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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. For the Week Ending Feb. 7. Part of the business portion of Glasgow, Mo., was destroyed by fire. Patrick Phillips shot at a burglar at Denver, Col., and killed his wife. Leibman Bros., of Brooklyn, N. Y., dry goods dealers, failed for $400,000. Bob Burnett (colored) was publicly whipped at Russellville, Ky., for stealing meat. Mrs. Colfax, widow of the former vice president, is said to be practically penniless. Horner & Roberts, well-known river coal operators at Pittsburgh, Pa., failed for $150,000. L. Schofield, the first man to make dron rails in the south, died near Chattanooga, Tenn. An earthquake shock lasting ten seconds was felt at Keeler, Cal., and at Hawthorne, Nev. Theodore Pabst & Co., importers of glassware in New York for forty years, failed for $100,000. Ives beat Schaefer in the final billiard game of the Cincinnati tourney by a score of 600 to 434. Harry Watkins, one of the oldest actors on the American stage, died at his home in New York. A wholesale traffic in the bodies of the pauper dead is believed to have been discovered in Milwaukee A Lutheran minister at Oshkosh, Wis., has barred out of his church all members of labor unions. Walter Johnson, of Gloucester, Mass., shot Miss Carrie Andrews and himself on account of a love affair. George Hurst, who murdered Charles Cage at Neeley, Neb., was taken from jail by a mob and lynched. Gen. Lewis Richmond. prominent in the rebellion and later in official cireles, died at Flushing, L. 1. After years of labor to solve the perpetual motion problem Charles Heine hanged himself in New York. While attempting to save her 8-yearold sister a 6-year-old heroine at Guthrie, O. T., was fatally burned. Ray T. Lewis (rep.) was elected mayor of Duluth, Minn., by a majority of 2,000 out of a vote of 10,000. Senator Avery's bill for a city farm school for incorrigible youths passed the Ohio house and is now law. F. A. Sauner, a missing coal operator of Middlesborough. Ky., was found in Powell river, near Olinger station. Many negroes about Monroe, La., have been swindled by an oil warranted to take the kinks out of their hair. Wisconsin is expected to harvest 2,000,000 tons of ice this season. Indiana's crop is expected to fall short. Colored people who established a colony in Marlboro township, O,, two years ago, have returned to Virginia. E. G. Brown, collector of the Springfield breweries at Kenton, O., is short $984. He claims to have been robbed. Frederick M. Somers, editor of Current Literature, died at Southampton the day after his arrival from America. Reestablishment of a military department of the south is contemplated, with probable headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Southwall, an aged woman, and Thomas Cape were shot and killed near Forest City, Ark., by an unknown as sassin. A report that ex-President Harrison would shortly marry the widow of Leland Stanford called out an emphatic denial. Arthur H. Howland, a Boston civil engineer supposed to have been drowned, has been heard from in New Jersey. March 1 the Northern Pacific Express company will be succeeded by the American on the lines of the Wisconsin Central. After attempting to kill his wife Godfrey May, a Latrobe (Pa.) dry goods merchant. put a bullet through his heart. Officials at Lebanon. Ind., rescued Frank Hall, who assaulted Mrs. Akers, from a mob which had prepared to hang him. John Roos, night watchman at the San Diego building on River street, Chicago. was murdered for his week's wages, $11. Officer Albert Lanahan, of the Philadelphia police force, committed suicide after killing his wife. No cause was known. Twenty-one pupils, seven of them girls, were suspended from the Mount Horeb (Wis.) academy for attending a masked ball. Mrs. Celia Livers, who is only 18 years old, was convicted of bigamy at Franklin, Ky. She has had four husbands in two years. W. A. Ryan, the postmaster at Van Horn, Ia., committed suicide rather than submit his accounts to a post office inspector for examination. President Peixoto has offered pardon to private soldiers and sailors of the insurgent forces in Brazil who apply for clemency within sixty days. The First national bank of Arkansas City, Kan., which was placed in the hands of a receiver June 15, 1893, has been permitted to reopen for business.
