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NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts of the World. The West Virginia legislature convenes Jan. 11. The State bank at Cuba, Kan., has suspended. Diphtheria is epidemic at Palmyra and Newark, O. Carlisle is spoken of as the future secre tary of the treasury. Dr. McGlynn favors Mgr. Satolli in the Catholic school question. The short cotton crop is causing numer ous failures in the south. The war department has decided again to garrison Key West, Fla. Murderer Fred McGuire was electrocut ed at Sing Sing, N. Y., Monday. At Parkersburg, W. Va., Forger Coul son has been indicted on fifty counts. Sir Richard Owen, of London, famous specialist in comparative anatomy, is dead. The first installment of world's fair souvenir half-dollars has been received at Chicago. Harry Houser, chief letter carrier at Wheeling, is charged with wholesale rob bery of letters. Daisy Scott, fourteen, of Columbus, O., shot herself while playing with a double action revolver. Mine No. 3 of the Cahaba Coal company, Blocton, Ala., is on fire with several men imprisoned, it is said. Robert Beatty, charged with complicity in the Homestead poison plot, was held to court in the sum of $5,000. George C. Brown, well known Cincinnati journalist, was found dead in his bed Sunday. Congestion of the brain. An unknown young man, supposed to be from Perryville, O.. was killed by cars De tween Jersey City and Newark, N. J. At Maysville, Ky., Peter Brown, a crip pled old man, was severely burned in the burning residence of Samuel Presley. It is said in Chicago that the Rock Isl and will supplant the telegraph with the telephone in order to outwit the strikers. At Urbana, O., John Freyhoff, a gar dener, probably fatally kicked his wife and then suicided by shooting. Jealousy. At Urbana, O., the body of a male child, well dressed, and bearing the marks of violence, was found on an oil tank neat here. Farmer Edward Bangs failed to get out of the way for a tree he had just felled near Raysville, Ind., and was crushed to death. Company E. West Virginia national guard, at Parkersburg, want to disband and refuse to pay fines levied for absenteeism, etc. Principal Varhise, of the Williamsburg (Colo.) school, has been driven out of town for punishing children by pulling their teeth. At Evansville, Ind., Bert Tole, an exconvict, shot and killed James Short, a merchant. They had quarreled over some trivial matter. By the giving way of a scaffold in the Cincinnati custom house six decorators fell about twenty feet. Four were seriously injured, one perhaps fatally. The Tnompson Presbyterian church congregation at Detroit locked out the new preacher who was to have taken the place of Rev. Welton, recently deposed. At Washington C, H., O., Hettie Whited shot herself with a 22-caliber pistol, the wound being of a very dangerous character. The girl says it was an accident, Bagley, the robber of the United States Express company, it seems, was leading a double life. He kept a woman in Chicago, his wife and family residing in Davenport, Iowa. At Quincy, Ills., the remains of a white man chopped to pieces were found in a soap box in the railroad baggage room. It was probably shipped by medical students. Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the English premier, owns property on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, but has never exercised the right to vote for mayor and school trustees. A big Newfoundland dog fell over Niagara Falls Friday and was rescued and restored by the aid of a doctor. He is now a theatrical dog in Marie Lawton's company. Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, says he is of the opinion that Mgr. Satolli's mission to America is to represent the pope at the world's fair and not to adjust the school question. Frank Reed and Elsie Dunn, elopers, were married at East Liverpool, O., having evaded an angry father, who like Lord
