The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-04-07

Miners in drunken orgy in the
woods in Pennsylvania killed one man
and fatally injured two others.
Rich New York merchants are said
to be interested in plan for revolu-
ton in Venezuela. by which it is hoped
to overthrow Castro and open the
country to American capital.
Saloon keepers on the North side
of Chicago carried out their threat
to raise the price of beer by the can
and charged ten cents for a pint, los.
ing much trade.
Crop failures are things Of the past
in the United States, according to Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson. who de-
clares that science has triumphed over
nature to such an extent that all va
riations of weather such as usually
are experienced can be set at naught.
Thirteen men, entombed in a French
coal mine 20 days. living on hay and
putrid meat. escape.
Judgments were entered at Cincin-
natl, o., against former county treas
urers, charged with receiving "gratui-
ties" from banks in which public funds
were deposited, amounting to $211,174.
Pat Grove maze his debut as pub
lie lecturer at Butte, Mont, advocating
prison reform and the adjustment of
contract labor in penal institutions.
Officials of wireless system claim
to have transmitted 572 words across
the Atlantic ocean, distance of 5000
miles.
Albert Johnson, colored. was exc
cuted at Waxahatchie, Tex, for the
murder of J. H. Taylor, a white man,
committed last July.
Announcement was made at Rich
mond, Ind, that "the Friends Inter-
national Christian Endeavor reunion
would be held at Wilmington, O., July
% to August 1.
Troops were called out at Winnipeg.
Man., to awe mobs which threatened
violence as a result of street railway
strike.
District Attorney Jerome in the
George w. Perkins habeas corpus pro-
ceedings declared the campaign gift
was illegal and immoral and consti-
tuted a crime.
The League of Writers of Russia is
sued an appeal to the country to avert
massacres of Jews, which it Is charged
are plotted by officials for the Easter
tide.
Representative Byrd, of Mississippi,
introduced bill placing meats on the
free list, believing that this would re-
MOI hn IN 10
The Christian Herald sent another
check for $4,000 to the state depart
ment through the Red Cross for trans
initial to Japan for the relief of fam
inc sufferers. This makes the total re-
mittance from this source $125,0OO.
Isaac Winder, negro, executed at
Towson, Nd, made desperate fight
for life on the gallows while a crowd
of 1000 looked on.
Joseph A. Turney, note teller of the
National Bank of North America, was
arraigned in police court in New York
on the charge of stealing $4,000.
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
& st. Louis Chg FOUR railroad issued
general order to confiscate all coal in
transit ON all it's lines.
Justice Bowling, in the New York
supreme court, granted the application
made by District Attorney Jerome for
special grand jury to investigate in
surance matters.
! Charles Thornell died at Baldwin,
Mich. and brother of the dead boy
and Frank Roy may die as the result
of eating wild parsnips.
| A Nickel Plate passenger train left
the track near South Whitley, Ind,
and turned over in the ditch, injuring
% persons, one fatally.
Direct information from the trade
ports and centers of China is to the
effect that the boycott against goods
shipped from the United States is rap
idly dying out and that there is a
prospect OF an early and full resump-
ton of business.
| Wisconsin has decided to bring suit
against the Standard Oil company I'M
der the state antitrust laws.
Unable to remove the snowslides
from its track, the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad set 200 men at work
near Durango, COL, to tunnel through
the huge masses of snow and thus
open the line.
Attorney General Charles w. Miller
of Indiana has fled suit for $50, 900 in
Boone county against Americas C..
Daley, former auditor, to recover fees
alleged to have been collected illegally
from the state.
The New York assembly, by a decis-
i've vote, ordered that the committee on
elections and privileges has power to
order the ballot boxes used in the last
New York city election opened.
| The trial of the beef packing corpor-
atoms is fixed for September 10 in Chi
cago.
The first actual election of members
of Russia's parliament resulted in the
choice of IL conservatives.
The Ohio senate passed bill per-
hitting amateur baseball playing on
Sunday. There were only five votes
against the bill.
Mrs. Mary C. Wallace, of Denver.
Col, was fatally injured in the public
elevator in the senate wing of the cap
itol at Washington y:attempting to
leave the car while it was in motion,
and she died later
| The Ohio senate by unanimous vote
passed the house bill creating a state
railroad commission and providing for