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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. The banking department of Low's exchange in London has suspended. A jury in Mexico consists of nine men. A majority makes the verdict If the nine are unanimous there is nc appeal. The cost of site and building for New York's new Christian Science temple will aggregate $250,000, and will be the finest one extant. Great Britain has intimated to China that any failure by the Peking government to observe the wishes of Great Britain will be accepted as a casus belli. M. R. Todd, cashier of the wrecked bank at Preston, Minn., was lodged in jail after a mob had gathered to lynch him. His defalcations are now said to amount to $115,000. The electric locomotive headlightinvented by L. J. Wooley, of Springfield; Ill., has proved a success and is now in use on the Big Four, New York Central, and other railroads. Lyman Curtis, who died in Utah, was one of the men who planted the first crops in that state and was one of Brigham Young's most valuable assistants in the constructive work of the pioneers. Miss Alice Serber, the first Russian girl to be admitted to the practice of law in this country, was sworn in recently before Justice Van Brunt, in the appellate division of the New York supreme court. A contract has been signed by the Italian Colonizing society and the government of Venezuela, under the terms of which the company will send 3,000 families of agriculturists to Venezula in three years. Mrs. Harriet Scott. of Muncie, Ind., sued for a divorce from James Scott, demanding $3,000 alimony. The couple have been married three times and divorced twice, Mrs. Scott securing big alimony both times. The world's record for high kite flight was broken at Blue Hill, Mass., one of a tandem of kites reaching an altitude of 12,124 feet above the sea level, a height 277 feet greater than any kite has reached heretofore. President McKinley has received a letterfrom the Thirteenth club, of New York, congratulating him on the fact that he signed the peace protocol on a Friday and proclaimed it to the world on the 13th of the month
