The Monticellonian., 1895-05-10

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 LEVI E. TAFT, one of Michigan's emt. nent jurists, died at his home in Pon. tiac, on the 29th, aged 79.
 ON the 1st Gov. Morton of New Yorl, granted Dr. buchanan, the wife mur- derer, another weeks respite
 FLoBTDA's quarantine regulations went into effect on the 2d and will continue in force until Nov, 15 next.
 TIE resignation of Theodore Roose- welt as a member of the eivil-serviee commission was received at the execu- tive mansion on the 30th.
 THE Afghan authorities have ordered Umra Khan, who was captured in Al ghanistun, to be turned over to the au- thorities of Great Britain.
 TnE public debt statement issued on the lst, shows net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during April, of go, l09, s5752. Total cash in the treasury, S7o7, 442i 385.
 FoR using Il profane epithet four times, Mir John Hoffman, contractor, was, on the Soth, fined S2.68-sixty- seven cents for each time-by Alder man Donovan, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
 GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT, thirteenth earl of Pembroke and Mont gomery, died Tt Nauheim, Hesse, OH the 3d He WAS born in 1850, and was under secretary of the British war office in ls74-5.
 FAILUKEs in the United States for the week ended on the 3d, as reported by E. G. Bun < Go, were 231, against a33 for the corresponding week last year. In Canada the failures were 34, against 90 last year.
 TIE supreme court of Ohio, on the 3a9h, held, i'll ease from Lucas coun- ts,.that the owner of q building is not liable to a sub-contractor, if, after pay ing the contractor said contractor fail to pay the snb-contraetor.
 TIE iron manufacturers of the Ma honing valley in Ohio decided, on the 8d, toiuerease wages fifteen cents a day in all furnaces. This valley contains more important blast furnaces than any similar stretch of territory in the world.
 I'm German marine department has contracted with the North German Llogds and Hamburg American steam snip companies fer the construction of ten ocean liners which shall become Hrmed auxiliary cruisers i'll the event of war
 FoB the nine months ending March BI last l30 as0 immigrants arrived in the United States. They are known te have brought with them i'll cash e2, 3gf, sl6, and 1t is believed that many times this amount escaped the scrutiny of the officials.
 MRs. MARY BROWN. monogamian pensiouer, dieds on the 10th. at her home miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, soldier in the revolutionary war, and N to bOlIl III I9uts llCI lluSbduu Qltu hfty-one years ago.
 FRIEND of President Cleveland is authority for the statement that, in case he is not nominated for a third term he will make an extended for eign tour soon after he leaves the White House, visiting England, France, Germany, Austria. Italy and Russia.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the 3d, said that the Chinese, with a view of preventing the Japanese from en- tering Pekin, had cut the embankment of the Pei-Iio river and flooded miles of country. Hundreds of persons were caught by the rushing waters and drolAled.
 TIE 500 students ut sthe Ohio Wes. leyan university at Delaware, O. were notified by President Bashford, at the annual chapel exercises, on the evening of the 2d, that beginning with the opening next fall, no student will be allowed to attend who persists ill the use of tobaeco
 AN outbreak of the plague at the naval station at Moji, in southern Ja. pan, was reported, on the 30th, but the United States sanitary inspector at Yokohama reports that such strict measures for repression have been adopted that there is very little dan. ger that the disease will spread.
 TnE Kings county (N Y)grand jury finished its work for the term, on the 3d, by handing in an indictment against the Brooklyn Heights Rail road Co.,, charging it with manslaugh. ter, in the killing of Mary Medinger, 6S years old, on March 26 last. The dis trict attorney immediately issued a summons, which was served on Presi. dent Lewis.
 TIE French foreign office Is firmly convinced that the United states gov. ernment is secretly supporting Japan, and this belief is shared i'll the Rus. sian and German embassies in Paris.