The News In Brief

King H'.imbert of Italy holds the record of having shot the largest ibex ever eeen. The horns measured thirty-five Inches in Length, the clrcumference nine inches at the base, and thedistance een the horns twenty-seven inches. Jesse Harrison was shot and instantly killed at Whltesburg, Tenn., by J. A. Cox, a prominent merchant. Harrison was going to marry Lena Sykes, a servant employed by Cox. The widow of Thomas A. Biddle cf Philadelphia has presented his law library and his collection of etchings and engravings to the law school of the University of Pennsylvanla. Jacob Wagner, aged 70, committed suicide at Defiance, O., by shooting. Wagner was once a wealthy and prominent citizen of Bucyrus. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Burgess. residint: near WestviHe, Ind., celebrated their sixtleth wedding anniversary. Six children were born to them anc all were present at the celebratlon. A man named George Kuntz of Savanna, His., put the muzzle of a sh.itgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger v.ith his toe. A 310-pounder of 19 turned up in this year's batch of French conscripts. He uas active enough to be accepted. Edwin C. Roush of Chicago, one of the partners in the Wholesale grocery firm of Means Bros., Gray & Cc. of Bloomington, Hls., has asked that a receiver be appointed. James B. White, Jr., son of ex-Congressman J. B. White, and Miss Edna Reuss were married at Fort Wayne, Ind. It was a complete surprise to their friends. Robert Hunt, son of Sheriff Hunt of Carson, Hls., cut Professor M. C. Alderman acrofcs the abdomen, inflicting a severe wound. J. E. Roehm, for many years in the leather business at Marión, Ind., killed himself ín the Panhandle passenger depot. John Wagner, a farmer living near Peru, Hls., shot and killed himself with a revolver. Xo cause is known. Charles Pinkerton stabbed his nephew, Challes Pinkerton, co üeatn witn a Bkinning kn.fe, the murder being committed at South Bend, Ind. The únele alleges that the nephew threatened to kill him. Evan John Williams, aged 16, was accidentally killed while hunting near Emporia, Kan., his shotgun exploding. Frank Wells pleaded guilty of stealir.g a horse and buggy in Greencastle, Ind., last Friday, and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at Jeffersonville. Archie Stamper, aged 20, committed suicide at Lexington, Ky., becaúse he could not flnd employment. The George H. McCall company, dealers in coal and builders' material, Wilmington, Del., has confessed judgment in amounts aggregating $10,000. r Tim Hussey, who discovered in the Cripple Creek district mines worlh $1,000,000, died penniless in the hospital of the great gold camp. Miss Knight oí London has been appointed professor of anatomy and pathology in the Lhudiana Medical school, India. John Beckstrom of DeKalb, Hls., committed suicide by pjunging a knife into his breast. This was the thirteenth attempt anti seventh successful suicide in that city during the last two months. Alfred A. Monroe, a student at the Northern Indiana normal school, took an overdose of morphine by mistake, to cure insomnia. He was 19 years old and his home was at Areola, Ills. H. H. Lueker of Worden, Hls., was struck by a Wabash train, sustaining severe internal injuries. Chester C. Buek, for forty years a member of the banking firm of Buck & Toan, Plymouth, Ind., died of heart disease while conversing witta a friend. He was 62 years old. The first of the new eight-inch high power guns for the defense of Washington from attacks by sea has been put in position at the works called Port Washington, some six miles below the city. Christian Klervend and Anna Poffenroth called upon a Colfax, Wash., justiee of the peace and as,ked him to conduct the ceremony of marriage in the Germán tongue. He proeured a tutor, studied for an hour to memorize the service, and fulfilled their wish. Mrs. Daniel Howard of Jeffersonville, Ind., had her home connected by telephone with the Presbyterian ehurch, being at times prevented by illness from attending the service. The experiment was very successful. A Kansas ranchman has succeeded, alter several years experimenting, in developing a new breed of hornless Hereford cattle, which are said to possess other distinct points of merit besides the absence of horns. A mine in Idaho shipped out three bars of bullion valued at $8,000. At L,os Angeles, Cal., a jury refused to deliver a verdict until its fees were paid. ■ m Henry Labouchere, M. P., the proprietor of Lpndon Truth, complains that he has spent L40.000 in suecessfully defending vexatious actions for libel brought against him. Bartley Marrer, one of the oldpst citizens of Wabash county, Ind., dropped dead of heart failure, aged 60. Ex-Judge R. AV. Sadler, aged 41, died of injuries received in a runaway. His skull was fractured. Charges have been preferred against a New York policeman for arresting a choir singer on the charge of having policy slips in his possession. The alleged policy slips turned out to be a list ei the numbers of hymns which were to be sung by the choir to which the accused person belonged. Dr. H. C. Daniels, a resident of Naperville, Hls., since 1832 and one of the oldest practicing physlcians in the country, is dead. The new woman has evidently reached Pueblo, Col., for The Daily Chieftain has an advertisement reading thus: "Wanted - By competent woman, a place to work for her husband's board." At the European hotel, LaCrosse, Wis., Edward Folsom, Grand Meadow, committed suicide by taking morphine.