The Monticellonian., 1895-01-04
CURR FIN T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 and dragged to death. The pony ran a distance of half mile, dragging the helpless girl by her foot, which had caught in the stirrup
 JUSTICE P. NJ. WALL, at Leadville, Col. in the case of The People vs. Ryan, for arson, has rendered decision dis missing Ryan, and holding that there is no law in Colorado prohibiting a man from burning his own house. CHARLEs EDWARD DUFFEE, aged 2S, died at Mobile, Ala, on the 25th, of consumption He was well known as "Home Run" Duffee, an ex-member of the St. Louis Browns of the national league and the American association, and also of the Washington club of the national league.
 TIE Cliff house at San Francisco was burned on the 18th. The mone- tary loss is not great; probably not over S20, 0OO The Cliff house was d world-famous resort, as it overlooked the Seal rocks. It was part of the pos session of Adolph Sutro, San Francis co.'s maYor-elect.
 ALTHOUGH Japanese rule is accepted by the Goreans generally, the Tong Halis are still active. They have just captured Lai Ju, capital of the prov incc of IIaido. They expelled the gov ernor and installed one of their mum Der in his place.
 HARRY NEWER, the English bridge jumper made successful leap from the top rail of the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) bridge, distance of PIP feet, with his parachute, on the 25th. The parachute worked successfully and Meaier struck the water in just eight seconds after he started. He was picked mp by friends in waiting.
 HARRY S. DECKER. the eX-baseba player, was held in bonds to the crim- inal court in Chicago, on the 26th, to answer charges of obtaining s21s and S6s on worthless checks from E. F. Ayres, of 131 Ashland boulevard, wit Il whom he boarded. After his release on bond he was rearrestcd on d war rant sworn to by \. c. SpaIding, the sporting-geeds maker, charging him with forging Spalding' name to check for S100.
 A SPECIAL from the City of Mexico says: 1t is evident there is an or ganized colony of several hundred persons scattered about the city cm- ployed in making and circulating spu- rious coins. Thousands of dollars of the stuff have been passed within q few weeks. Arrests of members of the band have been made daily, and now 2o0 of them are in Belem prison await it,,r t,.ia1 ind ct ishcs."
 Mas. PITCHER, wife of Gen. Thomas r. Pitcher, died at her residence in Washington city on the 18th. Mrs. Pitcher was well known in society cir eles, being especially prominent during President Grants administration.
 CAPT T. II. EcKERsoN, Nineteenth infantry, recently examined for retire ment at Fort Wayne, Mich, was, on the 26th, ordered to return to his proper station.
 IN February the ". C. T. t. will present to congress a polyglot petition against the sale or manufacture of liq- uOr or opium.
 JAMES II. GRIDLEY, manager of the Washington office of the Scientific American. died suddenly at his resi- dence in that city on the night of the 25th. Mir. Gridley was widely known as patent attorney.
 IN Fulton, in the lower part of the city of Richmond, Va, five boys were disfgured for life, on the 18th, by the explosion of gunpowder which they were using in firing a toy cannon.
 LIEUT.. C. E. VREELAND, naval at tache to the United States embassy in Berlin arrived in that city with his family on the 26th
 Two INCHES of snow, the first of the season, fell at Roanoke, Va, on the 26th.
 EX-PolIGE CAPT. JOIN l.. STEPHEN SON, the first of the police officials tried and convicted as an outcome of the exposures brought about by the Lexow committee, was sentenced by Judge lngraham, in the court of oyer and terminer, in New York city on the 2Gth, to three years and nine months imprisonment in Sing Sing, and to pay Sl ,ooO fine.
 FoUR new cases of smallpox were discovered in Washington city, on the 26th, and several other persons are un- der suspicion of having the disease. All the victims are colored people liv- ing in the alleys and small streets near the government printing office, the To- eality where previous cases have eX- isted.
 RUMoRs were circulated in Brook lyn, on the night of the 2Gth, that a shortage had been discovered in the ac- counts of an employe in the office of the treasurer of Kings county. It was said that experts had been engaged and were at work on the case. The shortage, it is said, will exceed S20, GOO.
 TIE grand jury at Chicago, on the 26th, ordered Assistant State Attorney Bottum to leave the jury-room, went into executive session and planned an investigation of the alleged crooked ness in the states attorneys office.
 TIE British steamer Abeydo, Capt. True, from Valencia for Liverpool, is believed to have foundered off the Isle of Man with the loss of all on board, about POO in number.
 PosT OFFICE INSPECTOR STEWART, of Chicago, arrested a man named Blake in that city, on the 27th, whom he be- lieves to be the leader of the gang that has been robbing hundreds of western post offices during the past two years. The arrest was made on the confession of one of the gang, and other arrests were expected to follow.
 HENRY PACKER's residence, on the outskirts of Piqua, O., was entered by