The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-07-28

Al South birmingham, Mass, the
front of a partially constructed three
story brick aud cement building col
lapsed and more than q score OF
workmen were carried down in the
wreck. Only nine men were taken
out alive, and some of these were
badly injured. Eight bodies were re-
covered
its third reading the Irish laborers'
cottages bill by vote of 1875 to 10.
The bill authorizes loan of s22.-
100000 to provide laborers cottages
in Ireland.
A detachment of constabulary,
Lieut.. Williams commanding encoun-
tered band of 600 Pulajanes near
Buraen, on the island of Leyte. Lieut..
Worswick. 10 privates and Civilian
Scout Mcbride were killed.
There is no foundation for the re.
port that Count Leo Tolstoi is ill.,
Impressive services were held at
Simla in honor of Lady Curzon, wife
earl Of Mimic, viceroy of India, the
countess of Mimic and Gen. Kitchen
er, commander-in-chief of the British
forces in India, were present.
Just before ball game between
local team and Plymouth, Wis, nine
at Manitowoc, Wis, a fierce electrical
storm swept over the city and a bolt
of lightning hit the grandstand, where
the spectators and players had sought
shelter Five persons were killed out
right and a score or two injured by
the shock
The executive council of the .tmeri.
can Federation of Labor made good
it's declaration of several months ago
to enter the field of politics in the in
terest Of trade union movement and
to eXhort all members and friends of
organized labor to work for the cleo
ton to political Office of men known
to be favorable to labors cause
The insurance companies doing
business in New York issued 1896
fewer policies in 1905 than in 1904,
the amount of insurance written last
year showing decrease of $151, 724,
S54.
The value of canned meats export
ed from the United States in June,
1906, was $461, 100. against S797,127
IN June, 1905, and in the fiscal year
1906, $9,233,410, against $9,577,G45 in
1905. The figures for the fiscal year
1906 include canned beef, $G,43c,A1G;
canned pork, s1,215.s57, and other
canned meats, s1,5S7,1O7.
! The labor situation in the anthra-
cite region is one of profound peace.
! In all the active collieries mining is
progressing satisfactorily.
The United States geological sur
vey states that the total output of
zinc during 1905 amounted to 203,S49
| short tons, an increase of 17,147 short
tons over 1904.
No statement will be made by Mrs.
| G. j. Holman, mother of Mrs. Harry
X. Thaw, relative to the letters found
in the effects of Architect Stanford
| White and alleged to have been writ
ten by Mrs. Holman to White before
the marriage of her daughter to
young 'Thaw.
| Military investigation and a grand
| jury inquiry have been ordered into
the mystery surrounding the disap-
| pearance Of nine wagon loads of H.
quors dispatched from the Moulder
depot warehouse to the jefferson
Park hospital storeroom at San Fran.
CISCO
Charles d. Schmidt, an assistant
bookkeeper for the Helena (Mont.)
Water Works company, shot and
killed his wife and tried to kill him.
self. 1t is said that Schmidt discov-
cred letter duplicating his wife
with a man at Fort Assinniboine.
Unless his present plans are
changed John ID. Rockefeller is going
to Cleveland, to spend the latter part
of the summer.
With the heel Of his heavy shoe. AL
bert Rierson, % years old, patient
at the Racine county insane asylum,
beat out the life of John Ladrach,
aged GS years, another patient.
The overturning of boat resulted
in the drowning of two persons in the
Sioux river, near Riverside park,
Sioux City, Iowa. The dead are: Carl
K. Carrick, aged 81; Joseph Berries,
aged Is.
Representative James S. Sherman
and his associates on the Republican
national congressional committee have
decided to appeal to Republicans to
contribute one dollar each to it's cam.
paign fund.
1t is announced by President w. j.
Dutton, of the Home Fire and Marine
Insurance company, of San Francisco,
that that concern will wind up it's af-
fairs and go out of business.
Justice Roujet D. Marshall, of the
supreme court of Wisconsin, is the
high court official referred to in pro-
ceedings of the Wisconsin legislative
life investigating committee, when
State Manager J. G. Albright of the
Union Central Life Insurance COM
pany, of Cincinnati produced CORE
spondence showing that a supreme
court official asked that the life
agents commission for collection of
the premium on his policy be paid to
him. The authenticity of the CORE
spondence was vouched for by JUS
tice Marshall.
The people of Colombia celebrated
the anniversary of their independence
and, in honor of the occasion, the gov
ernment released all political prison
ers. Peace reigns throughout the re-
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