The Monticellonian., 1895-08-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE stock barn on R. T. MeDonalds noted Riverside farm near Fort Wayne, Ind, was burned on the night of the 9th. It was valued at s12,0 000 The Si0000 California stallion Truman, with mile record of 2:12. and five colts of Electric King fast stock, valued at $10000, were burned.
 BANK EXAMINER CowDRY, on the 5th, closed the Citizens State bank at South Sioux City, Neb. Liabilities are about SS0,000; assets, S23, 900, with affairs in bad condition. This bank was the county depository, and over S8, GOO was on deposit
 THE steamship Topeka arrived at Port Townsend, Wash, on the 5th, having on board the survivors of the crew of the sealing schooner c. c. White, which was wrecked on Wood island, Alaska, early in the spring The party consisted of seven men, all that remains of a crew of twenty seven.
 IN fight between officers and riot ing farm laborers in Argentina, re gently, five persons were killed and six wounded. The buildings upon the estate where the riot occurred were entirely destroyed, and all the horses and cattle were burned to death
 THE total expenditures of the patent office for the last fiscal year were S1,- 195,557; the balance of receipts over expenditures was S157,39I The total balance of receipts over expenditures now in the treasury to the credit of the patent office is S4 556, ,75s All but one of the thirty-four divisions had their work within one month of date, and this one was less than two months behind At .the close of the fiscal year 4,927 applications were awaiting action.
 WHILE John J. o'Brien, drainage canal foreman, was on his way home, near Lamont, H.. on the 4th, he was attacked by two colored men. He shot Grip Gillet in the leg and threw the other man into the canal, where he sank like lead, and was drowned
 ON the 9th someone detected among l the new decorations of the Pension building in Washington a representa- tion of "The Little Red SehooIhouse" well up on one of the pillars. It is | NtAy hlNNiltbs anu biit SIlONt CUFFS Oul of the chimney Objection was made to it, and it is rumored that high pension office official directed the artist to efface it. He refused to do so.
 THE state department distinctly 1 approves United States Minister Terrills demand upon the porte for i the punishment of the three Kurds who murdered young Lentz, the bi- 1 cyclist, who was making tour of the world
 Ar meeting of the high court of Foresters at Brighton, England, on the 7th, the American subsidiary ex- ecutive appealed for the courts sane tion for new ritual, affirming that the future success of the order in America depended on the question of a ritual. The sanction was granted.
 THE last dispatches from the Ban mock country show that there was no cause for the outcry raised by the r Wyoming settlers against the Indians The Bannocks have returned quietly to their reservation, and have begun the making of hay, leaving their griev ances to the justice of the white man.
 MR PRESTON. the director of the mint, in explanation of the recent ship ment of S10, 1000. .o00 in gold bullion from New York to Philadelphia, said that it was the present purpose of the govern ment to coin with reasonable rapidity all of it's S6O, ,oo0, 900 stock of gold bull lion.
 THE president according to Mir. Ballou, vice president of the American Humane association, has reversed the decision of Assistant Secretary Hamlin and has instructed the treasury de- partment to prohibit the importation of matadors, bulls, lances, swords and other bull-fghting paraphernalia into the United States
 THE report from London that Sir Julian Pauncefote, British ambassador to Washington, is about to succeed Sir Edward Baldwin Malet as ambassador to Berlin is discredited at the state de- partment at Washington. It would be an unusual promotion.
 IN company with her father Miss Elizabeth Flagler appeared before Judge Cole of the criminal court in Washington city, on the 7th, and gave bond for her appearance before the grand jury in Septembe to answer the charge of killing young Ernest Green, the colored boy whom she shot re- gently while stealing apples in her fa- ther's yard.
 IT was reported in Washington, on the 7th, that there is a proba bility of combination being formed by which the Chinese empire will be dismem- bered and parceled between Russia, England and France, Germany mean while being appeased by concessions in Africa.
 THE war department received tele- gram from Gen. Coppinger, on the 7th, dated Jaekson's Hole. stating that he had sent out two more scouting parties. One had returned, leaving three in the field, each in command of an officer. He reported ''all quiet and no Indians"
 THE United States civil-service com mission will hold another special ex- animation, on the 2sth, to secure eli- gibles for positions as compositor, pressman, book binder, stereotyper and electrotyper in the government print Ing office.