The Monticellonian., 1895-05-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A DRILL sunk in Hamilton county, Ind, in search of oil, struck water, which sends up a stream through six-inch pipe rising 130 feet above the surface and threatens to submerge the neighborhood. It is thought the wa ter comes from a subterranean river.
 ON the 24th the president approved the proceedings and findings of the court-martial which tried First Lieut.. F. L. Leveridge, Fourteenth infantry, at Vancouver barracks, on a charge of drunkenness while on duty, and sen tenced him to dismissal from the mili tary service.
 ONE HUNDRED employees of the Cleve- land (O.) Ship Building Go. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands S2. 37 and new men g. 9 per day. The strike was for S2.50 per day rate. The strikers were employed in the boiler making department.
 MR. ROBERT k. HIT. representative in congress from Illinois, who had been dangerously i'll at his residence in Washington, was somewhat better on the 22d, but not yet out of danger.
 EX-UNTrED STATES SENATOR JAMES |. WILSON died, after protracted ill., ness, at Fairchild, la, on the 22d.
 ANOTHER violent earthquake, accom- panied with thunder, shook Laibach, Austria, on the 22d. Eight or ten buildings collapsed, and the few fami lies who had returned to their homes fled back again in terror to the fields.
 PUBLICATION of Kate Fields Wash ington, weekly paper established by Miss Field in 1890, will be suspended until winter, owing to ill-health of it's owner.
 Ar 1 o'clock on the morning of the 23d furniture wagon in which a party of young amateur actors were return ing to Providence, k. l., from the town of Pontiac, was run into and demoI- ished by an elecric car, and five of the party were injured one of them, it was thought, fatally.
 HE Nicaraguan government was advised, on the 23d, of the arrival of three British war ships at Corinto to enforce the British ultimatnm. Presi- dent Seelaya cabled to Lord Kimberly, British secretary of state for foreign affairs, asking time. Much surprise was expressed that there was no Amer ican war vessel at Corinto
 JULIA GROSS. aged 16, whose parents intended to send her to the House of the Good Shepherd, jumped from a fourth-story window of her home in New York, on the 23d, and killed her self.
 CATHERINE ScoTT, the oldest woman in Brooklyn, died, on the 23d, at the advanced age of 103 years. She was born in Ireland and came to Brooklyn seventy years ago.
 OSCAR WLDE's valuable collection of prints, Moorish pottery and bric-a- brac was sold at auction on the 24th. The articles sold included Carlisle's writing table.
 AT the London foreign office 1t was officially stated, on the 24th, that the three British war ships in the harbor of Corinto, Nicaragua, were there for the purpose of enforcing the demands of Great Britain, set forth in the Brit ish ultimatum.
 RECIPROCITY between the United States and Hawaii in shipping regu- lations has recently been brought about by the action of the treasury department in giving to Hawaiian merchant vessels the same advantages enjoyed by American ships.
 PETITIONS for rehearing of the in come tax cases will be heard in the United States supreme court on May 6, iS iuf fa | ne % Jackson will be present and break the tie.
 INSTEAD of a few thousand dollars, as at first supposed, the dedication of the late Paul Schultz, who was land agent of the Northern Pacific railroad at Tacoma, Wash, will amount to $500, GOO, and may be more by S200, 900, according to the report of the ex- perts who are engaged in examining the accounts of the deceased. This shortage and disappointment in love are believed to have led to his suicide.
 SIX TONS of nitro-gl lycerine in the factory of the Ohio and Indiana Tor pedo Co. at Lima, O., exploded, on the 24th, doing considerable damage in the neighborhood. No lives were lost
 ON the 24th the president made the following appointments in the army: Brig.-G Wesley Merritt, to be ma jor- general; Col. $. E. Bliss, Twentyfourth infantry, to be brigadier- general; Col. John J. Coppinger, Twenty-third in fantry, to be brigadier general.
 SECRETARY GRESHAM, on the 24th, re- ceived a dispatch from Mir. Hannis Taylor, United States minister at Mad rid, assuring him that Spain would ac- cede to the demands of the United States in the Allianca affair, and that the commander of the Condo Venadito would be put on trial for his otfense for firing at an American vessel outside the zone.
 FIRE at Sylvania, O., on the 24th, destroyed seven buildings and at one time threatened to sweep the whole town. Toledo's fire department went to the rescue and saved the town from destruction.
 MRS. ANN M STANLEY, wife of Gen. D. S Stanley, governor of the soldiers home at Washington, D. C., died at the Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, on the 23d, after a long illness, in the presence of her husband and daughter.
 A RESOLUTION, presented by Mir. O. Grady, was adopted by the New York house of representatives, on the 24th, favoring the annexation of the Domin- ion of Canada to the United States and inviting the Canadian people to cast in