The Monticellonian., 1895-10-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


 way post office clerks, 37 letter carriers, 62 mail carriers and 28 were employed in minor positions in the postal serv- ice.
 WILLIAM MILTON GLENN, St. Louis representative of the Associated Press, has accepted the offer of Hip Sing Lee, wealthy San Jose (CaL) Chinaman, to marry his daughter, Moi Lee, in con- sideration of s, 000 cash bonus and an interest in the old eelestials busi- ness.
 PRESIDENT PROCTOR of the civil serv- ice commission was very much de- lighted. on the 28d, with the receipt of an order from President Cleveland placing all consular offices paying salaries between S1, 900 and g., 500 with in the civil service rules.
 REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE said, on the 24th, with reference to the call ex- tended to him by the First Presby- terian church at Washington, that he had received two or three other calls of like character The call from Washington, however, was important and presented an inviting field bus he wanted a little more time to consider and weigh the matter
 EVIDENCE developed, on the 24th, at the inquest of little Panl Trenary, at Indianapolis, that presents a serious problem to the health authorities. The Trenary child died of diphtheria without medical attention, the parents relying upon Christian science methods to effect cure.
 FoR the first time in history Uncle Sam's publications are on the market. They are advertised for sale at speci- fed prices, and any body who wants them can buy them. The new bureau of documents will issue catalogue every month, giving a list of whatever has been printed by the government during the previous thirty days.
 SECRETARY HoKE SMITH is responsi- ble for the announcement that Presi- dent Cleveland will shortly set at rest all talk of his ambition for third term. According to this story, the sec retary gives it out that Mr. Cleveland has no aspirations for another term, and that he will soon publicly announce his position.
 TIE widow of Gen George Crook, the famous Indian fighter. died at Oakland, Md, at her country place, Crook Crest" on the 24th. Mrs. Crook was Miss Mary Daily before her marriage to Gen. Crook. The latter died in Chi cago four years ago.
 GEORGE BROWN, the defanlting treas urer of Springfield township, MuslIln- gum county, 0., has disappeared, and is supposed to have fled 10 Mexico The deficit it is thought, will amount to nearly S2O, GOO.
 TIE king of Corea has granted ex- elusive mining rights in the provinces of Pyong and Do for twenty-five years to an American trading company. The company is to pay one-fourJh of it's profits into the royal treasury.
 THE marked growth of Americas silk purchases from Japan during the past ten years is quite feature in the Japanese trade. These purchases in- creased from 15,50O,000 yen in 1885 to ss,500, 900 yen in 1894.
 A DISPATCH from Kingston, Jamaica, on the 25th, said that Capt. Williams, commander of the British ship Lady Blake, had been arrested by the au- tborities at Cape Hayti for alleged smuggling The officers who arrested him handled him so roughly as to en- danger his life; and in fact, he came very near being murdered
 MR MYoDo YUaIRo, a Japanese jour- nalist, has shown that celebrated Chinese poem, written several hun dred years ago by Liu Ting Che, bears really striking resemblance to "fhe Last Leaf" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. IL is scarcely conceivable that the American poet could have had any idea of the Chinese poets work.
 SIR MCKENZIE HOWELL, Dominion premier, went to Winnipeg recently to offer compromise to Mir. Greenway, the Manitoba premier, on the paro- chial school question, but the Mani toba government refused to consider any compromise measure.
 A DISPATCH from Gonstantinople, on the 25th, said the town of Huyeda, in the province of Yemen, had been over whelmed by a landslide from noun tain near by which killed 100 persons.
 THE steamer Sylvia, with the Peary Arctic expedition party on board, sailed from St. Johns, N. F., on the 25th. for New York.
 ON the 25th United States Secret Service Detective Louis Summers ar rested Capt. Henry R. Patton, foreman of the Patton Manufacturing Co.,, To- cated in the Indiana penitentiary at Jeffersonville, on the charge of circu- lating counterfeit money manufac- tured by the convicts. Patton con feSsed.
 MPs LANeTRY, who expects to re- ceiye divorce from her husband about October 9, will thereafter take up her residence on her Lake county (Cal.) ranch, and devote her time to the breeding of fine stock, the growing of fruits and the cultivation of garden truck
 A TERRIBLE wind and rain storm struck Barnum & Bailey's circus tents at Burlington, la, on the 25th, com pletely wrecking the main tent, an- imal tent and boarding tent. The even Ing performance had just ended, and the audience and employees escaped un- hurt
 WILTON LACKAYE and Miss Alice Evans were married at Council Bluffs, Ia., on the 25th, by Rev Stephen Phelps. Both are well-known theatri- cal people, and reside in New York city. Miss Evans was formerly a resi- dent of St. Louis.
 ADvIcEs were received from San Francisco, on the 26th, announcing the