The Irish standard., 1906-08-18

A determined effort will be made at
the national encampment of THE
Grand Army of the Republic to pass
resolution deprecating the purpose
of the law driving the canteen out of
the soldiers homes.
Fully $4,000 people. according to
railroad estimates. poured into Min
neapolis for the fortieth annual en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
At meeting at Shiloh house in
Zion City, attended by $50 persons,
John Alexander Dowie, the deposed
apostle of the Christian Catholic
Church of Zion. took occasion to de-
nounce Judge Lands for the manner
in which he had settled up Zion af-
fairs, and, in an excited Earrangue,
accused the jurist of telling a false
hood.
The decision of the American con-
sui general at Shanghai, China, who
recently gave judgment for S1S,5l9 in
favor of w. Porter Boyd, of Honolulu,
against the American China Develop
ment company, has been upheld by
United States Circuit Judge w. w.
Morrow.
A trolley car packed with pleasure
crowds crashed into train at the
Fortieth street crossing at Oakland,
CAL. and score of persons were bad.
ly injured.
Rains in the CONTAINS east of Ell
Paso, Tex, and north of the Southern
Pacific tracks in the vicinity of San
derson have washed out 20 miles of
track.
Miss Mary Skinner of Three Rivers,
Mich, was drowned in st. Joseph riv-
err at Mishawaka. Ind. Miss Skinner
was canoeing with j. C. Miller, of
South Bend. The canoe shot over
20-foot dam.
Three men were fatally shot and a
fourth man wounded by negro over
a crap game at Cambon, Franklin
county, Ill. The dead are Wiley B.
White, 10 years old, of Benton, and
two negroe coal miners living at
Zeigler.
With thousands of people nearby,
including fully 1000 in bathing, and
none realizing what was happening,
Jacob Weidemeyer, of Toledo, and
Harry Steinkamp, of Springfield, each
aged Is years, persisted in the surf at
Cedar Point. o.
A car containing so persons on the
Cleveland & Eastern Traction line,
jumped the track eight miles south
west of Chardon, o., injuring eight
and nearly drowning dozen others in
large stagnant pool into which the
car plunged.
Care will be taken by the United
States government to prevent con-
tractors from doing injustice to the
Chinese laborers employed for work
on the Panama canal.
The game between Louisville and
ST. Paul at Louisville was called of
on notice by the board of public safe.
ty that hereafter no professional base.
ball games will be allowed on the
Sabbath
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaie.
witch, has declined to accept the post
of commander-in-chiefo of all the troops
of the empire where martial law
exists"
The federal grand jury for the west.
ern district of New York returned in.
dictments against the Standard Oil
company, of New York; the Pennsyl.
vania railroad company, and the
Vacuum Oil company, of Rochester,
for violations of the interstate com.
merce law.
Miss Ash l.. Esac, who is summering
in Oyster Bay for the purpose OF inter.
viewing the president or Mrs Roose-
welt on what she declares is "a mat
ter Of life and DEATH created scene
during the service in Christ's Episco.
pal church.
William ]. Bryan has fixed the date
for his arrival in New York as August
80. He will visit New Haven and
Bridgeport August 81; Jersey City,
September L; Chicago, September 4;
Lincoln, September S; St. Louis, Sep
TENDER IL; Louisville, September II
and Cincinnati September IL. Stop.
ping at Kansas City on the return
trip.
What is said to be the first instance
of the conviction of lyncher in the
history of the state was furnished at
Salisbury, N. c., when George Hall,
white ex-convict of Montgomery coun.
ty, North Carolina, who was one of
the party that lynched three negroes
in Jail for the murder of the Lyerly
family was found guilty of conspiracy
in connection with that crime and was
sentenced to Is years in the peniten.
tiary.
Five persons prominent in social
life of Davenport, Wash, who had
been enjoying an outing on the banks
of the Spokane river about IL miles
northeast of there were drowned.
Charles P. Thurston, who was
killed in San Domingo. is son OF
c. E. Thurston, of st. Paul. c. E.
Thurston is storekeeper in the Unit
ed States customs warehouse.
c. T. Wells, former vice president
of the J. P. Baden Produce company,
of Winfield, Kan, was arrested at
Arkansas City on a charge of perjury
in swearing to a false statement Of
the condition of the company on June
80, 1904.
DR.. George Bailey of Philadelphia
resigned as international treasurer Of
the executive committee of the Inter-
national Sunday School association.
F. A. Wells, Of Chicago, was unani.