The Monticellonian., 1895-05-31
CURRENT TOPICS.
ldh NhWb IN bhlhf. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| nese officials, civil and military.
 ON the night of the 10th, in the re- vival meeting conducted by Evangelist Chapman and Bill Horn at Ottumwa, Ia., w. T, Miller was among the first to profess conversion. On the goth he fell dead on the street from a broken blood vessel.
 ADvIcEs from western Michigan say that all fruit and vegetables that sur vived the previous frosts were ruined by that of the night of the 20th.
 J. B. KoETTING, eX-cashier of the South Side savings bank of Milwaukee, which suspended in 1893 with S1 ,500,- GOO deposits, and which will not pay twenty cents on the dollar changed his plea of not guilty, on the 21st, to guilty of receiving deposits in an in solvent bank, and was sentenced to five years in states prison.
 BY an explosion of nitro-glycerine, on the 2lst, the California powder works at Pinola, Cal, were destroyed at loss of s25o 900, and five white men and nine Chinamen were killed and a number injured
 AN explosion occurred at the Monon- gah mine, 30 miles south of Morgan town, W. Va, on the Fist, in which four persons were killed and several injured. The remainder of the 132 men at work got out in safety.
 FRANZ voN SUPPE, the famous com poser, died in Vienna on the 21st.
 TIE Schroeder Commission Co.,, car rying on a bucSet-shop business in the Exchange building at Kansas City, Mo, , failed on the evening of the Fist, with liabilities placed at S135, GOO. There are no visible assets. The firm was on the wrong side of the wheat market and was caught short.
 THE Michigan senate. on the 21st, by a vote of IS to 12 passed the bill to re- store capital punishment in certain cases in that state.
 REPRESENTATIVE CoGswELL, of Mas sachusetts, who had been i'll at Wash ington for three weeks. died at o'clock on the morning of the 22d. He sui fered from complication of diseases, and his death had been expected for some time.
 GEORGE H. HosMER, the well-known oarsman, was reported. on the 22d, to be in critical condition at the city hospital in Boston. 4 few days before he accidentally swallowed some small splinters of broken glass while drink ing, and the physicians did not expect him to live, as internal bleeding had set in.
 TIE Vivant hotel, opera house block and several other buildings in Anti ge, Wis, were destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 22d The guests of the hotel were compeled to jump from windows to escape the flames and several were severely bruised; loss, S20 000
 THE crew of the German steamer Virginia, lying in the harbor of Gopen- hagen, mutined, on the 22d, whereupon the captain drew his revolver and shot several of them. one or two seriously. This quelled the mutiny, and the wounded men, together with the others concerned in the revolt, were placed under arrest.
 A DISPATCH from London, on the 22d, stated that Gen. Booth, of the Salvation army, was seriously i'll in that city.
 ON the 22d the Pittsburgh (Pa.) jury in the case of Pitcher Baldwin against Chris von der Ahe, manager of the St. Louis Browns, for false imprisonment, gave Baldwin S2, 300 damages.
 GEN. S. s. HINKLE, a prominent law yer of Washington city, and adjutant general of Ohio during the war. died in Washington very suddenly on the 21st.
 TIE statement was current in Wash ington, on the 23d, that on the assem- bling of the next congress Represents tive Boutelle will offer resolution to strike from the records of the navy de- partment President Cleveland's cen sure of Admiral Meade, because it is without precedent to censure an off cer untried by court-martial for an al legged offense.
 THE trial of Capt H. w. Howgate, upon the remaining indictments charg- ing him with false certitication of his current accounts as disbursing officer of the signal service, and with forg- ing voucher for S4, GOO in favor of the American Union Telegraph Co, was, on the 23d, set for June G.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the 23d, said that it was rumored that China will repudiate her obligation to pay additional indemnity to Japan in consideration of the latter's abandon ment of Liao-Tung.
 ON the 23d the duke of Westminster introduced to Lord Rosebery, British premier, deputation favoring British interference in Armenia The inter view was private at the desire of the premier.
 THE bill of Mir Waite, of Menomi- nee, making it unlawful to treat tc spirituous liquors in any saloon or bar room passed the Michigan house or the 23d: Yeas, 75; nays, F.
 A REPORT from St. Petersburg. or the 23d, stated that Germany haG raised slight obstacles against the de mand of Russia and France that Ja pan shall furnish guarantees for the security of European commerce in For mosa and the Pescadores.
 RECORDER 0wsLEY and ninety-fve others were indicted in kansas City, Mo, on the 23d. for election frauds
 HoN. HUeH McCULLooH, formerly secretary of the treasury, died, at hi' home near Washington, shortly befor, a. m. of the 24th. With him wher the end came were his two sons, mar ried daughter and a grandson. Deatf was calm and peaceful. Mir. McCullocl was over 80 years of age.
 TIE wreck of ship has been discov cred miles off shore, miles west O Hnnl1irl1 N Y IL lies in 6h feet O