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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. For the Week Ending Feb. 25. The business portion of De Kalb, Tex., was destroyed by fire. Mrs. James Lynett (colored) died in Milton, N. Y., aged 103 years. Every gambling house in Youngstown, O., was raided by the police. The Illinois republican state convention will be held in Springfield on June 14. The new wharf at Tampico, Mexico, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $2,000,000. James Vincent Cleary, archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Kingston, Ont., is dead. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted and other damage done by a tornado in Honolulu. A marble bust of the late Charles Robinson, first governor of Kansas, was unveiled at Lawrence. The cotton mill strikers at New Bedford, Mass., have issued an appeal for aid to continue their fight. In Fairfield county, S. C., 70 houses were destroyed by forest fires and seven women were burned to death. The Bank of Southern Baltimore at Baltimore, Md., went into a receiver's hands with liabilities of $170,000. The president has signed the resolution passed by congress appropriating $200,000 for the raising of the Maine. The Chamber of Commerce building in Duluth, Minn., was partially destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. Jacob Dillenburg, 61 years old, and his wife, Annie, aged 73, were asphyxiated by gas at their home in New York. Asa B. Stow, one of the pioneer circus proprietors of the country, died suddenly in Middletown, Conn., aged 73 years. Richard Allen and Tom Holmes were lynched at Mayfield, Ky. Allen robbed a house and Holmes killed his wife six months ago. The planing mill of the A. M. Stevens Lumber company and 20 dwellings were burned at Dyersburg, Tenn., causing a loss of $200,000. Family troubles caused a duel between Dr. J. H. Hartzell and W.K. Elliott at Little Rock, Ark., and both were fatally shot. Willim J. Scanlan, the famous Irish comedian and song writer, died in the Bloomingdale asylum in White Plains, N. Y., aged 42 years. A special train on the Erie railroad ran from Salamanca, N. Y., to Newburg, O., a distance of 220 miles, in 208 minutes, making a new record. Thomas Ford, who cut the throat of his brother-in-law, escaped from jail at Mascot, Neb., and killed four men before he could be overpowered. Gov. Stephens has appointed William C. Marshall, city councilor of St. Louis, to the Missouri supreme bench to succeed Justice McFarland, deceased. Mrs. Daniel Manning, of New York, was elected president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the annual meeting in Washington. Ignatius Donnelly, the Baconian cryptogramist, was married in Minneapolis to Miss Olive Mary Hanson, aged 22, who was formerly Mr. Donnelly's stenographer. Austin Gollaher, who was the boyhood companion of Abraham Lincoln and at one time saved Lincoln from drowning, died in Hodgenville, Ky. aged 93 years.