The Irish standard., 1906-04-28

1t is authoritatively reported in Big
Four railroad official circles that on the
list of June Mr.. w. C. Brown, OF Chicago,
will become the president of the New
York Central lines at salary of $75 900
u year.
His life wrecked by the malicious
whisperings OF false friend, Frederick
Palmer Moody, young son of an old and
respected resident of Brooklyn, at
tempted to kill himself by inhaling il
Illuminating gas in cheap lodging
house.
The disappearance of an iron safe,
weighing 1900 pounds and containing
$4,000 in cash and $4,000 worth of jew
elry, from Il second-story room in the
home of Michael Vanderlolske, at
Floral Park, l.. L.. mystified the men,
bers of the household when they awoke.
The net earnings of the United States
Steel Corporation in the quarter ended
March 81 are $3S, 634 ,49O, an increase of
$13,6OS,594 over last year.
The remains of John Paul Jones were
placed in a temporary tomb at Annap-
oils with elaborate ceremonies, INCLUDE
ing addresses by Roosevelt and Ambas-
sador Jusserand.
The government of Norway has de-
cided to bring in bill for the organiza-
ton of a new army and also estimates
amounting to $3,13O,0O0.
NF,%k
ing the crater of vesuvius. The diam
eter OF the crater, which before the
eruption was 100 feet, is now 5000 feet.
1t is reported from Eshowe, Zululand,
that the insurgent chief, Bambaata,
with 800 followers, has fled toward
Natal and that troops are pursuing the
fugitives.
Mrs. John Seaton, aged 81 years, was
burned to death at Rockford, ILL., Her
clothes ignited from a bonfire and
death ensued several hours later.
A jury at Wabash, Ind, acquitted Jo-
seph Knight, aged 16, who was accused
of killing Kenneth Willetts, aged Is,
in boyish quarrel.
When Harrison Higgs. of Utica. Ky.
reprimanded his 17-year-old son the
youth seized shotgun and killed his
parent.
The First National bank at Alfalfa,
Ala. was closed after National Bank
Examiner Cooper had reported the in
stitution insolvent.
Earl Spencer, aged eight years, died
in Sioux City. Ia. from blow on the
temple by a hammer thrown by a
schoolmate while practicing on the ath-
letic field.
Benjamin Eek, captain of the Illinois
National Guard rifle team. and Miss
Pearl MCGEE, both of Sterling, ILL.,, were
secretly married.
Francis A. Blades. city comptroller
since 1896, a thirty-third degree Mason,
retired Methodist clergyman and pre-
siding elder and prominent member OF
the Republican party, of which he was
one of the founders "Under the Oaks"
at jackson, Mich, died at Detroit, aged
SIS years.
Mrs. A. D. Ferris, aged IS years, moth
er-in-law of Circuit Clerk W. L. Boying-
ton. is dead at Freeport. Ill. In 1858
Mrs. Ferris and her husband conducted
the Brewster and entertained Douglas
and Lincoln at the time of their debate
that year.
George c. Berry, loan clerk of w. J.
Hayes & Son. bankers of Cleveland. o.,
took poison and died rather than face
exposure of an embezzlement. He was
confronted with proofs and confessed
a shortage of $1,000.
The Sixth Alabama district has
Capt. R. p. Hobson. of Mer.
rimac fame. over John II. Bankhead,
the present congressman.
Father Gapon has not fallen into
the hands of the revolutionists but
into those of the holy synod, which
condemned him to indefinite impris.
for forsaking priestly orders,
in one OF the many gloomy monas.
teries.
The Belgian training ship Count De
Smet De Mayer fonndered off Prawle
point.
Rev. l. R. B. Arnold, associate pas
tor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist
church. where John d. Rockefeller
worships while in Cleveland, brought
suit for divorce from Idella Arnold.
He claims that she deserted him.
William Eugene Cook. an inmate of
the Indiana reformatory, has confessed
that he is the murderer of John L.
Perkins. Of St. Joseph county, in 1904,
and that he set fire to the home for
tine purpose of cremating the body.
Two Danish trawlers with 40 men
on board foundered recently in a gale
off the coast of Iceland. A third
boat with crew of 30 is also be.
lieved to have been lost.
A number OF enormous vultures.
probably emboldened by hunger, are
spreading terror in the valley OF Cou-
ches. Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
They have been preying upon sheep
and COWS.
Fire has swept the town of Mari
quina, Rizl province, P. I. Many thou
sands OF persons are homeless and
starving. Two thousand dwellings are
in ruins. The government is rushing
assistance to the sufferers.
Fire destroyed Pasil, near the town
of Cebu, P. /. Two hundred dwellings
were burned and many persons are
homeless.
Fire Chief William Kennedy of Green
Bay, Wis. pleaded guilty to a charge OF
bribery on information secured on his
voluntary statement