Minor News Items

Memorial Day was generally observed in the South on Friday. More than 4,000 immigrante arrived in New York Saturday ïrom Europe. Eleven business houses in Blunt, D. T., were destroyed by lire on Saturday. Tho Southern Baptist convention met in annual session in Richmond on Friday. The Irish Bishops have notified the Pope that they will observe the Papal decree. Diston's steel works at Tacony, Pa., were destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss, $300,000. The Supremo Court has deiiied the application for a rehearing in the Bell telephone case. Two children at Hed Lake Falls, Mimi. were poisoned to death by eating wild pars ■ nips. In a railroad accident Tuesday in Russia ele yen persons were killed and thirty injured. G. W. Barnett's grain olevator at Abingdon, 111., wasburned Sunday. Loss, $10,000; parly insured. C. E. Howe's vinegar factory at Council Bluffs, Ia., burned Sunday. Loss, $15,009; insurance, $10,000. James Smith, of Lorain, O., was placed in jail on Mc day on the charge of kicking his wife to death. The loss by fire at Oil City, Pa., Sunday, by which several tanks of oil were destroyed, was $100,000. In a train collision on the Lehigh Valley road near Ithaca, N. Y., Friday several passengers were badly hurt. Burglars robbed the office of Luman Jennison at Jennisonville, Mich., Monday night, of $2,500 in cash and notes. Dreyfus, Marx & Co., Wholesale stationers, of Memphis, Tenn., assigned Saturday. Liabilities, f150,000; assets, $34,000. The American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society held its eleventh annual meeting at Washington on Tuesday. Augnst Turnequist feil 150 feet down a mine shaft on Saturday at Ishpeming, Mich., and died of fright, not from injuries. John Conley, of Washington, Ind., and Henry Carter, a colored man, wore drowned from a raft of logs at Cairo, I1L, on Monday. Tom Buckley, a notorious thief, was arrested at Toronto, Ont., on Monday for kicking his mistress, Bertha Robinson, to death. The Chicago & Northwestern road will build a new depot at Sioux City, Ia., to cost $135,000, construction to begin immediately. A fire on Tuesday in Chicago destroyed the candle and glycerine works of the Dearborn Manufacturing Company. Loss, $115,000. Zephyr Davis, the young negro who murdered Maggie Gaughan, a workinggirl, was hanged in the county jail in Chicago on Saturday. A singular and fatal cattle disease was reported on Monday near Palmyra, Wis. Many animáis had died and the disease was spreading. Heavy frosts were reported on Sunday in portions of the Northwest, and in several Illinois towns a May snow-storm was witnessed. A train on the Southern Pacific road was wrecked on Saturday near Gila, A. T., and three persons were killed and fourteen others seriously injured. One hundred weavers at the Washington milis at Lawrence, Mass. , struck on Monday because of the poor quality of water furnished for drinking purposes. Charles Eaton died at Lincoln, Neb., Friday, frfitn ' uries received in the recent 1"' it Alma, Neb., making the ■ Hing f rem that disaster. Ca fü . -WMÊt '■■'"" lüig MÊ IB Wr. ■ 't which WE B . o present. I'S 4HSÍs ' Ilailroad [■JpF ■■ -on City, Ia., a P" construction ia to begin 'ST -.. --i Winona and from Mason City. Iiittlewood, the Englishman, on Saturday won the six-day go-as-you-please pedestrian match at New York, covering 611 miles; Guerrero second, twenty miles behind. Five hundred of the Detroit Dry Doek Company's snip carpenters struck on Tuesday because the company refused to discharge a man who did not belong to the union. Mrs. Sarah Sherman, aged 34, who had been married only eight weeks, committed suicide Friday morning at Peoría, 111. It is stated that her husband refused to see her when she was dying.