The Monticellonian., 1895-11-08

VOLUME XXVI.
 
 MGR, SAToLLI, papal ablegate to the United States, has been created car dinal by the pope.
 Ar 5:1O o'clock, on the morning ot the 5lst, severe shocks of earthquake were experienced at St. Louis.
 SENATOR SHERMAN says that pub iished extracts from his forthcoming book misrepresent his statements in respect to the national conventions of 1880 and 1888.
 TIE detail of officers for the cruiser Boston has been completed, and she will be put in commission at Mare Is land (Cal.) navy yard, Capt. Frank Wilds commanding
 TIE national debt statement, issued on the 1st, showed net increase in the public debt. less cash in the treas ury, during October of S5,32l472. To- tal cash in the treasury, S9l2, l37, 810.
 THE porte has sent circular note to the Turkish representatives abroad In regard to the recent disturbances in the provinces, in which it is declared that the Armenians were the aggres- sors.
 ON the 30th Mayor Oakley of Fort Wayne, Ind, issued call to the citi- zens requesting them to assemble in the circuit court, on the 7th, to express sympathy with the cause of Cuban lib- erty.
 CELso CESAR MORENO, who was con- victed in Washington city on the a0th of criminally libelling Baron Fava. the Italian ambassador, was sent to jail pending a motion for d new trial, be- ing unable to procure bail.
 IT Is officially announced that the national revenue of Italy for 1895 amounts to 91, GOO, o90 lire above that for l894 The general situation, t is said, is improved, and the government will impose no fresh taxation. IT was rumored in London, on the 81st, that the prince of Wales eontem- plates building q yacht to challenge for the America's cup next year, the new boat to be designed by Watson and constructed by the flendcrsons.
 MRs DR MABEL SPENCER, daughter of Mrs. Mary Cunningham, of Sedalia, Mo, has been appointed county physi- elan of Riley county, Kas. She is said to be the first woman ever appointed to like position in the Unitei States. THE unusual activity displayed by the navy department is regarded as very significant by those who are in- clined to expect serious consequences as a result of the firm stand the ad- ministration has taken on the Nene- zuelan question.
 BURRELI. BOND. a negro planter and ex-slave, farming in GritteHden eoan- ty, Ark, has consigned 200 pounds of tea to wholesale grocery house iR Memphis, Tenn. The tea was grown on his farm, and is the first ever pro- duced in Arkansas. THE whole town of Walcott Mills Rice county, Minn., with the exception of two dwellings, was wiped out by a confagration on the Sd. The chief loss was the mills of the Sheffield Bros, valued at S15O,000, with an in- Surance of but Ssl 900.
 s COMMODORE SIGsBEE, chief of the Photographic office, navy department, has instructed his officers stationed on the great lakes to take advantage of the low water to make observations of obstructions to navigation, so they can be shown on hydrograpic office charts.
 Fox LAKE (Wis.) republicans are re- joicing over the recovery of a cannon which was uneorthed, on the 3Oth, by | Joseph tiood while digging a trench. It was stolen and buried by local dem ocrats in 1860 to prevent republicans celebrating the election of Abraham Lincoln.
 AT the close of the case for the pros ecution in the Pitezel murder trial in | Philadelphia, on the 1st the defendant. | II. II. Holmes, without offering any | testimony, submitted his cause, claim ing that the prosecution had failed to make case, aH4 throwing himself | upon the mercy of t.,e jury.
 
 DISPATCH from Madrid, on the 1st, said; The Guadalquiver has over flowed Its banks. submerging vast | tracts of land. The railway tracks l are under water and railway trains are unable to run. Several boats have been capsized by rushing water and some of their occupants drowned.