Minor News Items

Gold wbich assayed $10,000 to the ton was diacovored on Saturday near Bozeman, M. T. Several thousnnd Yorkshire (Eng.) coa] miners struck ïuosday. Coal is advancing in price. A boiler in a sugar-house at Houma, La., exploded on Friday, kllllng one wHte man and three negroes. Two atlempti were made on Tuesdaj near Mexico, Mo., to wreek Chicago & Alton passenger trains. The Mexican Minister of Public Works says thatno more subsidies will be granted in Mexico to railways. A fire on Tuesday at C lhoun, Ga., resul ted in the loss of nine stores, besidea the Timen newsp.iper office. The stage from Jerome, A. T., was held up near ÍSandeison station bv one man and the passengers were robbed. Joseph Frange was killed at Watertown, Wis., Saturday, by the caving in of the sides of a well he was digging. Christian Pfitzer, a brewery employé, sliot his wife in a quarrel in New York on Friday and then killed himself. The Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company ol St Louis has locked out its 450 employés owing to a dispute about wages. The people of Tuscaloosa, Ala., ara greatly excited by the mysterious murdei of four negroes within ten days. George A. Denham & Co., boot and shoa dealers of Boston, failed on Friday. Liabilities, $172,000; assets, Y55,000. Collins S. Squires, for over twenty years assistant postmaster in Chicago, died oí pneumonía on Saturday, aged 56 years. L J. Roberts Rambo, ex register of wills at Norristown, Pa., was on Tuesday said to be a defaulter to the extent of $20,000. The forty second annual election of the American Missionary Association waa opened, in Providence, R. I., on Tuesday. George Johnson and George Akiu were instantly killed by a falling derrick al Mitchell's stove works at Eilettsville, Ind. The public schools at Athens, O., wera closed Monday on account of the prevalence of diphtheria, there having been one death. The diphtheria epidemie at Oxford Juncticn, Ia., has about run its course. Up to date there have been 125 cases and 32 deaths. George Gordon, a tramp who had registjroH Up.traUv at. New York. was touceii Tuesday to Sing Sing for two and one-half years. The storage building on Lewis' wharf, Boston, was gutted by flre Satuaday, causing a total loss on building and contenta of more taan $100,000. Noah Jagoe shot and killed Miss Ella Green, to whom he was engaged, at Owensboro, Ky. It is thought that jealousy prompted the act. The statue of General Ulysses S. Grant, presented to the city of St Louis by tha Grant Monument Association of Missouri,, was unvailed ( n Saturday. Benjamin Jackson and Gilmore Bolden, both colored, quarreled Monday afternoon in Baltimore over six cents and Bolden stabbed and killed Jackson. Mary Ann Weidier, afced about 45 years, died at Lancaster, Pa., on Tuesday of consumption, hastened by a fast extending over a period of ïorty-seven days. By an explosión of dynamite on Friday in a quarry at Frankfort, Ky., Hanson Graham, John Glorn, Robert Glore aad W. H. Williams received fatal injuries. Two clever confidence men swindled two wealthy Minneapolis gentlemen out of $5,000 and $3,030 on a seductive mining scheme and got away before they were exposed. The recent threatened rise of the Mexican element at 1 io Grande City, which caused so much anxiety, culmmatea on Tuesday in the arrest of twenty-one of the rioters. Captain R. Powell and Charles Warfleld engaged in a friendly wrestling match Sunday on board an oyster boat at Cook'9 Point, Md., and feil overboard, both being drowned, A Boston tenant has been given a verdict of t5,500 damages against his landlord ttecause his family became infected with diphtheria owing to the defective drainage of the landlord's house. A Wholesale system of froiglit robbery was discovered on Tuesday on the Mexican Central railroad at Eagle Pass, and it was believed tnat the total loss to the company would be $50,000. Near Axtell, Neb., at midnight Sunday the second section of a Burlington & Missouri freight train ran into the first, which had stopped for water, killing two stockmen who vvere in the way-car. The fireman of the second engine was badly hurt.