The Monticellonian., 1895-06-07
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

L1b NI W D IN DIe1II
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
 Mas. HARRY E. SMITH, wife of the auditor-elect of Marion county, Ind, slipped and fell as she was entering her yard on the 27th. Both limbs were broken, one above and one be low the knee, and one lineecap was splintered. She is heavy woman and was returning after playing lawn tennis. Her tennis shoes were slip pery and caused the fall.
 MORE cavalry regiments for Cuba embarked at Cadiz on the 27th. A battalion of infantry which had been ordered to the Philippine islands was, at the same time, diverted to Cuba.
 JAeoB HENSON, eolered, under sen tence of death at Ellicott City, Md, for the murder of Daniel F. Shea, was hanged by lynchers about 1 o'clock on the morning of the 28th. 4 placard was Jeff pinned to the dead mans breast on which was written; We respect our court and judges. Gov. Brown forced the law-abiding citizens to carry out the verdict of the jury. White Caps"
 BURGLAR. entered the store of " NJ. Brown, United States trader at White Eagle Indian agency, few miles north of Perry, Okla, on the night of the 27th, and stole Sl2000 from the safe. Brown is head trader for four or five tribes of Indians Clerks were sleep ing in the store at the time of the burglary.
 CHEAT destitution is reported in strip of country embracing q part of Grant county, Okla. While nearly all of the territory has had splendid rains, there is a distance extending from miles south of Enid, north distance of e0 miles, almost to Mrdford, and from miles west of Round Pond east nearly to Lamont, distance of 10 miles, where there had been no rain since October until quite recently.
 1af trial of Herman Madeett, alias H. H. Holmes alias Howard tt Phiia- delphia, on the charge ofconspiring to deffaud the Fidelity Mutual Life asso- eiation out of SlO GOO by the imposition of I corpse as that of Benj F. Pitezel was brought to an abrupt ending on the 2sth when the prisoner pleaded guilty. Sentence was deferred.
 LAFAYETTE PRINCE, the Cleveland (O9 3iEesniltrdcrer, was hanged in the peniteptiarY annex at Columbus, on tie 2Sth. lie had profeSsed religion and was calm and unmoyed to the last II IS neck was broken by the dlop.
 TIE Ohio republican state conven- ton, which met at Zanesville, on the 2stb, nominated Gen. Asa A. Bushnell for governor.
 TIE first issue of the Chicago Chron- iele, the only democratic newspaper m Chicago, made its appearance on the 28th.
 THE Episcopal convention for the diocese of Kansas, on the 2sth, elected Dean Millspaugh, of Topeka, bishop to succeed the late Bishop Thomas.
 ON the night of the 2sth Frank Ryan, for many years a prominent figure at the St. Louis Merchants exchange, and whose operations were on so large scale as to gain him national reputa tion, died in his rooms at the Southern hotel. Mir. Ryan had suffered for sev eral years with diabetes and an en- largement of the liver.
 ERASMUS FREDERICK shot and killed his former employer, John H. Lewis, superintendent of the Benton Manu- facturing Co.,, St. Louis, because the latter insisted on putting Frederick off with S6 9S for Sl4 worth of work which had taken two weeks to accom- plish.
 A SERIOUS swine epidemic is raging in Hungary and in some districts in Austria. The mortality is 40 to 50 per cent, being the worst in nbrucken, where the loss has already reached over 1000, 900 florins.
 ON the 29th Inspector Waterbury, at Salt Lake City, Utah, arrested c. W. Carter, accessory to the robbery of the post office at Rock Springs, Wyo
 ON the 27th the steamship Colima, with 1s2 persons on board, including passengers and crew, foundered off the western coast of Mexico. Fourteen passengers and five members of the crew are all that were known to have been saved, though hopes were enter tained that other boats, containing all or nearly all of the missing, would yet | make the land.
 ON the 29th it was stated that the hull of the ill-fated steamer Ghicora has been found lying at the bottom of Lake Michigan, about miles from the pier at St. Joseph, Mich.
 ON the 29th whilst the military were in line waiting the order to failin for the Gresham obsequies in Washington, Capt. Whipple. of the ordnance bureau of the war department, one of Gen. Ruger's staff, was prostrated by a slight stroke of apoplexy. He was taken to the Emergency hospital, whence he was later removed to his home.
 ON the 29th the Illuminating house of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co, at New Haven. Conn, blew up. An employe named Jeremiah spillane was killed.
 THAr neither Marti nor Gomez. Gu ban insurgent leaders, are dead or even wounded, was declared, on the 30th, to be positively known in Havana. It is said the report of their death was spread by the Spanish officers to raise the dropping spirits of their troops, and to inspire confidence in the money market and thereby assist Spain to negotiate needed loan