Minor News Items

Cattle-tbievcK ara plentifnl in Northern Arizona. The First National Bank oí Dansville, N. Y., suspended TJrorsd&y. It had a capital of $50,000. Edward P. Woodruff, a Chicago bookkeeper, crazed with overwork, killed himself Saturday. The growing oom erop oí Virginia is expected to bc the largest ralsed tor the past twenty-üve yrai. A race riot ocemred in Deeatur, Ga., on Saturday, dnrlng which two whitos and one negro were killed. Captain O. H. Oidroyd was on Monday appointed custodian of th Incoln homestead at Sprinfrfield, 111. Fred Munchrath, one ot' the drt'endants in the Haddook mnrder, will lip put on trial at Sioux City, Ia., Monday nt'.xt. Alexan(U-r McCne, of New York, has been appointed Commisslonei of Fífíi and Fisheries, to uucoeed the late Prof. Balrd. At the session of t!ic Legión of Honor in Washington Friday Enoob S. Brown, of New York, was elected suprema commander. The wheat corner in Sat) l'rancisco was broken on Saturday by tho faiiure of Messrs. Drisbach and Bosenfold tor $Sl,5OO,OO0i California fr;tt-!anncrs ünd it impossible to supply the Ea.sU'.rn demand for their goods, though they run both day and night It is Btated that Terrence V. Powderly, General Master Workinan of the Knights of Labor, will not be a candidato for re-election. In the rowlBg match between Wise anfl Gaudaur Thiuwlay at ürillia, Ont, Wise won by about two lengths in the slow time of 14:02. The salesmcn of the varióos large cities of the country are al.out to organize a National Assenibly under the auspices of the Knights of Labor. Near Chattanoojra, Tenn., on Fririay a passenger and freight train collided, and thirty persons on the passengtr train were injured, some seriously. . The London 'J'elegraph commends the American peace memorial and predicte that, if successful, it wfll lead to European imternational arbitration. Shocks of earthquake were f rit at Charleston, Coluinbia and Kunnnerville, S. C, and Augnsta, Ga., early Katurday morning. No damage is reported. D. A. Hewes, who had been tor thirty years identified with the wholesale millinery trade of Chicago, died at his home in that city Saturday of cáncer. The New York crockery-dealers are organizing for a war upon the tea-men, who are ruining their trade by giving away crockery or selling it below cost The American ship Ropes, 4.200 tons bnrden, arrived at Tacoma on Monday, twentynine days from Yokohama, with a erop of tea valued at f 1,500,000. Ex-Congressman Gibson, of West Virginia, was fined ifCiO on Friday and sent to jail at Huntington, in that State, by Judge McGinnis for contempt of conrt. Timothy Coughlin, the section foreman held responsible for the Chatsworth horror, was admitted to bail Monday by Judge Eeeves at Bloomington, 111. Robert Jlai'tin, a miner, was blown to pieces in the Draper eolliery at Gilberton, Pa, Monday. Five other minera wcre injnred more or less seriou.ly. A flow of natural gas. estiinated at 10,000,000 eubic feet daily, was struck on Monday on the Indiana shore of the Ohio rfrer, fcweöty-five miles below Louisville. The Wlsconatn Industrial Exposition and Fair opened at Iïacine on Monday umler favorable eircumstances. The general exhibits are large and the stock show is good. At Jeffcrsonville, 111., Saturday night, George Goodrich, aged twenty-one, comniitted suicide becaiise his sweetheart ivonld not allow him to spend the evening with her. Representativo Butterworth has addressed a circular to each member of Congress in which is outlined a plan for commercial union between the United States and Canada. A petition to the Govemor for the pardon of ex-Commissioner Richard S. McCIaughrey is beiiig circuiated in Chicago, and is being Bigned by large numbers of Grand Army ni en. Kegotiations for an American-Chinese bank have been successfully conducted by a Philadelphia eyndicate. The capital is half Chinese and the management jointly Chinese and American. Prof. H. S. Whitney, of Excelsior Academy, on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, Minn., was drowned Thui-sday evening while trying to rescue threc children from a similar fate. Homesteaders are locating in Michigan on the forfeited land grant of the Marquette, Hotighton A Ontonagon railroad in great numbers. The whole región is eplendidly adapted to farming. In a race at Saratoga Monday four horses went down, owing to a collision. The jockeys West and Penny are reported fatally hurt. Winchell and Barrett escaped with Blight injuries. W. St. Clair Ross & Co., paper manufactiirers and wholesale dealers in envelopes, cards., etc, ntCincinnati, made an assignment Monday. The liabilities are S-JO 000 and the assets $25,000. A company of Pittsburgh and New York capitalista has entered the field in opposition to the Standard Oil Company. Pipe-lines are being laid from Washington to Pittsburgh. The company has a capital of .f3,000,000. Thomas S. Baldwin repeated his feat of jumping from a balloon at Roekaway Beaeh N. Y., Monday. He made the leap when' 1,000 feet high and descended eafely with the aid of his parachute, landing in the ocean. In attempting to makc his escape Monday morning from a store in New York. in which he had been discovcrcd, Jimmy McDevitt a burglar, dashed through a pla'te-glass window and wan diaembowled, dying in a few minutes. The following suicides were reported on Monday: Dr. E. Neumeyer, at Pekin, III. ; Dr. Boyer, at Mattoon, UI. Bridget Driscoll at Ottawa, 111. C. C. Gurley, atPierceton, Ind. ; CoraMiller, at Bucyrus, O., and A. Gollv at New York. J' The city flour milis of Brodhead Wis. were built on a disused waterway. Monday there was a shifting of quicksand, and the maesive structure shook, tottered anfl feil burying all the Taluable machinery out of rnght. The loss is about $20,000.