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Miscellaneous News Items. J. H. Rowe, who sued the Detroit Free Press for $25,000 for libel, gets a verdict of six cents, Rosenfeld & Kaufman, Cincinnati clothiers, fail for $100,000, with masets of $60,000. The semi-annual interest on the $350,000 Grant fund has not been paid since February. The liabilities of the Jeffersonville, Ind., plate glass works, which assigned recently, will reach $160,000. The will of the late William F. Babcock, who died in San Francisco, Sept. 22, has been filed. The estate is valued at $600,000. There is much excitement in Royalling Valley, Wash. Ter., over the discovery of natural gas on the farm of Hon. T. Thompson, near the town of Sumner. Pennsylvania ministers are hard at work marrying couples who want to escape the stringent provisions of the new marriage law which shortly goes into effect. The well-known banking and brokerage house of Soutter & Co., New York, has made an assignment to Morris S. Miller, with preferences of $90,600. W.A. Soutter also makes a personal assignment. Northern Pacific land sales for September show a handsome increase, compared with sales made during the corresponding month of last year. Throughout the month there was considerable movement of settlers and landseekers into Dakota. Hon. Lyman A. Cook of Woonsocket, R. I,, has made an assignment. He had ondorsed heavily for persons who had allowed their paper to go to protest. His assets are unknown. At one time he was worth half a million dollars. Miss Alice B. Jordon of Coldwater, Mich., a graduate of the academic and law departments of the university of Michigan, has entered the Yale law school. She is the first lady ever entered in any department of Yale, outside of the art school. The time for the Chinese to leave Butte, Mont,, as per notice of the Knights of Labor, expired and was marked by an immense mass meeting held in front of the court house. Fully 5,000 people attended. Many speeches were made denunciatory of the Chinese, and resolutions were adopted declaring that the "Chinese must be made to go by lawful means." 4 vistory, and such a victory as Chicago base ball lovers have seldom seen, was witnessed by 10,000 people at the base ball park recently. The Chicagos defeated the New Yorksby as carefully a played gamou has ever been played in Chicago. It seemed as if the home team were giants and the New Yorks were pygmies. The old days of '76, when Chicago had the Invincible nine were brought to mind, and the thrill of enthusjasm that ran through that great throug was something remarkable. New York was greatly cast down by the news and loss of money. A farmer from the Black Bobland, Johnson county, Kan., after negotiating with Frank James through a friend of the latter, went to Independence, Mo., to perfect arrangements with James to get him to kill a neighbor. The price had been agreed upon as $100, and was placed in the intermediary's hands. The exact location of the farm on which the victim lived With mapped out, with the relative position of hiding places, and all arrangements seemed perfected, when James and his friends told the fellow that they were working a game on him, and unicss he would go home and be quiet they would "give him away." He went immediatel
