The Monticellonian., 1895-09-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

NiilCAl biiC LtAlGIC . LII ilih OiltIlot M Stb forth, and the men were required to make an answer within one week from date.
 FoR the vacancy in the corps of army chaplains occasioned by the recent re- tirement of Chaplain John D. Parker, there are now loo applicants, The po- sition is practically a life sinecure with good pay.
 Mas. PIETZEL and her daughter Das- sa, the only child that escaped the murderous clutches of II. H. Holmes, went before Coroner Carter at Indian apoIis, Ind, on the 10th. Mrs. Piet- gel, while looking upon the trinkets found in the chimney of the Irvington house, where little Howard Pietzel's charred remains were found, went into mysteries, and sobbed almost continu- ously during her testimony.
 JOIN MORRIS, aged %, was burned to death, and William Baidlaw, an other employe. was badly injured at Winnipeg, Man, on the 10th, by the explosion of powder in the mill of the Robin Hood SmoReless Powder Go. of that city. The mill was burned down, and Morris was incinerated.
 
 Miss LONDONDERRY, the lady cyclist, who left Boston, June 25, 1894, to make n tour of the world within fifteen months, arrived at Clinton, la, from the west on the 10th.
 LORD ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL and his Highland pipers marched through Glencoe, Scotland, on the night of the 9th, playing H dirge. Lord Archibald devised this project as an expiation for the historical massacre of Glencoe by the Campbells.
 THE Spring Valley Coal Go. has be- gun suit for sl6, ,oo0 damages against the city of Spring Valley, III, for damages alleged to have been sas- tained at the hands of the mob that, on July G. 1894, footed the company's store. This suit will involve the right Of the corporation to operate truck store contrary to the provisions of it's charter.
 THE Clyde steamer Delaware, which arrived at New York on the 10th, from Haytian ports, reported that whilst at Port de Paix information was received that great fire ragged at Les Gonaives on the 4th. No particulars could be ascertained at Port de Paix, as the wires were interrupted.
 WALTER SCoTr a leading druggist and business man of Bes Moines, la, was forced to make an assignment on the 10th. As soon as the papers were filed he went to his room and took prussie acid and died shortly after. His failure had been forced as result of the drug store war.
 PRINCE voS HouENLoHr. chancellor Of the German empire, arrived in St. Petersburg on the 10th, He was re ceived at the railway station by Prince Radolin, German ambassador to Rus sia, and escorted to the German en- bassy.
 TIE death of Mr. J. c Ashbury, for merly a member of the British house of commons and a well-knowu yachts man, was announced in London on the 1tth. Mir Ashbury brought the yacht Cambria to America in 1870 and unsuc- cessfully competed for the America's s cup In 1871 he again contested for the emp with the yacht Liyonia and won one out of the four races sailed.
 HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex- plorer and author. recently elected member of parliament, arrived in New York city, on the 11th. He was met at the dock by Maj. Pond and a half dozen newspaper men.
 BY the ridiculous mistake of band of train robbers in detaehing the wrong car, the robbery of the express on a Rio Grande Western train at Grevasse siding, in Colorado, near the Utah state line, at 2:35 o'clock on the morning of the 1lth, was prevented. After the robbers discovered their mistake they became panic-stricken and took to the woods.
 A DISPATCH from Christiana, on the 11th, said that the yacht Windward, of the Jaekson-Harmswor expedition, had arrived at the island of Sardoe, in the Arctic ocean, having broken out of the ice belt between Franz Josef Land and Parents sea.
 By the explosion of ammunition in caisson in Louisville, Ky, early on the morning of the 11th, four members of Battery A Louisville Legion were l killed and two wounded.
 THE Western Union Telegraph Co.,, on the 11th, declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1A per cent, payable October IS.
 THE grand lodge of Good Templars 1 of Illinois, In session at Bloomington. on the 11th, entered upon the discus sion of the proposition to establish an orphans home for the jurisdiction of Illinois.
 ON the 1Ith ex-Conpressman John A. l McShane, of Omaha, and r. H. Culver, a Chicago attorney, were arrested il the latter city, on warrants charging them with fraud in real estate deal.
 A REPORT from Havana, on the 11th, stated that great battle had been fought in Puerto Principe, and that the Spanish had been defeated and the capital captured by the insurgents.
 MR JAMES GORDON BENNETT's An Train won the international Prix Pol kaichiclx for harnessed trotters on the Neully track in France on the 11th, and his mare Helen Leyburn, was second.
 A DISPATCH from Athens, on the 1 1Ith, said severe shocks of earthquake were felt on the island of Euboea, in the Egean sea, but no damage was done.
 TIE Marion county qnd.) grand jury returned an indictment, on the 12th against H. H. Holmes for the murder of little Howard Pitezel at Irvngton On the same day the grand jury ot Philadelphia county, Pa, indicted Holmes. alias Mudgett, for the murder