The Monticellonian., 1899-04-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

feHSONal AND GENERAL.
 The department of state has aseer- taiheG that the report that six Ameri can citizens are held Tn prison il Guatemala is without foundation.
 The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 5th showed: Available cash balance, S279 ,5GS, ,SG4; gold reserve, $245, 5,425,249.
 NJ. John Addison Porter, secretary to the president, is confined to his home by illness, the result of over IerA
 The F.. <. G. Brooke Ircn Co.,. at Birds boro, Pa, on the 3tn, increased the wages of their puddlers ten per cent.
 \ heavy fall in the price of wheat in the Gillian market was reported on the 5th.
 Articles of incorporation were filed with the secretary of state at Trenton, \. J., on the 9th, of the International Powder and Dynamite Co, with an aa- thorized capital of $1000o.0oo. The company is formed to manufactur. powder and dynamite.
 Thomas Molloy. secretary and treas uref of the Onondaga Coarse Salt as- sociation. and receiver for the Amef.- can Dairy Salt Co.,, died at Syracuse, \. Y.. on the 9th. He mad been coll nectec with the salt industry for about $ years.
 The French government has decided to grant temporary drawback on st gars used in the manufacture of transparent soaps for export.
 special dispatches from TroppaI, capital of Austrian SiIesia. say there is q probability that the three emper- oIs will meet in the autumn at Skierni- wee, town of Poland, 42 miles from Warsaw
 \. NJ. Glapp, formerly public printer, is very i'll at Ais residence in Washing ton city, and is not expected to ree6F- CT. Mir. Glapp is about eo wears old, end his illness is due to old age.
 Notice was posted i'll the Penn iron works of Lancaster, Pa.. on the 9th. of an advance of 9 cents a ten for pud- ding, and a corresponding increase for all skilled laborers.
 Gov, Thomas of Colorado, an the 9th. signed the bill passed by the general assembly, legalizing prize fighting when conducted by licensed clubs.
 The directors of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. met in San Francisco. on the 9th, and reelected the old officers.
 Gen. Weston. on ahe 9th. assumed f 70 nop,,,;cc.,,,s JaDo,@t- ment as acting commissary general
 With full military honors and in the presence of the president, his cabinet, the general commanding the army and his staff and many diplo- matIc and civic dignitarics. funeral services were held, on the 9th, at Ar lngton cemetery over the remains of S36 soldiers of the United States, brought from Cuba and Porto Rico
 II. the burning of the palatial home Of Wallace (. Andrews, president of the New York Steam Heating Co.,. III New York city, on the morning of the sth, Mrs. St. John, a married daughter of Mir. Andrews and her young son. Mr and Mrs. Andrews, their two sons 
 Brig. g.-Gen. Roy Stone has called the attention of the president to the star vation and distress in Po"to Rico. lie thinks that the desperate state of the people may lead to insurrecton if re- lief is not forthcoming.
 With the Stars and Stripes dropping gracefully over the stern of each. the ich AI,-.- ,l. ano Sandoval sailed into New York harbor, on the 9th, and, amid the cheering of thousands of persons lined up on shore and on the Brooklyn bridge, they proceeded to the Brook- lyn navy yard, where they will tie up for couple of days before going To the Portsmouth (N. H. navy yard.
 Samuel M Graham, well known throughout central PennsyYania. was instantly killed at Phillipsburg, on the 9th, while attempting to get kodak picture of a large stump, which was about being blown out of the ground with dynamite, q silver striking him in the neck and nearly decapitating him.
 The Paris Temps says that Russia WILL StHt dIl tN pttillloll lO CI at a cost of $l50,000, to measure a parallel of latitude, in order to test the theory that the earth is fattening at the poles and expanding at the equator.
 On the 7th the state department re- ceived the formal invitation from the government of the Netherlands to par ticipatg in the disarmament confer enee, ra be held at The Hague, begin hing May IS.
 Tho directors of the Spirits Distrib- uting Co.,, of New York, declared a dvI- dend of three per cent. on the first preferred stock and one per cent. on the second preferred
 The jury in the George case at Can ton. O., was completed on the 7th
 Military movements are noticeable in the northern provinces of Spain in connection with the Carlsts' threat ened uprising.