Minor News Items

It is cstimated that 8,000 Italian iramlgrants in New York are in want of foód. Ten business houses at Deining, N. M., were destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Threo men and a girl were killed on Sunday by a flash of lightning near Scranton, Pa. There were no new developments at Pittsburgh on Tuesday in the iron-workers lockout. Rev. George Duffield, a well-known writer of hymns, died at Bloomfield, N. J., Saturday. Seven-eighths of the town of Sutsun, Cal., was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Loss, $400,000. Mr. and Mrs. Nye and their three daugh.ters, of Princeton, 111., were all stricken with insanity on Monday. William Landreth was hanged on Friday at Dallas, Ore., for the murder of his stepdaughter. Simmie Ellis Antle. R. B. Parrish, oí Louisville, once worth $100,000, committed suicide, alleging inability to pay a flve-dollar bet. The first bale of new erop cotton was brought into Albany, Ga., Saturday. it was bought for $)% cents per pound. After seven days terrible suffering J. R. Bolch, of Fairchild, S. C, died from hydrophobia caused by the bite of a cat. At Alliance, O., tha first trial under the Prohibition law resulted in a conviction and the closing of the last saloon. Thomas Stevens, a farmer at Nebraska City, Neb., committed suicide because his mother was f atally kicked by a horse. The bodies of a man and woman who had been murdered were found in the Ohio river near Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday. The boiler of the Adelaida silk-mill at Allentown, Pa., exploded on Monday, killing three men and wounding three others. David Joyce's planing mili in Lyons, Ia., and a quantity of lumber buraed Friday night. Loss, $75,000; insuranee, $15,000. Margaret Kelly, aged 100 years and 6 moaths, died f rom excessive heat on Baturday at her brother's house in Omaha, Neb. Mr. Bush's yacht Coronet, on a tour around the world, arrived at San Diego, CaL, on Friday, 106 days out from New York. Three bootblacks crawled under a boxcar at Cantón, O., to escape the rain, and were run down by a switch engine and killed. Owing t an epidemie raging among th cattle in Kokomo, Ind., and vicinity the beef and milk trade there has been a bout ruined. Bernard Krugg, living near Chiowa, Neb., quarreled with his wife, and a pitehed battle with hoes resulted in his death. Cbief Arthur consents that local officials of the Brotherhood may use their judgment in ordering a strike on the East Tennessee railroad. Mrs. Elizabeth Simon, of Douglas, W. T., shot and killed TVilliam Dowling, who was attempting to assault Mrs. Simons' young daughter. Ex-Governor Houser, of Helena, M. T., says that this year the Territory would produce gold, silver and copper to the value of $40,000,000. As the result of an old feud flve men were shot at Kising Sun, Tenn., Saturday, two being killed instantly and the other mortally wounded. Elias Franklin, the Kentucky farmer who slew James Brent because of the latter's intimacy with his wife, committed suicide on Tuesday. Mrs. Jacob Rapp, aged about 50 years, died at her home at Millwood, Kan., from voluntary starvation. Loss of property unsettled her mind. An earthquake shock was feit from Belleville to Kingston, Ont., on Monday. Houses were rocked and the people were greatly frightened. The Aeademy oí Music building, the Commonwealth Hotel and several stores at Haverhill, Mass., were destroyed by fire on Saturday. Loss, $100,000. An explosión in the tannery at Allegheny City, Pa., on Friday wrecked the strueture, killed three horses and injured eight persons, three of them fatally. While on his way home Saturday night J. J. Kilgore, a real-estate dealer at Franklin, Pa., was attackedby four armed highwaymen and robbed of $2,049. James Epscy and his 11-year-old sonwero instantly killed Saturday at Meridian, Mich., by being thrown f rom their buggy against a rapidly moving engine. In his office in the court-house at; Hardinsburg, Ky., County Judge A. M. Pulliam shot and killed James Miller, a wealthy farmer, on Friday. Cause unknown.