The Monticellonian., 1895-11-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 It is stated that the "squeeze" of the salt combine in forcing up prices will cost the leading packers of Chicago S400, 900 or S5OO,O0O per year.
 TIE full crew of the battleship h. diana, placed in commission at the League Island navy yard, on the 20th, will number APO.
 RECENT press dispatches announced that anti-foreign riots were appre- hended in the Chinese province of ShanHei.
 THE secretary of the interior, on the goth, issued requisition on the treas. ury for St0, $50, 900 for the quarterly pension payment. The amount Is dis tributed to agencies as follows: Bos- ton, S1, 500, 900; Augusta Me, s750, GOO; Washington D. c, g., 205, GOO; Colum bus, O., B, TOO 0O0 Detroit, Mich, sl,s00, 900; San Francisco, SITS. 0o0
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is spending nearly all his time at Woodley. He rarely goes to the White House. He Is devoting himself to the preparation of his message to congress, and in order to prevent the possibility of interrup- tion, he is working in his out-of-town cottage.
 Col. CHARLES HAYWOOD, command ing the marine corps in his annual re- port to the secretary of the navy, makes a strong appeal for an increase in the enlisted strength of the corps to meet the additional duties imposed upon it by the increase of the navy
 Mas. ApALAIpE NUMB, who was reared near Belleville, Ill.,, but who now lives at Poeahontas, H., is one of six heirs to a fortune of S2 600, 900 which they inherit from a grandfather in Francs.
 ON the 2lst Sir Philip Currie, British ambassador to Turkey, had a long con ference with Count Goluchowski Aus trian minister of foreign affairs. after which he proceeded to Constantinople.
 ALCAEUs HOOPER, the first republican mayor of Baltimore for thirty years was inaugurated on the 2Oth The ceremony of administering the oath was performed in the presence of large assemblage, who applauded ad- dresses delivered by the incoming and ou tgeing executives.
 TIE Wall Street ournal. on the 20th, printed an interview in which Seere- tary Carlisle is quoted to the effect that there Is no foundation for the ru- nor that he is to be appointed to the supreme court bench. Mr Carlisle says in the interview that he would, under no circumstances, accept the position if it should be rendered to him.
 ON January the Calumet and Hecla company, which has been smeItng it's reserve mineral, and has increased the output of copper nearly oue.third, will probably drop back to former figures of production. Shelters are now sev- eral weeks behind in filing orders.
 ON the Fist, when Little Nina Schae- fer went to a stone quarry near Oak land, Md, to take her fathers dinner, she found her father and her nnele Charles Sehaefer, buried beneath heap of limestone, which they had loosened by blast of dynamite. Both were dead
 ON the 21st three buildings, occupy ing nearly block on the west side of Canal, between Jackson and Adams streets, Chicago, being respectively nine, seven and four stories high, were burned, with an aggregate loss on buildings and stocks of $500 000 Near ly 500 persons, mostly girls and wom- en, were rescued with difficulty, many of them in bruised and fainting con dition. One entire chemical engine company had narrow escapes, while falling walls endangered the lives of hundreds in the streets
 AT Auburn, N. Y. on the 21st, Mrs, Mary T. Mack, the counterfeiter of 2-cent postage stamps, was found guilty and sentenced to the Erie county peni tentiary for term of eighteen months.
 GEN. MAXIMo GOMEZ, the insurgent leader, who recently entered the prov ince Of Santa Clara, Cuba, from the province of Puerto Principe, on the goth captured Fort Palyo, on the River zaza, in the province of Santa Clara.
 LLOYD MONTGOMERY, the ls-year-eld son of John Montgomery, is under ar rest at Brownsville, Ore, charged by the coroner's jury with the murder of his father and mother and D. s. Me Keecher, who were found shot to death in Montgomery's house.
 THE Pacific limited, which left Chi cago at 6 D. m. on the 17th via the Chi cago X Northwestern, Union Pacific and Central Pacific, arrived at San Francisco at s;45 on the evening of the goth, reducing the running time be- tween the two cities to practically three days
 SIX boys who were digging cave at Twenty and Grayson streets, Louisville, Ky, on the 2lst, were buried by cave-in of the bank. Two were dead when reached, two others were badly injured, and two escaped unhurt. The dead are Howard Ramage and Louis Snow.
 JUDGE RINER, in the federal court, at Cheyenne, Wyo.. on the 21st, released under a writ of habeas corpus Race Horse, Bannock Indian, arrested for violation of the Wyoming game laws in Jackson's Hole. The court decides that the Indians have the right, under their treaty, to hunt in Wyoming.
 A REPORT of the sex and nu mber of the pelagic fur seal skins landed at the port of San Francisco this season has been prepared by Deputy Collector Wise for transmission to Washington The report shows that l,539 males, 4,29s females and 295 skins of which the sex could not be determined were landed.
 THE battery of dynamite guns which stretches along the bluffs south of Fort Point, San Francisco, for nearly a mile, is now ready to deal out de- struction to any invading navy that r..n rr ,,,,on n !. hin 8 rni los nf fine Gnldan