The Monticellonian., 1895-08-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 ury s1, 346, 600 in gold coin in exchange for United States notes
 THE town of Hindostan, just north of Bloomington, Ind, was entirely de- stroyed by an incendiary fire on the night of the 14th. Five brick business houses and eight dwellings were con sumed in less than an hour. Loss, about S30, GOO, with insignificant insur- ance.
 A FIRE, which did damage amount ing to between s85O. GOO and S400 GOO, started in the big fve-story building occupied by Brown 6 Bailey as paper boxmanufaeturers, in Philadelphia, on the 12th, and before the flames were gotten under control the big gas fix ture establishment of Buck & Co.,, ad- l joining, and 8 dozen dwellings Tn the vicinity were laid in ashes. i SECURITIES and other property valued at about S2, oOO 900 have been turned over by the trustees of the Tildeu estate to Edward King, president of the 1 Union Trust Co.,, and treasurcr of tn @ New York public library, under which name the then big library funds of the city, the Astor, the Lenox and the Tilden estates, were consolidated last 1 spring.
 A STATEMENT prepared by the bureau of statistics, treasury department, l gives the amounts of the principal ar ticles of export during July as follows: Mineral oils, S4, 992, 903, July last year, s2, 9s5 7o2; cotton. s1,91s, l79, July last year. s. 121, ,959; breadstuffs, Ss. 300, 913, July last year, ss.1ss, ,b9s; provisions, s14, ,024 6ss, as against S14, 7s5,7 last year during July.
 THE total value of the clay products of the United States for 1894, excluding pottery, was over s85, ,00O, 900. The only comparison that can be made is with the census of 1890. which placed the value at scr, ,000. Fifty-three per cent. of this value was in bricks. which numbered 6.152, 900, GOO. There were enough of them to make a walk over eleven feet wide all around the globe.
 MINISTER RANSOM has asked the state department for an extension of his leave of absence. Under the regula- tions of the state department he will not be able to have his present leave extended more than thirty days, or total of ninety days. His physical ap- pesrance does not seem to indicate that he will be able within the time of his leave to go to Mexico.
 ALBERT FISHER and Oscar Dawson, two young men who had been robbing post offices in West Virginia for months, were captured. on the 18th, by United States officers Their depredations 4I IL. al
 MR, ROBERT E. PEARSON, director of the mint, will leave Washington, on the 2lst, for Denver, Col, where he will remain for week or more in- specting the several sites suggested for new mint at that point
 AT Wellington, Kas.. on the 12th, the community was mortified by the chance discovery at her home, 2lf miles north of the town, of the decayed corpse of Mrs Benjamin Haynesworth. She was over 80 years old, and lived alone. She had been dead over week
 MR. RUDYARD KIPIING, the we'll known author, and Mime. Modjeska, the actress, sailed, on the 18th, on the North German Lloyd steamer Havre, from Southampton for New York
 MRS. EMILINE ROACH, widow of John Roach the ship builder, died at her summer home. Larchmont Manor. N. r., on the 18th. Mrs. Roach, whose maiden name was Johnson, was 7s years old.
 ROBERT HUDSON, young and highly educated man. who had run through his own and his wife's fortunes, was hanged at York, England, on the 18th, for the murder of his wife and child on Hemsly moor, Yorkshire, in June last. He decoyed his. victims to the moor, cut their throats, shot them with a revolver and buried them on the moor.
 REV. DR. WM DEAN distinguished as the first Baptist missionary to China and Siam, who gave fifty years to the work, died at San Diego, Cal, on the 18th, aged ST years,
 BOTH the old and the new police boards of Omaha wired the supreme court, on the 14th, asking for an imme- diate session to determine which Is the legal board, and received prompt answer that the court would meet on the following day at Lincoln.
 A DISPATCH from Tunis, on the 14th, stated that some barges laden wit h iron girders, collided near Goletta with ferry boat crowded with passen- gers. Some of the passengers were killed and many drowned.
 CONCESSIONS have been made to an American syndicate by the govern ment of Venezuela with view to settling the boundary question so long in dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela.
 Ex-STATE TREASURER TAYLOR, of South Dakota, was, on the 14th, sen fenced to five years In the penitentiary at Sioux Falls by Judge Gaffy, for the embezzlement of state funds.
 BY the breaking of the staging upon which they were standing nine work men employed in the Germania dock yards at Kiel fell into the harbor, on the 14th, and were drowned.
 A DISPATCH from Berlin, on the 18th, said: Ut is reported here from Katto- witz that detachment of Cossacks Hers who were employed in the mines at zagorse, Russia, and by this means compelled the strikers to return to work"
 AT festival at Riley, Ind, on the night of the 14th, stand upon which the Cory band was playing gave way, badly ipjuring many of the members, one of them fatally.
 THE men of the Princess Marie