The Monticellonian., 1895-05-31

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 TIE Merchants national bank oi Seattle, Wash, failed on the 21st.
 TIE revenue cutter Perry sailed from Port Townsend, Wash, on the 22d, for BehrinP sea.
 ON the 22d Gov. Hastings of Pennsyi- Vania approved the bill prohibiting the selling of pools and transmitting bets on racing tracks
 Ir is learned that the Belgian gov ernment has decided upon the indei- mite postponement of the project to an mex the Congo territory, hence the resignation of Count Westerloo
 THE congressional, senatorial and Legislative apportionment bills were defeated in the Pennsylvania house, on the 2lst, and the judicial appor- tionment bill was defeated in the sen ate.
 fr was stated in St Petersburg, on the 23d, that Russia will not consent to Japan's military occupation of . Corea, and that she will soon request Japan to recall her garrisons from that country.
 TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND people made the rush for the 437 claims in the Kick- apoo reservation, on the 23d, only to find that the ''sooners" had anticipated them and secured all the really desira- ble claims.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the 24th, said great excitement had been caused by a report that the Russians had occupied Izirin. Manchuria, thus cutting off the retreat of large force of Japanese troops.
 IT is stated that Mir. Joseph Choates fee for arguing the nnconstitutionality of the income tax law before the United States supreme court was S20o, 00O. one-half of which was paid as retainer, regardless of the result.
 A oABLFGRAM received, on the 22d, from Mr. John w Foster stated that he wonld leave Tien Tsin on that date for Shanghai, to remain in that city several weeks. 1t is not expected that he will sail for the United States be- fore July 1.
 MRS. MARY BROWN. a monogamian pensioner, died, on the 16th, at her home miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in tso4. Her husband died fifty-one years ago.
 ADvIcEs from Madagascar say that fever is making fearful ravages among the French troops there, especially among those who spent the rainy sea son on the coast. Of one company of soldiers 150 strong, only forty men were available for duty
 ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL THoM, AS, for the post office department, is. sued fraud orders, on the 24th. against Charles Adams and Ella Moore, of Mishawalta, Ind. for sending out illegal patent medicine circulars. and against the Central American Fur and Wool Go, of Indianapolis, Ind.
 TIE president, on the 24th, ap pointed R. Dorsey Mohun, of the Dis trict of Columbia, to be United States consul at Zanzibar. MT Mohun is the present incumbent of the office of com mereial agent at Bona, Congo Free State, which will cease to exist by act of couUreSS on JulV next
 ON the 21st Commissioner Miller sent the following telegram to all collect. ors of internal revenue throughout the United States: "Dispense with serv. ices of all persons employed under al. lowance made for income tax work al close of business on the 25th inst, re porting at once number discontinued and salary and expense allowance o' each"
 IN a speech in one of the committed rooms. on the 2ist, NJ. Rouvier made the startling statement that the ex penditures of the French government were increasing 1000, 000, GOO francs every decade. He said that such ar increase was beyond the country's means and declared that the country was nearing disaster which only re trenchment could avert.
 DIRECTOR OF THE MINT PRESTON esti mates the production of gold by the mines of the United States approxi- mately, during 1894, to have beer 1910, 500 fine ounces, of the coining value of S39, 300, 900, an increase over 1893 of s3, 300, GOO, which is the largest amount produced in any year since 1878. The production of silver is esti mated at 40, 800, 900 ounces, of the coin ing value of S64, DOC, ,ooo, showing de crease as compared with 1893 of To-, 800, ,000 ounces.
 BY report made public on the 2Sd it appears that during the fiscal year 1894 the bureau of animal industry in spected more than 13,O00, GOO head O, animals at forty-six abattoirs, in sev enteen different cities. Of this mum Der total of 16,7O3 were condemned and sent to the tank for destruction divided as follows: Cattle 4,127; sheep 466, and hogs, 12, ,1l0. In addition tt these whole careasses there were { great many portions of carcasses that