Minor News Items

The Atlas paper-mill at Appleton, Wis., was burned Friday. Loss, f150,000. The whole business portion of Chesley, Ont,, was wiped out by flames Saturday. Stephen Gleason, the oldest resident of Fall River, Mass., died on Sunday, agedlO3 years. Governor Hill has vetoed the Electoral Reform bill passed by the New York Legislature. Austin Field & Co, wholesale shoedcalers in Philadelphia, have failed for 250,000. A heavy seizure of opium has been made by the United States customs authorities at St. Louis. The Mormon church has closed negotiations for 400,000 acres of land in Chihuahua, Mex. Lord Stanley, the new Governor General of Canada, took the oath of office at Ottawa on Monday. The sixth annual meeting of the American Seed Association was begun in Chicago on Tuesday. The Commercial Hotel and several business houses in Trinidad, Col., were burned on Saturday. Over 150 warrants were served upon Cincinnati saloon-keepers on Monday for selling liquor on Sunday. According to a census finished on Tuesday Baltimore has 416,805 inhabitants, of which 64,509 are colored. The twelfth annual convention of the Millers' National Association was opened at Buffalo, N. Y., on Tuesday. Nearly 5,000 immigrants arrived in New York on Saturday, about one-half the number coming from Ireland. A dynamite bomb was found in a barrel of flsh taken from the hold of the steamer City of Cleveland at Detroit. By the burning of a boarding-house at Gadson, Ala., Friday, Mrs. Torbit, aged 75, lost her lif e in the flames. Since 1887 the number of sheep in Michigan has fallen off 34,644 or 2 per cent. The wool clip will be about 11,900,000 pounds. Mrs. Catharine Crohell, who died on Saturday near Columbia, S. C, at the age of 99 years, was the mother of sixteen children. Several large factories and a number of dweiling houses at Cincinnati were destroyed by fire on Saturday. Loss, $200,000. At Henderson, Kv., James Foster (colored) was taken from jail by a mob and hanged for criminally assaulting a little girl. Mrs. Annie Roush, living near Selait, W. Va., celebrated her lOlst birthday on Saturday. She possessed the use of all her faculties. Frank Donovan, aged 10 years, was shot and killed on Tuesday at Oswego, N. Y., by Lewis Clark, aged 13 years, while playing with a gun. Three laborers, Daniel Lyon, Thomas Purcell and Fred Moeck, were killed on Saturday by the caving in of a bank at Omaha, Neb. Nearly fifty small children living in Chicago were reported missing Monday evening. The pólice said that the circus parade was to blame. It is reported that a movement is on foot in Japan, supported by several publicists, to adopt the Christian religión throughout that country. The annual convention of the International Typographical Union commenced on Monday at Kansas City with about 250 delegates present. Peter Alt, a hotel proprietor at Baltimore, Md., was shot to death by his 15-year-old son Tuesday. The killing was the outoome of a family quarrel. .-wMWW Some Chicago capitalists have been investigating the gold flelds of Northern Ontario, and have organized a company to develop the new mines. C. Wellaner, of Milwaukee, Wis., aged eighty years, while in Wausau on Friday lookyig after his real estáte interests died suddenly while out riding. The Spanish Ministry resigned on Monday. This wouid enable Senor ijagasta, the Prime Minister of the retiring Cabinet, to form a new liberal government. Mrs. Eunice H. Thorp, aged 80 years, of Chicago, has commenced suit at Akron, O., against her husband, who is also an ootogenarian, for divorce and alimony. Judge Bigger, ïnember of the Paducah (Ky. ) City Council, feil back in his chair dead at a meeting of the council Monday night. He had suffered a stroke of apoplexy. By the falling of a scaftold at Omaha, Neb., Friday, Owen Park, dealer in slate roofing, and William Jones, workmaa in the building being constructed, were killed. Owing to an ordinance reducing the rental of telephones from $100 to $50 a year, the Bell Company threatens to quit business at St. Louis, and has already taken out many 'phones. The National organization of the Colored Young Men's Christian AssociatioD was completed at Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, Charles L. Morris, of that city, being chosen president. Two young men, John Tinke and Henry Frayer, the first a clerk and the second only known by a card in his pocket, committed suicide at Cincinnati, on Tuesday by shootlng themselves.