The Monticellonian., 1895-07-26
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

I value of the property confscated was about double this sum, and forty per cent of the amount allowed goes to the syndicate of attorneys that prose cuted the case, leaving for the original owners about one-fourth of what right ly belongs to them after twenty years of litigation.
 THE ruins of old churches in the town of Wisby, Sweden, were illumi- mated, on the evening of the 18th, and procession paraded the aisles of the old buildings, greatly to the de- light of Emperor William of Germany, in whose honor the unusual thing was done.
 TIE khedive of Egypt sailed from Alexandria, on the 18th, for Constan- tinople.
 SHORTLY before o'clock on the morning of the 18th the handsome steamer Cibola, of the Niagara River line, which piled between Lewistown, NY, and Toronto, Ont, was burned to the waters edge, having taken fire at the dock at Lewistown and drifted to sand bar in the river, the dock and an adjoining hotel were burned.
 THE nailers at Ellis & Lessig's iron and steel plant at Pottstown, Pa, have been notified that on and after August ] they will receive an increase of 20 s-l0 per cent. in wages On the same date the men employed in the plate mill will be put back to the scale of 1893, which is decided advance over pres entrates.
 A TELEGRAM from Senator Dubois at Washington, on the 18th, said that by August 1 the Neg Perces Indians will receive the money from the govern ment for their lands. This means that within about six weeks the great Neg Perces reservation, the garden spot of Idaho, will be opened for set tlement.
 HEtreasury department, on the 10th. resumed the issue of gold certificates, suspended during the period when the gold reserve was below S10o, 900, GOO.
 THE Collins wool mills in Dracut, Mass, posted notices, on the 16th, an nouncing an increase of 10 per cent. in the wages of operatives.
 MARY FROST ORMsBY, of New York,
 
 fifth time to the international peace conference which was to have been held at Brussels August Is, has re- eelyed cable dispatch stating that the meeting has been postponed until next spring
 FoUR robbers, one masked, burst open the door of John Mitbim's house at Orange, O., with fence rail, at II o'clock on the night of the 18th, bound and gagged him and his wife with bed clothes and tortured them with fire at their feet The robbers secured SIS. Mitbim Is blind and Mrs, Mitbim near ly so.
 DISTRICT ATTORNEY GRAHAM, of Philadelphia stated, on the 16th, that II. H. Holmes would not be surren- dered to the Toronto authorities, suf1i- cient evidence having been gathered to prove that the body found in the Callow Hill-street house in Philadel- phia was that of Pitezel. He had no doubt that Holmes would be con victed of murder.
 BARON voN HAMMERsTEIN, formerly editor-in-chief of the Kruz Zeitung. has fled from Berlin. taking his effects with him, and official seals have been placed upon his dwelling.
 THREE persons were killed and twenty injured, on the 17th, by the collapse of bridge just south of Monument Col, precipitating a south bound freight train on the Santa Fe railroad to the bottom of the creek 50 feet below.
 THE jury in the case of Woodruff Parmelee, on trial at Traverse City, Mich, charged with the murder of Julia Curtis, after being out twenty hours, returned a verdict. on the 17th, of murder in the first degree.
 TwENTYTwo fremen were buried under falling walls during a fire on Front and Walnut streets, in Cincin- nati, on the 17th. Of these two were taken out dead and all of the others more or less injured.
 ON the 17th the president appointed Lieut. W. L. R. King, corps of engi- neers, U. s. A, a member of the Mis- souri River commission, and Hiram Seymour, second assistant engineer
 THE Cuban junta in New York city has negotiated for 1000 pounds of dynamite to be used by the insurgents in Cuba next winter in their campaign against the Spaniards.
 MIR. JOHN MORLEY, formerly chief secretary for Ireland, who was de- feated for reelection in Newcastle, left that city, on the 18th, to join his family in Scotland. Crowds of his ad- mirrors went fO fhe station to hid him farewell and sang the song: Will Ye No Come Back Again?" many of those present shedding tears.
 REPRESENTATIVE of all the woolen and worsted concerns in the city of Woonsocket, R., l., agreed, on the 18th, to grant their help, whose wages were reduced in 1893, small increase to take effect August 1st.
 THE Niagara Falls & Lewistown Elec- tric railroad, one of the most marvel ous pieces of engineering and road building in the country, was formally opened at Niagara Falls, N. Y, on the 18th.
 A CABLE dispatch from Calcutta, on the 18th, announced the death at that place of Rev. James Liddell Phillips, the widely-known Baptist missionary. No details of the event were given.
 HENRY IRVING, the actor; Walter Be- sant, the novelist, and Lewis Morris, went to Windsor, on the 18th, and were formally invested with the rank of knighthood by the queen. ~ SENTENCE of death by electricity was passed in New York city on the 18th