Minor News Items

Natural Fas was disiovered Thuftday near Carlinville, 111. James KussellLowell sailed f rom Roston Thursday for Europe. James G. Blaine has postponed his depurture for Europe until June. June 22 is officially set apart as Ihe day for obsjrving ihe royal jubilee in Canada. Willi.tin 1). Morgan, vice-president of tha New York Produce Exchauge, died Sun day. Three persona vvere seriously and one fatally Injured Monday Ín a üru at Pittsburgh. O. M. Thompson, a grain-dealer at three points in California, ha3 faileJ, withdebts of $103,000. Eleven saloon-keepers at Sioux City, la., were arrested on Sunday lor violating the Liquor law. Henry F. Merritt, of Illinois, has been appointed UniteJ States Consul at Chemnitz, Germany. A heavy snow-Tall was reportad Friday alor.g the Union Pacific raihvay in Utah and Wyoming. A large meeting to pi-otest against coerción in Ireland was heli in Cincinnati ilonday evening. The c'osing of the stove foundriesat Cincinnati means idleness all sumnier for sev eral thousand men. The Ghiizais nava again defeated the troops of the Ameer of Afghanistan and killed 100 oí them. Fred Kreuzer, aged thirty-tive years, was crushed to death Thursday in a, furnaca at Brierhill, O. The people of Cincinnati are already moving to secure botli the National political conventions next vear. The Wholesale jevvelers of New York have incorporated a society which will be: known as the Jewelers' Exchange. Charles Moreau, August Rousseau ana' Joseph Huard were drowned at Quabec tiunday by the upsetting ot a boat Patrick EUiott, well known in the Wisconsin lead mines, feil f rom a bluff near Galena Sunday night and was Killed. The insolvency is announced of George A. Wrisley, a soap manufacturar of Chicago, with liabilities of about $33,000. James Nixon, an oíd hermit living near Harmonsville, Pa., who had no faith in the banks, was robbed by two menof $5,800. A fire at Riverside, a Chicago suburb, Saturday night destroyed the summer re. sort hotel there, inflicting a los of $80000. A seven-story brick building feil at Pittsburgh, Pa., Thursday, causing a loss ol $30,003. The occupants eseaped without in jury. The Court of Claims has awarded the Chickasaw tribe $340,163 for the improper disbursement of funds held in trust by the Government. Electrioity as a motivo power has been successfully tested on the Washington avenue raad in St. Louis, and will be adopted at an early date. ; The Vosburg Manufacturing Company's building at Brooklyn was burned Monday night, creating a loss of $200,000, nearly covered by insurance. Jacob Sharpe, indicted in connection with the New York Broadway Surface railway bribery, was arraigned on Monday and his trial set for May 11. i D. H. Moffatt, the Denver (Col.) mitlionaire, gave a library building worth f25,000 to his native town, Washington rille, N. Y. The dedication took place Monday. The total amount of trade dollars redeemed to date is $5.243,000, whica amount will be increased $100,000 by recent importa at San Francisco from China. Thursday afternoon at Rolling Fork, i Miss., hail-3tones larger than hen's eggs fell íor flfteen minutes, riddling the roofs of houses and stripping trees of their íoliage. Mary McCartVy, a domestio in the' family of Rev. W. M. Smith, at Cleveland, O., was choked to death by soma unkown brute near Mr. Smith's residence Saturday night. In New York late on Bunday night offlcers of the secret service caught two women counterfeiting silver dollars, in which business they had been engaged íor soms months. The pólice in New York arrested 300 store-keepers and clerks on Thursday for sweeping dust into the street contrary to the mayor's orders. Each was flned or severely lectured. The measure called forth by tho SpiesVan Zandt episode, and which prohibits insane persons, paupers and inmates of prisons from marrying, was passed in the Illinois House Friday. A coke train on the McKeesport road struck a huge bowlder near Fuüer Station, Pa., on Thursday. The engineer was flung into the river, and the fireman and a brakeman were crushed to death. The revenues of the British Government last year were L90.000,000, and the expenses were the same. The revenues for the pres ent year are estimated at L91,155,000, and the expenses at L90,100,000. The late Joseph Allen, one of the wealthiest farmers in Bureau County, 111., left $35,000 for the ereotioti and maintenance of a public school in Lamoille and $15,000 to the Baptist and Congregational denominations. A bomb was mysteriously exploded at noon Friday in a public street at Milwaukee, bui no person was hurt by the flying missiles. It is believed the diabolical contrivance was thrown by a man who stood on the rear end of a street-car. A bilí passed the Illinois House Friday which authorizes the pólice of any city or incorporated town to go into the territoryembraced within the limits of adjoining cities and towns for the purpose of suppressing riot and protecting Ufe and prop erty. The $75,000 draft drawn in favor of Dunn Bros., of Philadelphia, by a Fhiladelphia bank on a New York bank, which it was supposed had been lost in the mails or stolen, has been fctund in Dunn Bros.' office, it having never been mailed. Barnum has settled his suit brought against the Grand Trunk Kailway (Jompany to recover $100,000 for the loss of the elephant Jumbo. He will receive $5,000 in cash and his circus will be transponed over the road this year for nothing.