Minor News Items

Snow to the depth of six inches feil iu Montreal, Can., on Tuesday. A home for Dakota soldiers wiil be built ia Hot Sprints, Fall Kiver County. It is announced that there will only be one-half a rice erop in South Carolina tuis season. H. Zimmorman & Co, cloak manufacturers at Chicago, failed on Saturday for 1130,000. The J. L. Clark Carriage Cotnpany of Oshkosn, Wis., failed on Tuesday for $100.000. Senator Sherman says the political union of Canada and the United States is inevitable. A furious snow-storm was raging on Tuesday in portions of New Hampshire and Vermont. Dr. Samuel Kneeland, one of the most fanious acienti3ts in this country, died on Honday in Boston. The Working-Women's Society of New York will try to get better pay for fetnale employés in shops. The business portfon of Lakeside viïlage, Wk., burned Tuesday morning, oausing a loss of 136,000. The Duquesne Company's factory and warehouse was burned at Pittsburgh Tuesday. Loss, $26,000. Extensive smuggiing of wheat and timber has been discovered on the boundary between üakota andManitoba. C. Harrington and P. McDonough, Diowers, were seatenced to flve years ia prison at Clinton, Ia., Tuesday. Advices from London say that defalcatious amountinj to 1500,000 have been discovered in a New Zealand bank. Shoeueinan & Co.'s packin? house and butterine manufactory in Chicago was burned on Monday. Loss, 100,00tt The National Grand Lodge of Colored Masons has appropriated $200,000 for the erection of a temple at Kansas City. The American Missionary Association will hold its forty-second annual meetinff in Providence, R. I. October 28 to 25. Brown's powder magazine at Roanoke, Va., exploded on Saturday, and tho town was badly shaken, but no lives were lost. John Blant, driver of a wagon, was made blind by a flash of lightning Saturday in New York. lt is thought he may recover William B. Sinith, cashier of the Erie freight house at Mansfleld, O., fled on Tuesday with 13,000 of the company's money. Eleven borses and tvventy-flve tons of hay were burned on Tuesday in a barn belonging to Edward Koot near Waterloo. Ia. Cholera is still raging at Hong Kong and the daily average of new cases ranges from forty to fifty, most of whom die of the disease. Isaac V. Williamson, a wealthy Philadelphian, will give that city a fine industrial college, the estimated cost of which is Í8, 000,000. Trains collided on Saturday on the Baltimore & Ohio road near Washington and three men were killed and live others were badly injured. Mrs. Louisie A. Moore, aged 32 years, oommitted suicide at Oakfleld, N. Y. on Friday by shootiDg. Domestic troubles prompted the deed. A train on the Ohio & Mwsissippi rilway was ditched at Washington, Ind., Monday night by running into a cow. The engineer was killed. John Dietrich, of Cincinnati, shot and killed himself Friday because twoyoung women whom he had asked to marry hún had each refused him. Walter S. Pickney, formerly one of the most prominent lawyers of New York City, died on Monday in a hospital from the excessive use of liquor. Philip Paiedoni, ak Italian who murdered his brother in cold blood on the evening of June 22. 18S7. was haned on Friday at Bridgeport, Conn. The Supreme Court of Utah on Mouday declared the Mormoa church property forfeited and entered a decree for its escheat to the United States. The Hormons semi-annual conference opened at Salt I.ako on Friday, Apostle Lorenzo Snow presiding. In all their speeches tiie apostles and elders insisted upon polygamy. Mrs. Eliza Washburn, a member of the Salvation Army, who was arrested at Bloomington, 111., tor beating a drum in the stropt, has recovered Í50J in her suit against the city. A team of four race-horses attached to a Roman chariot dashed into a crowd of sight-seers at the Kutztown (Pa.) fairgrouuds on Friday and several people were more or lesa injured. Jim Scott, a notorious negro desperado and ex-convict of Lyncliburg, Va., shot and probably fatally wounded three men without provocation on Satín day and I caped to the woods. A monument was Önvailed on Saturday I to the memory of Jennie Bowman, the I mestic who was killed last year while I fending her employer's house from I bera in Louisvillo Ky. Francis W. Williams, the senior I ber of tbe well known banking flrm of I Williams, Black & Co., of New York, I mitted suicide on Monday owing to losses I in the recent wheat flurry. A capsized sail-boat, with the body of a I half-breed named Jesse Jordán, drifted I ashore near Oshkosh, Wis., Friday. There I are known to have been two or more J Bons in the boat before it capsized. The old United States court-house in I New Orleaaa, turned over by the Frenchat I the transfer of J,ouisiana in 1S03, is being j torn down to make room foranother I ing. I