The Monticellonian., 1898-08-12
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Nearly five inches of rain fell in an hour at Troy, Mo, Sunday afternoon. The volume of import and export 1 business from southern ports is in. creasing rapidly.
 Fire damaged the St. Louis Dressed Beef Go. plant s5o-oO0 sunday. A num- Der of sheep were burned.
 A St. Joseph & Grand Island crop re- l port for southern Nebraska and north- ern Kansas is far above the government stimate.
 A Texas posse returned from hunt for q negro accused of attempting to criminally white girl. He is reported as missing.
 A man in Dawson City who had newspaper 20 days old hired a hall and charged an admission fee of S3 to hear the latest war news,
 Two German tourists, Herren ZolI and Burbecll, have been killed during an attempted ascent of the Dreisoh Usterspits in the Dolomite Alps.
 Sea captains report that there is evi- denee of wreekage off Belle Island, where an Atlantic liner was, last week. itBOI ICtl iO ll1AC kOIlt bDN II " lLii all Oi board.
 Mules drawing q wagon in a funeral procession near Hlxon, Ala, ran away. The coffin was thrown to the ground and broken open and two mourners were killed.
 The First regular cavalry and the First volunteer cavalry, Rough Riders, sailed Sunday, from Santiago. on the transports Miami and Mattewan, for MontauS Point, l.. l.
 A Chicago, Burlington X Quincy pas seuger train killed George Mesmore and his son between Galesburg and Kewanee, Ill. The Mesmores attempt ed to drive across the track.
 Steps are likely to be taken soon af- ter the meeting of congress. in Decem- Der, to bring the cnrreneies of the is- lands taken from Spain into harmony with the existing gold standard.
 Michael IIenly, Co l, Second Mis- souri, has been arrested at Sedala, Mo, for assertion. He said that he would sooner be shot for desertion than die in camp at Ghictamauga of typhoid fever.
 
 burg, Mo-, has organized a company of volunteers, As there is no hope of be- ing assigned to duty in the present war, the company will be mustered in as national guards.
 Numerous cans Of beer and an old grudge over a love affair are responsi- bIe for the killing of George Wells by 1 William Gray st St. Louis, Sunday af- ternoon. Both are negroes knife was the weapon used.
 Two cars on the Belt line trolley road at Utica, N. Y. went through Bradley's bridge near Whitesboro, and 176 passengers were thrown into the Erie canal. Miss Mary Bradley, of Utica, was the only one killed.
 Blanco assures the soidierss and all Spanish residents of Havana who with to return to Spa in or to go to other spanish possessions that they will get free transportation, given by their mother country, to their destina- tion
 John Wesley Lewis, farmer in Rus. sell county, Ala, was jealous of his wife. Returning home he saw man | slItlng III the doorway, talking to her, and raising shotgun, deliberately killed her and mutilated her body He then drowned himself
 Confederate veterans, survivors of Pcltett's division, and invited guests are gathering at Philadelphia to att tend an encampment of Union and confederate soldiers, which is to take place ut resort on the New Jersey side of the Delaware river.
 Col. J. O. Broadhead, who died at St. Louis, Saturday evening" was the last survivor of two important commissions in the history of St. Louis One was the constitutional convention of 1915, and the other was the committee of safety appointed by President Lincoln during the civil war.