The Monticellonian., 1894-10-19
CURRENT T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AT cabinet council in Paris, on the 9th, the plans for cable from Rrest to New York and another from iayti to New York were examined
 MRS. CeRBIN, wife of Col. II. c. Cor bin, of Ohio assistant adjutant-general of the army, died at her home in Wash ington city on the 9th. She had been ill for several months.
 TIE suit of Mrs Martha Jones, of Pittsburgh, Pa, to recover g, ,00o from the Fidelity Mutual Life association on a policy on the life of her husband, was brought to remarkable and ab- rupt termination on the 9th The de- fense produced in court deposition and photograph of the supposedly dead man, showing that he is now living in England. Jones disappeared ih Beeem- ber 1889,
 TIE London mint has struck q new British dollar which resembles the Japanese yen in size, weight and fine ness. The coin is expected to circulate largely in Singapore and Japan. It will be mainly coined by the Bombay mint, which has agreed to charge l per cent mintage, instead of per cent, charged for rupees.
 THE North German Gazette com ments ironically upon the opinion of the American minister at Pellin who advises the removal of the wives and children of foreigners from Pekin to Shanghai, in view of the probable Japanese attack upon the Chinese capi- tai. The paper says that the minister has no means of learning of the Japa- nese movements.
 ANOTHER battle has taken place in the orient the Japanese having, on the 9th, run the gauntlet of the Chinese fort on the shan Tung promontory and captured Che-Foo, a treaty port on the Yellow sea. Foo-Chow, another treaty port, 700 miles south, is threatened
 JENNIE. a 2-year-old daughter of Con dueter=L Lamaster, of the Missouri Pa cific railroad was burned to death, on the 9th, at a farmhouse 12 miles south of 0lathe, kas., where Lamaster's chil- dren live with their grandmother. The child was playing with the fire in the kitchen stove. when its clothes caught.
 INVESTIGATION by the police has re- vealed the terrible fact that forty old soldiers have been robbed and mur- dered at the national military home at Dayton, O. and only passing notice taken of the crimes. The grand army 1 has taken the matter in hand.
 GEORGE LAHORE, an acrobat, fell a distance of forty feet during a per i formance in Chicago on the 9th. His right leg was broken in several places, and it was thought it might be Reces- sary to amputate it to save his life.
 Miss FRANCES F. WILLARD. worlds president of the W. (. T. T., who went to Cincinnati to address the Ohio state convention, was reported seriously i'll in that city on the 10th. Lady Somer- set was with her.
 PRoF. LEYDEN, of Berlin. was again summoned by wire to attend the czar. and started for Livadia, on the 10th, to remain some time.
 TIE treasury department is prepar- ing custom regulations to govern the entry of exhibits for the Atlanta tia.1 exposition.
 ON the 10th the Hungarian house of magnates passed the third reading of the bill providing for civil marriages.
 SIR JoHN DUGDALE ASHLEY. baronet, Alit Ntit- II 'l lSiIdil iilCtl III i4DIl- don on the 10th.
 Ar 12:$0 o'clock on the morning of the 1th. burglars blew open the safe i in the New Lexington (0) post office and secured $500 in money and stamps. | The explosion knocked out the whole front of the building and awakened the entire populace, but the burglars made their escape.
 A GREAT temperance meeting was held in the Auditorium in Chicago, on the night of the 10th, to give voice to the opposition of the holy see to the saloon.
 ONE man was killed and six men and one woman were badly burned or in l jured by jumping and dropping from the windows of a four-story wooden tenement house which was burned in Boston on the 1lth.
 IN the United States circuit court at Omaha, Neb. on the 11th, Judge Wool son decided that the receivers may not cut the salaries of the employees of the Omaha & St. Louis (Wahashl road.
 N. D. SMITH, an cmploye of the bu- reau of engraving and printing, was arrested in Washington. on the l1th, charged with stealing 50,000 two-cent stamps from the bureau.
 TIE Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad was sold in Minneapolis, Minn.. on the 11th, at sheriff's sale, and purchased for the stockholders committee for s, ,000 600 cash.
 PRINCESS MARIE. wife of Prince Fer dinand of Bulgaria, gave birth to | daughter on the 1lth.
 THE ameer of Afghanistan was re- ported, on the 11th, to be very ill..
 FOUR earthquake shocks were felt at Athens Greece, on the night of the | 11th.
 JULIUS LdCHTENBERG,a a member of the | board of education of Detroit, Mich, | charged with accepting a bribe, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide on | the l1th
 Two MEN were burned to death and one probably fatally injured, on the f1th, by the burning of barn near 1 Fort Recovery, O., which was fired by spark from threshing machine engine.
 FoR the first time the naval con struetors have undertaken to build small torpedo boats to be carried on l the decks of the battleshipS Maine and