Minor News Items

A flre in a niiao at Sunii.v South, Cal., caused the dcath of six minera. Sevon cases of yellow fever were reported at Plant City, Fla., Saturday. A fire at Brewton, Ala., dcstroyed about half the town, consisting of sixtecn stores. A bronze statue of General Moses Cleveland, the founder of the city of Cleveland, O., was unvailcd at that place on Monday. Mrs. Cleveland celebrated her twentyourth blrthday on Saturday at Washingon. The eorn ai'ea in Illinois has increased, nd the com erop in this State is looking veil. Editor Moorn and Mrs. Norton have disppeared, leaving their bondsman in the urch. Fanny Davenport has been erunted aa bsolute divorce from her husband, Henry I. Prioe. Seven thousand colliers at Ponty-Pridd, Wales, struck on Tuesday for as increase n wages. Jaines T. Clark, general superintendent f the Mihvaukee road, died at Milwaukee Saturday night. John A. Payne, a farmer of Woodstock, 11., was killed by lightning while taking milk to a factor.y. t Jack Allen was hanged on Friday at Monicello, N. Y., for the murder of Ulsura Jlrich last October. A boiler exploded on Saturday at the oal shafts of Williams & Moss, at Zion, Ly., killing four men. Mrs. John S. Martin, of Chicago, died n Tuesday from hydrophobia, caused by he bite of a little dog. The will of the late Hiram Sibley was robated at Rochester, N. Y., Tuesday. 'he valué of the estáte is $10,000,000. Mrs. Thomas Hartwig, awidow with six hildren, was aeeidentally drowned on Satrday in the river at Logansport, Ind. At Cincinnati on Tuesday the shoe facory of Krippendorf, Dittman & Co. was estroyed by fire, causing a loss of 310,000. By the accidental discharge of a gun on 'uesday near Versailles, Ky., Richard Aiken, aged 35 years, had both eyes blown ut. General Thomas Young, ex-Governor of Ohioand a member of Congress in 1873 and 880, died at his residence at Cincinnati on "riday. Samuel Baldwin made a successful leap with a parachute from a balloon 4,000 eet above the earth at Quincy, 111., on ionday. While playing around a brush fire on klonday at Lima, O., Clarence Fuller, aged years, was fatally burned by his clothing atching fire. Jack Walker (colored) was lynched on ionday near Benham, Tex., beoause he truck the wife of a Gemían in a quarrel ver a horse. A sail-boat containing four young men was upset on Lake Minnetonka. opposite ïorthwood, Minn., on Saturdf, and all were drowned. A woman was arrested at Columbus, nd., charged with murdering her husband y pouring earbolic acid down his throat vhile he was asleep. By the upsetting of a boat on Saturday on pond at Brookfield, Mass., the wife, aughier and two grandchildren of W. B. ones were drowned. Frank Williams was hanged on Saturday t Blackfoot, I. T., for the murder of Charles Reed and Captain Winn near Cariou. December 17, 1880. The Gerinan yacht with Emperor Willam on board arrived at Cronstadt, Russia, n Thursday, and the Emperor was cordialy welcomed by the Czar. At Muskegon, Mich., fire destroyed bout three millions of feet of lumber, ausing a loss of about ê0,000, with an. ttiurance of about one-half. A total eclipse of the moon commenced at :55 o'clock Suuday evening and continued our hours. It was generally observed hroughout the United States. The National Grand Liodge, United-Brothrs of Friendship, the largest organization f co'.ored men in America, met in annual ession at St. Louis on Tuesday. In Chicago Tuesday John W. Miller, Viltiam Steineck and Fred Zarth committed suicide, Miller on account of overwork, and the other two owing to liquor. By the premature explosión of a charge oí dynamite at the Barnum mine at Ishpeming, Mich., an iron bar one inch in diameter was driventhrough John Devan's thigh. A new oil furor has been started in the Pittsburgh región by the discovery of oil in the abandoned territory around Pithole, which was supposed to be worked out years ago. A little child of Julius Willnette feil from a pleasure boat near Rock Island, 111., and its father leaped into the water to rescue it. The child was rescued, but the father drowned. Fifty convicts were confirmed in the prison at Joliet, 111., on Sunday by Bishop Spaulding. One of the men was under Ufe sentence for murder and several of them were "long-termers." At Cheltenhatn beach, near Chicago, on Saturday Miss Lottie Hunt made an ascent in a balloon and dropped from a height of 2,000 feet with a parachute into the lake, where she was nearly drowned beforo rescued. At White Rock Station, Pa., Viola and Victor Ramsey, twins, aged 9 years, feil in the Allegheny river and were drowned. They were fishing, and the little girl feil from a rock into the water and her brother in his efforts to save her feil in also.