The Monticellonian., 1895-09-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PEHSONaE ANU U dGINERAL-
 THE convent of Ribordaine, village in the province of Turin, Italy, was partially destroyed by fire on the 27th, Eight women perished and four others were severely injured.
 THE yield from general taxation in Spain for July shows a decrease of 8,b29, 509 pesetas, as compared with the month of July, 1894
 QUEEN VICTORIA, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, left'Osborne house, on the 27th, for Balmoral.
 TIE American Bar association con- vened in eighteenth annual session at Detroit, Mich, on the 27th.
 THE coroner and the police of In dianapolis Ind, went to Irvington on the 2sth, to get together all the re- mains of the body of Howard Pietzel, and to collect the mass of evidence developing there against II. Il. Holmes. Later the coroner began the taking of testimony in the case.
 HIPPoLYTE AMMAN, the dramatist, committed suicide in Paris. on the 27th, by shooting himself with a re- volver.
 A PARTY of hunters have found in Harlan county, Ky, 6 lot of skeletons, guns and cartridges, which are believed to throw some light upon a missing party Of soldiers belonging ta John l Morgan's famous command, which went into the mountains of Kentucky to cope with Union bushwhaekers. ARTHUR MASTER son of Col Chester Master, of Gireneestor, Worcestershire, and cousin of the marquis of Sails bury, fell from second-story window at Middles borough, Ky, on the 2sth, and was fatally injured. He had been In Midllesborough five years, having i come to Kentucky with number of other English capitalists when the famous Midd1esborough boom began.
 LIGHTNING entered the telegraph of flee of the Chicago, Milwaukee < St. Paul Railway Co. at Whitewater. Wis, on the night of the 27th, and in- stantlv killed the operator, Joseph l o'Mallcy
 NM. BENEDITTI and Alessandri, rival i candidates for the canton of Pedicroce, l Corsica, fought duel with pistols, on the 2sth, and Alessandri was killed.
 AN important order giving full pro i lection to foreign consumers of Ameri- i can meat products was issued on the 2sth. It wlI prevent the exportation i of any beef that Is not inspected, and i will cause the exporters of horse meat so 10 mark the packages that the na i ture Of the contents shall be apparent.
 GEORGE WALTERS, a lineman em- 1 ployed by the Connellsville (Pa. Flee ] tric Light Co.,, was instantly killed, ] on the 29th, while making repairs to i an arc light. The wire had been crossed with another during a storm
 TIE duxe of Orleans, who, upon the 1 death, last year, of his father, the count of Paris, became the head of the i royalist party in France and claimant to the throne has become convinced of the futility of further fighting the republic. He has, therefore, decided i to abandon the royalist propaganda and save the money spent in its main tenance.
 THE factional fight that has been going on for some time in Chinatown, l San Francisco, between the See Yup and the sam Yup families, has eulmi- i mated in the disruption of the Six Companies, the most powerful organi- zation ever instituted by the Chinese in this country
 Ex-PoICE JUSTICE PATRICK GAyAN DUFFY, of New York city, who was stricken with paralysis two weeks previous at Forlzed River, N. J., died there on the 2sth. He was one of the most popular (with Tammany1 justices that ever sat on the bench in New York city.
 WILLIAM GAuLARD, of Palestine Commandery, No 6, Knights Templar, of New London, Conn, dropped dead from apoplexy on Washington street, Roxburv, Mass, on 'the 2Sth. He was returning to headquarters after pa rade, apparently as we'll as usual, when the fatal attack seized him.
 THE next triennial conclave of tn e grand encampment of Knights Tem plar of the United States will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa, in 1898,
 THE Paris Matin advises that Great | Britain and Brazil submit the question of possession of the island of Fri nidad to arbitration.
 ON the goth the Belmont-Morgan syndicate deposited s1,50O, GOO in gold in the New York sub-treasury in ex- change for greenbacks, which raised the treasury gold reserve to Sl01, TOO 900.
 A ROLLING rock struck a Colorado Midland passenger train near Fisher, Col on the 2sth, wreclling the bag ] gage car and smoking car. One per R | ;.,i, 2 Q dro,... h1rtecn geatn sea on the
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