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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. For the Week Ending April 10. The Nebraska legislature adjourned sine die. A war between Norway and Sweden was said to be impending. Kirkpatrick & Co., wholesale grocers at Nashville, Tenn., failed for $175,000. The First national bank of Dublin, Tex., was closed by the bank examiner. The Bristol (Tenn.) Bank and Trust company assigned with liabilities of $24,720. The net result of municipal elections in New Jersey was a victory for the republicans. Under the new constitution Utah will have eighteen senators and forty-five representatives. Rocky Ford, the English colony settlement in New Mexico, was completely wiped out by fire. The First national bank of Ravenna, Neb., the heaviest banking institution of that city, closed its doors. The czar has refused to abolish the law prohibiting Jews from living within 50 versts of the Russian frontier. The bank of Axtell, Neb,, failed to open its doors. The failure was caused by drought and business stagnation. The bank of Bladen, Neb., was closed by Bank Examiner Cline. The assets were $16,665; liabilities, $10,980. J. J. McGethen, of Ashland, Wis., has secured for $325,000 the 100,000,000 feet of timber on the Red Cliff reservation. Reports from the tier of counties comprising the Michigan fruit belt indicate a phenomenal fruit crop this year. Five Seventh-day Adventists. convicted in Rhea county, Tenn., of working on the Sabbath, were pardoned by Gov. Turney. The United States consul at Berlin reports that there is a demand for good, sound American apples in Germany, but no supply. The United States steamship Marblehead, now at Gibraltar, was cabled to proceed with all dispatch to Beyroot, Syria, to protect Americans. A rainfall for thirty-six hours was general throughout the west and last year's drought-stricken region of Nebraska received a drenching. About forty of the most prominent horsemen in the United States met at Cleveland and formed a sporting league with P. P. Johnson as president. The Kentucky grand lodge Knights of Honor unveiled a monument at Louisville to the memory of James A. Demaree, the founder of the order. The Southern Land & Timber company (English), of Pensacola, Fla., the largest timber concern in the south, went into the hands of receivers. T. M. O'Kelley murdered his aged wife at Vicksburg, Miss., with a hatchet and afterward committed suicide. He was supposed to be insane. Ninety- three farmers from Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Illinois are now in the southeastern part of North Carolina looking for lands. They are an advance guard. School elections were held in all the principal towns in Montana, and were remarkable from the fact that in most of the cities at least half the vote was cast by women. The American starch works, largest in the west, were burned at Columbus, Ind., causing a loss of $300,000. Lewis Wade, a colored warehouseman. per-