The Monticellonian., 1895-07-19
CURREN T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

E expected. Corn promises to go above the 2,o00, 000 GOO mark-to very nearly or quite reach the highest figures ever touched.
 THE coal operators of the Birming- ham (Ala.) district, who control seven eighths of the output south of Rich- mond, Va, have completed the for nation of combination for the reg ulation of prices and the maintenance of uniform system of securing con- tracts
 Two BOMBS were exploded near the police barracks at Monopoli, Italy. on the night of the 1st. No one was hurt and very little damage was done
 WILLIAM BEST, the most notorious resident of the vicinity of Paint Lick, Ky, was shot and instantly killed at Paint Lick, on the sth, by Speed Mum, as the outcome of quarrel. The kill ing of Best wipes out a family of out laws who have been the terrors of that section for many years.
 TIE first section of an excursion train on the Grand Trunk railway from Sherbrooke, Que, carrying pill grims to the famous shrine of Ste. Anne de Baupre stopped at 1raig's road crossing, at 3:45 q. m. on the 9th when it WAS run into blythe second section, causing friehtful wreck in which thirteen persons were killed and twice that number injured.
 ON the eth the bodies of eight Chi. nese were found in the San Joaquin river at Madeira, Cal They had been working in the mines situated in Inc mountain, miles distant. Fonl play is suspected
 A TROLLEY car with thirty passen- gers on board became unmanageable at East Liverpool, O., on the sth. and slid down the Franklin avenue hill on the north side of the city, killing one man and injuring eighteen other peo- | pie, two of whom will die.
 DAVID MERGER, or J. West Mercier. better known by his stage name, Ned West, aI1z over the country was, on the sth- adjudeed insane by the coun- ty court of Madison county, III. West was at one time q famous minstrel, and also an acrobat and aeronaut.
 TIE secret service of the post office department has issued circular offer ing d reward of s, 900 for the capture ssf3 k.iJaeaa, Harry Russell and i Charles .Ien, who escaped from the Ludlow Street jail in New York city, July 1. The men are wanted for post office robheries and other crimes One thonsaa1 dollars will be paid for tie return Of any one of the trio to the United States marshal in New York.
 JoHS CASE, alias Mcdowell, was pos itively identified at Riddles Ore, on the 9th, as the man who went through the coaches and took the booty in the hold-up of the Oregon express in Cow Creek canyon, recently. He was held in S7o, ,00o bail James Pool was also held in S5,o00 on suspicion of being one of the robbers.
 Two BURGLARS were shot at Poland, Ind, on the night of the sth. One named Harry Jackson, noted Chca- go crook, was killed, and another, named Arch Agar, was fatally wound cd. He was from Terre Haute. A third man, named Ed Barker made his escape
 A cAIssoN of large bridge in course of construction by firm at Nasal Hama, Egypt, sank, on the 9th, with forty workmen, all of whom were killed
 BY the collapse of platform upon which 1000 persons had gathered to participate in the Elk festivities in the Inlet Casino at Atlantic City, N. J., on the evening of the 10th, 100 of their number were precipitated to the floor below, a distance of % feet, all of whom sustained more or less serious injuries, while some, 1t was thought, would die.
 TIE Cornell crew was hopelessly beaten by the Trinity Hall eight at flenlev-on on the'10 The men were either overtrained or, as the London Times suggests, had been tempered with before the race, as five of the eight showed signs of physical collapse.
 THE San Francisco Examiner said, on the 9th, that the stolen will of ex Senator Fair was in the possession of detective named John Curtain; that he stole it from the clerks office Jan uary 2s last and had offered to surren- der it to the executors for &, ,00o, which offer had been rejected on advice of Judge Stock.
 JUDGE GAYNoR, of the supreme court of New York on the 9th, admitted eX- Police Inspector Wm. W. Mclaughlin, who had been convicted of extortion, to bail in the sum of 5000 Mr. Me Laughlin was still under S20 GOO bail on indictments which had not yet been tried.
 MRS. GEORGE MONTGOMERY, of Jef- fersonville, Ind, was taken suddenly ill, on the 10th, with what the attend ing physicians declared to be weIl-de- veloped and hopeless case of cholera.
 SETH RICHARDS, Iowa's wealthiest landowner and pioneer, died at Oak land, Cal, on the 10th, aged s3. His wealth is estimated at SC, 900, 900.
 TEN stores, comprising most of the business portion of Wauwatosa, sub urb of Milwaukee, were burned on the 10th; loss, S5o 0oo
 TIE crops throughout Clinton coun- ty, Ind, were badly damaged by !. heavy frost on the morning of tue 10th. A thin coating of ice also formed on water.
 GEN. F. M. DRAKE received tbe re- publican nomination as gubernatorial candidate at Des Moines, Ia., on the 10th.
 TIE internal revenue bureau has be- gun work in connection with the re funding of money paid as income tax.