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NEWS SIFTINGS. There are 6,000 widows in India. The French seize theNew He r orides islands Congressman Holman got a renomintaion. Much wheat is destroyed by hall near New Ulm. The Navada state library contains 25,000 volumes. The new hop crop promises to be the greatest on record. The rains give encouragement to Chippewa river lumbermen. Mr. Gladstone leaves London to open the Scottish campaign. The 250th anniversary of the university at Utoecht is being celebrated there. The Bank of Monroe, La., has suspended, with $55,000 debts and $16,000 assets. Ramsey county Prohibitionis:s will put a county and legislative ticket in the field. Prince Victor Napoleon was severely injur ed in Paris by being thrown from a carriage. The records show that there has only been one large robbery in New York for six years. The late rains in Texas have caused a marked increase in the price of cattle and sheep. The Rice-Pettigrew libel case, at Flandreau, ends by Rice getting a verdict of $13.134 16. This season's orange crop in Southern California aggregated 720,000 boxes, or 108,000,000 oranges. A New Jersey judge holds that a witness who sweals by the Bible is not bound to kiss the book. Pennsylvania Greenbackers want the Democrats to nominate A.G. Curtin for governor. Bob Ingersoll urges the workingmen to organize and redress their grievances at the ballot box. It is thought that over 3,000,000 tons of iron ore will be shipped from Lake Superior ports this season. New York clergymen have inaugurated a movement to suppress Mormon immigration into this country. G. W. Badgerow of Toronto is elected supreme master workman of the supreme lodge, A. U. U. W. The Minneapolis-St, Paul exhibition ball game was won by the latter ly a score of 2 to 1 in seven innings. The statute of Daniel Webster, the gift of B. P. Cheney of Boston to New Hampshire, is dedicated at Concord. The Ohio supreme court rendered a decise ion which In-effect establishes the legality of the state S nate as reorganize 1 by the R publicans after the departure of Democratic senators.