The Monticellonian., 1899-06-30
OTHERWISE UNN0TICED.

The entire Transcsspian region oi | Asiatic Russia is threatened with fam. inc.
 The new NJ. E. church edifice, at Petersburg, H., was dedicated Sun day.
 The celebration of the Fourth oi July in Hawaii will be on an elaborate scale.
 Spain's active army for the next financial year has been fixed at 10s,, GOO men.
 One thousand girls employed in Whitlock's tobacco factory, at Rich mond, Va, are on strike.
 The town of Bradley, Neb., was partly wrecked by a severe storm. One man was seriously hurt.
 The British sloop Buzzard collided with an iceberg near the Newfound- land shore, but escaped serious dam age.
 The Woodmen of the World, at Dal- las, Tex, unveiled monuments, Sun day, to two of their departed mem- bers.
 Miles Mcdonald dived from the cen ter span of the Eads bridge, at St. Louis, Sunday, and sustained serious injuries.
 Chancellor MacLean of the Nebras- ka state university, has resigned to ac- cept the presidency of the University of Iowa.
 Later developments indicate that Miss Slavin, of Wichita, Kas,, was not suicide. The police believe she was murdered.
 George Hepburn died, Sunday, at the home of his son-in-law, James Branen, in Sycamore, H., at the age of SC years.
 Alexander Jester, charged by his sister with having killed man, 30 years ago, near Middle Grove, Mo-, IS still in the Shawnee (Okla.) jail.
 The conditions along the line of the disputed Alaskan territory are be- coming serious and an outbreak by Americans and Canadians is feared.
 Rev. Timothy Dwight, retiring pres ident of Yale, preached his last hac. calaureate sermon before the acade- mic classes of that university Sun day.
 John Shields. New York saloon keeper, came near freezing to death in his big ice chest, where he was con fined by burglars while they footed his place.
 The town of Kieng- -Ning-Foo, in the province of Fo-Kien, China, has been widely placarded with bills offering reward of $1,oo0 for the heads of missionaries.
 Mrs. Herzog, who was shot by her husband, Charles Herzog in St. Louis, some weeks ago, when he killed his mother-in-law and himself, is pro nounced out of danger.
 Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussi1 has presented to his imperial parents the first product of his trade of cabinet maker a beautiful writing desk, artistically finished.
 The boiler of the electric light plant at Fairview, H., exploded, Saturday night, wreclling the building. Frank Stephens, the engineer, was dug from the debris. fatally mangled.
 Daniel Tucker. an East St. Louis Nll.) negro. while digging for gold, following the directions of gypsy fortune teller, found human skele- ton bearing evidence of foul play.
 It is said that an English syndicate, with a capital of SI0O,000,ooo, has started in to purchase all of the cat tie in Texas, with q view of cornering the cattle market of this country.
 Thomas Walsh, the noted New York politician, better known as Fatty" Walsh, died, Sunday night, of heart failure, aged 63 years. He was the father of Blanche Walsh, the actress.
 A partial examination of the books of former Tax Collector George L. Griswold, of Norwich, Conn.,, who has been arrested, self-eonfessed embez- zler, shows a shortage of about $25. GOO.