The Monticellonian., 1894-10-05


 ished, and with its present force will be known hereafter as the income tax division.
 A WARRANT was issued in Milwau- lSee, on the 18th. for the arrest of Presi- dent Fred T. Dat of the Plankinton bank for receiving deposits after he knew the bank was insolvent,
 
 TIE foreign office of the British ad- miralty reccivel information from China, on the 27h that Europeans in that country are ir great danger of as sault ethe hands of the Chinese. THE United Stat es army is being con centrated near the great railway cen kefers, AcJbe.raadyfer prompt use in ease of intes weak CTS in the thiekly- poPulat> of the country.
 TIE Pacific Mail Steamship Co. has reduced the rate ol canned meats from San Francisco to China and Japan from - SIP to 8 per ton in order to divert traffic from the Canadian Pacific line Of steamers.
 TIE canalboat men of Buffalo, N Y, have determined to fight the Ele vator association, md tcsthat end will form an independent association and operate two fioatiI 2 elevators on their own account.
 IT has been suggested in Managua that the Nicaraguan government sell part of the Mosquito coast to the Brit ish, and with the proceeds pay the claims of Anne ici ms whose property was taken at Blue fields.
 IT is reportedH that a very unsettled state If things ex sts throughout the of Venezueia. Business is greatly depressed causing scarcity of Aaoney and much uffering among the oorer classes of people.
 IN the constitutional convention at -.lbany, N, r.. or the 2Sth, the new constitution, asHrev vised by the conven- fion, was adopted oy vote of 95 to 45, a strict party vote, except that three republicans voted with the democrats in the negative.
 WHISKY exported from the United States under the Mckinley tariff and imported under tlIe same law. placed in bonded warehouse but not with drawn until after the new tariff act took effect, will have to pay duty at the new rate of s1 10 per gallon.
 ON the 25th Limited States Secret Service Detective John Manley caused the arrest of Perry C. Daniels, of Marion, O., asan accomplice of Hardin, the Delaware co. nterfeiter. Daniels protested his innocence but could not explain small fir d of spurious coin in hIs house.
 - A1easni rrstsss4l .--s-zIG repeated declina- tions and positive refusals to allow his name to be used before the convention -. Saratoga on the 26th, Senator Da- vid B. Hill was unanimously nomi- natcd for governor of New York amid scenes of enthusiasm described as rivaling pandemonum.
 ". J. LITTLEJoHN, of Chicago, on the 26th declared 9e4at A'r Fire Under writeTr assoeia tion~ that the recent )orcst fires had been started by lumber kings, who had taken that method, he said, ofcovering mp their stealings, and to them was directly due the death and destruction which followed.
 UPoN the certificate of the examin- ing board Secretary Herbert, on the a7th, forwarded to President Cleye- land recommendation that Com mander William A. Morgan and Chief Engineer Henry W. Fitch be placed on the retired list on account of disa- bilitics incurred in the line of duty.
 CAPT HENRY w. HowGATE, formerly chief signal officer, and a fugitive from justice since the winter of 1882 was ar rested, on the 97th, in New York city, oharged with embezzlements and for geries aggregating S37O, oO0 He was committed to Budlow-street jail by United States Commissioner Alexan- der.
 EVERY gambling house in the city of St Joseph, Mo. was closed, on the a6th, by order of the police commis- soners, acting on suggestion made by Gov. Stone. Iii given out officially that the gambling houses will not be allowed to run in that city again, and that Gov. Stone is determined to close every gambling house in the state.
 TIE Shanghai Mercury says it is ru- mored in Pekin that the emperor, hav- ing expressed his desire to personally i take charge of the operations in Corea and to leave the throne under the re- IVY of the empress dowager, his hear
 knocked their foreheads and prayed
 majesty not to let his anger drive
 so far as to engage with so paltry
 nemy, but to let his officers drive
 the barbarians.
 .LLow FEVER is epidemic through
 the republic of Salvador and the
 ftality is very great. The disease is
 ticularly fatal to foreigners, taking
 ID. off inside of twentyfour hours.
 ong the first victims was American
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