Minor News Items

Rain bas end i the Texaa drought. The M gsissippi riVor is open frora St. Paul to th l Collin? Brown, atrei ncarljr 102 years, died ThuvsJay at Fitcbville, O. Johu A. Roche took the oath ol office as njayor of Chicago on Motiday. ïhe base-bail season of the American Association opened on Saturday. President Cleveland wiU make a Western and Southern trip during the summer. Three men lost their lives on Saturday in a burning coke pit uear Connollsville, Pa. II. H. Morpnj-, rn official of Hoboken, N. J., is a defauiter to the araount of $28,000. A boiler exploded Friday in a saw-mill near Lancaster, O., killing three men instantli. A. J. Weaver, a momber of the last Congress, died at his home in Falls City, Neb., on Monday. The Freneh have occupied the principal island of the Coinoro gruup, in the Mozambique channel. Henry Ihmer, the oldest locomotive engineer in the United States, died Thursday at Whistler, Ala. The cruiser Atlanta, on her final trip Thursday, made fifteen and a-half to sixteen knots an tiour. Chief-JustiC3 Davii K. Cartter, of the Huprame Court of the District of Columbia, died Saturdify uight. Williara J. Allen, better knovvn as "Josh" Allen, was on Monday appointed to the Southern Illinois Judgeship. Colonel Wesley Merritt was promoted to a Brigadier-Generalship on Monday to succeed General O. B. Wilcox. retired. Thirteen residences and a skating rink were burned in the Kennebunkport, Me., üre Saturday moruing. Loss, f15,000. Talbot, who stole Fanny Davenport's diamonds from a Memphis hotel, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The business portion of North Middletown, Ky., was almost destroyed by fire Sunday. Loss, $35,000: insurance small. A heavy snow and sleet-storm prevailed Monday in and around New York. Snow also feil in Kansas and Western Missouri. It is announced that thousands of dollars' worth of spurious Virginia bonds had been disposed of in Boston and New York. _jTwo companies of infantry are about to be assigned to Chicago and Denver, to aid in establishing military posts near those cities. Burglars at Coshocton, O., administered a fatal dO3e of chloroform to Mrs. Amanda Murphy and her young daughter oq Friday. J. L. Armstrong, one of the Pan-Handle rallway thieves, was held in $3jO for trial at Pittsburgh Mondav. A number waived examination. William Quinn, Vicar General of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York, died in Paris on Friday. He was on hi3 way home from Italy. The entire surplus wheat erop of California is said to have been cornered by William Dresbach, John W. Mackay, and the Nevada Dank. It is believed that several fishing vessels were wrecked and their crews lost on the coast of Northumberland in the severe storm of last week. Three attempts have recantly been made by incendiarles to destroy the office of Der ZeUung in New York. A damage of $16,000 was inilicted Sunday. Mr. Parnell and other Irish leaders are endeavoring to form at Dublin a woolen manufacturing and exporting company with a capital of $500,000. The estáte of Charles Lux, in California, reponed to be worth {20,030,000, is about to be distributed among his relatives in Macon and Piatt Counties, 111. An assignment was made Wednesday by Goodrich & Wagner, Wholesale grocers at Mllwaukee. The assets are placed at $170,000, but the liabilities are unknown. Many of the thieving employés of the Fan-Hand Ie road waived a hearing, several of whom confessed to all that had been charged against them. The house of a man named Brewles, living near Seven Mile Ford, Va., was burned Sunday night,. and his two daughters, aged nineteen and twenty-oue, perished in the flamea. P. J. Egan, deputy recorder of votes at St. Louis, was sentenced on monday to two years in the penitentary for falsely registering names of voters last November. Senator Coke, of Texas, advocates the defeat of the Prohibition amendment, but objects to invoh-ing the Democratie party in the controversy. Senator Reagan is for prohibition. Dr. James 8. Jewell, of Chicago, who was recognized throughout the United States as an authority on nervous and mental diseases, died on Monday, in his flftieth year. President Cleveland on Thursday pardoned three obscure convicta from the Southern Illinois penitentiary, but refusd to interfere in behalf of B. T. O. Hubbard, the embezzling Monmouth banker. James F. McDowell died at Marión, Ind., on Monday, aged sixty-two years. He was a Democratie Presiden tial elector in 1852; elected to Congres in 1863, and a delégate to the Democratie National convention in St Louis in 1876. In the Illinois House Thursday Mr. Pierce's bill requiring non-resident aliens houding land in the State to dispose of the same within three years af ter they shall have acquired title to the same, and providing that sueh land shall escheat to the State in case of failure s to do, was passed.