Minor News Items

John Baring, oí Baring Bros., London bankers, is de ad. BIn Salinas, Mex., 6,000 sheep were killed in a wind-gtorm. Ira A. Lowe, a Boston cattle-dealer, f ailed on Saturday for $200,000. Governor Foraker has removed the Ohlo quarantine againBt Illinois cattle. Sunday night, at Pittsburgh, Ellzabeth Arnold (colored) passed away at the age ot Crevasees are reported in the Misslssippi river levee near Grand Lake and Eunice, Ark. The Detroit Butcbers' Protective Association has declared war on Chicago dressed beet A fire at Ann Arbor, Mich., Friday morning gntted seven stores, the total losa being $40,000. M. Walter, sheriff of Spink County, D. ï. waa killed by lightning at Watertown on Tuesday. The American Exchange in London, with a capital of $5,000.000, was closed on Friday by order of court Colonel W. C. Leitner, Secretary of State, dled at hls home in Columbia, a C, on Sunday, aged 59 years. An expert reporta the accounts of 8. M. Weir, for fourteen years treasurer of New Albany, InA, $70,000 Rhort George Gardner, son of an Eastmanville (Mich.) farmer, was burued to death Monday night in nis father's barn. The barn of M. J. Cole, near Hebron, Wis., was burned on Tuesday, and üfty-two head of cattle perished in the flamea James Arban and daughter, living neai St. liouis, were killed by a Missouri Paciflo engine while driving across the track. At Peoría, III., Leisy's brewery and fiva large ice-houses, occupying an entire block, Were burned Monday. Loss, $100,000. Forest fires near Falmoutb, Mass., were doing great damage on Friday and threatening destruction to villages iu the vtcinity. The City Councll at Terre Haute, Ind., unanlmously voted to dónate $25,000 to ald In rebuilding the State Normal School. General Boulanger has been elected to the French Chamber of Deputies from the department of the Nord by 90,000 mujority. W. H. Hawley, a Danbury (Conn.) druggiet, fatally shot Virgil Barnum, hls brother-in-law during a family quarrel on Tuesday. The colored people of the District ot Columbia celebrated on Monday the twentyBixth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves. The druegists in Iowa cities have resolved not to take out liquor permits andar the new law, and the drug stores will heresfter bo "drv. "