The Monticellonian., 1894-10-26
LIP to the 18th the covernment off,

UP to the 18th the government Ofl- eials at Simla, British India, had re- ceived no confirmation of the report that the ameer was dead.
 THEODORE ZIMMERMAN. the fifth vic- tim of the rioting at Washington Court house, O., on the night of the 17th, died on the 10th,
 PATRICK CROWLEY, a fireman at the Milwaukee Soldiers home, was fatally stabbed, on the 18th, by someone un7 known.
 SCHOOL INSPECTOR Walsh, of Detroit, Mich, who was charged with accepting a bribe, was, on the 10th, adjudged not guilty. The jury was out nearly twen- ty-four hours.
 A LARGE part of the extensive plant of the famous Tredegar iron works at Richmond, Va, was destroyed by fire, early on the morning of the llth. Loss, about S150, 900.
 TIE inspectors of pelagic sealskins at San Francisco have reported to the treasury department the number of sealskins taken by the pelagic sealers during the last season and brought to San Francisco. The skins examined were II, ,794, and of this number 9,239 were taken from females and ,295 from males, and i,260 from pups; 6 unknown.
 CHIEF ENGINEER HENRY D. McEwEN, U. s. N, died in Washington, on the 18th, aged 65 years. He entered the navy in 1861 and was in charge of the monitor Cannonicus. He served on the great lakes, at the New York and Boston and Philadelphia navy yards and on the steamship Boston when that vessel was attached to the white squadron.
 CAPT WILLIAM B. J0HNs, a veteran of the Mexican war and graduate of the West Point class of 1s40, with Sher- man and others, died in Washing ton on the 18th. He fought under Scott and Taylor in the most important bat ties of the Mexican war and later saw Indian service in the southwest
 CAPT. BUSCE, commanding the battle ship Maine. has made report to the navy department on the trial trip that vessel made on the 17th. The trial lasted four hours. The contractors expressed themselves as satisfied. The average speed was 5.95 knots, and the highest speed 17.S2.
 JUDGE LAeoMBE, on the 10th, in the United States circuit court in New York city, rendered a decision in the case of John James Howard. Levi P. Morton's coachman. The judge dis missed the writ of habeas corpus and ordered Howard to be taken back to Ellis Island He will be sent back to Europe
 FREDERICK NJ. STEELE, geologist of Montelair, N J., while prospecting for amet hyst crystals in the Montclair mountains, on the 10th, unearthed box 1Sxs inches, bound with steel bands. The box was easily opened with d spade, and was found to contain gold nuggets, which had been melted and broken, to the value of S15, O00
 TIE federal grand jury in Chicago returned an omnibus indictment, on the 18th, against Debs and the officers of the American Railway union and a large number of persons charged with participation in violence and the ob. struction of the malls and commerce on the different railroads last summer
 DEFECTIVE RoHAN, of Chicago, on the 10th, identified the wounded Bloom field Qnd.) bank robber, who is in jail at Sullivan, as George West, one of the most notorious safe-blowers of the west He was captured after desper. ate fight.
 JOIN KNUBBE was divorced from Mary Knubbe at Columbus, O., on the 10th. Four other divorced husbands testified against her and three couldn't a attanj tho trial