The Irish standard., 1906-09-15
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phia, stated that he had discovered
additional evidence of Segals peculiar
financial methods. Five issues of
mortgage bonds We're made by Segal
on properties known as the Standard
Iron & Steel company, the Champion
Iron & Separator company and the
American Swedish Crucible Iron COM
pany. The first mortgage for $250,000
was increased by four additional bond
issues to $5,000,000, each succeeding
issue being made without the previous
mortgage having been cancelled.
The massacre of Jews at Siedlce,
Poland. has ceased, but suffering
there is great. Fights, mutinies and
terrorists' plots make conditions
throughout Russia grave.
Recruits rush to the Cuban revolu.
tionists as the result of President
Palma's threat of a policy of aggres-
sion.
The fear of an attack by the insur-
gents on Havana is spreading, and
there are rumors more or less authen-
tic from all directions of new upris-
ings in various quarters.
Three men We're killed by coming
in contact with barbed wire fence
that had been charged with electricity
from the plant of the Indianapolis &
Cincinnati Traction company, at Rush
vile, Ind.
In one of the most severe wind
storms that ever swept that district,
damage amounting to several thou
sand dollars was done about the docks
and factories of Escanaba, Mich.
Scores of families will move from
Zion City, ILL.,, to new colony to be
established in Butte county, South
Dakota, according to r. v. Iverson, of
Zion City.
r. w. Arnett and William Jackson,
who escaped from jail at Carthage.
Mo-, in June last, were captured at
Muskogee, I. T., after a struggle.
They are charged with forgery and
burglary.
Two hundred union plumbers went
on strike at Kansas City, Mo-, for an
increase of so cents a day in wages.
Building operations were hindered.
The excitement over the copper de-
posits discovered recently in the
Greenwater, CAL, district is on the in
crease. Hundreds of men have braved
the desert to get into Inyo county and
locate prospects in the new field, 60
miles south of Bullfrog.
Secretary Root and family, accom-
panied by American Minister Dudley
and the mayor Of Lima, visited the
cathedral and other places of interest.
At the central market the party re-
ceived an ovation. A group of women
strewed flowers on the staircase as
the party were descending.
Solomon Urbach, diamond mer-
chant Of New York city, reported to
the Baltimore police that he was rob-
bed OF $4,000 worth of diamonds
while en- route to that city.
George William Maurer retired,
died at Springfield, ILL.,, aged II years.
During the civil war he was lieuten-
ant and quartermaster in the One
Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois in
fantry, and was brigade Qlartermaster
for some time.
Judge B. L. Haines ordered the re.
lease from Lansing, Kan, penitentiary
of AL Harpster. who is serving a life
sentence for the murder of John Jul
ian at Ponca City, Okla. The dying
confession of Byron Cole clears Harp.
ster.
S. A. Huntley, of Omaha, Neb., car
ried off first prize for high total for
the amateurs in the two days shoot
of the Indianapolis Gun club. The
western man shattered 362 out of
possible 400
The approaching end of the danger
period for this season from yellow fe-
YER infection was indicated by the ac
tion of the Louisiana state board of
health in partially letting down the
quarantine bars against some of the
Central American ports.
At Chook, ]. r.. James Martin, a
stockman, was shot and killed as he
was riding along the highway. It is
alleged that trouble with stockmen
was the cause of the trouble.
Cicero Davis. wealthy stockman
was killed by an unknown assassin
four miles east Of Porum, ]. T., beinng
shot from ambush while going along
road near his home.
Stephen Horvath, Hungarian iron
worker, was shot and instantly killed
in a quarrel over pool game in a
saloon at Ironville. o., by Slav.
State Senator Edgar E. Bracket.
of Saratoga, announced that he is
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for governor of New York.
Fire destroyed the building within
the Ohio reformatory grounds at
Mansfield occupied by the Bromwell
Brush & Wire Goods company.
Inspector Frank Voges, of the post
office department, was drowned at
Bayou Grande, five miles from Pensa.
cola, Fla.
Asphyxiation. chloroform and drown.
ing were the methods used by Claude
Unger, wealthy business man to
commit suicide at ST. Louis.
Henry Potts killed his wife at Eu.
faula, /. T., by cutting her throat and
was himself shot twice during a des-
perate fight with deputy marshals.
The sultan of Moroccos troops have
defeated the forces of the pretender,
and Blu Hamara has fed from Zelouan.
DR.. F. B. Gault, of Tacoma, Wash.
has been appointed president of the
South Dakota university at Aberdeen.
This ends long controversy and no.