The Monticellonian., 1895-01-04

RumOr is current in Washington that Assistant Postmaster-Gene Frank Il. Jones, of Illinois, is engaged to Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, Gen Grants daughter
 SICILY suffered from severe earth quake shocks, on the 27th, and much damage is reported to have been done Messina and Milazzo felt the shocks most lleenly.
 TIE biggest and most successful fox hunt in the history of Allegheny coun- ty, Pa, took place on Christmas day. During the day a distance of twenty five miles was covered. The result of the hunt was ten foxes
 TIE presidents of the colleges of the state, at a meeting held in Indianap- olis, Ind, on the 27th, decided to pro- hibit intercollegiate football games henceforth Exhibition sports of any kind only will be allowed.
 TIE American Forestry association, having for its object the preservation of the forests of the country, convened GU bilt tN pal tlLltiJ OI tlCu1buIC III Washington city, on the 28th, for it's eighteenth annual meeting.
 TIE report from Cleveland that the Carnegie Steel Co.,, of Pittsburgh Pa, had closed deal for several thousand acres of land at Eorain, O., on which would be erected large steel plant was denied, on the 27th, by the officials of that company.
 HENRY NJ. SHELBY aged 50 years, of llonesdalc, Pa, who was presiding judge of the Twenty-second judicial district of Pennsylvania, consisting of the counties of Wayne and Pike, from 1s92 to 1891, died, on the night of the Both, of Bright's disease.
 Mss VIRGINIA CHEW, l6 years of age, daughter of Col. k. F. Chew, and grand daughter of John Augustine Washing ton. the last private owner of Mount Vernon, and q great-grandniece of George Washington, died at Charles town, w. Va, on the 25th.
 TIE body of Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, after being embalmed and placed in q mahogany casltet, the mountings and plate of which are solid silver, was ineioSed in case of lead and sent from London to Liverpool, on the 27th, for shipment to New York on the steamer Aurania.
 TIE police authorities of Berlin is sued orders prohibiting socialist clubs of that city from attending the thea tcrs in a body or in considerable num- bers during the holidays This order WAS issued with the idea of preventing demonstrations in the theaters against anti-revolution bills.
 TIE secretary of the interior, on the 2sth, requested the attorney general to bring suit against the Black Hills X Wyoming Railroad Co to forfeit the right-of-way to certain lands in South Dakota granted the road in 1ss7, pro vided the attorney general deemed it necessary and advisable.
 A BOMB was exploded near the off cial residence of United States Am bassador Wayne MacNeagh in Rome, shortly after II o'clock on the night of the 2Gth The explosion took place while Mr. MacVeagh's reception was iii progress but caused little or no ex- citemcnt among the guests. No dam age was done
 TIE president refused the applca- tion for pardon in the case of the In- dian Cha Nope Huah, alias Two Sticks, who was convicted of murder in South Dakota and sentenced to be hanged on the 2Sth. The Indian, with his sons and another Indian, deliberately mur- dcred four cowboys, whose hospitality they were enjoying.
 TIE extraordinary action of the gov ernment of Ecuador in permitting the Ecuadorian flag to be used in the trans fer of the Ghilian cruiser Esmeralda to Japan has excited the greatest indig nation in Ecuador and the adjacent re- publics. The only explanation offered by President Cordero is that Ecuador will gain an advantage from the trans action.
 \ BOARD CT survey HdS been ordered to see what it will cost to put the his toric frigate Constitution in condition for sea service. The sum of 1925, 900 is to be expended in putting her in as good condition as she was during her famous career, and as soon as she is made seaworthy she will be taken to Washington. where will be her per nlanent station.
 \ REPORT from O'Neil, Neb, on the 2Sth, confirmed the rumors of destitu- tion and impending starvation among the people of Boyd county and part of Holt county, in that state. IIeartrend- ing stories of the distress prevailing accompanied the report Consider able flour and provisions were hastily gathered in O'Neil and forwarded to the stricken people.
 TIMOTHY ]. CREEDoN, who was the first New York police official tomale confession before the Lexow commit. tee, put in his application at police headquarters, on the 2Sth, for retire mcnt. Capt. Creedon had been thirty years on the force. He is veteran