The Monticellonian., 1895-05-17
.CURREN TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

woman in the Whitechapel district of London, is the real Jack the Ripper.
 THE Paris newspaper La Lanterne, in an article on the result of the pro- tests against Japanese occupation of Chinese mainland territory, says: Russia has duped France unless she returns the service in Egypt which we rendered to her in Pe-Chi-Li."
 IN an explosion of dynamite at the Albright eolliery, near Llewellyn, Pa, on the 7th, one man was killed and several others injured, perhaps ia tally.
 ON the sth four freight conductors and eight brakemen on the Nickel Plate railroad, who had been long in the service, were discharged for vio- lation of a general order to the effect that all trainmen, engineers and fire men seen entering or leaving a saloon, either while on or off duty. would be immediately discharged. Forty other employees were ordered to report for examination on similar charges. TIE stage coach running between Calistoga and Clear Lake, Cal, was held up and robbed, on the 7th, by two masked men who secured about Sl 200 cash and footed Wen-Fargo's treasure box.
 FIFTEEN workmen employed in the dheens scementquarries at Gementville, Ind, were re ported, on the sth, in q critical condition from asphyxiation, as result of the influx of gas and foul mir, generated by blasting into the quarry where they were working The quaxry is fully 300 yards deep. stretching underground, backwards from the edge 5f q pond.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the 7th, said that the Chinese emperor had sent an autograph letter to the ezar, and another to President Faure asking Russia and France to assist China i'll bearing her war expenses. and promising special commercial ad- vantages in return.
 Col. JOIN E. GowES, who died re gently at Paris. France, after an illness of three days, was born in Lynn. Mass, March 6, 1925. He was an engineer of distinguished ability. It was he who raised the Russian fleet, sunk in the harbor of SebastopoI by the Russians, after the Crimean war.
 EDWARD E. CLARK. tool dresser. was caught in the rope Of hoisting der rick Eear Fin Hay, O., on the sth, and his body was carried to the butt wheel and literally cut into four pieces
 Ex-GoY. JAMES \. WESTON. of New Hampshire, died at Manchester in that state, on the sth.
 CHAELEs JOHNSON, q post office rob her, wanted in the Indian territory, escaped from United States deputy marshals between Clean and Sala. manca. \. l., on the sth He was captured in Brooklyn and was being taken west in an Erie train. He was handeatfed to a seat and was seeming ly in safe custody.
 NATHANIEL STRou6HER, lo4 years of age, celebrated his birthday anniver- sary. on the Sth, near English, Ind, and took part in the festivities with more agility than many present, who were almost half t hundred years younger than himself. Mr. Strougher is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, men in the state. He Is native of Tennessee.
 THE question of intercollegiate foot ball was brought up again, on the sth, in the meeting of the Harvard faculty. No official statement was given out, but 1t was learned from authentic sources that motion prohibiting the students from taking part in intercol- legiate football contests failed to pass by good majority.
 B. l.. BURROWS, Mayor Strong's conf dential secretary, on the sth, delivered to Clerk Kenyon, of the senate. the mayors approval of the Lexow New York city bipartisan police commission bill, together with memorandum stat ing his reasons for approving it.
 DR. $. G. ROCKER, mayor of Stanford, Ky, prominent business man, com mitted suicide, on tho sth, by hanging with small cotton rope in his meat house, He was 62 years old "A family, consisting of a widow and two chil- dren, survive him. His enemies had accused him of Illegally selling whisky in his drug store, and were continually bounding him.
 A WASHINGTON dispatch of the sth said: Unless there is decided change in the sentiment of Justice Jackson toward the income-tax law, he will vote against that law. In that event the whole section of the Wilson-G Gor- man act will be stricken from the statute books"
 Co., A. D. CRoss, one of the best known mon in SOuthprn IudioDo dia6 at Shelbyville, on the evening of the Sth, from stroke of paralysis. He located in Shelbyville in 1s40, moving from Lexington, Ky, and at the time of his death was drawing a pension of SIP per month.
 J. c, MONAGHAN, United States con- sul at Chemnitz, Germany, reports to the department of state that an effort Is being made there to keep foreigners out of the technical and industrial art schools Petitions to that end are be- ing circulated throughout Saxony. The covert object is to keep out En- glishmen and Americans.
 ROBERT K. GOODWIN, assistant cash fer of the wrecked bank of Lexington, Va, was found guilty, on the evening of the sth, of having made fraudulent, entries, and his punishment fixed by the jury ut four years in the state prison at Richmond.
 Ir is understood that Russia will not make any opposition if Japan aug ments the war indemnity from China. This will be a sort of return for the abandonment of the Liao Tung prov