The News In Brief

Peyton R. Chandler, for forty years one of Chieago's prominent financiers, died as a rssult of a sudden attaek ei acute indigesties, wlth which he was attackt'd four hours previous. He was born in southern Vermont in 1817. President Zelaya of Nicaragua has issued a decree making larcï duty uree from October to April. Flour and corn, which are scarce, are also made free of duty. Mrs, Mary Gross, a wealthy widow of Peoría. Hls., 54 years old, and F.dward Wilson, a painter, 23 years old, who canie here from Ottawa, Til?., a few years ago, were married Tuesday afternoon. The affair lias created a sensation. ' Jacob Ouyer, who founded the Mary M. Hotchkiss-Guyer memorial home for aged persons in Peoría, Ills., died at that institution, aged 85. He was very wealthy. William O'Donnell, the 15-year-old son of Roadmaster Patrick J. O'Donnell of the Burlington road, accidentally shot and killed his mother at Omaha. Belgian Flemings are much pleased because the Coünt of Flanders' son, Prince Albert, the heir presumptive to. the throne, recently delivered a speech in Flemish before the Ghent academy. Jacob H. Schiff has given Columbia university $5,000, to be known as the students' loan fund. Under certain conditions the money is to be loaned to students in need. The sixteenth child, a daughter, has just been born to Mrs. Henry Moore ol Monroe Falls, O. There are seven girls and nine boys. Mr. Moore works for $1.25 a day in a paper mili. An old Greek lady of Trieste was murder""! by her 11-year-old grandson, instigated by his brother, who is 13. The children enticed their grandmother into the attic, where t..e younger boy shot her down with a revolver. Dr. Dawson Tucker has discovered that the Roentgen rays exist in nature, namely, in the ordinary glow worm, whose light penetrates thin sheets of aluminum and other subtances. The taxable wealth of the negro population in the United States is over $300.000,000. There are 23,462 negro church bodies, with church propsrty valued at over $26,626,418. The sixty-eight patrons of the Clinton, Mo.. new ti'lephone exchange are within talking range of eighty-four different towns. Brother Francls, who with five other French Oatholics founded Notre Dame (Ind.) university in 1S42, is dead, aged 77 years. Jules Verne is threatened with a libel suit by a French gentleman who thinks he recognizes his own portrait in one of Verne's villainous characters. Russian cannon captured at Sebastopol are used as trophie in various parts of France. During the czar's recent visit to Paris four of these identical guns were used in firing a salute to welcome him. A heavy blizzard has been raging In upper Tennessee. There are fourteen inches of snow on Roane mountain. The Illinois Watch company at Springfield, Hls., has resumed operations and announced that its factory would be run on" full time. All of the company'straveling men have been ordered to take the road. James Davison, known as "Steeple Jack," while fixing the steeple of the new Germán Presbyterian church at Sayreville, N. J., feil seventy-five feet. He will die of his injuries. A heavy earthquake of considerable duration was feit at Acapulco, Mex. No one was hurt, but great alarm was feit. The Missouri viver froze at Sioux City, Ia., from bank to bank. It is eighteen years since the river closed at this season. Roy Wallace was killed by the cars at Assumption, Hls. He was a son of J. S. "Wallace, postmaster of Clarks- dale, Ills. The Germán bimetallists have decided not to drop the fight, in spite of the defeat of the silver party in the United States. A mulé driver named James Crain was instantly killed in a coal mine at Odin, Hls. He was in the entry when a portion of the roof feil on him. Samuel Strouse, an insane patiënt under treatment at the central Indiana insane hospital, committed suicide by hanging. The deceased was a merchant of Hannibal, Mo., member of the Aaron Strouse family of Terre Haute, Ind., and victim of the cocaïne and morphine hablt. Edward Hitt, a son of Colonel J. E. Hitt of Mooresville, Mo., was run over and killed by a Hannibal and St. Joseph freight train. He attempted to jump on to the cabooose and was thrown under the train. James Hall, while attempting to climb a fence with a shotgun at Shelbyville, Ind., was fatally shot. Mrs. Samuel Schrock, aged 82 years, was found hanging from the limb of a tree in front of her home at Middleburg, Ind. Despite her advanced years, Mrs. Schrock climbed into the tree, where she deliberately placed a noose about her neck and swung herself into space. Richard M. Crouch of Thornton, Ind., was arested on a charge of embezzlement. It is alleged he collected about $3,000 for a brother and appropriated it to his own use. The cost of the army during the last year was $16,074,488, an increase of $753,527 over the previous year, according to the report of Paymaster General Stanton. Fred Galster, township collector and a thrifty farmer near Pana, Ills., and Robert Watt. his neighbor. are victims to the amount of $1SO each of a brace of sharpers, who secured their notes for cheap pianos. Ada Riel, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Riel, met a horrible death at Lacon, Hls., by a dose of strychnine, which she took by mistake in place of quinine. The strychnine and quinine were kept side by side on a shelf. Sam-iel Nixon, aged 87 years, was burned to death in his shanty near La Grange, Ind. The flre is supposed to have originated from a spark from hig l'ipe.