Minor News Items

Emperor William continúes to Improve ü lealth. The cholera epidemie in Sicily has been tamped out The reported loss of the revenue steamer Jear is contradicted. Mis. Ella Dinsmore was convicted of murder in the flrst degree at OU City, Pa. Russia has declared that she wül riot reognize Ferdinand as Prince of Bulgaria. Henry George prof esses much satiBfaction with the resulte of th Syracuse convention. A. J. Vanderpoele, a well-known New ork attorney, dropped dead in Paris Monday. Mr& Warren Edgerton, once widely known as Julia Dalv, the actress, died Sunday at iewfield, N. J., of paralysis. Mrs. Newton Lightfoot, of Marión, Ind., was shot by her son Frank Friday night, who mistook her for a burglar. Bev. Aaron Wood, D. D., who had been in he Methodist pulpit sixty years, died Satur.ay at hls home near Crawf ordevüle, Ind. The "Y" on the Baltlmore 4 Ohio rallroad n Washington, the cause of numerous accidente resulting In the loss of life, wül be removed. At Ottumwa, Ia, on Thureday Yon Bet, with a running mate, paced the fastest mile on record on a half-mile track. The time ras 2:15. Well-infonned people at Zanzíbar discredtthe report of the inurder of Henry M. Stanley after having been deserted by hls ollowers. Charles Haight, of Hammondsport, N. Y., shot hls wif e dead on Friday and then cominitted suicide. A baby a few months old is ef t to strangers. A Santa Fe passenger train was wrecked orty-seven miles north of Temple, Tex., Saturday evenlng, and three trainraen dangerously scalded. A total eclipse of the sun occurred at Berin Friday. Thousands of people went from Lifferent sections of the Empire to witness ;he phenomenon. There will be Belgian, Danish and Swedish troops among the foïeign military oomanies at the oomlng International Encampment in Chicago. At a picnic on Sunday near Exeter, Neb., ohn and Frank Newer, brothers, were shot lead by robbers who were attempting to teal a keg of beer. C. E: Bartlett, cashler of the Sumter (S. 1) National Bank did not reach his desk on ionday, and investigation showed that he had fled with $20,000. ïtevs. Sam Small and Sam Jones are to be iresent at the Indiana State camp-meeting which opens at Warsaw, Ind., August 25, and continúes ten days. At New London, Conn. , on Friday Charles , Miller, a well-known New York lawyejr, and hls wif e, died of pneumonia within a ew hours of each other. 3 The Bussian Nihilists and tlieir sympaibizers of Chicago have started an agitation against the conñrmation of thè KussianAmerican extradition treaty. President Cleveland's substitnte during he war, George Brinske, died of consumpdon at the Soldiere' Home in Bath, N. Y., Yiday, aged eighty years. Prof. Spencer F. Balrd, president of the United States Fish Commission, and famous as a naturalist, died on Friday at Woods Holl, Mass., aged sixty-four years. The Germán Beichstag will reassemble early in November. The Government is preparing bilis to raise the duties on corn and for a system of workmen's insurance. Miss Sarah Dodge, a wealthy spinster, was arrested on Monday at Gardner, 111. , for the recent murder of Walter S. Babcock, a wealthy Chicago lumber merchant. Two freight trains on the Fort Wayne road collided near Massilon, O., Saturday. 5ix box cars were demollshed and flfteen head of cattle killed. Loss, $20,000. Al van Clark, who has a wide reputation as a practical astronomer, a resident of Cambridge, Mass., for fifty-two years, died in that city Friday at the age of eighty-three years. Six men were indicted Saturday at Woodstock, W. Va., for taking Senator Biddleberger from jail, and the deputy sheriff who delivered the keys to them has also been indicted. Eight performances will be given at the Columbia Theater in Chioago during the week of September 19 for the benefit of the sufferers by the Chatsworth (111.) railway disaster. The Lincoln homestead at Springfield, 111., recently deeded to tbe State by Bobert T Lincoln, will be restored as nearly as possi ble to its condition when occupied by the late President. John Strieher, captain of the Cleveland Base-Ball Club, was arrested Monday at the instance of the Law and Order League for playing ball on Sunday. A test case will be made of the law. F. A. Hoyt, cashier of a savings bank at Brewster, N. Y., turned up as a defaulter to the amount of about $25,000. He oonf essed at once anJ turned over property to make the deficit good. Rev. John T. Dobbins, who lives at Camden, the New Jersey Gretna Green, has received $25,000 in marriage fees during the last year and a half. Most oL his patrons come f rom Pennsylyania. Emanuel Zwalley and Harry FiBher, two fourteen-year-old boys, were drowned at Lancaster, Pa., Sunday. Fisher was drowning when Zwalley attempted to save him, and both were carried down. Willlam Sloan, clerk of the Pittsburgh police court, was shot in a dive in that city early Monday morning by Paddy McGraw, a notorious desperado. Sloan died seven hours later. McGraw is in custody. The Minneapolis convention of Knights of Labor will not be harmonious in lts indorsement of Master Workman Powderly. At New York Monday eleven delegates opposed to his administration were clected. Rev. Christian Brechill, aged sixty-seven years, a clergyman of the Society of Friende, dropped dead of heart-disease Thursday in a Chicago depot He was on his way from his home, Chambersburg, Pa., to Des Moines, Ia. Two freight trains on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad collided late Sunday night near Charleston, W. Va. The accident occurred through a mistake of an operator. Both engines were demolished, fifteen cars were burned, and the loss will reach $75 - 000. Christopher Sisson and Reece Hullinger died of damps in a well four miles north of Marión, Ind., Monday morning. Hullinger went down first, and was overeóme, an3 Sisson died tn attempting the rescue of hls comrade. The unfortunates were brothersin-law. The strawboard Manufacturera of the United States have formed a trust. A number of milis have been purchased, anc will be permanently shut down, and the remainder will be operated by the trust, thus doing away with all semblanceof competition iu the business.