The Monticellonian., 1895-11-01
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SMALLPOX has again broken out in Wheeling, ". Va. Twelve new cases were reported on the 22d, making twenty in all up to that date.
 ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 92d said that Japan had decided to evacuate Corea in order to avoid com plications, and in order to enable the government to concentrate it's energies upon the subjugation of Formosa.
 THE works of the Crescent Linseed Oil Co on Goose island, Chicago, were destroyed by fire on the night of the 22d. Loss, SITS, 900; fully covered by insurance. One of the falling walls of the building crushed a small cottage occupied by a Polish family None of the inmates were hurt.
 TIE steamer City of St. Augustine, Capt. Gaskill, which regularly traded between New York and Jacksonville. Fla, bringing lumber from the latter port, was burned at sea, eighteen miles off Hatteras. on the 22d Nothing is known of the fate of the crew.
 THE queen regent of Spain has con ferred on President Diaz of Mexico the grand cross of the Order of Military Merit, in recognition of the special services rendered by him to Spain.
 THE husbands of dozen of the most prominent women in Bay Shore, L. l., arrayed themselves in female toggery, on the night of the 22d, and prepared an oyster supper for their wives in the Congregation church, for the church's benefit. The cooking was not of the best, but the affair was a financial success.
 IN revenge for supposed wrongful dismissal from the force, an ex-police- man of Leipsic fired five shots at Herr Brettschneider, the chief of police, on the 23d. most of which struck him. but his life was saved by large pocket book in the breast pocket of his coat which protected his heart.
 THE Queens hotel, frame structure at Hamilton, Ont, was burned at mid night of the 22d. Anthony Koch, the proprietor. was smothered while at tempting to rescue his three children The children were subsequently, saved by the tiremen.
 THE supreme court of Arkansas, on the 23d. overruled Chancellor Leather man of Hot Springs, in the case against James J. Corbett, and de clared the prize-fght law of the state valid in all it's parts.
 THE Spanish cabinet has decided to send the torpedo boats Ariete, Hal con and Azor to Cuba, and also to pur- chase immediately l,50n Maussr rifles for the use of the Spanish troops in Cuha
 A NOVEL international contest in the shape of a revolver shooting match by cable between the crack shots of En- gland and America is being projected
 IGSAcE z. PADEREWsKI, the famous piauist, arrived in New York, on the 23d, on the steamer Ieutonic.
 Two MORE members of Zip Wyatt's band of desperadoes have answered for their many deeds of lawlessness. Jim Umbra and Mexican John. Mexicans who have been engaged in cattle-steal- ing and various lawless enterprises, were lynched by enraged cattle men, on the 23d in Oklahoma.
 FROM Havana comes the news that 1t is the daily practice of the Spanish jailers to take several prisoners from the forts and prisons and shoot them. Each morning the prisoners are placed in line Ten men are selected for death. Perhaps it is the first ten, per haps the last ten men, OF the middle ten. The names of the condemned men are not ascertained. They are simply penned up and slaughtered as animals.
 AFTER bitter legal struggle lasting three months, the testimony in the tria of Theodore Durrant, fer the murder of Blanche Lamont, at San Francisco, was concluded on the 23d, and argument of the ease begun
 A TERRIBLE explosion in the drying room of the Fiberloid works located at Newburyport, Mass, on the 28d. caused the death of one man ard fatal injuries to another. Three others were seriously hurt; loss, $50, 00o
 ON the 28d the cry of the auctioneer was heard throughout "IronSides," the home of Mrs Della $. Parnel4, at Bor- dentown, N. J., and the house which was the birthplace of the mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, and which has been her residence for many wears. is practically dismantled. N. ith- standing the historic value of AIr 'ar- nell's effects, they went for q mere song.
 FRANCIS HINTON, the Milwaukee iron king, committed suicide in his hotel, in Paris, on the 23d. The dispatch an- nouncing the event did not give the manner or cause.
 IN the presence of a gathering that aA nI Ho1 mage was, on the night Of the 23d, es- abolished as co-pastor of the Presby terian church of Washington, to which he had recently been called.
 THE high school building at Delta, Ia., was burned, on the 23d, and nine people were injured. The school build ing was valued at Ss,0O0. All of the injured will recover.
 A WRECK occurred on the Pennsvl- vania railroad near Newport, Pa, at 2:15 a. m., on the 24th, in which two persons were killed and several in- jured. The wreck was caused by q broken axle on an east-bound freight train, which threw several cars in front of mail train on the west-bound track.
 THE city of Lubin, capital of the government of that name in Russian Poland, was visited, on the 24th, by a hurricane, which resulted in great loss of life and much damage to prop erty. A large number of worshipers were killed and injured by the col lapse of the iron roof of the cathedral.
 THE members of the Perry (Okla.) school board are threatened with inn