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MINOR NEWS NOTES. John Ladeau, about 70 years of age, committed suicide at Ontonagon, Mich., on the 18th, by jumping from the harbor pier. He was & widower, and was thought to be elightly demented, particularly on religious subjects. The much-talked-of glove fight be tween the great and only John L. Sullivan and Frank Hearld, of Philadelphia, took place at the Coliseum, Pittsburg, on the evening of the 18th. Four-ounce gloves were used, but before the close of the second round the "sparring for points' degenerated into the customary slugging, and the police interfered and closed the show. Lightning at Kankakee, Ill. on the 19th, burned the Coris wheel factory 000 and an adjoining building. Loss $32, A mob at Belfast, Ireland, made an attack on the police barracks on the 19th for the purpose of rescuing couple of drunks. The crowd became demonstrative that the police fired upon them, one woman being killed. Nubar Pasha, Egyptian prime minister, has at the request of the British government, started for London to assist in the settlement of Egyptian affairs. The hostile Arabs of the Soudan have assembled in force in Dongola and now threaten the Egyptian frontier. The convicts employed by the Egyp tian government at the Djebelzeit petroleum works mutinied recently and twenty four of the mutineers had to be killed before the others could be forced again into submission The Bulgarian Sobranje has approved the bill appointing a court martial to try Maj Gruefs and the other officers associated with him in the coup d'etat on a charge of treason. Philadelphia had two serious fires on the 17th. The five-story brick building on Market Street, occupied by Thompson, Frye & Co., wholesale and Coates & Bro.'s wool grocers, warehouse, was damaged to the extent of $60,000. In the evening the ware house of Pentexter & Fitzpatrick, on Front Street, burned. Loss, $100,000. A dispatch of the 18th from Laredo Tex. reports the killing of the Mexi can rebel, El Coyote, and eight of his a followers by Mexican regulars, in fight near Lampasas. George H Prescott, aged 45, confidential clerk for Wise & Melander, Boston agents for the Chicago North-Western Railroad, has disap peared, owing several thousand dollars. The wholesale clothing firm of Julius Baum & Co., San Francisco, suspended on the 17th. Liabilities variously es timated at from $750,000 to $1,000, 000. John Schryock, a wealthy farmer living near Olney, Ill., was murdered on the night of the 16th by unknown parties, robbed the place of $3,000 and burned the house John Wyatt and Damps Loitin, two Marshall County, (Ky. farmers, had a standing quarrel and had notspoken to each other for years. At a funeral on the 15th they met and trouble broke out. Wyatt knocked Loftin down with a rock, whereupon the lat ter stabbed his enemy seven times with knife. Early on the morning of the 16th some unknown miscreant removed rail from therailroad near South Lynn, Mich. causing the wreck of & loaded freight train. Ed. Newman was killed, Brakeman Campbellfatally and Engineer Thomas Davis seriously hurt. Michael Boland, William Lawler and Thomas O'Neill have begun suit against the authorities of the Town of Lake, a Chicago suburb, for $50,000 damages The three plaintiffs were arrested for the alleged robbery of in a box car in the Lake Shore yards August, and after being imprisoned for a week were acquitted The dwelling of Leslie Cummings, on the mountain side in Jackson County was crushed by a huge rock which be came detached from & point above, and two of Cummings sons and hired man were killed and two small children fatally injured The Howard County Bank, at Glas Mo., closed its doors on the 15th gow, and placed its business in the given. hands of trustee. Liabilities not The a building occupied by Ezeikel & Bernheim's auction rooms and stor age warehouse, Cincinnati, was dam aged on the 15th to theextent of $35, 000. Sir Charles Dilke has returned to London. It is already announced that he will re-enter public life as the proprietor and editor of a London daily newspaper. The London Daily News of the 15th, referring to outrages by Chinese pirates, urges that a patrol of English and American gunboats be established to prevent further piratical acts. Prince Bismarck's celebrated mare Grete, which herodeduring the Franco Prussian war, is dead. Engineer Tom Buckley and Fireman Fariss were crushed to death near Cal Chattanooga Tenn., by an accident on the East Tennessee Railroad caused by the engine running over a cow. The engine was wrecked, but no passengers were hurt. The Du Bois Opera House, the dry goods establishment of Theodore Swan, Peck's dry goods house Peoria, and a number of smaller houses at 14th Ill., were destroyed by fireon the Loss $100,000. The through lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway telegraph system were opened for business on the 14th. L D. Williams, a Peoria boot and shoe dealer, has been arrested for perjury in the case of the insolvent Pettingill firm. At Westport, Md. on the 14th, Ed ward White, a well-known citizen, was shot dead by David Johnson. The game night the jail was broken into by mob and themurderer taken out and lynched. A work train at the Chapin mine Iron Mountain, Mich., while on down
