Minor News Items

The old Panama Canal Company has been d.ssolved in Paris. At Montreal on Monday the thermometer marked 30 degrees below zero. A shcck of earthquake was feit on Tuesday at Grand Metis, Que. The Florida Legislature convened on Tuesday. the 5th, at Tallaha?see. The Bupreme Coivtof the United State3 has adjourned until Monday, March 4, at llo'clock. The Reading Coal & Iron Company on Friday shut down all but twenty of its fifty collier.es. A fire on Saturday at Denver, Col., among business houses caused a loss ol over $ir,0,OOJ. In New England and Western New York the thermometer ranged from 30 to 40 degrees below zero on Monday. William Frost, a Palatine (111.) farmer who was bitten a few weeks ago by a dog, died on Tuesday from hydrophobia. The schooner C. E. Oliver capsized in Chesapeake bay on Saturday, and the entire crew of live men were drowned. The mail packet Bowling Green, plyinj between Bowling Green and Evansville, Ind., wasburnecj on Friday near Rockport, Ky. ; William Rane, 88 years old, and a pioneer of Central Illinois, committed suicida at Illiopolis, 111., Tuesday nightby taking poison. i The coke workers in the Connellsvilla (Pa.) región struck on Friday for an increase of wages, about 8,000 men being affected. John Kehn and Michael David were killed and Gcorgc Stevens was seriously hurt in the Perryn shaft at Pittston, Pa., on Tuesday. Tho business portion of the town of Carbon, Ind., wasdestroyed by fire Friday night. The loss amounted to about 150,000; fully insured. Twenty-five cadets in the Naval Aoademy at Annapolis, Md., failed in their examination on Monday and will be dropped irom the roll. The defalcation of John E. Sullivan, countv clerk of Marión County, Ind., was on Saiurday placed at $100,000. He had fled to Canada. Natural gas was struck ia a well at Sandy Crcek, N. Y., on Saturday, raisinf? tools 700 feot. The roar from escaping ga could be heard a mile. Mrs. Mary H. Fiske, a lady well known as a journalist, story-writer and dramatist, died at her home In New York on Monday oí pneumonía. By the breaking out of an old feud on Monday at Hed Bird Creek, Ky., two brothers i anoJ 1izemore ani a man named Carsuitli were killed. In the streeU of Chicago on Monday John Dempsey shot and killed Miss Maude McLellan and tben killed hiinself. Jealousy was the supposed cause. There was a renowal of the rioting and throwing ef stones at Tipperary, lreland, on Friday, and nine civilians and thirteen policemen were badly injureJ. By the explosión of a boiler on Tuesday in the boilfir-house of the Insane Hospital at Lincoln, Neb., two persons were killed outrignt and four were seriously injured. Walter Ivers, 10 years old, feil from the top of a nine-story building at Denver recently. He struck the telephone wires and then rebounded to a horse's back, and was not fatally injured. The safe in the Kdwardsvillo (111.) postofüce was blown open by burglars Monday night and robbed of f300 and a Urge numoer of registered letters, lt was the work ■ of professionals. Lee Wil ley, ayoungman from Gloucester Point, Md., whlle insane Monday night killed a peanut vender named Valentino at Baltimore, cutting him in a frightful manner with a sheath-knife. The seven-story ooal elevator 01 tne Providence Coal Company on Dorrance street, Piov denco, R. I., burned early Sunday morning. Loss on building, $20,Ü0O; on coal, about $25,000. Gerhard H. Lang, a farmer, celebrated nis 31st birthday with too much drinking at Aviston, 111., Saturday, and at night while on nis way home he was killed by an Ohio & Mississippi train. A six-days' ewimming match between young womon- Miss Clara Beckwith, of Knglaud, and Miss Annie Fern, of Boston- commenced in that city on Mo iday. The match is for $1,000 a side. Louis Valüer has sued Keidell & Nelson, of Minueapolis, for $5,000 damages beoauso a team of the defendants ran into a hearse in which the plaintiff's son w.,s being carried to the grave, throwing out and breaking the coffln and exposing the corpse to view. The Diamond colliery of the Lehign & Willcesbarre Coal Company, the largest in the región, shut down Tuesday lor good, owiug to the fact that all of the coal has been removed for miles beneath the 3ur face surrounding it. The colliery was oponed eighteen years ago.