The Monticellonian., 1894-10-12

awakened at night by strangers, but refused to open the door. The men fired d volley through the door and then broke it in with axes and attacked Brown and his wife. The couple fought pluekily and Brown was badly hurt, her hnspand bound and gagged and the house robbed of $500.
 JUDGE GAYNOR, of New York, has de clined the nomination 1T judge of the court of appeals.
 FIRE started in the basement of the furniture store of Kccnan X Jahn at Detroit, Mich, on the 5th and the five story building was soon destroyed, some of the employees barely escaping. While the firemen were working on the structure a wall fell and five firemen and a spectator were crushed to death and another man so badly injured that he will die. Eight others were also hurt. The loss on building and stock was SS0. 600; fully insured.
 FORTY residents of Nora and Rush, H., were poisoned by eating pressed chicken at d social gathering recently. Some of the party were rendered un- conscious shortly after partalling of the supper and were not reused for several hours. The recovery of one of the sick ones was doubtful
 TIE body of John Dorsey. the col orea prizefghter known as the Balti- more Spider. was found floating in the East river, New York He fell off an excursion barge.
 NEWS has reached here from Erze- roum Armenia, that the people of Sas- sun have attacked the Kurash and Turk ish soldiery and killed and wounded over 300 of them The Turkish troops were said to be in a pitiable condition and their sufferings were greatly en- hanced by the severity of the weather.
 EHENEzER NJ. BYERs q wealthy iron merchant, was declared a lunatic at Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 4th. His wife has spent the last two years searching for and trying to regain possession of him. charging that he was being kept from her by his brother, A. NJ Byers. Experts on insanity testified that he had no lucid intervals and that his mental recovery was impossible. Mrs. Byers will now go into court and ask to be made trustee of her husbands person and property
 JIM and Marion Crutehfeld. broth CTS, and Will Mitchell, all colored. en- gagged in deadly battle near Parvin post office Tex. The trouble arose over q horse. Jim Grutchfeld was killed outright, hut his brother before dying managel to draw his pistol and shoot Mitchell through the breast. The lat ter will undoubtedly die
 WHAT will in all probability result in the biggest strike of textile workers Pawtuel1et. R. l., has ever had has been inaugurated by 250 weavers leaving their looms at the Lorraine mills on the 2d as protest against a reduction in wages. Thirteen hundred are in- yolved
 RETERNs from 100 towns of Connecti- cut show large gains for the repub- licans in the town elections on the lst
 \ DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the Bushy Mountain railroad 16 miles from Hartman, Tenn, in which several con- viet guards and eonvicts were injured, some of whom may die The accident was caused by landslide at the end of short curve One of the convicts, who had about twenty years to serve, secured one of the guards guns and guarded the other prisoners. keeping them from escaping while the wreck was being cleared.
 lN the great stallion race at Port land, Me. between Nelson and Di- reetum the latter won in three straight heats. Time of heats; 2:101@, 2:13i?, and 9:o8l4.
 TIE first regular session of the twen- ty-ninth annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee convened at Council Bluffs, la, on the 3d, with about ll0 delegates present Gen. Dodge pre- sided. In the afternoon he held re- ception.
 DUDLEY MILLER, of Oswego, reporter for the Horse World, of Buffalo and the Syracuse Post, was seriously if not fatally injured while on his way to the Kirk park races at Syracuse, N. r., on a trolley car. Miller was one of forty of crowded open car and did not see a closed car coming up the other track toward him. He was knocked off and crushed between the two cars
 NEAR Mount Vernon, H., James Scott, a farmer, attacked Littleton IIulett, an itinerant Methodist minjse ter for being camped on his farm and a hand to hand conflict was waged- Hulett was shot twice dying instantly, but he first inflicted wounds on Scott with club from which he soon died
 GREAT droves of hogs were taken in- to Colorado from the portions of Ne- braka where the crops have failed and hog cholera has broken out in several localities. Having no funds to estah- fish a quarantine against Nebrasllu hogs the state veterinary board has is- sued notice advising importers to iso- late such animals for sixty days.
 A SPECIAL cabinet council has been called for the lth in London and many ministers who are absent from London have been hurriedly summoned by tele- graph. Sudden developments regarti- ing the relations between Great Britain and France were thought to be the reason for the call.
 TIE Farmers national congress met for four days session at Parkers- burg, W. Va, on the 2d.
 PREPARATIONS are being made in h. dia to concentrate English and Indian troops in readiness to proceed to China to take action in the event that for eigners are massacred in that country, as now seems probable.
 THE hat factory of Jones X Nuen- berg at New York was destroyed by fire on the lst It was the largest fac tory of it's kind in America. Loss, about S74 ,000. Cause of fire not known.