Minor News Items

1 The Hanlan-Gaudaur race will be rowed at Pullman, 111., May 3J. The roller-mill at Millbury, Mass., burned Saturday with a loss of $60,000. The Otaio Democratie convention has been called to meet at Cleveland June 3. Pennsylvania Demócrata will meet in State convention at AUentown August 81. i Mrs. Catherine Rood, of Essex, Vt,! died Sunday, aged 103 years and seven montos. Ten thousand coal-miners in the Province Hainault, Belgium, went on a strike Monday. The Sons of Veterans of Indiana opened their first annual encampment Monday at, Richmoud. The Park Theater at Jacksonville, Fla. , was burned Saturday. Loss, $25,000; inBurance, f10,000. About thirty houses in the Chinese quarter of Fresno, Cal., were burned early Monday morning. Mme. Patti closed her farewell tour in this country on Friday evening with a concert in New York City. The colored people of Louisiana propose to hold a Prohibition convention in New Orleans June 1. A passenger train in South Carolina was stopped Saturday by the myriads of caterpillars on the tracks. George E. Reed, city treasurer of Bismarek, D. T., disappeared Mo:-iay, and his accounts were 19,000 short. Mrs. Ella Goldsmith, an aged lady living near Montgomery, Minn., was burned to death Suuday in a brush fire. A skeleton was found Saturday near St Paul, and near by it a bag containing $5,000 in greenbacks and coin. James Jones (colored) was hanged on Friday at Texarkana, Ark., for the murder of Cate Hicks last August. The sale of the French crown jewels began at Paris Thursday, the proceeds of the day reaching over 500,000 francs. During a thnnder storm at St Louis Saturday several persons were struck by lightning, two of whom were killed. A stay of proceedings has been granted in the Grottkau case at Milwaukee until the next term of the Supreme Court John B. Fassett aud wife, both aged sixty years, were burned to death Saturday night in their home at Moretown, Vt. Cardinal Simeoni has advised the Pope to direct the Irish clergy to abstain from associating themselves with agitators. The West SiJe haymarket and adjacent buildings in New York City were burned Saturday. The loss is estimated at $165,000. William O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, and now in Canada, has been elected to Parliament for the Northwest división cí Cork. Thomas Kenton, aged ninety-nine years, died at his home near Mount Oüvet, Ky., on Friday. He was the oldest man in the State. It is announced that the Dominion Government is about to enage in the construction of an extensive system of coast defenses. A. A. Carltcn, cf the General Executive Board, Knighis of Labor, condemns the strike of the Knights in the Pennsylvania coke región. Forest flres are burning in various portions of Worcester County, Mass., and threaten the village of Still River with destruction. Almost the entire business portion of Earlviüe, Ia., was destroyed by lire Wednesday night Lo3S, Í150.000; insurance, $53,475. Dry Monopole won th3 Brooklyn Handicap SaturJay and lowered the mile and a quarter record to 2 :'J7. His owners cleared $60,000 on the raca. Prof. E. E. Barnard, of Vanderbilt Observatory, at Nashville, Tenn., discovered another coinet Friday, making the third he has discovered this year. Fire Friday destroyed the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad shops and a number of freight cars at Cedar Lake, Minn. Loss, $65,000; partially insured. Judge Cooley stated at Ann Arbor, Mich., Friday, that there were no reasons to fear disaster from the enforcement of the State Commerce lavv. All the saloons in New York, including the bars at the principal hotels, were closed Sundav, and the Sunday lavv was also enforced in other branches of trade. A cyclone swept over Blue Springs, Wymore, Creta, O'Neill and Papillion, in Nebraska, wrecking houses and doing other damage. Three persons were killed. The admission of colored men into the Episcopal Diocesan convention of South Carolina has aroused much indignation among the white chwrehmen of that State. Miss Mary Harden, the nancee of John Howard Payne and the lady for whom he wrote his "Home, Sweet Home," died in Athens, Ga., Saturday, aged seventy-eight years. Hammond, Ind., suffered from a disastrous fire Saturday. A distillery, a butterine factory, lumber-yard and other property were consumed; the loss is about $150,000. The Bsard of Trustees of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home on Friday elected Dr. H. C. Demotte superintendent of the institution, and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Demotte, matron. Policemen, armed with Winchesters, are guarding certain milis, lumber yards and factories at Minneapolis, Minn., against incendiarles, who started several fires Thursday night The Financial Secretary of India advised the British Government Monday of the discovery of treasure estimated at $25,000,000 which had been secreted by an East Indian Prince. At the request of the Japanese Government Secretary Whitney has ordered the admission into the Naval Academy of H. Nic, a Japanese youth of noble family, aged seventeen years. Three masked burglars entered James Porter's farm-house, near Harrington, Del., early Friday morning, overpowered the farmer and his wife and robbed the place of $3,300 in cash and bonds. Mr. Powderly has issued a circular to all Knights of Labor exhorting them to observe the Fourth of July by demonstrations and celebrations, and he urges them to carry but one flag- the stars and stripes. The Inter-State Commerce Commission denies that it has discriminated against Northern roads, and says that if the Southern roads have been favored it is because the others have been backward in asking favors. Leavens & Kumlien, of Milwaukee, extensive and only manufacturers of flour bag, made a voluntary assignment Monday; assets are $25,000; liabilities unknown. General stagnation in business is the cause. In a sermón Monday at'New York, Archbishop Corrigan declared the Catholic Church opposed the fallacy that ownership in land was unjust, and stated that every man had a right to acquire by honest means, as much property as he could.