The Monticellonian., 1895-08-30
CURRENT T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

But little booty was secured. A flag man was shot in the right groin while signaling and seriously injured
 ADVICEs from Honolulu, per steamer Australia, arrived at San Francisco on the 21st, stated that the Hawaiian | legislature had granted contract and exclusive franchise to z. s. Spalding to lay and operate telegraphic ca ble from San Francisco to Honolulu, the vote in both houses of the legislature being practically unanimous.
 THE business portion of St Kilan, q small town near West Bend, Wis, was wiped out by fire on the 20th The total loss is $25, ,O00; insurance, So, GOO; Many residences were burned and eight business places destroyed
 THE preliminary trial of John Walker j. NJ. Rodan, M b, W E. Padgett and Thomas Phillips, white men, charged with lynching the negro preacher Robert Bennett, on July 1, took place at Lake City, Fla, on the 20th. There was little evidence intro duced against the accused, and they were discharged.
 IT was announced in Madrid, on the 22d, that 25,000 fresh troops will em- bark fer Cuba in November.
 VICTOR K. BLENDoN, of Buffalo N Y, was, on the 2lst, appointed grand receiver of the Ancient Order of United | Horkmen for the state of New York to succeed the late John Hodge, of Lockport. The appointment was made by Dr. J. $. Armstrong, grand master workman of this state.
 THE temperature on Mount Wash ington, N. H., went down to 2s de- grees early on the afternoon of the 21st. Snow was falling and the noun tain summits were white, suggestive of midwinter.
 LogIs EEzELs promising 4-year.old sprinter Rap-a-fap, dropped dead on the track at Saratoga, N. Y, on the 2Ist. Heart disease is believed to have been the cause.
 Mss MARY MANNING, youngest child of the late ex-Secretary of the Treas ury Manning was married in Albany, \. Y, on the 21st, to Mr. Julius Cor nelius Von der Ouaermeulon, of The Hague, Holland.
 AT the session of the supreme coun- eil of the American Legion, held in Detroit, Mich, on the 21st the ritual committee reported that no drafts of rituals had been submitted and recom- mended, and that it was inexpedient Ut the present time to make any changes in secret work.
 THE big fly wheel in the l0=fnch mill at the Oliver iron and steel works in Pittsburgh. Pa. burst with terrific force on the 22d. The mill was in full operation at the time, but the em- pIoyes miraculously escaped serious injury Pieces of the wheel were hurled in all directions, wreeking the rolls and engines and damaging the whole mill.
 ON the 2lst the president issued an order extending the civil-service rules to include all printers and pressmen in the executive departments.
 TIE town of Coin, in the province of Malaga, Spain, was shaken by an earthquake, on the 22d, which lasted twenty-five seconds. The damage done to buildings is very serious.
 SINCE the outbreak of cholera in Japan there have been 25, 900 cases and 16, 0O0 deaths.
 IN an Indian camp 40 miles from Maniwaki village, on the borderland of the great northern forests of the Upper Gatineau, an Indian named Francois beat his 16-year-old daughter to death. The provincial authorities have the case in hand.
 THE expenditures of the government for the first two-thirds of August ex- ceeded the receipts by S7,009, 2o3, but only S1,250, 900 remains to be paid on account of pensions, and the treasury officials estimate that the deficit will be reduced during the last third to about s5,00O, 900. The excess of ex- penditures over receipts last month was sS, ATS, 366.
 Ar o'clock on the morning of the 21st the Grand Roclxland hotel at Con gers, N. Y, was destroyed by fire, with all its contents. The building cost S65, 900 and the furniture SIS, ,000
 IN response to representations made by Mr. T. P. O'Connor in the British house of commons, on the 22d, Sir Matthew White Ridley, home secre- tary said he would consider it his duty to inquire into the case of Mrs. Flor ence Maybricl, serving life sentence for the poisoning of her husband.
 PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, the negro orator of Alabama, has been in- vited to deliver an address at the open ing of the Cotton States exposition in Atlanta, Ga, September IS. Washing ton is president of a normal and in- dustrial school for blacks at Tuskegee, Ala. He is one of the ablest negroes in this country.
 ON the 22d the steamer Terre Bonne, from Kingston for Montreal Can, with several commentaries of Knights Tenn plar on board, struck reef at the foot of Cascade rapids and sank shortly after in the entrance to Lachine canal So far as reported no lives were lost.
 THE Suffolk county (Mass) superior court decided on the 22d, that a China man has as much right to smoke opium in his own house or apartments as an American has to smoke cigars or pipe in his residence.
 'NIsn" DUGAN, proprietor of the American house. in Pittsburgh, Pa, was assaulted by a gang of toughs and robbed of S655 in cash on an Allegheny Valley railroad train on the night of the 22d. Four of the robbers were captured, but the fifth made his es- cape, carrying off the plunder.
 AMONG the passengers returning from Alaska by the steamer Queen, which touched at Vancouver, B. C., on the