The Monticellonian., 1895-08-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

U, to Detroit, Mich., foundered on the 30th, off Lorain, o. The waves washed the coverings from the matches and she filled and sank in 75 feet of water Her grew of five men got off in yawl and were picked up.
 Ills courthouse at Fresno, Cal, i, which cost the county Sis0 900, was damaged by fire, on the night of the 29th to the extent of S9, 900. The fire started in one of the upper floors, and is supposed to have been of incendiary origin; fully insured.
 FIRE on the island of Steinwarder, in the harbor of Hamburg, on the 29th, destroyed several warehouses and their contents, causing loss of over 1000, GOO marks
 MRS. FANNIE FORD, wife of the iani- tor who has charge of building urtil recently used by the health officers of the District of Colum bia, recently found two S1 1000 bills in the attic of the building. So far no one has claimed the money
 WHILE a Pennsylvania passenger train was rounding the bend at Scotts- burg, Ind, on the evening of the 30th, it struck buggy containing man, woman and child. The man and wom- an, whose names have not yet been learned, were killed and the child in- jured. The horses were also killed
 TIE London Daily News published a dispatch from Berlin. on the 31st, which said that the Tageblatt had word from Constsntinople that Turkey had accepted in their entirety the re- forms which the powers had demanded in Armenia, after receiving firm note from the Salisbury government.
 ON the 3oth Brookside, Ala, a mining camp of the Sloss Iron and Steel Co.,, was the scene of one of the bloodiest race riots in the history of Ala abama. As result two deputy sheriffs and four negroes were killed and several other negroes seriously, two probably fatally, wounded.
 JAMES H. CooKRELL, aged GA, a farmer, near Lafayette, Ind, was, on the 30th, blown to atoms by the ex- plosion of twelve pounds of dynamite cartridges, which he was carrying in basket while engaged in blowing up stumps in a field.
 TIE monument erected in Louisville, Ky, in memory of the Kentucky con federates was unveiled. on the 30th, in the presence of vast concourse of people.
 THIRTY horses were burned to death in the destruction by fire of Danberg's livery stable in Wells, Minn., on the 1 51st. The fire is charged to tramps; loss, $40, 1000, insurance, 10000.
 RICHARD N. HUNT, architect of the Administration building at the Worlds fair; of the new Vanderbilt villa at Newport R. l., and many other prom inent buildings of his class, died at his summer residence at Newport on the 31st
 THE Spanish cabinet, at it's meeting, on the 31st, formally approved the amount of the indemnity to be paid in settlement of the Mora claim.
 ON the 31st the British admiralty placed orders with the Messrs. Thomp- son, shipbuilders of Glasgow, for the construction of three torpedo destroy CTS capable of maintaining speed of thirty-six land miles per hour. The intention is that these boats shall be bIt SbCSb NCSStlS LII tIlGlI kluO dllOd
 DURING the "A hours ended at a. m. of the 31st, the converting depart ment of the Carnegie Edgar Thorn son steel works at Braddock, Pa, made the unprecendeted run of 1, 110 tons and 90 pounds, being seventy three heats of the two 15-ton convert CTS.
 POLICE CAPTAIN MICHAEL J. MUIR PLY, of New York, who was under sus- pension as a result of the Lexow com mittee investigation, died at his resi- dence in that city, on the 31st, of Bright's disease and dropsy. A PORTION of the embankment of Geneva lake, near the village of Mon- treaux, Switzerland, gave way, on the 50th, leaving a gap 100 meters long and twenty meters deep. The pecuni- ary damage is enormous, but fortu- nately no one was injured.
 CEN. ANsoN G. MoCooK was, on the S1st, appointed city chamberlain of New York to succeed James J. O'Don- oghue. The place is worth S25,oO year.
 A CABLE dispatch was received, on
  ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church, in New York city, announcing the death from cholera in India of Rev. and Mrs. August Kullman, mis- sionaries, in the town of Azanol, in the Bengal Burmah conference. MT. Kull- man went to India from Vineland, N. J., in 1892.
 FRAUD orders have been issued by the post office department against l. M. Bain, W. H. Griffith & Co.,, the Zanesville Chemical Go. and the Black Diamond Manufacturing Co.,, of New Concord and Zanesville, O., and against the Excelsior Poultry Co.,, of Decatur. III.
 THE ordinance passed by the city council of Emporia, Kas., which re- quired bells and lamps on every bicy- Gle there, and made it compulsory to ring the bells at every street crossing and alley, was, on the S1st. declared by Judge J. F. Culver, unreasona ble in it's requirements, and therefore un- constitutional and void