The Monticellonian., 1895-11-08


 TIE Edgar Thomson steel works al Braddoell, Pa. were closed down, on the 1st, temporarily, for alterations, throwing nearly 2,09O men out of em- ploymcnt.
 JOIN VICTORY, the oldest resident of Brooklyn, N. Y, died, on the 3lst, at his home in that city, No. 937 Pacific street, from natural causes. Deceased came to Brooklyn from Ireland early in the century. He was born in Coun- ty Cayan in 1790, and was therefore 105 years old at the time of his death He leaves behind seventY-two descend ants, five sons, one daughter, forty-two grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren.
 ADVICEs from Marsovan. Asia Minor, of the 1st, show that the trouble which was anticipated by the United States minister. Mir. Alexander ". Terrell, in dispatch to the state department at Washington in August last, has cul- minated in an attempt to burn the American college there.
 DR. $. A. BRIGGs was logging his i4-year-oid son at Ingalls,, Okla, on the 1st, because the boy did not heed orders about certain chores about the house, when young Briggs pulled a revolver and shot his father through the arm and body from which Dr. Briggs will die
 AFTER five days of debate in the South Carolina constitutional conven- tion, Senator Iillman's suffrage plan was ordered to its third reading, on the 1st, by vote of 6 to 37. \ great many members were absent on busi- ncss or otherwise, but d. they were paired, tue result would not have been changed.
 GREAT BRITAIN has demanded that Capt. Hothaire, the Belgian officer who ordered the execution of the British trader, Stokes, in Africa, be tried by court-martial. on the charge of murder, and that Belgium pay an indemnity of 900 GOO francs to Stokes family.
 joaN H. REuHazDs, TO years of age, was killed by trolley carin Williams burg Long Island on the evening of the 1st. This death makes the one hun dred and thirtieth victim of Brooklyn trolley roads in three years.
 TIE citizens of Windsor and Essex county, Ont, who formed an "Inde- pendence of Canada club recently, have become q political party. and will promuigate it's principles throughou. the dominion.
 JOIN N. GApNAN, an uncle of Mrs, Cleveland, wife of. the President. att tempted to commit suicide in Chicago, on the 2d, by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver
 IN Ghifi the democrats are using vio- lent language in regard to Spain, and a conflict between them and the Spanish residents is imminent
 HENRY II. HoLAEs was convicted in Philadelphia, on the aa, of murder in the irst degree for the killing Of Ben jamin r. Pitezel
 IRE London Daily News announces that q Tyneside firm has received Japanese order to build three new battle-ships.
 THE official speed of the Ammen ram Katahdin, built by the Bath (Me) iron works, is l6 13 knots, as reported to Secretary Herbert by the trial board, and the vessel stands rejected under her contract, bearing the dis tincton of being the first yesse} of the Rew navy failing to reach contract re- quirements.
 TIE Brazilians, according to late Rio de Janeiro dispatch, are deter mined to recognize Cuba
 OLIVER CURTIS PERRY, the train rob- Der, has been transferred from Auburn (N. " prison 10 the Matteawau state hospital for the criminal insane