Minor News Items

A good flovs of naiural gas has bees struck at Tonawanda, N. Y. Lord Sackville, the deposed British Minister, sailed for Europe Saturday. The court-house at Gilmer, Tex., was burned by an incendiary flre on Monday. Commodore Cicero Price, U. S. N., died in Troy, N. Y., on Saturday of pneumonía, aged ü3years. The bootblacks of lndianapolis inauRUrated a strike on Monday to put the price of a shine up to ten cents. The iirst white woman settler of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Berenice Uliouteau, died on Tuesday, aged 87 years. John Holiness (colored) was executed on Friday at Marión, Ala., for the, murder of his paramour, Celia Johnston. Jerry Taylor (colored) was lyuched on Thursday ín St. Helena Parish, La., for criminal assault on a young girl. John Concer, of Woodsfield, O., drank three pints of whisky od a wager on Friday and died a íew minutes later. The plumbers of St Joseph, Ato., went on a strike on Monday against a reduction of the hours of work trom ten to nine. In a drunken affray on Monday at Vian, Ind. T., four Cherokee Indians were killed and another was shot through the hand. Dr. William H. Mosly, known s the "Cherokee oil king," died Monday morning at the poor farm at Shelbyville, 111. Hon. Edward E. Lane, of Warsaw, DL, attorney, and for seven years- 1S79-S6- Consul at Tunstall, Eng., died Monday. Thenew Chicago & Northwestern railroad bridge across the Missouri river at Sioux City, Ia., has been opened to trafile. Fred Frederickson was cauprht between a loóse pulley and an upright shaft in a machine shop at Kacine, Wis., Monday and killed. Five hun 1 red ladies of Denver, Uol., will, ii perrnitted, march in the inauguration parade at Washington on the 4th of March. T. B. Thoma9 was killed and Edward J. Cohen fatally wounded in a quarrel over a poker game at Covington, üa., on ïhursday. Henry Brotzman and familv, iu charge of the BeeLine station at Hartwell, O., were chloroformed on Tucsday and robbed of J300. ïhe house of Cari Woebbeking, near Waterloo, Ia., was burned on Kriday, and two of his little children were suffocated by smoke. A dispatch from Panama states that a revolution had been commenced in Venezuela, headed by Generáis Crespo and Camargo. At 12 o clock on Sunday r.ight forty pedestrians starled on a six-day go-as-youplease walk in Madison square garden, New York City. Robert Hellesty, of Bivinsville, ïodd County, Ky., who had bet his farm and stook on Cleveland being election, committcd suicide. Adam Berkes, a man who was whipped recently at Sardinia, O., by the White Caps, went erazy on Thursday and was a raving maniac. The mayor of Havana, Cuba, resigned on Friday because of the clamor against his recent decree imposing a consumption tax on eatables. A man, his wife and three children who arrived at Denver, Col., on Thursday claimed to havo been buncoed out of ílQ,000 in New York. August Schneider, who arrived in New York City on Friday, said he had walked all the way from Chicago, loaving there September 20 last. A satisfactory test was made of the temporary telephone line between Boston and Chicago, prepared by the Long Distance Telephone Company. A state conspiracy was discovered in Java, forty-two of the ringleaders were arrested, and eleven who refused to surrender were shot dead. The lS-year-old daughter of Wüliam Turner,of Amelia, O., was accidentally shot and killed on Saturday b.y her brother Aaron, 18 years of age. The State Bank at Valparaíso, Neb., f ailed on Thursday for Í2OO,OOO, and it was reported that the proprietors, F. Scoville and G. A. Craits. had fled. Cashier Barker, of the Argentine(Kan.) Bank, wís robbed of íl,00Uon a street-car in Kansas City on Friday. He had just drawn the money f rom a bank. Henry Jones, of Petersburg, Va., while drunk on Friday went to sleep on the porch of his resiJence, and when found by friends was f rozen to death. The United States cruiser Boston arrived at New York on Saturday from Hayti with yellow fever on board. The vessel was neld at quarautine. Mrs. Mary Doran, ot Columbus, O., who murüered her husband last July by pouring carbolic acid in his mouth, has been acquitted on the ground oí insanity. The Jenney electric-light works at Fort Wayne, Ind., were destroyed by fire early Friday morning, entaüing a loss of $200,000. The insurance aggregates $148,000. Leonetto Ciprtani, son of an Italian count but American born and heir to a fortune of 25, 000,000 left by his father, was at Kalamazoo, Mich., Friday, on business connected with the estáte. Spurgeon Ferry, aged 89 years, at one time possessed of a fortune estimated at 11,000,000, accumulated in the patent-medi cine business, was on Thursday sentto the Brooklyn (N. Y.) poor-house at his own request.