The Monticellonian., 1895-10-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

presented to Capt Alfred Krech, com mander of the Ham burg American line steamer Suevia, in recognition Of Capt. Krech's act In saving the crew of eight men of the American schooner Mary E. Amsden on February 26 last.
 ADvIcEs from Constantinople, on the 10th, stated that most serious conse- quences were feared from the general situation growing out of the renewed Armenian agitation and the resump- tion of rioting. The intervention of the powers to restore order and en- force reform was imminent
 PADEREwsKI, tue pianist sailed from Liverpool for New York, on the 18th, on board the steamer Teutonic. MAURICE PERKINS, well-known newspaper man, formerly connected with the New York Sun, while delir- ious, on the 16th. leaped from third story window of the city hospital in Indianapolis, Ind, and was fatally hurt by the fall.
 THE directors of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have again failed to de- clare dividend on the common stock of the company.
 TIE celebrated Hezekiah B. Smith will case, which involves an estate of S200, 900, and which has been in four different courts during the past eight years, was concluded in the court of chancery at Trenton, N. J., on the | 18th, when the will was declared in- valid and the disowned widow, Yer ona, and the two sons of the dead 1 t,4 nc +o rights.
 N. A. CARLTON, of the government department of agriculture, has been sent to central Kansas to make experi- ments on prairie wheat-growing. He will plant l, 1000 varieties of wheat, 100 of oats and many of corn, barley and rye, with a purpose of testing their re- sistanee to rust. Also he will attempt to secure, by crossing, a variety of wheat that will withstand the prairie winds and the long droughts.
 #Ex-CoNGREssMAN R. w. DUNHAM was, on the l6th. awarded Sl5, ,00o dam ages by a Chicago jury against Maj Allyn for alienation of his wife's af- fections- Dunham had asked $40 GOO. but as two of the jurors were in favor of verdict for Allyn on the first bal lot s1b, 900 was agreed upon as a com promise.
 AFTER long conference with J. R. Colean, the defaulting cashier of the state bank of Fort Scott, Kas, on the 1 10th, Vice President J. ]. Stewart made 1 the startling announcement that the amount of his dedication would proba- bly exceed s5oO
 JAMES DIXON, one of the prisoners locked up in the jail at Buffalo, N. Y, on account of the tragedy at Tona- wanda, in which Capt. Phillips and his son were murdered, hanged himself in his cell on the 17th.
 ON the 9th an explosion occurred on a steamship near King -Chow-Foo. The | steamship was loaded with Chinese 1 troops, and it is reported that 600 of them were killed.
 | A BUENos AYREs dispatch of the 16th said it was reported that Brazil had recognized the Cuban insurgents as l belligerents.
 THE new steamer St. Paul arrived at Southampton at s:15 a. m. on the 17th. l She experienced bad weather most of the way. The machinery worked smoothly. Daily runs: 394, 9s2, 402, 4l2, 439, S24, 39O, to the Needles BIO.
 THE North German Lloyd Steamship 1 Co is said to have ordered the con- struction of two new steamers at l Govan, Scotland, which are to be I larger than the Lucania and Cam pania.
 MR. J. F. LAYcooK's steam yacht Valhalla, with Lord Dunraven on board, passed Prawle point, on the l 17th. She left Newport, R. l., on Sep tember 2s.
 MAYOR SPANNAMAN of Reading, Pa. has been arrested at the suit of a farmer residing in Lower Alsace town ship for trepass. Other warrants are out
 SARAH LEwMAN, spinster, aged 46, died at Jeffersonville, Ind, on the 17th. About S7,000 was found hidden about the premises. Her estate Is large.
 THE next annual encampment of the Union Veteran league will be held in Washington city.
 IT was announced in Madrid, on the 17th, that 12 000 troops would start for Cuba on the 22d,
 NICE-PREsIDENT STEWART of the State bank of Fort Scott, Kas., and T. J. Strode and J. Meade, stockholders in the bank, swore out a complaint on the 17th, against J. R. Colean, the de- faulting cashier, charging him with em bezzling S9,000, the amounC of shortage in the reserve fund of the bank, and a warrant was issued, and Colean was arrested.
 AT a meeting of the executive com mittee of the board of trustees of Kan sas City university, of which Il. J. Heinz, of Pittsburgh. is president, plans for the erection of buildings to cost S100 QUO were decided upon the work upon the main building is to be begun immediately. An offer of the donation of museum valued at S30,' 900 was also considered.
 REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE, the ia nous divine, will soon figure in tive extensive lawsuits brought against him by western Pennsylvanians, unless he can succeed in squaring himself He is accused of breaking two con tracts to lecture, which cost the peo pie who were to pay him many hun dreds of dollars in preparation.
 JOHN JONES was found dead in the woods near Charlottesville, Ind, on the 17th, having shot himself while insane from the use of whisky. He thought whitecaps were after him and escaped