Minor News Items

The Indiana State fair opened at Indianapolis on Honday. Another ice carnival will be held at St Paut the coming winter. The Manitoba wheat erop is estimated at from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 bushels, ;1 The shortage of the wheat erop in Franca is estimated at 40,000,000 hectoliters. A flre on Baturday at] Spokane Falls, M. T., destroyed property valued at $100,000. The discovery of rich gold mines at Bonanza Crejk, M. T., was reportedon Satur day. A safe belonging to A. H. Mont, of North Baltimore, O., was robbed of $3,000 on Tu esday. A straw-board factory at Beloit, Wis., was wrecked by explosión of the boiler. Loss, $20,000. The opening of the National exhibition at Augusta, Ga., has been deferred to November 8. The British Uovernment has undertakeu to prosecute all publishers and sellers of Zola's novéis. Fiftysix buildings in the business portion of Florence, Wis., were destroyed by lire on Saturday. Yellow fever broke out on Fi-iday at Henderson, N. C, among the refugees from Jacksonville. Sherman Farrier (colored) was lynched at Whiteville, N. C., for assaulting an aged white woman. Yellow fever made its appearance on Monday at Gainesville, F1&, six persons being stricken down. A man namcd Wise was lynched on Friday in the Turtle mountain district of Dakota for horsestealing. On the üettysburg battle-field the One Hundred and Seventh New York Kegiment unveiled their monument. Cardinal Lavigerie has formed an antislavery society at Paris. Many prominent people are connected with it. Charles L. Bodendieck, a pronounced Anarchist, was caught manufacturing bombs in Chicago on Friday. An incendiary fire at Junction City, Kan., did damage to the extent of 125,000. Two young men lost their Uves. Advices from Paris state that fifty Germans have been expelled from France on suspicion of their being spies. Joseph Lightfoot died at Elgin, 111., of blood-poisoning caused by a scratch from a fish's ön received while fishing. The number of deaths in Havana from yellow fever during July was eighty-six. During August 114 persons died oí the dis{ ease. Near Lancaster, Tenn., on Tuesday John Smith, Ji, a railroad contractor, was seriously shot by two men and robbed of tl,000. Mrs. Elizabeth Langlier and her 5-yearold daughter, of Boston, were burned to death on Friday by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp. Charles A. Pillsbury & Co., Minneapolis millers, on Monday divided $40,000 among their employés, in pursuance of a profitsharing plan. On the 15th inst. the supply of wheat in sight in this country was 300,000 bushels larger than a year ago, aniounting to 31,378,431 bushels. The picking department of the New Albany (Ind.) woolen and cotton milis was burned, and 800 operators are thrown out of employment. Canadian mercbants are preparing for. the enforcement of the retaliation measures by ordering winter shipments via St. John and Ualifax. Charles Klein, a night watchman at Fort Wayne, Ind., in a rage of jealousy against his wife, shot her fatally on Friday and then killed himself. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellowsin session on Tuesday at Les Angeles, Cal., elected General Uuderwood, of Kentuoky, Grand Sire. A fire on Friday at Washburn, Wis., wiped out the entire business section, destroying thirty buildings, at a loss of $150,000; smull insu ranee. While the paying teller of the Third National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y., wasat lunch on Friday a sneak-thief purloined a paokage containing $2,049. Mrs. Jonathan Holer, of Huntington, Ind., committed suicide on Monday by ing rat poison. Her mind had been afiected for some time. By the upsetting of a boat on Friday at Cary, IU., Walter Graham and lus two sisters, Maria and Sarah, were drowned. ïhelr home was in Chicago. A Wabash passenger train was in collision with a freight near Fairmount, 111., Tuesday morning. One man was killed and two others badly wounded. Beventy workmen were overeóme by coal gas on Saturday in the Hoosac tunnel near North Adams, Mass., and it was with great difficulty they were saved. The trial of the four Anarchist conspirators in Chicago, Hronek, Chapek, Sevic and Chleboun, has been continued until, the October term of the criminal court. Dr. William Rickert, a well-known physician of Baltimore, has abandonad a lucrative practico and gone to Jacksonvflle. to minister to the yellow fever sufferers. Charles H. Harrison, agent ot' the Santa Fe read in Coleman, Tex. , ordered WilUam Attley, a drunken cowboy, out of the station on Tuesday, and Attley shot him dead. An explosión in the National flourinRmillin Cleveland, O., caused a loss of Ï1S6,000 and the death of Peter Beierman and Emil Husgen. Four other men were injured. In a speech at Brooklyn, N. Y., Hon. Warner Miller sald that the saloons of the State were raising a corruption íund of hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence voters. At Winfield.O., onFriday Richard Jones, while sick with typhoid fever, cut his throat in the presence of his wife and mother because they would not permit his cbildren lo see him.