The Monticellonian., 1894-11-09
CURR FIN T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| son springs, Va, on the 29th, foI poisoning his wife in Kentucky A Kentucky officer caught Sharp as he was going to a mill with a turn of corn Sharp had walked all the way from Kentucky to Goochland, where he had formerly lived.
 TIE town of Rising Sun. O., was totally destroyed by fire on the 99t h Rising Sun has a population of l ,50C and is the center of the oil operations in northwestern Ohio. The loss can not exceed S5O,OOO
 l BILL CooK, the leader of the Mis- souri Pacific train robbers, sent mes sage, on the 30th, to Marshal Grump, of Fort Smith, Ark, that he was after his deputy marshals, only two hours behind them and expected to overhaul them soon.
 THREE men were killed in a wreck on the Beech Creek railroad near Clear field. Pa. on the 29th, an examination of whose effects showed them to be a gang of burglars. They were other wise unknown
 TIE Zambesi, formerly Northern | Pacific steamer, but recently pur- l chased by some wealthy Japanese, ran 1 into the Japanese war ship Tsubulx an in Kobe harbor last month and sunk her.
 TIE president has appointed James r. Niilett, of Washington, postmaster of that city, to succeed Henry :Sher- wood, whose commission has expired
 A NEW petroleum wells has been 1 taf ai 2alr Al depth of seventy fathoms, which dis charges 3,200 tons daily.
 THIRTEEN battalions of Hunanese troops left Han. kow. on the 30th, for Chin kiang, whence they will proceed overland to Peking.
 Ar Fredericksburg Va, Charles Searcy, the alleged Aquia Creek fVa. train robber, was taken before Judge Fitzhugh for preliminary examination on the 30th. On the warrant being read, Searey waived examination. The ease was sent to the grand jury and Searey was re-eommitted to iail
 Col. JACQUES, the London agent of the American claimants of the Townley | estates, who Is in custody on charges of fraud, was again arraigned in the Bow-street police court on the 31st, and fully committed for trial.
 TIE members of the diplomatic corps in Baenes Ayres representing the for eign monarchies have agreed not to at tend the festivities of the 10th, the an niversary of the establishment of the Argentine republic.
 Two DYNAMITE bombs, filed with scrap iron, were exploded outside of two of the police stations in Milan, Italy on the S0th. The fronts of the buildings were wrecked, but, fortunate ly, no one was hurt.
 SEVEN persons were asphyxiated and another fatally injured by jumping as the result of fire in New York tenement on the 30th.
 THE emperor of China has summoned the vieeroys, governors and other of fcials before him to learn why a small country like Japan cannot be exter- minated.
 FIFTEEN inmates of an insane asylum at Doenkoeping, Sweden, were ere mated in the burning of the institu- tion on the 3lst.
 TIE British steamer Tormes foun- dered off Pembroke, Wales, on the 80th, and fourteen of her crew were drowned.
 ON the lst President Cleveland issued his annual thanksgiving proclamation.
 IN his annual report to the secretary of war Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance, makes strong point on the insuffi- ciency of the appropriations for arm. ing and equipping the militia. He says there is an urgent demand from most states to have their arms changed for a later and better model.
 Two ROBBERS broke into Polish resi- denee at Mahanoy City, Pa, early on the morning of the 31st, and were at tackled by two boarders, John Frank and Joseph Breniski The robbers drew revolvers and commenced firing Frank was shot through the left breast and mortally wounded. Breniski was shot in the leg.
 MAJ. CLINT MCCIARrY died at Louis vile, Ky, on the 31st, aged 63 years. Maj, MeGlarty was the founder of the Louisville clearinghouse, and was one of the best-known men in the financial circles of Kentucky. He served in the confederate army as a soldier in the famous Orphan brigade.
 FIRE in the shops of the Newbury- port (Mass.l car factory, on the 31st destroyed the large wooden structure The flames communicated with the large five-story wooden shoe factory of Burly X Usher and it was burned Several frame dwellings were also burned, The loss will proba bly, ex- ceed Ss0. 900.
 A SERIOUS epidemic, pronounced by the physicians to be continual ma larial fever" has broken out among the students of Wesleyan university, Mid dleton, Conn. Several students have been sent to their homes, and one case has developed into typhoid fever.
 PRESTON WEST, 94 years old, died, on the 3ist, at his home in Charleston Ind. He ranked as one of the best known turfmen in the country, and was the father of o. O. West, Sr., also we'll known in turf circles. Mr. West was a Kentuckian.
 AN official examination shows that the Parthenon at Athens was seriously damaged by the earthquakes that oe- cured last spring. The structure is reported to be in d dangerous condi- tion. Measures to restore it will be taken immediately.
 A NOTICE Was posted in the Lehigh Valley shops, at West Chester, Pa, on the 3lst, informing the men that. com mencing November 1, a reduction of 20 per cent. in their wages would be made L. j.. Ina thi ind j.,