Minor News Items

Columbus, 0., had a H75.000 fire Saturday night. Iowa's corn yield thie year will be ths preatest on record. The Joseph Hofneï sash factory burned at St. Louis Sunday night. Loss, S80.000. A buildingr containing suppliee ior the minere at Streator was burned Saturday night. The Massachusetts Democrats will hold their State convention at Worcester October 2. Chartee E. Fiel was on Fridny elected president of the American Society of Microscopiets. Swift fc Co 's packlng-house at Kansas City, Kan., was destroyed by flre on Sunday. Lose, $150,000. James Dickey stabbed John Smith at Talparaiso, Ind., Saturday because the latter would not treat him. The J. H. Mahler Comparsy, of St Paul, Minn., carriage manufacturera, failed on oaiuruav lor WU,UUU. Jacob Phillips, aged 60, a prominent citizen of Mier, lnd., was thrown f rom a oarrlage and killed Sunday. the raonth of July Just passed 25,716 immigrants arrivedat Castle Garden In July, 1888, 28,690 arriyed. The ihipping business was praotically tag-nant at London on Mondny, owing to a great trike of dock laborera. Several dama and milis at Rockingham, N. C, were wrecked by a cloud-burst on Monday, the loss 1(K),OÜO. During a race on Friday at Sabina, O. Elf King, with a record of 2:25 and valued at 0,000, feil dead on the track. Charles Sw-erangers, a jockey, wan thrown and inetantly killed during the running races at the Homer (HL ) fair Friday. Henry Shaw, of St Louis, a noted philanthropist, died on Sunday, aged 91 years. He left an estáte valued at $2,500,000. i Fire destroyed the boiler shops of the Bigelow Company at New Haven, Conn., Friday. Loss, T5,000; partially insured. lx Q. Schiller, Wholesale fish dealer at Green Bay, Wis., made an assignment Friday. Liabilities, $12,000; assets not known. A fire occurred on Monday at McNear'g warehouse in Port Costa, CaL, and spread to shipping, ínvolving a loss of nearly $600 - 000. A dog afflicted with the rabies bit Jamei Thurston and J. D. Isgrigp, two prominent farmers, and a young lady near Columbu Ind. The Spring Lake reservoir near Fiskville, R. L, gave way on Sunday, and three persons were drowned and some property destroyed. John Bobinson's circus was wrecked by a cyolone while exhibitlng at Toledo, O., on Saturday, and many persons were badly injured. The council of the Legión of Honor in irtuia ñas erasea cae ñames oí General Boulang-er anJ Count Dillon írom the roll of the order. A woman named Meith and her three ions were arrested on Monday at East Aurora, N. Y., on the charge of making bogus money. Elmer Foster, a 7-year-old boy, wandered alone tor nine days in a large forest near Wausau, Wis., subsisting on berries for the cntire period. Cotton goods m nufacturers of the City of Mexico formed a combination Friday, and propose to purchase cotton only in the United States. Two shocks of earthquake were feit Saturday morning at Washington, N. CL, the disturbance being accompanied by a rumbling sound. The Union iurniture works in Eockford, I1L, were burned on Saturday, causing a loss of 1125,000. A fireman named Emerson lost his life.