The Irish standard., 1906-03-10


is certain to begin in the very near
future.
The boarding and livery stables
owned by E. c. Mauppin were burned
at Champaign. Ill. Fifteen horses were
incinerated. Loss, $4,000.
Charles Brewster, convicted of the
murder of Marshal Stryker. his step.
father, was hanged in the county Jail
at Coudersport. Pa.
The Ohio house passed the Yost bill,
appropriating $4,000 for participation
in the jamestown (Va.) ter-centennial.
The state department has forwarded
$1,000 collected by the Red Cross to
Mr.. Wilson, the American charge at
Toxic, for the relief of the japanese
famine sufferers.
The Ohio house, by vote OF 80 to S,
passed the bill introduced by Mr..
Werts, of Wayne county, creating q
railroad rate commission.
BY the collapse of the concrete roof
over section of the huge new round
house of the Denver e. Rio Grande
railroad, at Pueblo, Col, one man was
instantly killed and three others were
badly injured.
Maj. George H. Hopkins, former de.
partment commander of the G. A. r.,
department of Michigan, died at his
home in Detroit, following a stroke of
paralysis.
The grand jury ut Caldwell, Idaho.
which has been investigating the as
sassination of former Gov. Steunen-
berg, made its report to Judge Smith,
Judge Smith withheld the names OF
the persons indicted.
Fire broke out in the business dis.
trict of Ironton, Mo-, resulting in the
death of William Christ, the destruc-
ton of four buildings and a property
loss OF $4,000.
The arrest of several members of the
Peoria, Ill.,, school board, under whose
administration Newton c. Dougherty
stole nearly p million dollars, is de.
manded by residents Of the city. who
have instituted proceedings to GUST the
board.
A Russian woman hid bomb in he~
hair and attempted to assassinate Vice
Admiral Doubasoff at Moscow, but her
ruse was discovered and she was ar.
rested.
The claim of Senator Clark of Mon.
tana to 11,4O0 acres of public lands in
that state, alleged to have been fraudu
lently obtained, 80 of the patentees
now being under indictment, is upheld
by the supreme court of the United
States.
H. II. Rogers, according to Wall
street report, has made a successful
campaign in Coppers against Heinze,
whose losses are estimated at from
$11, OO0, 900 to $25,0OO,OO0.
The United States Steel corporation
is said to have arranged for a merger
of Great Northern ore lands, Republic,
Tennessee, Colorado Fuel and othe-
steel, iron and coal properties. The
deal involves $1,242,a13,OOO.
The Chicago city council, by a vote
of 40 to %, passed the ordinance for a
| $1,000 saloon license, and Mayor Dunno
announces he will sign the measure.
Democrats carried Muscatin.s, Ia, il,
the lnayoralty election, their candidate.
Joseph Asthalter, defeating r. S. Nc.
Mutt, his Republican opponent. Re
publicans were victorious at Ceda"
Rapids.
Twenty men and four women wera
arrested In Sioux Falls, S. D., on suspi
cion of implication in the death of :,
| farmer.
Announcement is made of the organ.
ization of the Toledo, Fort Wayne &
Indianapolis Railroad company to
build line from Toledo to Indianap
oils.
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran
was installed as grand sachem of tile
Tammany society in place of Supreme
Court Justice O'Gorman, who resigned
recently.
Fourteen bills regulating insurance
companies doing business in Ohio
were introduced in the house of repre-.
sentatives of that state
Emil Fugine, aged 35, a wealthy
merchant, was burned to death at Ar
cadia, Wis, in the sight of a number
of customers, his clothing catching
! fire from a stove near which he stood.
Sovereign Commander Root, of the
Woodmen Of the World, announces
that the headquarters of the order will
be removed from Omaha because the
state Of Nebraska proposes to tax the
reserve funds of the order.
| Mrs. H. E. Jones, of Cedar Rapids
Ia, died on board q special train en-
route home from Havana, where she
had been for several weeks. Mrs
Jones was literary woman of con-
siderable note.
The trial of David Z. Sherrick, for.
mer auditor of state of Indiana, who is
charged in II indictments with grand
larceny and the embezzlement OF
$145,00O of the state funds. began in
the Marion county criminal court at
Indianapolis.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Grand Opera house and did $685..
900 damage to the Observatory build.
ing in Des Mofnes, Ia. The total loss
will aggregate $4,000.
James Stephen Hogg, who as COVER
nor of Texas waged war against the
trusts and put down the lawless ele.
ments of the state, died suddenly fl
| Houston.
A shafthouse at the Wolverine
mine, Calumet. Mich, burned, causing
loss of $4,000.
Patrick convicted in New Yorl, nj