The Monticellonian., 1894-11-02
CURR ENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

l 6 workmen escaped from the building with the exception of Michael Rose, a 1 carpenter, and an Italian named Caroni. They were badly hurt.
 WHILE unloading a circular saw and frame on his farm near Romnev, Ind, on the s3a, Joseph Madden was caught under the falling machine. His arms and several ribs were broken, and he received internal injuries which are I likely to cause his death.
 IN the report just made by Adjt.- Gen. Ruggles, one of the most gratify- 1 ing statements is that assertions from the army have fallen off from 1i8s2, the year previous, to 1,Q7s for the eur rent year.
 l WHILE crossing the railroad tracks in carriage near Jamestown, N Y, on the night of the 23d, Alonzo Eddy, his wife and two children were struck by train. All we're killed. The horses were dashed to pieces.
 \ DISPATCH from Tien-Tsin says that the Chinese officials report that q bat tie occurred near Yi-Chow, on the 9ad, and that the Japanese were repulsed with loss of 5000 men on each side
 ON the 23d Chief Harris of the Chero- kee nation offered reward of $500 for the arrest of Bill Cock and his safe de livery to Cherokee authorities.
 TIE Big Four railway shops at Wa bash, Ind, caught fire just after mid night on the 23d, and were completely destroyed. The loss is over S1o0, 900.
 NEWS was received in London, on the 2fth, of the destruction of the schooner Helen Supposed to be a Danish vessel in the North sea, by the explosion of her cargo of g0npowder. The entire crew of the schooner pcrishcd.
 TIE big asbestos plant of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. in Cincinnati was completely destroyed by fire on the 24th. Loss, S50,00o; insurance, about s33, 900. Seventy-five employees were thrown out of work
 \ SENSATION was created in Gincin- nati, on the 24th, by the arrest of N l ". and E. ". Bozeman, the largest cigar makers in that city. for violation of the revenue laws. They were held under S5.000 bond each.
 TIE finance committee of the Span ish cortes has decided to establish q gold standard of currency for Porte Rico. The Mexican dollar will here after be used only as basis of weight for the value of silver.
 4 DISPATCH from Iivadfa, on the 25th. confirmed the report that Princess Aiix steadfastly refused to anathcma- tize her former faith in obedience td the rites of the orthodox Creek church. which requires such remuneration as a prerequisite to baptism. Even the eff forts of the ear had net been success ful in changing her determination
 TIE Hotel de Normandie. at 64 St. Gabriel street, Montreal, Can, was gutted by fire carly on the morning of the 25th. The guests had to be rescued by firemen by way of ladders. Twenty people were taken out in Il half-uneon- seieus condition.
 JACOB seHLoss. a New York photog- rapher, has begun suit in the United States circuit court against the N. b. Boyee Co.,. publishers of the Chicago Blade, for S275, ,o00 damages The Blade in recent issue, published a portrait on which Schloss has copy right, and the suit is for infringe ment.
 ON the 25th Mir Justice Jackson, oi the United States supreme court, ac eompaned by his family, left Washing ton for Thomasville. Ga, where he will pass the cold weather. Judge Jaekson's health has been in serious condition for some time.
 
 FIVE of a band organized to llidnaT President Crespo of Venezuela were killed in a riot at Maracaibo, ane seven were captured The latter di vulged plan to proclaim a provisional government, with Gen. Pinango at it> head.
 ". S. SoNfERs, of Charleston, W. Va. government inspector, dropped dea6 at the works of the Variety Iron Co in Cleveland, O., on the 23d, of hear disease.
 VICTOR OCHoA, the Mexican revolu tionist, was captured at Toyah sta tion, on the Texas X Pacific road, ol the night of the 93d, by Deputy Sherif Leavel and State Ranger Smith.
 TIE new treatment by inoculatioI for diphtheria and croup, as practiceo in France, is the subject of a special re port to the state department by United States Consul C. W. Chancellor d Havre. He says that by this method O treatment only one ont of four diph theretie patients sueeumbs.
 FOR several months the statisticial of the United States department of az rieultnre has been conducting an in vestigation regarding the acreage an, product of cotton for the year 1893 His estimates are as follows: Acre planted in 1893, 1o, 525, GOO: number o bales harvested, 7,493 000
 THE Venezuelan cabinet feeling tha it is impossible to sustain Presiden Crespo, will resign.
 X BOND INVESTMENT COMPANY, doin, business at Toledo, O., has been de barred the use of the mails on th, ground that the company is conducted on the same basis as q lottery.
 PRAIRIE fires, which started i Thomas county, Neb., on the 23d, wer swept by fierce gale into Cherry Grant, Hooker and Sheridan coun ties Up to the 25th four lives wer known to have been lost, and thou sands of cattle, driven from the south ern part of the state for better grazing were caught by the on-sweeping flame and destroyed.
 DR. H. T. HELMBoLD, of extract c buehu fame, died suddenly of apoplex in the New Jersey asylum for the 1T sane, in Trenton, on the 24th. He wa