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BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS Happenings of the World from Pole to Pole. TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME the Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Condensed for Our Readers. Theodore D. Lorich, of Jersey City, was frowned at Sharon, Mass. The anti-pool selling law at St. Louis has been declared unconstitutional Captain William W. Bair, of Clarion, Pa., has been appointed president judge of Clarion county, to succeed the late Theophilus Wilson. Eighty motor men and conductors of the Newark (N. J.) Passenger Railway company have struck for a reduction of hours and an increase of wages. The Massachusetts Democraticstate convention will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Worcester. The First National Bank of Kansas City Kan., is insolvent. A receiver will be appointed. E. H. Morris, of the Republican state central committee of Illinois, has been offered the position of minister to Liberia by the president. Mrs. Samuels, the mother of Jesse James, the outlaw, has received an offer to exhibit the James log house near Kearny, Mo., at the World's fair. The lobster factories at Bay of Islands, N F. with the exception of those operated by the French, have been closed by the sommander of the British ship Pelican. A conscience stricken unfortunate has sent hirty-eight one dollar lottery tickets. none of which drew a prize, to the dead letter office, with the comment that the kottery is a humbug Treasury officials are said to be greatly worried over the letter written by Mr. Dwen, superintendent of immigratic in which he said tin plate workers might be brought into this country in spite of the contract labor law. The total loss by fire at Dallas, Tex., will foot up nearly $300,000, with an insurance of about $200,000. During a heavy thunder storm at Greenville, Pa., the tall steeple of the United Presbyterian church was demolished by lightning. Rev. Scouller was just finishing his sermon and about 200 people were in the building. The greatest excitement prevailed for a while, but no one was injured. While Edward Dwyer was walking near Washington Park Lake, Albany, N. Y. he was taken with a fit and rolled in the water. Before assistance could reach him aedrowned. His body was recovered later. W. C. Tiffany's picture store, 233 Seneca street, Buffalo, N.Y., was damaged by fire 10 the extent of $40,000. Insurance unknown. Charles Curtis, a well known thief, matched a pocketbook from Miss Bessie Mead, of 13 East Thirty-second street, New York, while she was walking on Madison Avenue, near Fifty-first street, Curtis was captured after something of a chase. Christie Hughes, saloon keeper, of Stone street, Newark, N. J. who took a prominent part in the Clark Thread works strike, has disappeared, owing many debts. George Gasser. of Newark, N. J., whose sons and son-in-law were drowned resently, is to be admitted to the Krueger home. He is seventy-two years old and aearly blind. Major Grover shot his brother Henry at Lexington, Tenn. Both men were drunk The Pokegama Athletic association, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has decided to offer $10,000 for the Fitzsimmons fight, with or without gloves. The United States steamship Benningson will be docked and painted at the New York yard in a few days for her final srial. Syracuse is out of the Eastern associa lion and President White is trying to get the club into Toronto. Passengers on the steamer Drew, which collided with an excursion barge on the Hudson rives, near Albany, believe at least two persons were drowned. Harvey J. Searles has been appointed postmaster at Liberty, N. Y.; Clement Russell, postmaster at Massillon, O. Levi Gaines, of Illinois, serving a sen tence of one year in the Chester (Pa.) penItentiary for violating the pension laws, has been pardoned. Josephine Sickengen, a beautiful and well to do German girl who left home to seape from a marriage she could not endure, was burned to death at New York President Ignatius Donnelly, of the Minnesota State Farmers' Alliance, has published an open letter to members in opposition to the scheme for withholding the wheat crop. Mr. Donnelly says the market would eventually be glutted with wheat, and prices would drop to ruinous figures. The tower of a church in the process of erection at Szalatina, Hungary, fell, killing sixteen workmen. S. Gerber, who lived in Omaha, Neb. for five years, has, it is said. been etiled to Siberia by the Russian authorities. 'As You Like It" was presented at Pitts burg in the rain. The Columbia Oil company, of Chicago, has failed. At Paterson, N. J., Mrs. Annie Kaufman, a young bride; ended her existence with a dose of paris green. She was very jealous. Richard Cumming, Nicolas Politeo and Pio Sepulveda were shot to death in Chili for plotting against Balmaceda. g A new phase has developed in the big e railway deal going on between the Canailian Pacific and Grand Trunk railways, to the effect that the Boston and Maine railload is also to be included in the deal which if consummated, will form one of the biggest railroad combinations on the continent 8 The pope, it is reported, will lend his int fluence to support the republic of France. It was decided at the New York state g camp at Peekskill to form an athletic ast sociation. the members of which shall belong to the national guard of the state. 1 Count and Countess Von Blucher, who la were married in Milwaukee a week ago, have arrived in Brooklyn. The count went to Asbury Park, N.J., to placate the girl's r father. One-fifth of the capital stock which New Jersey is to contribute toward the buildt ing of the North river bridge has been of raised. Wealthy brewers are the princie bal stockholders. Work on the structure
