The Monticellonian., 1895-11-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 war records show the completion of the first volume Of the first series. covering the campaign of the war in Virginia and the Carolinas. and in the transmississipp region. The remain ing volumes of this series will be in type before the close of the current calendar year.
 THE contract for the construction of the new tobacco and cigarette factory of Ligget < Meyers in St. Louis, has been let to Thomas Clark & Sons, of Chicago, The cost will exceed S1, 250,- 000. There will be sixteen buildings. mostly of large proportions, ranging from two to six stories high, and all connected.
 DURING the performance of the Cap tain Paula company, on the night af the 29th, at the Bijou theater in Mil- waultee, Sol de Liser, the gunner of the company, was fatally injured by the premature discharge of his gun. His right leg was shot off, and lie died in short time.
 THOUSANDS of tons of hay have been burned by the marsh fires In Porter, Laporte, Jasper and Stark counties. Ind. Some farm houses have also been burned, and many head of cat tie. In some places the ground is said to be burning to a depth of three feet
 THE South Carolina convention on the 29th, voted down the womau's suf- frage amendment by a most decisive vote of 121 to 26 The whole morning session was given up to the discussion of the question. George D. Tinman made a great speech in advocacy of the idea
 Two STUDENTS have been expelled from the State college at Beliefonte, Pa, and fourteen indefinitely sus- pended for hazing.
 THE treasury deficit for October, from figures officially announced, on the 1st. is approximately g. 300, o99 The re- eeipts show s27. 9a0 ae9, and the expen- ditures in round figures 834, 2o5, 900.
 J. LowENTRAUB's roller and ice skate factory, four-storV brick stru cture at Newark, \. l., WIS burned on the 3lst, Thousands of gross of skates were destroyed, along with S75. GOO worth of machinery Loss, $40, GOO, insurance, SIS 000 Three hundred and fifty employees were thrown out of work.
 A DISPATCH from Trebiz5nd, on the 5lst, said that three Armenians of prominence, one of them a notable ee- clesiastic, had been summariIy tried and condemned upon charges connect- ing them with the recent disturbances tbere, and it was reported that the government intended to execute them without delay.
 SIR CHARLES TUPPER and Hon. Mac kenzie Bowell, who had been in Wash ingtan for several days in the ca pacity of advisory counsel 10 Sir Ju- Han Pauneefote, British ambassador, returned to Canada, on the Slst, hay ing concluded their mission in con nection with the Behring sea negotia- tions
 NUMEROUS cattle have died in south ern Kansas from q disease pronounced to be dry murrain, caused by feeding on dry cornstaIks.
 THE business portion of Miller's Falls, Mass, was burned on the night of the 31st. Loss, S75,0O0 insurance partial.
 IT was announced in St. Petersburg, on the 3lst, that the condition of the czarowitz WAS steadily grow ag worse. He was confined to his bed, and re mained in completely apathetic state
 THE body of Mrs James E. Eustis, wife of the United States ambassador to France, who died in Ireland re- gently, left Queenstown for New York, on the 3lst. on board the steamer Ma jestic, in charge of her son, Mir. J. B. Eustis, ir.
 THE directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.,, on the 1st, declared semi-annual dividend of 211 per cent in cash.
 THE prince of Wales attended requiem mass celebration in the Rus sian chapel in Welbeck street Lon don, on the tst, the service being held in observance of the anniversary of the death of Czar Alexander III.
 THE province of Rome was visited by violent shocks of earthquake, on the 1st, at $40 a. m In Rome people HCAO OhhGh HUH lllClA NluAibtI . diitt fled to the open squares, and the greatest consternation prevailed. The convent of Santa Maria Maggiore was greatly damaged. A portion of the outer wall was overthrown and part of the ceiling fell. One of the inmates, monk, was injured.
 A DISPATCH from Constantinople on the 1st, said that eight Albanian guards connected with the Yidliz kiosk had been executed and twenty four others imprisoned as the result of the discovery of their complicity in plot against the palace.
 THE Swiss federal council at Berne gave Q farewell dinner, on the 3lst, to J. O. Broadhead, of St. Louis, the re- tiring United States minister
 THE St. Paul (Minn.) Gas-Light Co has sold out it's plant to eastern par ties, including it's gas and electric works and franchises.
 THE German ministry of marine has ordered the German Asiatic fleet to concentrate at Swatow and Annoy.
 TEE Berlin Kruez Zeitung announces that tue next session of tue reichstag w.a open o0 Decepb OCT &