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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. The Third Avenue M. E. church at Third avenue and High street, Columbus, O., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $30,000. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Van Arnam, each 86 years of 'age, of Fond du Lac, Wis., celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary of their wedding Wednesday. They are the oldest married couple in the state. At Elkhart, Ind., William J. Morrow, proprietor of one of the largest wall paper and paint establishments in northern Indiana, made an assignment to Christopher Gillette. Senator Allison's departure from Dubuque, Ia., for Washington has been postponed. He is confined to his home with a cold and abscess of the ear. Charles Bayless, manager of the street car system at Mount Clemens, Mich., killed himself by shooting at the Avery House. Unhappy relations with his wife are assigned. He came from Muncie, nd., and has relatives live at Bessemer, Mich. George J. Eacock has been appointed receiver for the Spring & Emerson Stationery and Printing company of Lafayette, Ind. Liabilities, $30,000; assets less. To secure a claim of $50,000 held by the defunct Sioux City National bank, the Sioux City Engine and Iron works has given a bill of sale to Reveiver Brown of the former concern. Samuel Corbett, missing from Deeatur, Ills., since Nov. 4, was found dead near the Oakridge schoolhouse in Long Creek township. He was an epileptic, aged 60. It is supposed he died in a fit. The Clinton Furniture company, retail furniture dealers at Clinton, Ia., were closed on chattel mortgages and claims by suits aggregating $4,050.25. Horace Harding of Stilesville, Ind., a barber, committed suicide by shooting. Harding's extreme deafness and infirmities led to the deed. He left a note to that effect to his family. It is stated that sixty-seven daily newspapers have been started and have died in New York city alone within the last sixty years, involving the loss of over $25,000,000. The first woman to practice medicine in Georgia has received her certificate. Robbed by Masked Men. Gutherie, O. T., Dec. 4.-Four masked robbers, supposed to be headed by "Dynamite" Dick, held up Storekeeper Ernest Powell at Ingram Wednesday night, and made him deliver $300. After securing the money, and while leaving the store, the outlaws were fired on by Powell. The fire was returned, and a farmer named Ellis, who was in the store, was shot. The robbers are supposed to be the same who held up the postmaster at Floyd Tuesday night and secured $1,246.
