The Monticellonian., 1895-07-26
A DISPATCH from Santiago de Cuba,

A DISPATCH from Santiago de Cuba, on the 18th, said: "The report circu- lated that the insurgent leader An tonic Maceo had been wounded and captured by Spanish troops is un- true"
 SIX PERSONS lost their lives, on the 18th, by the capsizing of their boat at Ormsby broad, near Yarmouth, En- gland
 A TRUSTED messenger neatly robbed the New York Herald of Sl0, 900 on the l7th. He was sent late in the day to the Chemical bank with a check for S1O,O0O, signed by c. c. Rowland, busi. ness manager It was for the weekly pay roll. The check was cashed and the money slowed away in the valise carried by the messenger, who then disappeared
 TIE monster gas well, near Alex andria, ind, which has been belching forth over 1 000 GOO cubic feet of nat tural gas daily the past month, is at last under control By means of ma chinery and large force of workmen it has been attached to one of the gas mains of the town, and it's almost ir- resistible power has thus been dis tributed over large area.
 PHILADELPHIA advices of the 18th stated that H. H. Holmes intended to plead guilty to the murder of Howard Pitezel in Detroit, Mich. Holmes sen tence in that state would prevent his being extradited to stand trial on the charge of murder of the Pitezel chil- dren in Toronto, Ont. and by this means he might escape the gallows, as there is no capital punishment in Mich igan.
 THE state department has received a report from Consul O'Hara at San Juan del Norte, Greytown, inclosing a copy of decree prohibiting the landing of Chinese on the eastern coast of Ncara- qua and providing for deportation of those arriving hereafter.
 WHILE workmen were engaged in work on a sewer excavation at Harri. son, N. J., on the 18th, 400 feet of earth eaved in. Two men, Dennis Ryan and George Vil1aude, were killed outright. Five others were buried under the avalanche and frightfully hurt.
 A SPECIAL cable dispatch from Quay aquil, Ecuador, on the 18th, said: The first and second divisions of the pa triots' army have left for Quito Gen. Alfaro, with his staff, was to leave. on the 22d prepared to meet all emergen- eies \ general civil war is probable.
 ]. S. RYDER was killed and Pass more Collins, William Murphy, Daniel 0'Connell and John MeGinn were se- yerely injured by the upsetting of their hose cart while running to a fire in Philadelphia, on the l9th.
 ALLEN JAQUA, brother-in-law of the late Isaac P Gray, of Indiana, late minister to Mexico, died in Washing ton city, on the 18th, after an illness of nine months. He had position in the pension office.
 THE Western Packing Co.'S horse meat canning establishment at Linn ton, Ore, the only one of the kind in existence in this country, began opera tions on the 18th.
 CLARENCE SEDGwIcK, of New York, committed suicide in hotel in Paris on the 10th.
 GEN. ScHoFIELD reached St Paul. Minn., on the 18th, on his long tour of inspection.
 JAMES l. TRAvERs, colored, was hanged in the United States jail in Washington, on the 10th, for the mur- der of Lena Gross, his colored mistress, in November last. He was about 2a years of age, and his mental capacity was extremely limited. He was exc cuted upon the seaffold that launched Guiteau into eternity