The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-07-28

Thomas Neylon was found guilty
of the killing in Lincoln, ILL.,, Of
Thomas Brown, and sentenced to IA
years in prison. Neylon shot and
killed Brown in quarrel over board
bill.
Larry. Westcott. 81 years old, was
drowned in the Minnesota river near
Fort Smelling by the upsetting of
boat in which he and companion
were fishing.
The Phoenix Royal Insurance COM
pany of Vienna, which carried about
$2,500,O00 insurance, has decided not
to pay losses growing out of the San
Francisco contlagration. The COM
pany's policies carried an earthquake
clause.
w. Fl. Pickard, while working many
feet beneath the Mississippi river at
st. Lonis in a divers suit, lost his life
through the breaking of his life line.
Maj. Charles l.. McCawley, of the
United States marine corps, and Mrs
John Davis, daughter of late Secretary
of State Freylinghuysen We're married
at Providence hospital Washington,
where Maj. McCawley is ccnvalescing
from an attack of typhoid fever.
While driving across the tracks in
Grand View avenue, west of Column
bus, O., William Zimn, farmer, aged
y, and his wife Elizabeth, aged 65,
were struck by the Twentieth Century
T in,ifnI nd Isl
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall, said it was possible that
Tammany Hall would support William
r. Hearst for the Democratic nomina.
ton for governor in the next state
convention.
BY impersonating Mrs. Theresa
Bornero, wealthy Italian widow, Pa
liceman Carpenter, of St. Louis, cap
tured a man giving his name as Jo-
ham Hoppe, who is held on charge
of sending threatening letter to Mrs.
Bornero.
John D. Rockefeller will not be ar
rested when he lands in New York
Attorney Troup, of Bowling Green,
representing both Mr.. Rockefeller
and the Standard Oil company, en-
tered an appearance at Findlay, O.,
before Judge Banker in the criminal
case charging the oil king and his
company with violation of the Ohio
antitrust laws.
The state of Michigan gained an
important point in it's last of the
great railway cases by decision of
the supreme court in the case of the
state against the Michigan Central
railroad to collect $4,000,O0O in back
taxes, claimed to be due the state
under an original charter of the cor
poration and covering the years from
1856 to 1898.
OF the $50 samples of food products
examined by the Indiana board of
health, 500 We're pure and of standard
quality, and $50 adulterated or below
43.7 per cent. OF IS samples OF drugs
analysed, 46 were pure and up to
pharmacopeia standard and 20 were
adulterated.
Charles A. Sectors, vaudeville
actor Sc years of age, well known un-
der the stage name of Albert Christal,
was found dead in his room at
Omaha. Heart failure was the cause.
The commission composed of
Messrs. John w. Yerkes, 1. R. Hit,
Jr., and G. A. Champion, of the United
States internal revenue, appointed to
Investigate the decentralization of al
cohol, has arrived at Berlin to study
the German alcohol fuel and lighting
industry.
The Harvard university crew which
defeated Yale at New London will sail
for England and will, on September 1.
row race with the Cambridge eight,
which beat Oxford last spring.
The Pan-American congress held it's
first session in the st. Louis pavilion,
Rio Janeiro. The delegates were en-.
Enthusiastically cheered by great crowds
of people. Joaquin Nabuco, ambassa-
dor of Brazil to the United States, was
chosen permanent president Of the
congress.
Quartermaster Sergeant Dodds. of
company e, Twenty-second infantry,
committed suicide. He left note to
his captain saying he was tired of his
job.
The fourteenth conference of the in.
terparliamentary union was opened in
the royal gallery of the palace at Lon.
don. Adherents of international peace
from all the parliaments of Europe
as we'll as several of those of the
western hemisphere, were present. g..
Mrs. Gus Berndt and two daughters,
Ella and Ida, aged seven and nine
years, were run down on a trestle
by a Rock Island train near White, N
D., and killed. The bodies were
thrown so feet into the water and
were recovered by travelling man on
the train.
-Four men were killed and five in.
jured in an explosion in the powder
and dynamite house belonging to
Jesse o. Mccain, near Robertsdale
Huntington county, Pa.
At an adjourned meeting of the
East st. Louis city council an ordin.
ance was adopted ousting George O.
Purdy as chief of police, and appoint.
ing Lieut.. Michael Doyle as his sue.
cessor.
Russell Sage died suddenly at his
country home, "Cedercroft," at Law.
renee, L. I. The immediate cause of
death was heart failure, resulting
from complication of diseases Incl.
dent to old age. The veteran finan
cier would have celebrated his nine.