The Monticellonian., 1895-08-30
MRS. LoRA PERKINS was arrested In

MRS. LORA PERKINS was arrested In Minneapolis, Minn., on the 23d, on a charge of having killed her sister, Mrs. Lola Hawkins, by setting her on fire, on the 9th, for the sake of S7,000 life insurance.
 TIE schooner Wanderer which put in at Sand Beach, Mich, on the 29d, reported the loss of her captain, Alex Rnder Spence, and a seaman named James Body, during severe gale.
 TIE First national bank of Frank lin, O., closed it's doors on the 23d.
 MR. MUTsG MISHMuTsU, Japanese min ister of foreign affairs, has been ele- vated to the rank of count.
 A MEMORIAL was sent to Gov. Morton of New York, on the 28d by the Cen tral w. C. T. IT., of Kansas City, Mo, asking that he pardon Marie Barberi, the Italian now in Sing Sing prison awaiting electrocution for having mur- dered her false lover.
 JOHN W HESTER, who is said to be the wealthiest farmer in Clay county, Ind, was arrested on the 23d, charged with procuring s40O of the state school
 
 large farm to John Riley, and after executing the deed is said to have mort gagged the property.
 HE dreaded Russian thistle has ap- peared in the vicinity of Abilene, Kas. At Gypsum City the weed has already made considerable progress and is growing in the village streets. The local authorities are taking severe measures to blot out the pest. It is presumed that the seed was introduced in cars from the infected regions.
 THE board designated to examine the dry dock at Port Royal, $. C., has re- ported to the navy department that the dock has not proven satisfactory and recommends that it be not accepted by the department. The contractor will be given an opportunity to bring it -r to the requirements.
 ATTORNEY GENERAL HARMON, on the 23d, instructed United States District Attorney Clarke of Wyoming to sue out writs of habeas corpus for the Bannoclz and Shoshone Indians. who are under arrest and Evanston, Wyo., for violation of the state game laws.
 J. KEIR HARDIE, president of the in dependent labor party of Great Britain. and well known by his so- cialistic speeches in the last parlia ment, arrived in New York, on the 23d, for lecture tour in this country.
 TIE London Sun of the 25th said: Ut is rumored that the marquis of Salisbury the British premier has de- termined upon decisive action in re- gard to China, and that British fleet will occupy one or two Chinese ports and perhaps land marines in order to enforce Great Britain's demands in connection with the investigation of the recent massaeres.
 TIE committee of the English Church union has startled church circles by declaring that civil marriages are an otfense against church discipline Parties who have incurred eensure by entering into such marriages ought, according to the committee, to obtain absolution l<fore being admitted to communion.
 CoMPTRoT Eg BOWLER has begun the preparation ot his decision in the sugar bouhIN CdNt anu tA pCCJS AO com pltLt it by the 3lSt
 ON the 24th the associated banks of New York city held ST, 566. 675 in ex- cess of the requirements of the 25- percent rule.
 Ar the tWenty-eightha dual Trades Union congress to be held at Cardiff, Wales, the week of September ?, Sam uel Gompers and P. !. Mcguire are ex- pected as delegates from the American Federation of Labor.