Minor News Items

A fire at Brewton, Ala., destroyod about half tlie towu, consisting oí sixteeu stores. Mrs. Hosanna Telch, of Gibson County, Ind., died írora the effect of a spider's bite. The saw mili of J. D, Spaulding, at Withce, "Wis., was burned Friday. Loss, $12,000. At Ozo, CsL, Sunday morning tire nearly destroyed the entire town. The loss is $30,000. The principal part of the business portion of Avon, Mass., was BWept away by fire on Saturday. La Frenciere's immense saw-mill, at Louisville, Can., were burned on Saturday. Loss, 1100,000. G. 11. Rider was hunged Friday at Marshall, Mo„ for the murder of R. P. Tallant two years aso. A fire at Fayetteville, Tenn., destroyed the Elk National Bank and several other busjness blocks. Mityray Lewis (colored) was hanged on Tuesday at tireenville, Miss., for the murder of his mistress. While eating dinner at Springfield, O., Thomas Perfect was choked to death by a portion of a potato. Crop reports from the Northwest give indications of a good yield and a prosperous season for the farmers. A battery of eight gas tanks in Ludlow, Ky., exploded Saturday and injured flfteen men, four of them fatally. Colonel J. M. Dunn, president of the Atlanta & Florida Railway Company, died at Atlanta. Ga., on Monday. The Brush-Westinghouse electrie light plant at New Orleans was burned Sunday, entailing a loss of $100,000. Owing toexcessivecompetition the Grant Locomotive Works at Paterson, N. J., have been compelled to shut down. White Caps have appeared in Lee County, W. Va., and unmercifully flogged a number of degraded women. Hon. P. Darden, Grand Master of the tional Grange, died at his home in Jefferson County, Miss., on Tuesday. Ebenezer Stanyard, the Youngstown murderer,was hanged in the Columbus (O.) penitentiary early Friday morning. The electors of Jackson, Ind., defeated the appropriation for the Ohio, Indiana & Missouri River railroad by 11 votes. A fire Friday at Kipley, Ont., nearly destroyed the whole business portion of the tuwn. Twnt.v-six buildings were burned. William Luehrman, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was choked to death at dinner on Sunday by a crust of bread lodging in his throat. Two boys, Joseph Sijpel and Anthony Smith, were fatally bitten by a large bloodhound at Buffalo, N. Y., on Tuesday. The Dunn breaker and buildings connected therewith at Old Forge, Fa. , were destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Loss, $100,000. The National Education Council in session at San Francisco elected J. L. Pritchard, of Iowa, president for the ensuing year. Seven persons conflned in the jails of Havana, Cuba, charged with kidnaping, have been released, their innocence being ' shown. The Laflin & Rand powder works at Cressona. Pa., exploded on Friday, killing George Gillinan, Charles Reed and Henry Bernich. George Bancroft, the distinguished historian, was badly mjured on Sunday by falling down the steps of his cottage at Newport. Joseph Soup, of Charleston, S. C, while insane on Saturday killed his wife by driving a file into her head and then cut his own throat. At Btanton, Ky., John Rose and S. S. Hall, his son-in-law, fought a duel on the street. Rose was wounded and Hall instantly killed. A cowboy rob bed a bank at La Junta, Col., on Saturday of $25,000. He presented a pistol at the cashier and made him de liver the cash. Conrad Jackson (colored) was hanged on Monday at Waco, Tex., for the murder of John Talley, a prom nent white planter, one year ago. The iron-workers' strike at Pittsburgh, Pa., was practically over on Saturday. But few manufacturers reraained who had not signed the scale. The Orphans' Home at South Wabash, Ind., was drstroyed by fire on Friday. The children escaped and the contents of the building were also saved. At East Buffalo, N. Y., on Tuesday Mrs. Mary F. Floss and her sister-in law, Mrs. Mary F. Wittig, were burned to death by a kerosene lamp explosión. Tlie Department of State is informed that Mr. J. Harvey Brigham, of Louisiana, United States Counsel at Jamaica, died at Kingston Saturday morning. Burglars entered the house of Wilson Houghton, a quiet and inoffensive oíd man, at Tilbury Center, Ont., on Tuesday, stole f500 and shot Mr. Houghton dead. Elsie Kelly, the B-year-'old daughter of Robcrt Kelly, of Chicago, died on Tuesday of hydrophobia. She was bitten by a black-and-tan ilo a few days ago. The corner-stone of the colored Baptist Seminar.v. to oost 150,000, was luid at Lynchburg, Va., Monday by colored Masons in the presence of .").sü) persons. The new silk milis of the Phoenix Manufacturing Company at Pottsville, Pa., equipped at a cost of Y250,000, began operations Tuesday morning, employing 1,000 hands. Boys at Marión, Ind., Sunday, secured a can of paris green and placed it on the railroad track. It was scattered over the grass and a nuinber of eattle have died as a result. At Danville, Va., Lee Eanes tried to drive his mule over Hauuibal Turner, and in the quarrel which f Uowed both Eanes and his brother Gus were fatally shot by D. E. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth, who were 8pending their honeymoon at the farm of Edward Davis, in New London, N. H., were drowned on Monday by the upsetting of a boat.