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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. For the Week Ending Sept. 11. The entire business portion of Malta, Ill., was wiped out by fire. The Oklahoma county bank at South Enid, O. 'I., closed its doors. Richard Smith, the well-known type founder of Philadelphia, died at Paris Saturday, aged 78. The American Society of Irrigation Engineers at Denver elected James P. Maxwell president. The forty-fourth anniversary of the admission of California to statehood was celebrated at San Jose. William H. Hatch was renominated for congress by the democrats of the First district of Missouri. One-half of the town of Oakview, Tex., the county seat of Live Oak county, was wiped out by fire. By a rear-end collision in the Hoosac tunnel near North Adams, Mass., two men were killed and two injured. W. F. Collner & Co., general store" keepers at St. Petersburg, Pa., were robbed of $70,000 in bonds, notes and cash. Prof. Hermann von Helmoltz, the distinguished German physiologist and scientist, died at Berlin, aged 74 years. Twenty-four receivers of Northern Pacific branch lines have been abolished by agreement, in the interest of economy. W. A. Brady, representing Corbett, signed articles in New York for a fight with Jackson before the Sioux City (la.) club. While he was sleeeping in a Chicago hotel chair thieves despoiled Pugilist Peter Jackson of his watch and chain. Twenty-one laborers were killed in Samara, Russia, by eight farmers, in order tosecure the wages that had been paid them. The Middleton (Pa.) bank, the oldest institution of its kind in Dauphin county, failed on account of depression in business. In a race against time at Indianapolis Directly placed the 2-year-old pacing record at 2:10 a cut of a quar ter second. Eugene Dickson, a St. Louis lad swallowed a green fly while laughing, and died within forty-eight hours in terrible agony. During a thunderstorm in Wichita, Kan., Thomas Herman's house was torn to pieces and his two children killed by lightning. It was reported that the Chinese forces were cornered in northern Corea without supplies and were killing their ponies for food. On the petition of stockholders, a receiver was appointed for the Citizens' bank of Plattsmouth, Neb. Assets are said to exceed liabilities. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen met in biennial convention at Harrisburg, Pa. Attorney General Hensel welcomed the delegates. While fixing the electric lights in the tower of Detroit's city hall F.J. French was made a raving maniac by a shock and was rescued with difficulty. The Ohio state board of agriculture announces that the gross receipts from the state fair were $25,472, an increase over last year of over 20 per cent. Astronomer Louis Garthmann, of Chicago, claims to have discovered vegetation on the moon with the telescope which he recently completed. Thirty-one persons were precipitated into an area by the giving way'of a sidewalk at Nashville, Mich. Several, it is feared, will die from their injuries. Before the kinetoscope in the Edison laboratory at Orange, N. J., Corbett knocked out Peter Courtney in six rounds. He received $5,000 for his efforts. Mary Fisher, 18 years old, of New York, who had been deaf and dumb for eight years. recovered speech and hearing after having been stunned by lightning. In his report on the Northern Pacific investigation Master in Chancery Cary exonerates Receiver Oakes from all charges, but finds Villard guilty of making unlawful gains as director.
