The Monticellonian., 1894-10-19


 THE United States steamer Mohican arrived at San Francisco, on the sth, from Behring sea.
 BUFFALO COUNTY national bank of Kearney, Neb., failed to open it's doors on the I2th. The officers refused to make statement
 TwENTy-s,v of the nest of thirty boilers at the Henry Clay colliery, Sha- mollin, Pa, blew up, on the 11th, and three men were reported killed.
 A DISPATCH received from Shanghai, on the sth, says a rebellion hod broken ont at Jehol, the seat of celebrated imperial palace, Ie0 miles from Pellin. On the 10th a detachment of Japan ese cavalry and infantry made an at tack upon and routed q force of 2,090 Chinese at Wei-Ju and captured the place.
 FAILvREs in the United States dur inc the week ended the l2th were 231, against 2Q3 for tine corresponding week of last year, and 43 in Canada, against 42 Inst year.
 HENRY, Earl Grey. K. C., c. c. Nj. u, died in London on the 9th. He was born in 1902 and succeeded to the peer age in l6i5. lis successor ia Albert II. C. Grey, horn in 1881.
 ON account of prior engagements, Gov. Mckinley will not be able to ac- cept the invitation of the sugar plant ers of Louisiana to speak in that state during Inc present campaign.
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 TIE returns 10 the statistical division of the department of agriculture for the month of October make cotton show decline of B. points from the Septem bcr condNion, which was 85.9.
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 BANDITS held up q Southern Pacific overland train d few miles west of Sacramento, Cal, aa the night of the 1tth, and footed the Wells-FarPo Co. s express ear, securing over S50, 900.
 1IE agricultural department has le- ceived from lose ph Nattes. Jr-, one of its representatives in Europe, a letter slowing a satisfactory increase in the use of American corn in Germany.
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 TIE Cologne Gazette of the 1lth as- serts that the European powers have agreed upon a Gesean policy, and de cided not to tai1c any action hindering the Japanese advance upon Pekin
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 \ NoRrH-BoUSD passenger train on the Richmond, fredericksburg x Poto- mae railroad was held mp near Quin- tico Va. on the 12th, by seven masked men, who robbed the expresss car of sl5o GOO
 sfHE Ohio Presbyterian synod, in ses- sion at Columbus. on the tlth, adopted 2 resolution urging congress topass the Iloar bin prohibiting express eompa- nieS arom handling the business of lot tera companies.
 Inn Mule Spinners' association at Tail River. Mass, voted. on the 12th, toaecept the manufacturers proposi tiou. and, this, fl was believed would break She strike of the 21, GOO opera lives m that city.
 
 CAPT ROBERT C. ANDREWS, one of the most noted pedestrians in the country, died at the are of lh2 in Sumter. x. C., zoa the night of the 10th. He was a sol dicr in the Mexican war and in the svar of the rebellion
 TnE convention of the Brotherhood of St Andrew commenced in Washing .:4 t meeting Every state in the Union and Canada and scotland were repre- #st5aed Chief Justice Fuller presided. FoRa month or more from one to three residents of Oklahoma territory have hoan arrested daily -en the charge of D riury in land cases. On the 11th fully 200 indictments were pending in . nited States court, and about fifty persons had been sentenced to the pen itentiary, all for the same crime.
 TIE Japanese government has de cidcd to raise an internal war loan of Hlu a00 0o0, which, together with the new taxation for war purposes, will hin@ the resources of the government IT, to ce6 000000 \ minority in the cabinet favored a foreign loan. owing to the lateness of the last internal loan
 Ir was reported in St. Petersburg, on the ath, that if the ear decided, as it NIL fully expected he would, upon a form of regency during his absence from Russia the czarowitz will not be appointed regent. but will be intrust- ed oy special declaration of the ezar with the direction of state af- fairs.
 THG largest score ever made by a United States cavalryman was record ea on she i1th. in the army shoot at Fala Sheridan, Sergt.. Charles kars- ton. ~D' troop, First cavalry, made the remarkable score of r points out of a possible 90 on the 5O0-yards range. Narsten shot with the regular army carbiue
 'FHE eighteenth annual convention of the American Humane association net in Evansville, Ind, on the 10th, wit, about l50 delegates, men and women. n attendance. The report of the secretary showed 3,491 prosecu- tons for brutality, a7,0oo children res
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