The Irish standard., 1906-05-19

The London colonial office has been
advised that Sir Robert Bromley, ad-
ministrator of the Island of st. Kits,
British West Indies, died there.
Former Premier Witte took a prom
inent part in the conference of men,
bers of the council of the empire. sue
cessfully insisting that the reply to
the speech from the throne should be
postponed until meeting Of the coun'
Gil. at which the press shall be repre-.
sented, so the country may be in
on either side.
Though Col D. Frank Powell
C"White Beaver") was buried in Los
Angeles. monument will be erected
in La Crosse, Wis. A movement is un-
der way to procure a large marble i'm
age of beaver.
Serious fighting is progressing in
Zululand
Several natives tribes on the Natal
side of the Tugela river are reported
to be ready to rise.
A strike has broken out at the
Zenica coal and Iron works. Sarayevo.
Russia. Strikers attacked the gend-
armes with stones and revolvers and
the gendarmes killed three and wound
ed five strikers.
John Alexander Dowie was mobbed
by crowd Of Voliva followers when
he tried to preach in the tabernacle at
Zion City. Eight were injured in
scrimmage during services.
Age is held to be no bar to the as
pirations Of Speaker Cannon to be
president by a memDer of the Illinois
delegation who mentions number OF
European statesmen who achieved
most long after they had lost their
youth.
The North British and Mercantile
Insurance company took over $45,-
100000 worth of British holders Mu-
tual Life policies and may take more
The governor and natives of Samar
have proposed to Gov. Gen. Ide war Of
determination against the Pulatanes.
A body identified as that of Father
Gapon, was found hanging on the wall
of deserted house in a town in Fin
land.
The douma almost decided by storm
to demand of the car immediate po.
litical amnesty. Leaders sidetracked
the plan.
New York had flood of funerals,
resulting from the settlement of the
funeral drivers strike, in which the
men were granted all their demands.
Fire insurance companies doing
business in the state of New York re-
ported to the insurance commissioner
at Albany. estimating their losses at
$l13,4 441 .595.
Champ Clark, of Missouri, declares
it Is time a southerner was seated in
the White House and says if no one
else will run he will undertake the
task himself.
The funeral of Sidi Mohammed f,
Hadj, hey of Tunis. took place before
eli enormous gathering of natives and
EEropeansa and the French military and
civil authorities. The ceremony was a
magnificent display of Mohammedan
rites.
The ceremony of the beatitication of
jules Billiart, the French founder OF
The Congregation Of Our Lady, who
assisted the wounded in the battle of
Waterloo. took place in ST. Peters.
Rome. The congregation has a house
iii Philadelphia.
III a report on trade of the United
States with South American countries.
In n u,.tr Of a J,l
says that the total trade in 1905 was
S2G7. 100000. The total imports from
all South America in 1905 were $3.50,
600. GOO in value and the exports to all
South America were valued at $57 ,OOO,-
900.
The porte's reply to the British note
promised to restore the status quo ante
on the Sinai peninsula and the delin,i-
tation of the frontier by Turkish and
Egyptian officials now on the spot.
Work has been generally resumed at
practically all of the anthracite col
lierines. All of the imported men have
been shipped away and almost all evil
dence of their occupancy of the collier
les las been removed
Rosie Davis and Kate Walter, both
about 13 years old, were drowned at
Clark's Landing, N. j.. on the Mullica
river. by the upsetting of sail boat
in which they were passengers.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the cs-
tablishment of the Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist Episcopal
church in British India was celebrated
in Carnegie hall. New York. under the
auspices OF the Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary society.
Conditions in the iron and steel in
dustry have heen greatly improved by
three settlements OF labor controver-
sizes that handicapped progress to some
extent
The gunboat Marblehead sailed from
San Francisco on u cruise to the south
ward as far as Pichilinque. Mexico, and
perhaps farther and lasting through
the coming summer.
Acting Secretary of the Navy New,
berry is dealing with severity with
courts-martial that fall short of their
duty in the exhibition Of undue Ieni,
ency toward culprits.
The eruption of Mount Vesuyius is
diminishing. The ashes have now
taken the direction of Pompeii and OF
tajano. while some ashes have fallen
at SOmma.
Mrs. Ruth Cantell, wife of Overseer
Harry Eugene Cantell, died at Zion
City in childbirth. No medical serv,
ices were given the suffering woman