The Irish standard., 1906-06-02

II.
Forest Fires in the vicinity of Par
sons and Davis. W. Va, have destroy
ed property estimated to be worth
over 100000. Lumber plants, sawed
lumber and standing timber all figure
in the losses.
Jacob Woolner, founder of the Wool
ner distilling interests in Peoria. ILL.,,
was indicted for wrccliing the Peoples
Savings bank, which collapsed after
the sensational suicide of the Rev.
George Simmons last February.
Frank p. Boughton, cashier of the
National bank of Battle Creek, Mich,
committed suicide by hanging himself.
sank officials say his accounts are
straight.
The body of Clyde NJ. showalter a
rlcn farmer, who disappeared last Oc-
toper, was found standing upright in
fatoka creek, near Mount Carmel, iii.
showalter apparently had been killed.
Lum Slmons. Jew, observes Satur-
day as his Sabbath, and under the Ken
lucky statutes he is the only man in
LOUISVILLE and Jefferson county who
can legally keep his place open Sun
day.
RUSSIA awaits the governments re-
spouse to the bold action of the lower
house OF parliament which, in censur-
ing the ministry and demanding its re-
tlfement, offered Il Greet CHALLENGE to
the government.
Inc British steamer. America from
buenos Ayres. arrived at Havana and
was sent TO quarantine owing to two
cases OF illness on board, believed to
be bubonic plague.
Ihfee men We're drowned by a
squat that passed over Sheeshead
bay. Joseph Harrington, of Brooklyn,
was thrown out of launch which
was pitching il heavy sea and about
the same time row boat containing
two men was swamped and the occu.
pants sank.
William F. Nolker, capitalist, died
at st. Louis from injuries received in
an automobile accident at Paris, Ill.
Fire at Gaylord, Mich. destroyed "A
block of business buildings. entailinr
loss of $4,000.
Members of the so-called ice trust in
Cleveland, who were recently indicted
on the charge of violating the Valen-
tine antitrust law, will make a Wig
orous defense. contending that the law
is unconstitutional
In pistol duel at Mangum. Okla,
c. M. White fatally wounded Samuel
Gothron, who then shot and killed
White. They had long been enemies.
The Philippine commission passed
the postal savings bank bill. 1t be-
comes effective Immediately.
julius Won Justh was elected presi-
dent of the lower house of the Hun.
garian parliament.
Senior NaDuco, the brazilian ambas-
sador, and Viscount dc Alte, the Port
uguese minister. have returned TO
Washington from months trip u
the Pacific coast.
John Saunders was instantly killed
and seven others more or less injured
by an explosion of dynamite on the
Underwater railroad construction work
near Roanoke, Va.
The Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda,
accompanied by his wife and members
OF the royal party. paid IA visit to
Mount Vernon, where the prince paid
tribute to the memory OF George
Washington.
| Costa RIGA has named Ascencion Es-
quivel, former president of the repub-
lie. as its delegate to the Pan-Ameri-
can congress in July.
For the fourth time in her career as
golfer, Mrs. Charles L. Stout, of the
Richmond County club. Staten Island.
won the Woman's metropolitan golf
championship title
}. B. Johnson was killed, A. Keeting
fatally injured and several others
| slightly injured by dynamite explo-
sion at railroad camp 12 miles from
Deridder La.
Secretary Taft has instructed Mai.
Gen. Greedy, in command of the Pa.
clf1c division, to make arrangements
to retain the military forces in charge
o. relief work in San Francisco until
July l, if such action be necessary.
The Russian government has in
formed the state department that il
has directed the local officials at Ba-
tum to do everything in their power to
secure the arrest and punishment of
the murderers of Vice Consul Stuart.
| The needs of service pension bill
were called to the attention of the
house by Mr. Campbell Okan.), who
said that If some service pension bill
We're adopted the semi-montnly occur
renee of pension day" would be u
thing of the past
In the preliminary events of the in
tercollegiate athletic championship in
the stadium at Harvard, Yale qualified
90 men to IA for Harvard, and II each
for Pennsylvania and Cornell.
Prof. RadetZki, principal OF the Tula,
Russia, high school, was killed by a
youth of Is years. The crime was the
outgrowth of attempts to suppress ii
revolutionary propaganda in the
school,
The four principal owners in the
failed Teis Smith bank of Pekin, Ill.,,
were indicted under 1875 counts each
by the Tazewell county grand jury.
The executive board of the Ohio
Mine Workers closed it's session at Col
umbus without any definite steps for
a restoration of peace in the mining
regions having been taken.
A committee of Republican members
of the Delaware legislature petitioned
Gov Lea to call the general assembly
| into extraordinary sesSiOn for tho mr.