The News In Brief

Unknown persons destroyed a hnuse at Barnesville, O., with dynamite. Fortunately the oecupants were not at home and there was no loss of Ufe. Lesler Wadley, a prosperous farmer of Sycamore, Hls., committed suicide by shooting himself. Clay White of Hillsdale, Ia., committed suicide. Dcspondeney over bad health was the cause. William Bartlow, one of Joliet's oldest citizens, was caught by a passenger train on the Rock Island road at the bridge entering the city and thrown into the canal. The body was recovered half a mile below the bridge. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Shultz of Carthage, Hls., have just celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversay. Mr. Shultz is 82 and his wife 79 years of age. s Pauline Elkins was found dead in a pasture near Haljsviile, Mo. There were nu marks of violence. The case is myterious. Oí, J. Pierpont Morgan has purchased for $1,000 the Boston terrier, His Nibs, which won flrst pr:ze In the open class for heavy weight dogs in the Westminster show. A pearl that was afterwards sold to a jeweler for $75 was found in the gizzard of a turkey in London. It is said that a Missouri dealer who recently shipped several hundred mules to Johannesburg, South África, realized $250 to $300 each on them. The Princess of Wales and Princesa Victoria are expected at Copenhagen early in March on a visit to Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark. Bones of soldiers who ware buried at Clarksville, Tenn., when the female academy at that pla?e was used as a hospital during the war were uncovered by a landslide back of the building. The London school board rule forbidding collections in schools was suspended in order to allow subscrip.ions to the Indian famine fund. The St. Petersburg newspapers announce that the King of Siam will visit there next suramer. Dr. Lewis Hallock, the oldest practicing physician in New York city, and probably in America, is dead, aged 94. The Republicans at the primaries in Zanesville, O., nominated John H. Crooks, an undertaker, for mayor. Terrific storins have raged over the coasts of Spain, doing considerable damage. Isaac B. Allen, a colored man of Boston who was elected a meniber of the governor's council, thought he would make some money by lecturing on "How I Got There" in the towns of Massachusetts. He began at Haverhill, but as the receipts footed up only $9 he refused to speak. Revenue officers have captured Jim Cross, who was running a moonshine still two miles from Carmi, Hls. The still and whisky were removed. Cross is recently from Tennessee. He was taken to Springfleld. The haberdashers of New Tork have imitated the tailors of that city and joined hands to crush out the deadbeats in swcll society. They are going to sell at public auction, as the tailors did, about $100,000 of bad accounts. Lyman W. Hall of Joliet, Hls., who' shot Constable F. De Long last November, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life. John M. Ward, the once renowned shortstop of the old New York baseball team, has been made claim agent of the Brooklyn Trolley company. The comptroller of the currency has given authority for the organization of the First National bank of Edgemont, S. D.; capital, $50,000. The late Miss Julia Cooper of New York left $150,000 to the Cooper Union- a sum which will enable the institution to receive 200 more pupils. The Norfolk (Va.) Trust company, thirty-two years in existence, doing a banking business, has made an assignment. Liabilities, $20,000. The depositors will be paid in full. I. Van Alpen, the postmaster general of the Transvaal, leaves Pretoria next month for America, in order to attend the postal union congress. Jacob Heek was instantly killed by an incoming passenger train on the St. Paul road at Milwaukee. M. Wilson, the son-in-law of Jules Grevy, who by his corrupt practices caused the retirement of his father-inlaw, and carne near putting an end to the French presidency, now threatens to publish his revelations. They will cause more scandal than even the Panama affair. Stephen Doane of Stevens Point, Wis., a hermit, was found dying in his lonely cottage. He was 60 years of age, and has been without flre or food for four days. Willie Hill accidentally shot Ned Huff at Galva, Hls., while playing with a pistol. He died in six hours. Henry Nail of Ramsey, Hls., while bracing the second floor of his barn, was caught and crushed to death. The Christian churches of northern Indiana have just closed their annual conference at Ashley. Reports submitted showed the church to be in a prosperous condition. m m The oldest person in Allegheny county, Pa., and for that matter probably in the state, is Mrs. Mary Malie, who will celébrate her 107th birthday this month. Will Connors w-as driving home from church with Miss Ollie Moorhead, near Crestón, Ia., when a bridge gave way and Moorhead was drowned. Ex-Sheriff Eli B. Walker of Youngstown, O., took an overdose of morphine, and his condition is critical. He left home mysteriously last Wednesday and returned Sunday, going toa hotel, where he was found. A postoffice clock at Sydney, Australia, emits an electric flash light, lasting flve seconds, every hour during the night, thus enabling those living miles away to ascertain the exect time. If horse racing were abolished it is estimated that over 20,000 people would be thrown out of employment in England. The old George IV tavern in Portugal street, London, which Dickens' commentators unite in saying is the house which the novelist described in "Pickwick Papers," has been sold at auction for $37,750.