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NEWS ITEMS. The daily output of the oil field at Sisterville, W. Va., now reaches 11,000 barrels. New York aldermen are talking of changing the name of the Bowery to South Third avenue. A protest is going up. Harry Smootz, condemned to hang at Charleston, W. Va., for murdering his sweetheart, committed suicide in prison with morphine. The London Telegraph states that Alfred Rothschild will be one of the English delegates to the International Monetary conference. Samuel M. Clement, president of the Marine bank, of Buffalo, N. Y., was stricken with paralysis. The stroke will probably prove fatal. The porte has revived the question of closing the American mission schools in the Turkish dominion unless they are controlled by Turkish officials. Silver aggregating 512,500 ounces was offered for sale to the treasury department Friday, and of this amount 337,500 ounces were purchased at .8378@.8380. The delegates of the socialist labor, New York city, placed in the field a full municipal ticket. Alexander Jonas, editor of the Volks Zeitung, is their candidate for mayor. Charles Stevens, a well-known young printer and man about town, committed suicide at his home in South Frankfort, Ky., Thursday afternoon. Stevens was addicted to drink. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Thursday decided to hold the next annual meeting in Milwaukee. The vote was as follows: Milwaukee, 101; Chattanooga, Tenn., 55. At St. Petersburg, Pa., the opera house was struck by lightning. The flames soon communicated to other buildings, and the entire business portion of the town was wiped out. The Richmond (Me.) Savings bank has suspended because of large withdrawals of deposits caused by the bank passing the July dividend. The officials say the depositors will lose little. A disease, something like the flux, has been at Jeffersonville, O., and in the surrounding vicinity for some time. John Collins, living near here, buried one child on Saturday and another one Thursday. The faculty of Wesleyan university, Middletown, Ct., has announced that students who failed to pass last examination and are now conditioned will not be allowed to take part in any of the athletic contests. One of the most remarkable families is that of Enos G. Ross, of Lapel, Ind. He belongs to a family of six boys and five girls, all of whom are living. The six boys fought in the civil war, and none were wounded. Hedgepath, the leader of the gang that robbed the Frisco express last December, has weakened in his fight against the authorities and will plead guilty at St. Louis and take a sentence of 20 years in the pen. It is reported at Fargo, N. D., that "Judge" Short, leader of the notorious band of cattle thieves with headquarters in the Bad Lands, has been captured and lynched by ranchmen and several of his band killed. Chief O'Connell, of Nanaimo, has arrested Charles B. Bonner, the missing bank cashier of British Columbia, who was short in his accounts $15,000. He was found at Cedar District half starved and paralyzed with fear. J. L. Hart, a San Antonio, Tex., gambler, killed his wife and then, with the same pistol, tried to kill their baby. Without waiting to see if the shot at the child took effect, he fired two bullets through his own brain. The Vienna Fremdenblatt announces that the foreign office has learned that the cholera outbreak in Bessarabia is of the most violent character, and that the disease is spreading rapidly among the soldiers and population. Wednesday morning a farmer found $150 in spurious coin along the railroad north of Tipton, Ind. It was poorly executed and had evidently been dropped from a night train. The money was in halves, quarters and dimes. John Powell, superintendent of the Veteran mine, was instantly killed Friday morning, and his wife badly injured by an explosion of powder which had been placed near the house, at Aspen, Col., outside the sleeping apartment of the couple. No reason is known for the deed. Edward Bohn, engineer of Graveson's Freestone works, Cincinnati, was cleaning a pulley over which runs an eight inch belt, Thursday morning. His head was caught between the belt and swiftly revolving wheel, and he was instantly killed. The Fifth district democrats at Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday nominated Geo. F. Richardson, of Ottawa county, for congress. Richardson is a farmer and author of the railroad tax law in the last legislature, and is also on the people's ticket for congress. The Elba Iron works, Pittsburg, resumed with colored non-union men Wednesday. Fifteen furnaces were in operation. The colored workmen are guarded by police, but no trouble has occurred. The men struck against working three "turns" a day. Abraham Harper, who went to Washington from Akron, O., to attend the G. A. R. encampment as a civilian, died at the Citizens' hospital. Mr. Harper was taken ill Monday and taken to the hospital. The physicians diagnosed his case as catarrh of the stomach. Nicholas Pope, a colored man, of No. 310 Stone alley, Columbus, O., ate nothing but cheese for dinner, and then died suddenly. He lived unhappily with his wife, and the coroner will investigate. At the meeting of the Mississippi Suffrage association at Des Moines, Ia., Thursday three babies were christened by Rev. Olympia Brown, of Wisconsin. The babies were dedicated to the cause. Frank Glover, ex-champion heavyweight pugilist of Illinois, died at Chicago Thursday morning, aged twenty-nine years. His death was caused by tuberculosis of the stomach and bowels. J. S. Hirsch, a newspaper man, was horsewhipped Wednesday by a Philadelphia actress named Lizzie Gonzales.