The Irish standard., 1906-06-09

cSA6SOI ALUM MdIy4duu, Olcu SuuOcAAy
at his residence in Washington.
While Senator German had been i'll
for many months, he had shown some
improvement lately. Heart trouble
was the immediate cause of death.
His illness, which had lasted for sew
eral months, was not considered seri-
Gus. He leaves widow and six chill
dren.
Foster Dwight Coburn, the widely
known agriculturist, was appointed
United States senator for Kansas by
Gov. E. w. Hoch to succeed ]. Ralph
Burton, who resigned.
Several people were painfully hurt
and. about 100, many of whom were
visitors to the Masonic grand lodge ses-
sion at Des Moines, escaped serious
injury in a wreck on the Fort Des
Moines line.
Thomas O'Connor Jones, son of the
late George w. Jones, one of the pio-
neers of the firm of Jones & Laughlin,
was found dead in his bed at hotel
in Pittsburg. He had apparently shot
himself and the coroner gave verdict
of suicide.
Congressman Hepburn was nomina-
ted by reclamation by the Eighth Iowa
district Republicans. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing President Roosevelt,
Iowa's two members of his cabinet and
the Iowa delegation in congress.
All British admiralty and war Office
contracts which have been placed since
the disclosures affecting the meat
packing industry in the United States
stipulate that canned meats are for
British or colonial products.
What is generally regarded as the
most significant feature of the Mis-
souri, Democratic state nominating
convention was the pointed and abso-
Lutte Endorsement of William Jennings
Bryan for the presidency in 1908.
Charles Wood and William Baker
were killed in head-on collision be-
tween a wrecking train and a work
train on the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad four miles south of Cadillac,
Mich.
In argument before the Kentucky
railroad commission former United
States Senator William Lindsey, of
New York, urged general revision of
intra-state rates on all commodities,
declaring that the power under Ken
lucky laws is indisputable.
In the First Illinois election dis
trict Circuit Court Judge Alonzo K.
Vickers, Republican, defeated Justice
Carroll G. Boggs, Democrat. Justice
William Farmer, Democrat, in the
Second district, and Justice j. w.
Wilkin. Republican, in the Third, were
reelected with only Socialist opposi-
tim, and in the Sixth Justice J. H.
Cartwright, Republican, was reelected.
Grin N. Carter, the Republican
candidate, was elected justice of the
supreme court of Illinois for the Sew
enth judicial district by a plurality
of 21,225. His nearest competitor was
BENJAMIN D. Magruder, the outgoing
justice, who ran as an independent
and defeated William Fenimore Coop
er, the Democratic candidate, by 300.
Henry H. Powers, once successful
member of the New York stock ex.
change, but who during the last years
had lost most of his fortune, commit
led suicide at his home in BROOKLYN
by shooting.
The populace of Madrid is gradually
recovering it's composure, and the pro-
gramme of wedding festivities is be-
ing carried out.
The lower branch of the Russian
parliament suspended consideration
Of the agrarian problem in favor of
the bill to abolish the death penalty,
which, as an urgent measure, takes
precedence.
A thunderstorm of extraordinary
violence accompanied by deluge of
rain swept Odessa and district.
Seven persons were drowned and four
were killed by lightning, which set
fire to number Of buildings.
Rev. DR.. Charles B. Ramsdell, pastor
of the North Presbyterian church Of
Washington, D. c., died suddenly of
apoplexy while attending meeting
OF the presbytery of Washington.
0SA6Se'At AAOPNlAo, vi lie AIlZOId
rangers, returned to Naco, Ariz, from
Cananea, Mex, and reported that des-
perate rioting has started anew be-
tween the Mexican rioters and the
troops guarding Americans in the
camp of the Greene Consolidated Cop
per company.
Howard Athey, aged 26, and girl of
a years, named Swick, living in the
Middle Loup Settlement, near Broken
Bow, Neb., died in commissions. Death
Is attributed to food poisoning as a
result of eating pickles.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, is
suffering from an indisposition
brought on by stomach trouble.
by unanimous opinion the Colorado
supreme court upheld the ccnstitu-
tionality of the employers liability act.
Under this act an employer is respon-
sible for the death of an employee by
accident, even if 1t be caused by the
negligence of co-employe.
What practically amounts to a con-
test OF the vast Stanford estate was
filed in the county clerks Office at San
Francisco by Annie F. Stanford, a
niece of the senator, against the ex-
ecutors of the will OF the late Jane L.
Stanford.
The Democrats of the Sixth Indi.
ana district nominated Rev. T. II.
Kuhn. of Richmond for congress.
Outfielder Harry Vinson, of the Chi
cago American league team, has been
signed by Manager Carr of the Indi-