The Monticellonian., 1895-08-02

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 THE United States consul at Colon. lsthmus of Panama, cabled, on the 28d, that the strike of laborers in progress there threatened serious trouble. Y THE secretary of the treasury has decided that the money paid into the @=stEeasary-5,ff otss ;--:.- e income ta1s {S77, 131) shall be refunded upon the filing of claims and action thereon.
 FAILURES in the United States dur ing the week ended the 2Gth, as re- ported by R. c. Dun & Co.,, were 2o9, against 249 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 27, against 80 last year
 Ex-CHIEF JrsTIcE DALY, of New York, is making a series of visits to the law courts of London. He occu- pied a seat beside Sir Francis Jeune in the divorce court recently, while the Taslter divorce case was in progress.
 THE preliminary report of Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller for the year ended June 30, 1895, issued on the 25th, showed that the total receipts from all sources were S143, 245, 97s, de- crease from the receipts of 1s93-4 of 8, 922, ,472.
 A DISPATCH from Poeatello, Idaho, on the 23d, said: The Indian war has broken out in earnest. Bannoclt h. dians have killed settler, his wife rnd child in the Salt River valley, and the white men, pursuing, killed six of the redskins.
 HoN. HOKE SMITH, secretary of the interior, began brief campaign in the sound-money cause at Gainesville, Ga, on the 22d He said he should support the national democrat tie platform and oppose the popuIists' platform on the financial problem.
 Ar the sitting of the Dominion cab snet on the 24th, there was considered the draft of reply to Manitoba on the school question, prepared by Sir Charles Hilbert Tupper. It is under stood the document has been approved and forwarded to Winnipeg.
 ON the 24th the postmaster general issued fraud order against the Co., lumbia Benevolent association of Sag inaw, Mich. Upon a report of the postmaster of that city the depart ment declared the concern a bond in- vestment scheme and lottery.
 REPORTS as to the conditions of crops throughout the country and the general influence of weather on growth, cultivation and harvest, made by the directors of the different state weather services, on the 23d, make very favorable showing for nearly all crops in all sections.
 THE provisions of the New Franco Chinese treaty to regulate the commer- cal relations between the southern Chinese provinces and the adjoining French territory. grant new trade ports and q reduction of duties, and give to French engineers the first right to exploit mines.
 ARTHUR MANtER, of Chicago, took out n warrant on the 23d, before Jus ticc Richardson for + H. Holmes, the notorious insurance swindler. The charge is murder, and Manier says he believes his aunt, Mrs. Julia Connors, was killed by Holmes between August and November 1, 1892
 A PRIVATE letter from Havana, on the 26th, confirmed the report of Mar tinez eampos' defeat at the battle of Valenzucla. Of l, 500 Spanish troops that went into battle, only 500 es- capped to Bayamo, where they were surrounded by COCO Cubans, under Maceo, Masso, Quinland, Bandero and Goulet.
 DISPATCH to the London Times from Tien-Tair. .on the 24th, asserted that JaPan's delay in negotiating a commercial treaty with China, and in evaSuating Liao Tung territory, has been deliberately planned pending the British parliamentary elections, Japan hoping to influence Lord Salisbury's government to support her against Russia.
 THE latest sensation in the search for evidence against H. II. Holmes, the insurance swindler and alleged whole sale murderer was the discovery, on the 18th, in the cellar of his Sixtythird andWallace street building in Chicago, of a furnace that is supposed to have been psed by him as crematory for the safe and speedy consumption of the bodies of his victims
 CABLE from St. Petersburg, on the 25th, said: The present status of the negotiations between Russia and Ja- pan indicates the prospect of deci- sion providing for the evacuation of the Liao Tung peninsula in two successive stages This retrocession will be made step by step as the Chi nese government liquidates its indebt- edness to Japan in respect of the war indemnity.
 IN the second race between the Vigi- lant the former successful contestant