The Monticellonian., 1894-12-14

Two MILES south of Frankfort, Ind, on athe 9th, Jennie, the 5-year-old daughter of Frank Groves was burned to death before her motter's eyes. The child's froclS took fire from an open grate.
 UIySay GooDLoE, student of Cen tral university, at Richmond, Ky, died on the 5th, of injuries sustained while playing football. He was son of State Senator john D. Goodi,.o.
 TIE appropriations committee of the house, on the 9th, received from the treasury department estimates for the urgency deficiency bill, aggregating S2, TOO GOO, which includes tic amount required to collect the income tax. The committee will go to work on the bill as soon as possible
 TIE British steamer Dorian, from New York for Halifax, while passing down Long Island sound, on the night of the 5th ran into the schooner Clara Simpson and sent her to the bottom. There were six men on the schooner, of which number the mate, the cook and seaman were lost.
 WHILE A. l.. Johnson was hauling load of nitro-glycerine from Belmont to Archcr's Fork, ". Va, on the 9th, the team ran away. An explosion fol. lowed which was heard 40 miles away. All that was found of the outfit was horse-collar and hole in the ground.
 Mss ELLA HAYNES, of Biddeford, Me, has brought suit against the estate of the late Luther Bryant, the Biddeford millionaire, for S9G0, GOO. She sues to recover tin box containing S950, 00a in government bonds and stocks. which she alleges Mr. Bryant gave her before he died, but which she was compelled to give up by the executors of the estate after the millionaire died.
 WHILE Maria Gett, a 'negro maiden. was being baptized in 0livet Baptist church at Pottsville, Pa, on the even ing of the 4th, the false bottom of the i baptistry gave way, and the convert, l the pastor in charge, Rev. T. \. T. l Hanna, and a deacon were submerged. All were taken out of the water unin- l jured, and the services were continued. THREE masked desperadoes held up q train on the Texas X Pacific railroad, Smiles west of Fort Worth, Tex. on the evening of the 9th. and robbed the ex- press car of money, gold bullion and checks to an amount said to have been no less than $40 coo. They then or dercd the engineer to move on and leisurely rode off. Armed posses were soon after organized in Fort Worth and sent in all directions in pursuit.
 Mss CELIA FOWLER, of Detroit. threw herself in front of a passenger train miles south of Richmond, Mich, on the 9th, and was instantly killed. She is supposed to have been temporarily in sane.
 19oR November the Northern Pacific railroad earned S1,s15, 247, an increase of S79.0l7.
 TIE treasury balance, on the eth. stood at S154,737Oo0, of which s1o9. 7oo.- GOO was in gold.
 AN extensive strike was inaugurated by the silk weavers of Lyons. France, most of whom left their work on the 9th
 THE Chinese at Port Arthur make presents to the Japanese who recently captured that place and give dramatic performances for the entertainment of the visitors.
 CoUNT FERDINAND DE LEssEPs died at Laehenaie in the department L,Indre, France, on the 7th. He was taken i'll just before the Panama canal expo sure, and for months had been at the door of death.
 GEN. EIEAKGM PARKER SCAMaToS died of cancer of the stomach at the resi- dence of his daughter Mrs. \. <. Jones, in Audubon park, New York city, on