The Monticellonian., 1894-10-05
CURR FIN T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| dangerous symptoms.
 A MURDER shrouded in mystery was | committed in the very heart of Cleve- land, G., some time during the night of the 24th. James E. Caven, general freight agent of the Valley railroad (B. X O., was shot and killed by some un- known assassin. Five bullets pierced his body, and when found shortly after he was dead
 TIE charge of forgery against Caro- line Ellsworth, daughter of the Mill waukee millionaire, Isaac Ellsworth, was nolle pressed in Chicago on the 25th. Miss Ellsworth was charged by several Chicago merchants with ob- taining goods by forged checks. The case is said to have been settled out side of court by the girls father.
 TIE Brazilian government has given notice that the reciprocity treaty be- tween the United States and Brazil will be abrogatcd by Brazil on Janu- ary next. It is expected that the ex- ample of Brazil in withdrawing fpom the reciprocity treaty with the United States will be followed by all the other countries having similar treaties.
 SAMUEL l.. MORSE, United States con sul-gcneral at Paris, has sent to the state department an abstract of the official report on the wheat crop in France for 1891 It is estimated by the French statisticians, says Mr Morse. that the crops of 1894 throughout the world will be B per cent. in excess of the worlds demands for consumption and seed.
 IT is reported from Tahiti that Count Festich de Tolna. who, with his bride, sailed from San Francisco in October. last year, in q trading vessel bound for the South seas, is dead. The countess is the daughter of J. E. Haggin, of San Francisco
 TIE American Sugar Refining Co. Sugar trust issued orders, on the 25th, for the closing down of one-half of the refneries under its control. It is said the trust purposes to curtail produc- tion and put up prices.
 MRS. REBEcCA A. CARNEY, widow of Thomas Carney, second governor of Kansas, died at her home in Heaven- worth, on the 25th, of cancer. She was 66 years old and removed to Leaven- worth from Ohio in 1860.
 JUDGE GREEK, of Pekin. H.. on the 26th, oyerfuled the motion for change of venue in the case of the Little mine rioters, and gave notice to the defense to prepare for trial. These are the cases in which John Geher, an ex- member of the Illinois legislature. led mob which committed the murder and destroyed the coal mine near Peoria.
 TIE steamer Ohio, down bound, col lided with the schooner Ironton, up bound, in tow of the steamer Kershaw, 10 miles north of Presque Isle, Lake Huron, at l9:30 a. m, on the 26th. and both boats sank in half an hour Seven members of the crew of the Ironton were missing.
 TIE stable of Daniel Moody, in Phil adelphia, was burned, on the 96th, and twenty horses perished in the flames. Five dwellings in the rear of the stable were badly damaged, the occupants escaping in their night clothes.
 
 Underwood's courtroom, at l2S Clark street, Chicago, was broken into, shortly before midnight of the 18th, and a load of condemned gambling tools, obtained in raid on No, II Quincy street week before. was re- moved
 HUGH RoANE. son of the late John Seldon Roane, ex-governor of ArIan- sas, a brakeman on the Cotton Belt railroad was run over by a switch en- zine at Bucl1ner, Ark, on the night of the 25th, and fearfully mangled.
 D. C. CALDWELL, prominent lu mber dealer of Frankfort, Ind. was arrest. ed, on the 26th, by Maj Carter, of the United States secret service, to answer the charge of counterfeiting The ar rest of Caldwell created a big sensation at Frankfort, where his standing has been first class.
 WITHIN two months, when more horses shall have been inoculated, the Pasteur institute at Paris will send out an anti-diphtheria serum to the prov inces. This serum will also be sup piled to druggists in the form of pow der.
 FRED LAMoNTE, the well-known cir GUS clown travelling with Robinson's show, is lying at the point of death in the house of John Robinson, at Ter race Park, near Cincinnati, from in- juries received at the hands of robber on the night of the 18th.
 GRAVE robbers have been operating in the cemeteries near Union Hill, N. |. On the night of the 25th two vaults were found to have been opened in Grove Church cemetery and the bodies The authorities are investi- gating.
 MRS. MINNIE UTz, on the 26th, at Fargo, N. D., secured a legal separa- tion from H. J. Utz, the millionaire shoe manufacturer of Rochester, N Y. She was granted Sl0,OO0 alimony and the custody of their child.
 ON the 27th Judge McAdam, of the superior court of New York, confirmed the report of Referee Edward Jacobs granting a divorce in favor of Kuehne Beveridge Coghlan in her suit against Actor Charles F. Coghlan. It is the usual form of decree, permitting the plaintiff to marry again, but interdict- ing Mir Coghlan from remarrying.
 MANDAMUs proceedings were begun in Indianapolis, Ind, on the 27th, to the school board to permit the colored child of Benjamin Thornton to attend the public school in Thornton's district. The officials had expelled the child and were attempting to force her to attend a colored school some dis |