The Irish standard., 1907-05-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The town Of Bocas del TorO, Pana-
ma. was practically destroyed by fire.
Three children named Dominique
were burned to death in Blind River,
Mich.
The Illinois house passed the new
Chicago charter bill and the local
option bill.
Fire in the printing plant of the
Blanchard Press New York, did $685..
900 damage.
Ten persons were injured when a
Santa Fe passenger train was derailed
at Norborne, Mo
The entire leper colony of DARCY
Island. r. c.. consisting of eight Chi
nese, has heen sent hack to China.
George p. Butler. portrait painter.
died at his home, near Croton Falls.
N. Y. He was in his seventieth year.
Walter c. Davis. San Francisco
carpenter. went insane and murdered
a family of six persons with whom he
resided.
Three white men and Is natives
were killed by an explosion In the
Modder-Fontein gold mine in the
Transvaal.
William O. Rice, telegraph op.
orator In Washington, after a quarrel
killed his wife. shot his baby and com
mhted suicide.
King Carlos Of Portugal will visit
Argentina after his trip to Brazil early
next year. according to cable dis
patch from Lisbon.
Max Francis klepper, artist and
illustrator. died at his home at Flat.
bush, n. Y. He was an animal painter
of note, as years old.
Miss Harriet 7. Haskell. for 40
years head of Monticello seminary for
young ladies at Godfrey ILL.,, died Of
heart trouble, aged 70.
Rev. Henry Bryant. colored
preacher of Bridgeport, o.. was killed
in Grand Rapids, Mich. by folding
bed closing and breaking his neck.
The life insurance companies init.
mate that they will withdraw from
Texas when the new insurance law
of that state becomes effective June t.
Certain persons have voluntarily
restored to the government between
900 and 1000 acres of valuable coal
lands in Colorado, acquired irregu
larly.
| Excavation for the month of April
| in Culebra cut of the Panama canal
amounted to S79.527 cubic yards. and
| at the Gatun lock site to 100000 cubic
yards.
| Four trainmen were killed. four 9th
ers were injured and three passengers
We're hurt in a collision on the Balti
moro & Ohio railroad near Wheeling
w. Va.
The Irish hill. giving Ireland a cor
tain measure Of self-government, was
introduced in the house of commons
by the chief secretary for Ireland, Mr.
Birrell
Charles Harris. negro farm hand
who shot and seriously wounded Hay
| den Pearson. farmer. at Dearine
Ga. was lynched by crowd of ~
unmasked men.
Alex r. Chisolm, former paying
teller. charged with having embezzlet
100000 from the First National banl
Of birmingham. Ala. was convicted
and sentenced to ten years in prison
Charles e. Halliwell, vice presiden
of the American Tobacco company
and ono of the heaviest stockholder:
in the corporation. died suddenly o
apoplcxv at New York city He was
rcputcd to he worth $2O,OO0,0OO.
Theodore Nemoyer brought sui
against the Chicago New York Elec
trio Air Line Railway company in Chi
cago. to enjoin it from doing business
in Illinois and asking an accounting
and the appointment Of a receiver.
With 921 Chinese storage passeng
crs at war with 212 Russian steer
age passengers all on their way from
Vladivostok and Shanghai to Mazatlar
and Guaymas, the British steamer
Maori King pnt in at San Diego Cal
for help.
The trial Of three former employe!
Of the Shelby Steel Tube company
charged with conspiracy to defrant
the government by supplying defec
tive boiler tubes for ~ar vessels. wa:
begun in Pittsbnrg. One of the de
PENDANTS pleaded guilty and turned
states evidence.