The Irish standard., 1906-04-21

All the police of Connellsville, Pa,
went on strike after the refusal Of the
town council to grant an increase Of
ten dollars a month in salaries.
Nine men have been killed in a riot
III the southern part of Phillips count,
Arkansas.
President Bicknell, of the Illinois
state board OF charities, says the state
should conduct poorhouse instead Of
counties.
John WlllemS, under arrest at La
porte, Ind, on many charges of forg-
cry, is said to have four wives. The
police say he lost $4,000 which be-
longed to one OF the women in a
scheme to establish Il brewery in Mil
waukee.
The Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance inquiry at Milwaukee reveals
vast business in private loans on pat
rons' policies done by officials and en-
ployes.
Two officers and five gunners were
killed and IA men injured, eight of
them seriously. by an explosion Of
powder i'll one of the forward turrets
OF the battleship Kearsarge at Culebra
island, off the coast of Porto Rico.
The American federation of Labor
is preparing bill designed to prevent
interference of courts in labor dis
putes. Legislation opposed by the
president
Most of the London newspapers de-
vote their leading articles to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech at the cere-
mony OF the laying of the cornerstone
Of the new office building OF the house
OF representatives at Washington.
Their comment generally is favorable
to the presidents words.
John Allen Gordon, of Scotland, met
sorrOwful countryman in a railroad
station in Chicago and was swindled
out Of 500 in English sovereigns.
Petrunkevitch, who is leader of the
Constitutional Democrats, will be pres.
ident of the Russian douma.
Judge Hook handed down an opln.
ion in the United States circuit court
of appeals at st. Paul, Mimi, uphold
ing the Chicago board OF trade in it's
suit to enjoin the Celia Commission
company and others from surrept-
itiously acquiring and using the
boards continuous market quotations.
United States trade with North
American countries exclusive of Cam
ada, Mexico and Cuba. reaches $780,.
100000 a year.
The Vatican sees new hope in
France. The Catholics, together with
the old nobility, are making hard
fight in the elections.
Henry j. Gerhard. a truck farmer
of Long Island, has sold his 25-acre
truck patch for 100000, the largest
price ever paid for such property.
Services OF peculiar interest were
held at the English Lutheran church
of Alexandria, Ind, when a tablet was
unveiled commemorative of the menu
DRY OF the unknown donor in German
town, Pa. who six years ago donated
sum sufficient to erect a handsome
$4,000 church.
A statement issued by the Equitable
Life Assurance society showed that
1855 small policies had lapsed. Few
of larger amounts are allowed to de.
fault.
Miss Nellie Grant, a granddaughter
of President U. S. Grant and daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Grant of New
York. is seriously ill in Il sanitarium,
where she was operated upon for APP
pendicitis.
Yaqui Indians have ambushed par
ty of American mining men in So.
nora. Samuel Williams, of Ell Paso,
Tex. was killed and his body found
after the ambush, but other members
Of the party are missing.
B. Mollett, Il street car conductor,
was struck by an automobile at
Cleveland, o., and so badly injured
that he died an hour later. The auto.
list was held on charge of man.
slaughter.
Two officers and five men were killed
and IA men injured, eight seriously.
when a charge of powder exploded in
a gun turret of the battleship Kear-
sarge. in Cuban waters.
National decadence, declares DR..
Hirsch, of Chicago, is shown by the
growth of anti-Semitism in this coun-
try.
Dowie is willing to turn Zion prop
erty over to a board of trustees less
five per cent, which shall be his prop
oriv ni,ccl,,toly
The supreme court knocked out
Cleveland's three-cent fare ordinance.
holding that old traction franchise SUI
persedes it.
1t is reported that proposition to
establish bank with capital of
$50,000,000 for the purpose Of regulat-
ing money and exchange rates during
times of financial stringency. such as
that recently experienced in Wall
street. is under consideration by inter-
ests connected with the stock ex-
change and by the National City bank
of New York
Miss Frances Fairfield, of New York,
a member of the chorus OF the Spenser
opera, "Rosalie." divided honors with
Capt. Clark, 1.-THE velvet-coated hero"
at Atlantic City, N. j., by accepting q
dare to plunge into the surf off Ten.
nessee avenue attired in full street cos
tune.
President Rooseyelt's repeated dec
laration that he will not run for the
presidency again have little effect on
those who insist that he must be
candidate in 1908, and the many as