Minor News Items

An earthquake shock was feit on Saturiay, at Duüuque, Ia. A gas well near Dunkirk, N. Y., is yielding 1,000,000 feet per day. A six-foot vein ol coal was struok at Colfax, 111., Friday, at a deptb of 400 feet The shortage of the Norquay Government in Manitoba is now alleged to be $500,000. Viscount das Nogueiras, Portuguese Minister at Washington, died Tueiday morning. A fire Saturday at Montreal, Can., deBtroyed property to the value of $300,000. Anton Heebè, who died in Dubuque on Tuesday, was the owner of the first brewery in Iowa. A fire among millinery stores in Philadelphia on Monday caused a lose of nearly $500.000. W. F. Scot-'s hat factory at Readtng, Pa, ■was burned Tuesday. Lcss, $40,000; partially insured. At a recent meeting in Chicago the price of barbed wire was increased twenty-five cents per 100. It is rumored that Joseph Chamberlain will eucceed Lmsdowne as Governor-General of Canada The London d vorce court has decided that a divorce procured in America was valid in Eugland. In Carney's tunnel, near Greensburg, Pa, an express train struck and killed two unknown men on Friday. Coffey, the condemned munierer. who cut his Ihroat in the Pittsburgh jail a weekago, died Tuesday morning. The great ship yards at Granville, France, were bnrned on Saturday, throwing 800 men out of employment Ten of the forty miles to be surveyed for the Nicaragua canal have been completed and the canal route located. By a flre in the rooms of Charles Smith in New York, a daughter of Smith, aged 2 years, was smothered to death. The brcwere of Milwaukee have informed Iheir einplojes that in a few days every unym man would be d.scharged. M. i E. Solomon. lobacconiete of New York, assigued Mondsy, with preferences of $01, 392. Liabilities, $150,000. Sanford Tanner, u rich bachelor of Freeborn Couniy, Minn., was confldenced out of $22,000 "by sharpers on Tnesday. President Cleveland's gift of a copy of the United States constitution was presented to Pope Leo in Rome on Saturday. The discovery lias been made at Victoria, B. C, of a po werf ui Chinese society whose object was to murder at $500 a head. Thewine cellars at Put-in-Bay, 0., were destroyed by flre Tuesday morning. with a loss of $75,000; insured tor two-thirds. The State Working-men's Assembly of New York adopted resolutions requesting all labor men to boycott Milwaukee beer. A half-dozen business firms were burned out at Monticello, I1L, Monday morning. The loss is $8,000; the insurance, $2,000. Boston harbor íb frozen over as far as the NnrrowR, and steamers and ferryboats can only proceed with the greatest caution. James Martin, a nero of a score of battles and an inmate of the Soldiere and Sailors' Home, was frozen to death on Friday near Erie, Pa, At San Carlos, A. T., on Saturday an Apache Indian got drunk, killed his wife and child, and was shot by a 6ergeant ot the guard. The pólice Btation at St Thomas, Ont, burned Sunday night Frank HughaB, a tramp, was burned to death. A!l records were lost In a priz? fight Saturday at Foït Hamilton, L. L, Torn White struck Billy Dempsey in the Btomach, and Dempsey died in a few moments. Three shocks of earthquake occnrred Monday morning at Newburyport, Mass., I and houses foiir miles from town were violen tly shaken. Cuba is Baid to be at the mercy of outlaws and ofBcial thievea Citizens of Havana have appealed to the CaptainGeneral for protection. Hubbell Werner.a resident of Cass County, I Mich., for ttfty years andamemberof the Masonic order for gixty-flve years, died near Dowagiac, Mich., Sunday. Gold has been discovered, of high grade and paylng quantitie, near Omaha, nuggets brought up from a well in a farm near the city standing the assay test The First National Bank of Auburn, N. Y. , closed its doors on Monday, the result of a defalcation oi f200,000 on the part of its cashier, Charles O'Brien, who had fled. A meningitis epidemie is depopulating Asheville, N. C, lat the rate of a dozen deaths a day, all attempts to check it proving f utile. Many inhabitants are leaving town. Beports of dullness in the bitnminous coal trade come from Pittsburgh, and a tendency to a reduction in prices in Chicago and other Western pointe is nounced. A bitter feud between the Ailor and Sedgerwood families, in Union County, Tenn., culminated in a fight Mondaj-, in which two Ailor boyB were fatally sfcabbed and Will Sedgerwood's skull crushed. The war between the Hattield gang and the McCoys in West Virginia continúes. In an encounter between the factions SatI urday Will Dempsey was killed and Bud McCoy dangerously wounded. By the explosión of a horizontal boiler on Friday in the teed-mill of James Gagan & Co., at Janesville, Wis., the building was destroyed, and two men, Byron Kennedy and James Bracken, instantly killed. Three coaches of a Delaware A Hudson train jumped the track at Baxterville, N. J., Monday morning, the cars turuing over three times. A number of persons were wounded, one probably iatally.