Minor Telegrams

Minor Telegrams.

Arrested For Counterfeiting. -- Chas. Wilder of Chicago was arrested at his home Wednesday on a charge of counterfeiting.

Bought a Summer Resort. -- A deal has been closed by which Pertle Springs, a summer resort near Warrensburg, Mo., becomes the property of an English lord. whose name is withheld. The consideration was $100,000.

Big Shipments of Salmon.-- The British ship Osborne cleared Wednesday from San Francisco for Liverpool with 61,000 cases of salmon. This makes 291,600 cases of salmon that have been shipped from that port for Europe since the middle of September.

Yukon Is Frozen Solid. -- The steamer Amur has arrived at Victoria from Skagway ports and reports that the Yukon has been frozen solid and that the steamer La France was caught and held in the ice when enroute down, near Minto. She will remain there all winter.

Many Chinese Were Burned.-- Mail advices from China report a fire at Kweilin Wwangsi, causing great loss of life and property. Many Chinese were burned to death and several hundred houses destroyed. The burned houses all around the Christian Alliance mission, which was unscathed. The result of this freak of the fire is that many Chinese have since come to the missionary to be I baptized.