The Monticellonian., 1895-07-05

TIE fifth meeting of the Tnterna- tional aiway congress s%as opened in London, on the 26th, by the prince of Wales in a feliciious speech. He paid special compliment to the American delegates.
 SAN FRANCISCO was visited by great confagra1ion, on the evening of the 27th, which destroyed property to the amount of S1,750, 900, and rendered hundreds of families homeless Oak land and Alameda each sent fire steam CTS, which materially aided in check ing and finally subduing the flames.
 ADMIRAL BEARDsLEE telegraphed to the navy department, on the 27th, from San Francisco announcing his re- turn to that city on board the flagship Philadelphia from Honolulu, where she had been stationed since the latter part of January.
 TIE Gocopah mountains in Lower California are again in a state of erup- ton. George Neal, miner, recently returned from the Juarez placer dis trict, reports seeing a volcano in erup- ton on the 23d.
 THE Evening Express Co, of Chica- go, was granted incorporation papers on the 27th. Il will assume legal ownership of the Chicago Mail, the in- corporators being representatives of the new purchasers of that paper, chief among whom is Mir. Booth, of Grand Rapids, Mich. There will be no change in the name or policy of the paper.
 ON the 27th Gov Morton of New York informed Mrs Annie Buchanan that he must decline to hear any fur ther appeals for clemenev in behalf of Dr. Robert ". Buchanan, the con demned wife murderer. Buchanan ap- piled to Judge Laeombe, in the United States circuit court, on the 27th, for a writ of habeas corpus, but it was de- nied.
 A 15-YEAR-oLD boy named Kirk Me Murtrie. employed in the state depart ment at Washington to distribute the mail has been detected in robbing let ters addressed to the passport bureau of the inclosed fees, and to cover up his tracks destroying the applications and in many eases the naturalization papers contained therein. He is sup posed to have secured between S4o0 and $500.
 MR HAsHIGUcHI, the Japanese con sul-general at New York in an inter- view, on the 2sth, said among other things: .'I wish to say emphatically that Japan is not afraid of Russia. will go SO far as to assure you that there are Japanese who are not car ried away by enthusiasm who would not be astonished to see Japanese army in St. Petersburg within the next two years.
 IN an encounter, 4 miles. from the city of Spartanbure, $. C.. .on thu 2sth, between State Liquor Constables Pettigrew and Nolana and two moon sinners named Fisher and Durham, the two latter and Pettfgfew were killed outright and Noland was nor tally wounded.
 MINNIE LYNCH, aged l9, of Chicago, committed suicide. on the 2sth, by taking carbolic acid. She was pupil of the Lake high school, and expected to graduate this year, but failed to pass the necessary examination.
 LATER advIces say that the loss by the recent fire in Minneapolis, Minn., will reach S250, GOO.
 LORD SALISBURY will issue the man. ifesto of the new government on the 3d.
 A FOUR weeks quarantine and five months veterinary supervision will, after October l. be imposed upon all swine and cattle imported into Ger many from infected countries.
 THE Manitoba legislature adjourned, on the 2sth, without taking any action on the school question.