The Monticellonian., 1895-06-28

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 THE Iowa State Prohibition conven tio met, on the 10th, at Des Moines about 800 delegates being present.
 HE nineteenth annual council of the National British Women's Temperance association began in the city of Lon. don on the 17lh.
 FoB the first time since the opera. tioR was performed the physicians at. tending Gov Atkinson of Georgia held out hope, on the aOth, of his recovery.
 ALL the miners in the Sunday Creek valley, in Ohio, went on strike, on the goth, on account of the discharge oi two men by the rhmniX Coal Go. for loading dirty coal
 TIE formal opening of the Baltic ' and North Sea canal took place on the 20th. The ceremonies were grandlY imposing and were witnessed by great multitudes of people.
 ON the return of the new ocean liner St. Louis 10 New York she will be laid off for | trip, at the request of the Messrs. Gramp, while certain changes are made in her tunnels. |, SIX OF the alleged payroll suffers in the watefpiPe extension and street departments of Chicago. were arrested, on the Eth, on warrants issued at an early hour by Judge Burke, of the cir cult court.
 FAILURES in the United States dur ing the week ended the 2ist, as re- ported by B. G. Dun < Co, were 22s, against PA for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were sI, against 25 last year.
 Gov A1reELD of Illinois issued a call, on fhe lsfh for an extra session of the legislature, t9 convene on the 25th, at o'clock D. m, for the eonsid- eratien of q large number of matters specified in the call
 TIE National Mageable Castings Go and the Eberhard Manufacturing Co.,. of Cleveland, O, posted notices, on the 17th, of a 10 per cent increase in wages. Two thousand workmen par ticipate in the benefits of the raise.
 HE supreme court of Kansas, on the 10th, rendered its decision in the state pcniteHtiafF warden case, con frning the removal of Chase, and giv- ing possession of the prison to - E. Lynch, the recent appointee of Gov. Merrill.
 MRs. MARY BROWN, a monogTfrni ian pensioner, died, on the 10th. at her home miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was horn in lsOt Her husband died fifty-one years ago.
 EDITOR DUNBAR of the Phoenix (Ariz) Gazette was found guilty. on the 2oth, of criminal libel the plaintiffs being Gov. Hughes, C. NJ. Bruce, secretary of state of Arizona; Francis I IieneY ex- attorney general and United States Marshal ". I. Meaae
 NJ. T. WARD, a Chicago ex-poliee off cer, was arrested on the goth, on charges nf conspiracy to defraud the city in the Patrick Liddv case. Liddy was detected attempting to draw an other mans pay, and was falsely iden- tifcd. it is said, by Ward.
 ON the 18th the treasury gold re- serve was within $500, GOO of the si0o.- o0o,oo0 mark. This result was at tained by the agreement with the Bel monteMQrgan syndicate, by which the treasury had already received s5S, poo, . ooo in gold, leaving S7,0o0, GOO still due from the syndicate.
 SECRETARY HoKE SMITH. on the 18th, affirmed the decision of the commits sj9ner of the general land office, which dismisses the appeal of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. and insures to number of settlers their rights of homestead entries to lands in the Mis- soula (Mont.) district.
 THE opposition leaders of the British house of commons decided, on the @0th to move resolution setting forth that the house has no confidence in the ministry II was stated that Mir. Chamberlain had framed a resolu- Aioii sNAtlI8 IfI iild JtslF tp OliSlIIoN bilC present ministers and dissolve parlia- ment.
 TIE supreme court of Iowa. Judge Deemer absent, the other judges be ing equally divided, refused, on the 10th, to grant writ of supercedeas in in the case of the State vs Pressman, decided in the district court adversely to the legality of saloons in Des Mones, and all the saloons were im- mediate1y closed.
 TIE jury in the ease of Capt. II. W. Howgate, the ex-signal officer, re- turned a verdict, on the 2lst, of guilty on each indictment, with recom- mendation to mercy. One indictment charged Howgate with forgery and the other with a falsifcation of his accounts. Under the verdict he may be sentenced for from two to twenty years
 JUDGE dENKs filed a ruling in the United States court at Milwaukee, on the 18th, denying the petition of the