The Monticellonian., 1895-05-17
ETARY OF THE TRrAsIrPY

ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY CURTIS has decided to invite proposals for a temporary public building in Chicago, to be occupied as local gov ernment offices pending the construe- tion of the new pu bile building
 NINE HUNDRED employees in the woolen and worsted mills of James Lee x Son, at Bridgeport, Pa, were thrown out of employment on the 9tb Three hundred of the hands struck for an increase in wages and the firm de- eided to close down the mills The in crease demanded was 40 per cent
 SAMUEL AYMER, the defaultiug book keeper of the National Shoe and Leather bank of New York city, who embedded SEQ GOO belonging to that institution, pleaded guilty. on the 9th. before Judge Benedict in the United States circuit court, and was remanded for sentence
 JUDGE THOMPSON after listening to arguments for four hours in the Cor don-Brown murder case at Louisville, Ky, on the 0th. decided that Fulton Gordon should not be held for trial, and discharged him
 TIE Delaware legislature adjourned sine die, on the 9th, with the sena- toriat deadlock still unbrozen. Speaker MeMullen of the house de- , elared H. A. Dupont elected United States senator
 Rr IIoN. SIR ROBERT PEEL, baronet, eldest brother of ex-SpcalIer Peel of the British ouse of commons, died in London, on the 9th, aged 7S years.
 Ar the meeting of the Greek cabinet, on the 9th, the ministers decided to resign after the public business then in hand should have been arranged.
 AN explosion, supposed to have been caused by natural gas wrecked q big lodging house at No. 10 Sherman street, Chicago, at t:15 o'clock on the morning of the 1lth. The entire front of the building was blown out and flames Immediately burst from the side and alley windows i number of the occupants were either killed out right or so badly injured that their re- eOverY k doubtful.
 PASSENGERS arriving by steamer at Tampa, Fla. on the 10th, reported the condition of things in Cuba as very en- eo0raging to the insurgents. who had captured the city of Guaymaro. on the eth, after desperate battle in which the insurgents lost TOO killed, and the Spanish troops 3,000.
 EoGR men were instantly killed by an explosion of coal dust in mine at Sopris, near Trinidad, Col, on the Josh, supposed to have been caused by flames communicating through creviee from an adjoining shaft which was on fire.
 TIE Spanish postmaster II Santiago de Cuba has been tampering with United states Consul Hyattas mail lis copies of American papers deliv- cred ta him on the 10th had all the Cuban news cut out.
 ON the 10th Gov. Morton signed As semhIyman Lawson's New York city magistrates bill. which IegisIates the New York police justices out of office.
 FOURTEEN dwelling houses were burned in Fa3ette City, Pa, oa the l0th, as the result of trying to start fire in a stove with carbon oil.
 TnE plant of the Imperial varnish works at Akron, O, was destroyed by fire on the lothi loss. S85. .00o.
 I'm failures in the United States fer the week ended on the 10th, as re- ported by R. c. Dun X Co, were 227. against 206 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 34, against 42 last year.
 ON the 10th Judge Shaw, of Rock ford, H., ruled against the motion of the attorneys for Schweinfurth to qoash the indictment against the pre- tended messiah