Fair play., 1895-10-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| AMBASSADOR RUNYoN received at
Eeriin, on the 10th, from President
! Cleveland a valuable silver cup to be
presented to Capt Alfred krcch. com
mander of the Hamburg American line
steamer Snevia. in recognition of Capt.
! krech's act III saving the crew of
| eight mc:i of the American schooner
Mary f. Amsden on February 26 last.
ADvICEs from Constantinople, on the
| 18th. stated that most serious conse-
quences were feared from the general
situation growing nut 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 the pianist, sailed from
Liverpool for New York. on the 10th,
: on board the steamer Teutonic.
! MAURICE PERKINS, weil-known
: newspaper man. formerly connected
with the New York sun. while delir-
ious, on the 10th, leaped from q third
story window of the city hospital in
! indianapolis. Ind, and was fatally
hurt 10y the fall.
/ The directors of the baltimore &
! Ohio railroad have again failed to de-
| clare dividend on the common stock
of the company.
THE celebrated IIczekiah Il. Smith
! will case, which involves an estate of
/ S:G0. 900, and which has hecn in four
different courts during the past eight
! years, was concluded in the court of
| chancery al Trenton. y. j.. on the
| 10th. when the will was declared in
valid and the disowned widow, Ncr-
ona. and the two sons of the dead
Congressman were restored to their
/ rights.
| n. 4. CARLTON, of the government
I department Of agricslture, has Eecu
! sent to central Kansas to make expert
ments on prairie wheat growing. He
will plant !, 900 varieties of wheat, 100
! of oats and many of corn, barley and
rye. with q purpose of testing their re-
! sistance to rust. Also he will attempt
wheat that Will withstand the prairie
winds and the long droughts.
! Ex-CoNGREssMAN Il. W. DuNHAM
was on the 10th. awarded $1,000 dam
ages by Chicago jury against Maj.
| Allyn for alienation of his wife's af-
| fcctions. Dunham had asked $40, 900,
but as two of the jurors We're in favor
of verdict for Allyn on the first bal
lot $4,000 was agreed upon as COM
! promise.
| AFTER "A long conference with J. L.
| Colcan, the defaultng cashier of the
! state bank of Fort Scott. Has, on the
/ 18th, N;cc-rresiient J. !. Stewart made
the startling announcement that the
aInoun; of his defalcation would proba-
t bly, exceed so, 900.
JAMES DrXoS, one Of the prisoners
. locked up in the Jail at Buffalo, y. 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 nth.
| On the 10th an explosion occurred on
a steamship near kiug-ChOwFo The
I stea mship was loaded with Chinese
! troops, and it is reported that Geo of
! them were killed.
! \ BUEHoS AYREs dispatch of the 10Th
said it was reported that Brazil had
recognized the Cuban insurgents as
| belIigercnts.
The new steamer st. Paul arrived al
| southampton at s:i5 a. III. on the l.th.
! She experienced bad weather most of
! The way. The machinery worked
| smoothly. Daily runs: 30i, $50. +O..
AZ. l39, :!??i. so, to the Needles BIG.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
! Co. is said - have ordered the con
! strUctiDn of two new steamers at
! Gpvau, Scotland, which are to be
] larger tLan the Lucania and Cam
/ pania.
NE. J. T. LAycocK's stear: yacht
Valhalla, with Lord Dunraven on
! board, passed frawle point, on the
( 18th. She left Newport, L. L., on sep
! TENDER 2>.
MAYOR SrANyAMAY 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 LEwHaS, spinstcr, aged 80.
/ died at .ieffersonvile, Ind, on the
I 18th. About 5000 was found hidden
1 about the premises. Her estate is
/ large.
| THE mex: annual encamDment OF
! the Union Veteran league will be held
! in Washington city.
! IT was announced in Madrid, on the
| 18th. that 1000 troops would start for
| Cuba on The 22d.
! FICE-PREsIDENT STEWART of the
| State bank of Fort Scott, Has. and i.
/ J. Strobe ami J. Meade, Stockholders
! in the bank, sworc ont "A complaint on
! the 18th, against J. K. Colcan, the de
, faulting casl.icr, charging him Will
! embezZling -, 600, the amount ot
! shortage in the reserve fund OF Tho
bank, and a warrant was issued, anc
/ Colean WAS arrested.
! AT meeting of the executive com
! mittec of the beard of trustees OF Kan
saS City university. of which II. J.
Heinz. of Pittsburgh, is president
plans for the erection of buildings t.
/ cost SlO0.0 900 were decided upon tn,
; work upon the main building is to ht
! begun Immediately. An offer of til,
! donation of a museum valued at $50,
! 900 was also considered
| REV. T.. DEWITT TALMAGE, the f;i
nous divine. will soon figure in tr;'
extensive lawsuits brought a9ains
him By western Pennsy iyanians. uules.
he can succeed in squaring himself
He is accused Of breaking two con
! tracts 30 lecture, which cost the peo
! Pile who were to pay him many hun
| dreds of dollars in preparation.
john JONES was found dead in the
! woods near Cra wfordSviilc, Ind, on til.
; nth, having shot himself while insane
! from iIIe use of whisky. lie though
! whi!ccap, were after him an;! csca pc,
; sroia iI1:..a. carrying a reYo ver. wit!
| which, he h!.led himself