Minor News Items

The Brows County (O.) court-house ttt( Georgetown was burned 00 Monday. A Ure in the lumber district of Mus-kegon, Mich., on Tuesday caused a loss of' $150,000. The new building of the Cincinnati Chamberof C'oiumerce will be dedicated1 January 4. The firm of GaUinger & Co., of New York. dealers in glass, failed on Saturday for 200 000. Isaac Keenan, convicted of the murderof John Holley at Baltimore, will be hanged February 20. Horse-thieves Monday night stole a number of valuable horses trom farmers living near Lima, O. Counterfeit $10 notes on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati are in circulation in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ruch, of Columbia Uity, Ind., ceiebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday. President Diaz, of Mexico, took the oath of'offlce on Saturday. Tuis is President Diaz's third term. At Hopkinsville, Ky., 132 colored converts to the Baptist f aith were baptized in a mill-pond on Sunday. Advices report a heavy mail robbery at Ott. wa, Ont., including registered letters Irom the United States. Nine men were arrested on Tuesday at Eckerly, Ind., charged with connection wiia "White Cap" raids. Prof. J C. Morris, for many years principal of tho public scbools at Dayton, O., d.edTuesJay morning, aged 62. A coal train ran into an engine on Monday wtiich was taking wate at Mcrrïtton, Ont-, and four men were killed. A fire on Saturday, in tho new Armour packinghouse at South Omaha, Neb., did damage to the extent of (100. OJO. Rear-Admlral Edward Simpson, United States JSavy, retired, died in Washington Saturday, aged sixty-four years. The Saptists of Indiana raised the past year f 8,338. 11 for State miss ons. There are 492 Baptist churches in the State. A splendid gas well was struck on the Shaw farm near Zenia, Ind., on Monday by the Wabash Natural Gas Company. Miss Katherine T. Simonds has completed her fiftieth year of service as teacher in the Franklin School at Boston. Harris Myers, a Montreal (Can.) hosiery manufacturer, fled to the United States on Tuesday with $60,000 belonging to creditors. General F. E. Spinner, ex-Uuited States Treasurer, has a species of cáncer on nis face and is nearly blind. He is 8ö years old. No. 2 mili of the Conshohocken worsted works at Norristown, Pa., was burned Tuesday morning. The insurance is Í37,000. Several arrests were made on Tuesday at Tr este, Austria, in connection with a ! revolutionary plot to kill Emperor Francis Joseph. The fortieth anniversary of Emperor FiaucU Joseph's succossiou to the throne w.if celobrated tnroughout Austria on Sun 3ay. The Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows I in pession at Nashville, Tenn., elected William T. Forrester, of Richmond, Va., Grand Master. Thomas B. Baker, of the new Baker Theater in Chicago, made an assignment on Friday. to W. W. Charles, with liabilitiesofïl50 000. The first rails on the Duluth & Winnipeg railrnad were laid Tuesday at Cloquet, Jlinn. Several thousand people vvitnessed the ceremonies. In afree fight among a gang of masons and hod-carriers at Ludlow, Ky.. Tuesday, one min was fatally and several others seriously injured. The failure of Volney P. Brown and his brother Chester, farmers in Wheatland, N. Y., was reported on Monday, with liabilitiesof L200,000. Thomas BurK and Michael Nolan while riding on railroad velocipedes on Monday near Providence, R. I , were struck by a train and kilied. The city marshal of Bryan, Tex., was shot dead on Monday by a seventeen-yearold boy whom he was trying to arrest for disorderly conduct The large livcry stable of McGinnis & Ca, at Morristown, Tenn., together with nineteen horses and several vehicles, was burned on Monday. Will Schrieber, aged 22 years, teller of the First National Bank, of Columbus, Ind., fled to Canada on Friday with Í8, 500 of the bank's funds. An explosión of dynamite on Friday, on the Kentucky Midland railway near Lexington, killed four men and dangerously Injured several otliers. Ed Chamberiain, the murderer of Ida Wittenberg, committed suicide by hanging himself on Monday in his cell in the jail at Logansport, Ind. Excitement prevailed on Tuesday in the neigbborhood of Felicity, Clermont County, O., owing to an effort to drive colored children f rom the schools. , The treasurer of Spink County, D. T., was on Friday said to be short in his accounts to the extent of $100,000. His whereabouts were unknown. John Crawford, aged 102 years, died on Saturday at Wilmington, Del., and Mrs. Sarah Ister, aged 100 years 'S months and 20 days, died at LOUisville, Ky. A flre on Priday destroyed forty-two buildings at Isabel, Cuba. The loss was great, with very little insurance. The origin of the fire was accidental. Ernest Geyer, better known as "General Tom Pouce," a dwarf, who had been exhibited in Europe and America, diea of oíd age on Tuesday at Cleveland, O. Van Canady, a mulatto, was taken from jail at Shelby, N. C, on Baturday by a crowd of masked men and lynched for the murder of James Philbeck, an old farmer. At Gainesville, Fla., on Tuesday the Board of Health declared the yellow fever epidemie ended. Traffic was resumed, and the flrst passenger train arrived in the afternoon. The contestants in the recent walking match at Now York received thoir money on Monday, 19,256 being divided among ten men. The managers pocketed f12,000 as their share. Early Thanksgiving morning a band ol arraed men stormed and broke into the jail at Wytheville, Va., and rescued Wayman Sutton, sentenced to be hanged the nextday for murder. W. L. Williams, a star route mail carrier, was shot dead from ambush near Moulton, Ala., on Friday and the mail pouch cut open and robbed. Pegisterec packages taken contained about 5400. Trains arriving in Kansas City on Friday f rom the west were fitte 'n hours late, being delayed by a severe storm o: snow which extended over the entire western and southern portions of Kansas. A lodgo of Good Templars has been formed at the Tusoarora Reservation near Lockport, N. Y., with thirtv-six charter members. This was the first time that a temperance lodge of tbis charactcr ha( been formed among the Iudians.