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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. For the Week Ending May 22. A fire in Annui province in China destroyed 2,500 houses. The National bank of Pendleton, Ore., closed its doors. Wheat touched 53½ cents, the lowest price ever known in Chicago. The Traders' bank of Tacoma, Wash., suspended payment for a second time. Gen. Philip Cook, secretary of state, died at his home in Atlanta, Ga., aged 77 years. The republican state convention of North Dakota will meet in Grand Forks July 11. For killing his unfaithful wife, William McKeill paid the extreme penalty of the law at Mobile, Ala. T. W. Phillips was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Twenty fifth Pennsylvania district. Bradstreet's clearing-house exhibit for the United States shows a decrease for the week of 27.6 per cent. With the gold exports of the last week deducted, the treasury reserve will stand at about $88,000,000. The Manchester ship canal was formally declared open to the commerce of the world by Queen Victoria. The National Editorial association will meet in tenth annual convention at Asbury Park, N. J., July 2 to 26. Experiments with a brand of smokeless powder discovered by a Virginian prove it superior to any yet tested. The Illinois Congregationalists celebrated in Chicago the fiftieth anniversary of their state organization. The Ohio legislature adjourned sine die. Among the bills passed was one to hold but one session in two years. The worst wind and rainstorm known in fifty years prevailed at Toronto. Ont., and considerable damage was done. A cloudburst southwest of Dunkirk, N. Y., caused one of the most disastrous floods known there in many years. The J. C. Lane-Paper Manufacturing company at Elkhart, Ind., went into the hands of a receiver, with heavy liabilities. 'VS at In trying to arrest three C vere Yukon, O. T., two deputy sher fatally shot and one of the banans was wounded. At Cambridge, Mass., James Wilson, 40 years old, murdered his wife by cutting her throat and then fatally wounded himself. Property valued at $145,000 was de stroyed in Akron, O., by a blaze which started in Weary, Snyder & Wilcox's planning mill. Edmund H. Yates, editor and proprietor of the London World and the t author of many novels, died suddenly, a aged 62 years. Cincinnati authorities forced food down the throat of Father O'Grady, the murderer of Mollie Gilmartin. who was starving himself. In a speech at Quincy, 111., Commonwealer Kelly denounced the newspat pers and railroad officials, and pleaded for aid for his men. Frank Goodale, a well-known jockey, was thrown from Judge Payne at Louisville and trampled to death by the horses following him. Marsene B. Erskine, who had served four terms as mayor of Racine, Wis., and was 8 prominent business man, is dead. He was 74 years old. I Henry Jones, a negro wanted for an assault on a 7-year-old girl in Lafayette, La., was shot through the heart t by Sheriff Isaac Broussard. The Kellys and Raffertys, of Southville, Mass., settled & long standing feud with revolvers. Two will die and ( two others are badly wounded. Peterson. Rogers, Durnan and Corker defeated Gaudaur, Teemer, Hosmer and Rice in the four-oared 8-mile race t for professionals at Austin, Tex. < All the earpenters and mill hands in t Cincinnati were ordered to strike because the bosses refused to pay $2.50 S for eight hours or 88 for nine hours. p Mrs. Matilda A. Patterson, of ChiI cago, has petitioned cangress to appropriate $5,000,000 to purchase lands on which to settle unemployed thousands. S William Perdue went to the home of fi Squire A. W. Rundle in Nevada, Mo., and shot him dead and then took his n own life. A family feud was the cause. n I The Brotherhood of Locomotive EnO gineers in session in St. Paul adopted resolutions condemning the bill of Senf ator Walsh to prevent interference with mail trains. Henry Woolwine was sentenced at V Mexico, Mo., to six years in prison for assault. He secured a change of venue to Montgomery county and has been sentenced there to twenty years. S WHILL Staft the Antwern Exposition