The Monticellonian., 1899-03-10
OTHERWISE UNNOT1CEn

The opera house at Pine Bluff, Ark. was destroyed by fire
 The Chinese government has refused the demand of Italy for a lease of San Nun bay.
 The steamer II. W Buttorff sunk near Clarksville, Tenn. All the pas sengers were saved
 The village of Pena Francia, near Paco, has been burned by the Filipino insurgents
 Tin plate and brick manufacturing companies in the east have raised the wages of employees.
 Germany is said to have renewed the negotiations for the purchase of the Caroline islands.
 Isaac Grimes, aged -. one of Cass county's tlllD early settlers, died Sun day evening, at Virginia.
 The finance committee of the sen ate will sit during the recess to con sider currency questions.
 \ naval powder magazine near Tou= lon, France. WAS blown up, and fully 100 men killed or wounded.
 A building at Helotee, Tex, was blown mp with dynamite, and several persons were seriously injured.
 Saloons in St. Louis were closed, as a general rule, Sunday, and a number of yiolators of the law were arrested.
 Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma recom- mends an appropriation for terri torial exhibit at the St. Louis Worlds fair
 Andy Gumbach assaulted and stabbed the god parents at a christen- ing in St. Louis, and broke up the ceremony.
 Heavy rainfalls preeipitated floods at points along the Ohio river and trib= ntaries Two-thirds of Charleston, " Va, is under water.
 Effort is being made to induce the Illinois legislature 10 remove the seat of the appellate court from Mount Yer non to East St Louis.
 The dead body of F. H. Eads, broth CT of the famous St. Louis bridge builder. was found in his cabin, near Elliston, Mont. He was 70 years of age.
 The necessity of suppressing fli- clustering expeditions fs the cause of admiral Dewey asking the navy de partment for more vessels of light draught
 Naval officers are indignant at the action of the senate in holding up all as the result of the battle off Santiago because of the sehley Sampson con troyersy.
 Ryan, Kennedy and Sheppard. the alleged Maeomh train robbers, were taken from Springfield to Green conn. ty, Mo-. where their cases will come up this week.
 The cabinet at Madrid has decided to suppress the pensions of all former ministers. This is the beginning of an economical policy decided upon by the new premier.
 The bubonie plague is raging al Bombay with unparalleled severity. According to official returns. there were o52 deaths last week, but these quite underrate the mortality
 An entire hotel at Gimiez has been chartered for Queen Nictoria's occu- pancy While in France the queen will be protected from outsiders by her own private guard of 12 soldiers, the pick of the English army.
 Three small children of MT and Mrs Rhinehart, of Walkers Valley. Wash, were burned to death The chil- dren had been locked tip in, the house while the parents were at work in the woods
 A case of smallpox has been discov- cred in big downtown apartment house, in Cleveland, O., in which near ly 4oo persons are living. The victim is an attorney and he was the roommate of Frederick l. Taft, assistant county solicitor.
 The body of D. P. Ewing, a member of the firm of the Tyler fTcX) Bank ing Co.,, was found in the Tyler bot fling works Sunday. Near him was found an empty morphine bottle, indi- eating suicide.