Minor News Items

Fire in Eau Cl.iire, TVia, Saturday cunsed damage of $40,000; insured Incoming steamers at New York report Bevere weather on the Atlantic. William Burns, of Galena, 111., was bnrned to deatb in a hotel üre near Duluth, Minn. A fire on S inday among business houses in Pittsburgh, Ta., caused a loss of $:500,000. The Teoría (111.) Chamber of Commerce building is Lurned Sunday. Loss, $150,000. A fire at Yev:iy, Ind., Friday destroyed several buildings, eutaihng a losa of $20,000; insured. The Lon Ion d.vorca courfc has decided that a dlvoroe prouured in Ainerlca was valid in Eugland. There are tifty vessels iraprisoned in the Ice near Nantuoket. Ie is feared many of thein will be loss. Ten men were arrested in Texas County, Ho., and brouglit to trial Monday for illicit distill.ng of whisky. Mik e Kelly signed a contract Tuesday to plsy with the Bos1. ons this season at last yea'r's salary-$4,0O0. David Dunce, who murdered W. R, Wilson at Russellville, Ala, was taken f rom jail and lynched on Saturday. John R. McCune, president of the Union National Bank of Pittsbureh, died suddenly Tuesday forenoon, aged 61. Nicholas R. Ridgeley, president of the RidgeUy National Bank. at Springneld, 111, died on Tuesday, aged 87 years -mi Three negro prisoners were taken from the jaü at Flyinouth, N. 0., on Friday by masked men and shot to death. The printing and bmdery establishment of H. W. Rokker, at Springfield, 111, was burned Saturday. Loss, $100,000. The First United Presbyterian Church at Mansfield, Pa., was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss, $15,000; fully insured The annual encampment of the Vermont Department, Grand Army of the Republic, begun at St Johnsbury on Tuesday. While shoveling snow Monday at Hampton, N. J., Jacob and David Campbell, father and son, were killed by a train. The discovery has been made at Victoria, B. C, of a powerful Chinese society whose object was to murder at $500 a head, The Cherokee House and Senate haa pass-'' the bilí providing for a lease of the Cherokee strip for $125,000 per year. In a f ourteen-inch balk-line billiard game at Milwaukee Monday night Jacob Schaefer made a run of 284, the best on record A half-dozen firms at Lanark, 111., were burned out Tuesday morning. The loss Is $50,000, with about $25,000 insurance. Cora E. Lee, on trial for the murder of Sarah Graham at Springfield, Mo. , was acquitted by the jury Saturday afternoon. It is announced that the jubilee gif ts to Pope Leo amounted in vnlue to over $20,000,000. one-half of which were in cash. Two cowboys, who attempted to " run " the town of Buffalo Gap, D. T, were attacked by a body of citizens and shot dead. A State banquet was given in Sydney, N S. V., on Friday in commemoration of the founding of the colony one hundred years ago. Ben Edwards (colored), who assaulted Catherine Hayes, a white girl, was taken from jail at Amite City, La., on Sunday and lynched C. C. Brr dley, a vagrant, was sold under the law, for a term of six months, to William McClanahan, of Milan, Mo. , f or thirtyfive cents. John Hoesch, aged 28, was declaredto be a lunatic in court at Loiusville, Ky., Tuesday, caused by excessive smoking of cigarettes. Henry Tretre was burned to death in his barn at Tyler, Minn., on Friday, and ten horsea, seventeen cattle and twenty hogs were also cremated. During 18N7 the Canadian Paciflc's gross earniugs were $11,000,412, and the expenses $8,012,290. The profits show a decrease of $199,368. A report f rom Ottawa, Ont, says the Dominion Government considers a settlement of the fÍ6hery dispute by the present commission impossible. The hospital f or crlppled children in New York City and St John's Orphans' Home were burned on Sunday. AU the children were safely rescued. General John L. Thompson, a noted veteran of the late war, and one of the most prominent residente of Chicago, died on Tuesday, aged 53 years. At Leavenworth, Kan., Tuesday night s Btable of Company I, First Cavalry, was burned, and thirty horses suffocated. Loss, $12,000; no insurance. r A fire on Tuesday in the penitentiary at Richmond, Va., destroyed buildings leased by the Davis Shoe Company, of Boston. The loss is about $200,000. It is said that Josef Hoffman, the boy pianist, is showing symptions of facial paralysis, brought on by overwork impairing his health and nervous system. The President has issued a proclamation pranting to Germán vessels in American ports the same rights and privileges accorded United States vessels in Germán porta. Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Fitzgibbon, of Tarbert, County Kerry, have been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment at hard labor for takine part in a proclaimed meeting af the league. A gang of grave robbers was arrested on Monday at Washington. The leaders of the gang were Percy Brown and his Bister Maud, who cunfessed to having robbed five hundred gravea Reporte froin West Virginia ars that the McCoy-Hatfield war has ende I for the present, and that the belligerenta have disbanded. Governor Wilsou has eountermanded the order calling out the militia. Notice of a 10 per cent reduction In wages has been posted by the National Tube Worke Company, of McKeesport, IPa, who employ 4,000 men, and a shut-down is threatened if the cut is not accepted. George Clark, of St Louis, president of Typographical Union Na. 8, twice president of the International Typographical Union, and one of the best known printers of the country, died Friday at'Der a brief illnesa An ariny offlcer at St. Petersburg shot hiraself in order to escape the necessity of killing the Czar. He was a member of a secret society, and the ballot taken as to who should do the deed resulted in his choice. Four railway employés were killed on Friday near Holyoke, Masa, by an engine dashing into them while they were shoveling snow. Four were killed in the same raanner near Williainstown, Mass., and three were killed by a colusión at Jersey City, N. J.