcastle.
The Langdale took the Fishren in tow,
but the steamer Maryland, Capt.
Clarke, from Philadelphia, fouled the
Fishren, which sank.
Five Yosemite valley stages were
held up by a lone highwayman who
obtained considerable amount of
money and jewelry. The conveyances
were halted in rapid succession at
curve in the road near Advance, Cal.
The output of asbestos in the United
States for 1905 was 3,1O9 short tons.
valued at $42,975. This exceeds the
production of any previous year, and
represents an increase of more than
100 per cent. in quantity and of almost
81 per cent.
Emperor William arrived at Tondh-
jem on the Hamburg. King Haakon
Immediately went on board and the
two monarchs embraced cordially, kiss
ing each other several times.
The small wooden steamer Henry
Houghten, owned in Detroit, was
beached in sinking condition just
above Windmill Point, in Lake st.
Clair. after colliding with the steamer
Frank Peavey.
1t has been decided to hold the ju-
nior and senior track and field cham
pionships of the Amateur Athletic
union of the United States at Travers
island, the seniors to be held on Sep
TENDER 8 and the juniors on the Thurs
or Friday preceding.
Passenger train No. 4, on the Atch.
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway. was
partially derailed four miles west Of
Flagstaff, Ariz. Ed. Pillsbury, the
fireman. was scaided to death.
Henry H. Glauste, secretary of the
commission to inquire into and report
to congress its conclusions concern.
ing the laws relative to second class
mail matter, has issued an announce
ment that the first session will be held
at New York at noon, October 1, 1906.
G. Meade Emory, a lawyer of Seattle,
was shot and probably fatally wounded
by Chester Thompson, student at the
University of Washington, who was in
fatuated with Miss Charlotte Whittle-
sey, niece of Emory, and Miss Whit
tlesey had requested her uncle to pre-
vent Thompson from entering the
house.
Walter L. Houser, secretary of state
of Wisconsin,, was acquitted in the
Dane county municipal court of the
criminal charge of having attempted to
Assemblyman Jones' bill authorizing
er of insurance.
About one person in every 1900 was
blind and one in every $50 persons was
deaf in the United States in 1900, ac-
cording to a special census report on
the blind and deaf in the United States
in that year just issued by the census
Office.
William Carter, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church, Kansas City, has
accepted call from the Madison Ave-
nue. Reformed church of New York
city.
Former United States Marshal ]. H.
Wolman, Grand Christian and Frank
D. Cooper pleaded guilty in the United
States court at Helena, Mont, of illegal
fencing of government lands, and were
each fined $500 and sent to Jail for "a
hours.
The state supreme court handed
down decision holding Mayor w. w.
Rose, of Kansas City, in contempt for
having assumed the office of mayor
after the court had ousted him for the
non-enforcement of the prohibition
law and the law against gambling.
Judge w. D. Robinson, of the Indi-
ana appellate court, dissolved the tenn
porary restraining order and held that
the action of the city council in GUST
ing Mayor Bidaman of Terre Haute
was legal and that Bidaman had no
claim on the office.
Mrs. Solomon Gobbau and her six
children were burned to death in a
fire that destroyed their home at La
fayette, Ind. Solomon Gobbau, the
husband and father, was badly burned,
but will recover. The entire family
was asleep when the fire started.
The report Of the committee of ex-
perts of the Illinois Manufacturers
association and the Chicago CONNER
cial association, while freely critics.
ing some of the existing conditions in
the stockyards, declares the food pro-
duced by the packers is wholesome.
John S. Gray, president of the Ger
man-American bank of Detroit, Mich,
vice president of the National Candy
company and prominently connected
with number of other large business
enterprises, died from heart trouble.
Japanese foreign trade for the first
six months of 1906 shows an increase
of s10,0O0,000 in exports and a de-
crease of $30,OOO,0OO in imports as
compared with the same period of
1906
The seventh annual convention of
the International Federation of Com
mercial Travellers organization adopt