The Monticellonian., 1894-11-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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 MIKE KELLY, the baseball player, died at the Emergency hospital in Boston on the sth. He arrived in Bos- ton on the 9th, to join the London Gaiety Girls theatrical company, and was taken sick that morning with pneumonia.
 THE house special committee, Rep resentatives Bailey, of Texas; Lane, of Illinois, and Frederick, of Kansas, appointed to investigate the charge of malfeasance in office against Judge Kicks, of Cleveland, O., will meet in that city, on the 18th, to begin their work.
 TIE origin of the fire in the box fac tory of the Hammond packing house at South Omaha, Neb., has been discov- cred. Emory Coulson, q night watch man, was arrested, on the 9th, and confessed that he set fire to the build ing that he might see a fire, he never before having seen large one.
 TIE Chinese troops in Manchuria are robbing the natives and committing horrible atrocities wherever they pass The Japanese, on the other hand, are treating the Chinese well, and are, con sequently, received with open arms by the natives, who are furnishing them with supplies of various kinds.
 MR. GLADsToNE's "Horace's Odes" were published on the 9th.
 EDITH MASTERS, of Auburn, Ind. 1 lat af were fatally burned, on the 9th, by flames caused by an explosion in the basement of the Westminster female seminary at Fort Wayne, Ind. Lille l Ander, of Logan, Ind, was also severe 1 ly burned.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai. dated the 9th, says: All the foreigners re- siding in Port Arthur have arrived at l Che-Foo An attack is now being made on Port Arthur by the Japanese torpedo boats, and it is expected that Talien Wan will be attacked during the day"
 TIE trial at Charleston, w. Va, of Benjamin Clendenin, charged with kill ing Dr. J. G. Davis, near Montgomery, W. Va, August s, ended, on the 9th, in his conviction of murder in the first de- gree.
 TIE body of man was found hang ing to a tree near Roscoe, Mo, on the 5th. It is supposed he was hanged by mob There had recently been many thefts in that region. TIE eighth fire in twenty-four hours among the cotton ships at Savannah, Ga, broke out at o'clock on the morn ing of the 26th, on the steamship Nhitefeld, lying besides the Dale garth, burned the previous night. The flames were quickly subdued.
 SECRETARY CARLISLE has instructed the collector of customs at Port Town send Wash, that certificates of regis tration issued to Chinese should be taken up by the collector when such Chinese leave this country. This is necessary te prevent the certificates from being turned over to Chinese un- lawfully entering the United States.
 A DISPATCH from Tamatave, Mada- gasear, dated November 3, says that the llova government has refused to grant the demands of the government of France. M. Lempre de Villers, the special French envoy to Madagascar, and all the French residents of An tenanarivo, have arrived at Tamatave from the capital of Madagascar.
 HERMAN SCHUHBAeKER, of Hobart. Ind, while hunting, on the 9th, shot himself. His dogs were fighting, and he struck at them with his loaded gun. Both barrels were discharged into his abdomen and he died in few minutes
 MRS. JULIE WRIGHT, of Annapolis, Md, aged 75, was burned to death in the flames which destroyed her home early on the morning of the 9th.
 TIE Rex flour mill, at Kansas City, Mo, was completely destroyed by fire on the night of the 9th. Loss, S250, GOO; about two-thirds covered by insurance The mill was owned by J. B. M Koch Ter, of St. Louis.
 THE tug Crusader was destroyed by fire at her dock at Sault Ste Marie. Mich, early on the morning of the 6th Bremen Henry Billings, of that city, and Charles Williams, of Port Huron, who were sleeping on the tug, were burned to death.
 NEAR Curtiss, in the Cherokee strip. the bodies of James McGuin and Fred Ward were found, on the 9th, one shot, the other stabbed to death. It is be- lieved they were murdered by parties who wanted to secure their claims. o. r. Jewell, farmer, has been arrested charged with the murder, and warrants issued for several other men.
 FOR years the granting of special passports to persons going abroad has been abused to such an extent, and so many people have procured them, that the state department has issued per emptory orders to refuse them here after, except upon the special order of the secretary.
 ANOTHER smallpox case was reported on the 9th. The victim is a school boy, Herbert Burger, son of war depart ment clerk. Two of the patients at the smallpox hospital died on the 6th They were James Brown and Samuel Mundel, both colored domestics.
 NEWS comes of the lynching near Blackford, Crittenden county, Ky. by whitecapS, of Gabe N olla and his son Ulysses. They were charged with burn ing houses, together with Berry Rich. who was lynched recently, and also for other crimes.
 JOHN F. O'MALLEY, an Illinois state senator from Chicago, who was de feated for reelection, was drinking with two companions in North Clark street saloon, on the 7th, when the bar tender entered their private room to collect for drinks OMalley took this for an insult and fired d bullet through | the bartender's arm Charles shepard