The employés oí the Pacific Rolling mi...

The employés oí the Pacific Rolling milis, San Franciso, numbering 125 men, are on a strike because of a reduction in wages. Theophile Lee, of New York, starved himself into a state of temporary insanity so that his wife might have food. Obituary: At Mllton, Wis., Rev. Wllliam Walker, 94. At Flint, Mich., Colonel W. B. McCreery,, 39. At MI1waukee, Andrew Douglas, 86. At Denver, James G. Tesh, ex-mayor of Sedalia, Mc, 65. At Jacksonville, Hls., William C. Carter. Colonel A. K. McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, Wednesday night celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into journalism. The results of the census of 1895 in Germany give a population of 54,244,503. an increase since 1890 of 2,S16,017, or 1.14 per cent. increase per year. Cliff Simpson, 20 years old, stabbed and fatally wounded his teacher, Clarence Campbell, at Mandeville, Mo., because the latter chastised him. ♦ V The grand jury of Ford county, Hls., has returned an indictment against Fredcrick Hartman for the murder of Mrs. Webke Gedde of Drummer township. Fred Thoromar, an insurance agent, was held up by two footpads in West Union, O., and robbed of $47. He was beaten wlth clubs, shot through the thigh, and left for dead. He crawled to a house near by, where he feil unconscious. The Wisconsin state board of pharmacy has elected H. P. Frank president. Marshall J. Miller was hanged at San Quintín, Cal., for the murder of Joseph Pierre of Marysville. In one of Boston's busiest thoroughfares there is a sign which reads: "Cole & Wood, Dealers in Wood and Coaï." The explosión of a vulcanizer in the dental rooms of W. M. Schlawig at Sibley, Ia., caused a probably fatal iniury to the dentist's wife. M. J. Foley, a prominent merchant, mysteriously disappeared about ten days ago from the Mondamin hotel, Sioux City, Ia. It is feared he has been murdered. A recently passed ordinance making it a crime to spit in Street cars is being risiuly enforced in Boston. Archbishop Benson's life is to be ritten by his son, the author of "Dodo." George Bryan of Elm Springs, Ark., set fire to a fuse m a well and before he reached the top the blast was discharged, blowing his body into atoms. Andrew Souers has filed suit against James Bubaker for $5,000 damages, charging alienation of the affections of his wife. Both are rich farmers. Mrs. Susan Whisehunt, the oldest person in Jefferson county, Hls., died in her 9Sth year. Ii. S. Alibot, an alleged horsethief, and John Hall, an alleged forger, escaped from the county jail at Jasper, Ind., leaving a note telling who furnished them tools. Bloodhounds are after them. Motor omnibuses for the streets of Paris will be built to accommodate thirty persons. James H. Hall, a prominent shoe dealer of Dayton, O., and ex-county recorder, died in his daughter's arms while riöing to his home in a Street car. It is figured that Richard Croker's experiences on the turf have already cost him in the neighborhood of $500,000. His lCnglish experiment is set down as costing him $230,000. The Vermont legislature has passed a bilí prohibiting Sunday excursión trains. Arizona convicts have been recently leased for ten years at 70 cents per head per day. A woman of 75 years, who sells newspapers on Potsdamer street, one of the fashionable thoroughfares of Berlín, is said to be a former sweetheart of Bismarck. A member of the Laconia, N.H. , board of education is said to be Hable to arrest for not sending his own children to school. The British National gallery has purchased the portrait of Gilbert Stuart, the painter of Washington's portrait, by himself. Damage suits aggregating $350,000 are now pending against Kansas City, and of these an aggregate of $300,000 are for personal injuries arising from detective sidewalks. Mark T. Harían of Broton, Ia., has been arrested on the charge of murderIng his 7-year-old daughter. The child died of arsenical poisoning on May 15 last. According to the official count California gave the McKinley electors 146,538 votes, Bryanites 144,766, and electors Lor Levering (Prohibition) 2,573. David Mills of Sterling, Mich., who has struggled hard all his life for a living and has feit the business depression severely, now receives word that a legacy of $140,000 awaits him in Scotland. Hug-h J. Jewett, former president of the Erie railroad, who has been seriously ill with pneumonía at Glenville, his country home in Maryiand.has been removed to New York. The "Wooster avenue car barns and 130 cars of the Akron, O., Street Railway company burned. Loss $10,000, insurance $8,000. Mrs. N. Harry, a leader ín church and social circles at Areola, Ills., drank a quantity of carbolic acid and died. She has been despondent over troubles, imaginary or real. Mayor Houghton of North Adams, Mass., has given his $1,000 salary to the local hospital. Field Marshal Lord Roberts, whom Kipling has immortalized as "Little Bobs," has written a two-volume work called "Forty-One Years in India." The Emperor of China is systematically studying the New Testament, and is at present reading the gospel of St. Luke. Frank Cunningham, alias F. S. Fox, was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in the county jail at Decatur, Hls., for attempting to defraud the Citizens' National bank of $450 by a false draft.