The Monticellonian., 1895-08-16

y tAla.1 firm for iron pipe to be shipped to Yokohama, Japan, aggregates 80,000 tons. Itis the largest contract for iron for foreign shipment ever secured by m American house.
 TIE yield of wheat in England this year is estimated to be 7s.4 per cent. of the average; in Wales so, and in Scot land s3.1 per cent, making the entire crop for Great Britain % per cent. be- hind that of last year.
 IT was stated, on the fth, and with some show of authority, that the Dur rant jury had been tempered with, but neither the district attorney nor the chief of police of San Francisco would deny or affirm the story.
 A coAGRrss of deaf and dumb asso- citations was opened in Dublin on the 9th. Among those in attendance at the opening session was Dr. Thos. Gallaudet, of New York, who repre- sented the United States at the con gress
 MINISTER DENLY has been instructed by Acting Secretary Adee to secure protection for American citizens at Panyag China, place about 40 miles from Foo-Ghow, where the American mission is reported to have been footed by. the Chinese.
 IT was announced at a meeting of the Chinese cabinet. on the 7th, that the chief minister, Hsu Yung Hi, had been dismissed from office, chiefly owing to his connection with the Rus so=Chinese loan and the recent Franco Chinese convention.
 ON the 9th the British government instructed the naval commander in Chinese waters toenforce, if necessary, Great Britain,s demands looking to the protection of British subjects throughout China and the prompt pun lshment of all who were implicated in the recent massaeres.
 AN officer of the Spanish cruiser Condo de Venadito is reported to have said that the Spanish navy has in- struetions not to capture but to sink suspicious vessels to avold trouble with other countries. A customhouse officer of Havana reported, on the 7th, twelve American vessels missing.
 COUNT GAsToN DADHEMER, chevalier of the Legion of Honor; member of the French Eeogra phical survey, and Inventor of the telephone system used by the French government, has leased the historic Moss Neck farm near Fredericksburg, Va, and, with his fam fly, will reside there in the future.
 UNDER authority of an act passed by the last session of the California leg slature, fourteen jurors, two of them as alterns;fs, will be impaneled in the DurrarN murder case. The ob- feet of this is to prevent q mistrial or Helay in the case of the sickness or other incapacity of one or two of the 7 regular jurors.
 A DISPATCH from Arnepol, Aus trian Galica, dated the 6th said: Chol- era is raging in the government of Po- aolia Russia The inhabitants re sisted the erection of temporary hos pitals for the accommodation of the sufferers from the disease and began rioting, and it was found necessary to call out body of troops to quell the disturbance.
 JUDGE HOWELL. EDMoNDs JACKSON, as- sociate justice of the supreme court of the United States, died, on the 9th, at his residence in West Meade about miles from Nashville, Tenn. He had been in failing health for the past few years, but 1t is thought that the fa- tigue incident to his recent trip to Washington to sit in the income-tax cases was the cause of the turning point in his disease.
 WILD and disgraceful scenes attend ed the attempt of the Italian outlaws ht Spring Valley, Ill.,, on the 9th, to carry out their threat to drive from the place all colored persons remain ing after the riots of the 4th. Help less women, children and invalids were beaten and chased through the streets, and their effects scattered and de- stroyed The Italian mayor and Ital- ian members of the police force were indifferent spectators of the scene.
 FROM teagrams sent from Telluride, Col, on the sth, to Mrs. Mary Cum mings, at Independence, Mo-, it was learned that the man known as James Clark, who was assassinated on the streets of Telluride, on the 7th, was the original Jim Cummings, the desperado, who began his career oi rapine and bloodshed with Quantrell, during the civil war, and afterward became one of the most reckless mem bers of the Jesse James gang of out laws It is said that of late, under the name of Clark, he had lived an ex. emplary life.
 DR GEORGE r. RooT, of Chicago, re nowned throughout the United States as music composer and as the author of popular war songs died, on the 9th ct Bailey's island, off Portland Me,