The Monticellonian., 1894-09-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

met in Cleveland, O., on the 18th. The appearance of Mrs. $. 5. Cox, widow of the late Congressman Sunset Cox, was greeted with applause and she was escorted to the stage amid deafen- ing cheers.
 TIE Nivison < Wikoff bottle factory, Ut Elwood, Ind, resumed operations, on the l7th, with 200 hands at re duction of 12 per cent. in wages The plant will run at full capacity in all departments.
 MR. E. A. TATLocK, of Salt Lake City, republican member of the Utah commission, was at the interior de partment on the 18th, in connection with the forthcoming annual report of the commission.
 Gov. FLOWER, of New York author ized the announcement. on the 18th, that he is not q candidate for renomi- nation, and will not allow his name to be presented to the coming democratic convention.
 CHARLES P. PHILLIPS, q Wall-st street banker, was arrested, on the 18th, on warrant from Philadelphia charging him with having embedded and appro- priated to his own use d large sum of money in Philadelphia seven years ago, when Phillips was president of the Co- lumbia savings bank there.
 TIE third member of a dangerous gang of eounterfeiters who have been flooding southern Oregon and northern California with spurious coin, was ar rested, on the 10th, at Scott Valley, Cal, by Detective Harris. There were fifteen members of the gang, and they dealt in quarters, halves and dollars.
 TIE cavalry troop at Fort Bowie. Ariz., which has been ordered to Fort Logan. near Denver. will march the en- tire distance, TO miles. About forty days will be allowed for the march, which will be the longest made by cavalrymen since the opening of rail- roads.
 ON the 19th Supervising Architect 0Rourte of the treasury department rendered his resignation to Secretary Carlisle, as requested by the latter 1t was promptly accepted.
 TIE Ohio democratic state canven tion adopted a platform declaring pro teeton q fraud favoring the coinage of silver at ratio of l6 10 1. deneunc- ing Gov. McKiuleyts administration and "MekinIeBism. declared in faver of the election of United States sena- tors by the people, fayoring liberal pen sions and denouneing the A.P. A. No candidate for senator was nominated.
 LOUISIANA sugar planters have ap= piled for a mandamus to compel Secre- tarv of the Treasury Carlisle to con tinue inspection as under the bounty law.
 PERRY COOK, the notorious crook. who was captured near Lincoln, Okla, on the 17th, with several stclen horses in his possession, was lYnehed, on the 10th, by a committee of farmers.
 THE eighth annual convention of the United Typothet@ met in Philadelphia on the 18th One hundred delegates were in attendance
 BLAkEIY DURANr, familiarity known as "0ld shady, died at Grand Forks, N. D.. on the 18th. He was the body servant of Gen. sherman during the rebellion and was feelingly mentioned in the latter's memoirs. He was the "Old Shady" of the familiar war melody.
 MAJ. PHPPs, in charge of expert ments with dynamite guns, has re ported to the government that the dynamite gun is a success.
 LATE PRINCE, a farmer, living two miles from Nottingham Center, O., al most chopped his wife te pieces on the 18th, and then cut his own throat with a razor. The woman died in a few minutes, and the man cannot live.
 MATTHIAS BRowNER, JR., and Hippen Drake, wood-sawyers of Valparaiso. Ind, have received $500, 900 each as a settlement for claims against a Sl4.- 000, GOO estate.
 MANY casualties are reported in a fight between 100 police and 5000 mmers near Matherwell, Scotland, on the 18th.
 A LARGE number of women clerks 5.2s been dismissed from the treasury department lately. It is said to mark a new policy in treasury appointments in the future
 EDWARD T. BARTLETT, justice of the New York court of appeals, who de feated Isaac II. Maynard last fall was married on the 18th, at the home of the brides mother in New York city, to Miss Annie Platt The bride is a daughter of the late Banker William H. Platt.
 MAYOR HOPKINS of Chicago issued an order, on the 20th, closing all gam bling houses in the city The order had it's intended effect. Deputy sher- ifs, acting on warrants issued by the superior court, raided the notorious House of David and the Newport club at 2:30 8, m., but at neither place was gambling in progress.
 DICK GOODMAN, the leader of the Goodman gang of outlaws, pleaded guilty at Anderson, Ind, on the goth. He asked delay of one day in pro nouncing sentence, so that he could plead for mercy on account of physical ailments caused by bullets from dep uty sheriff's revolver,
 DR. NETTLEsHIP, the oculist, has re. gently made another examination, al Hawarden, of Mir. Gladstone's eyes, and exp,essed himself as well satisfied with the condition of the ex-prime minister and gave ground for hopes that no further operation will be nee essary.
 THE question of the establishment oi direct steamship service between Canada and Cape Colony is being care fully considered, and it is believed that before many weeks some definite scheme will have been prepared for