The Monticellonian., 1895-07-05


 squadron to visit the ports of the na- tions which were represented in the naval display at Kiel.
 COMMENCEMENT exercises took place at Chillocco Indian schools, in the Cherokee strip, on the 2Gth, eight graduates, representing six different Indian tribes, acquitting themselves with credit.
 FAILURES in the United States dur ing the week ended the 2sth, as re- ported by R. G. Dun x Co, were 256. against 914 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were %, against g. last year.
 TIE United States consul at Foo Chow, China, reports the appearance of the Hong-Kong plague at that place He says it Is already established as an epidemic, but that so far it is confined to the city proper.
 TIE gold reserve reached s107, 447,- s55 on the 26th The stipulated gold payments into the treasury by the Belmont-Morgan syndicate under the agreement of February 8 last have been fully carried out.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the 2Gth, said the high officials in that city are confidently expecting that war will ensue between Russia and Japan oye. the administration of affairs in Corea within three months.
 
 REPORT has gained currency that Chauncey NJ. Depew is going to marry a lady who Is q member of one of the first families in New York, and an or phan with eS 00O GOO in her own right. The modest Ghauncey denies the soft impeachment.
 TIE diplomas for the foreign com missions at the Chicago Worlds fair have been prepared at last, and the dis tribution will begin in few days from the state department. through Assist ant Secretary Boekhill. There are fifty eight of them.
 MRs MARY BROWN, monogamian pensiouer, died, on the 10th, at her home niles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, soldier in the revolutionary war and was born in fs0i Her husband died fifty-oHe years ago.
 TIE current number of the Railway Age contains statistics showing that the total miles of track laid in the United States from January 10 July l. 1895. were 64l miles on 65 lines, against 525 miles on 5l lines for the same period of 1894. In 23 of the 49 states and territories no track has thus far been laid this year
 THE Bowers Dredging Go, of Chicago has been awarded contract which covers the dredging and eXcavating of B. 0O0 900 cubic yards of earth, by which a Smile canal will be con structed between Puget sound at seatt tie, Wash, and Lake Washington. The cost of this dredging will be in the neighborhood of S6, ,oo0, 900.
 THE cruiser Columbia is to race against time from Southampton to New York under instructions from Secretary Herbert. She will not, how ever, be driven at her highest speed, the effort being intended to determine what the famous triple-screw flyer can do under actual service conditions without subjeeting her to strain.
 HARRY r. HAYWARD, of Minneapolis, Minn., the condemned murderer of Catherine Cling has formally applied to the New York Life and Travellers Accident Insurance Co. for the s1o,0o0 insurance carried by his victim. Ac- tion will be taken by the executors of the estate of the murdered woman to have the assignment of the policies to Hayward set aside
 TIE government of Venezuela hav- ing requested the government of the United States to endeavor to effect a renewal of diplomatic relations be tween Caracas and Paris, the Ameri- can government consented to act in the capacity of mediator. The French government has, however, intimated that it does not desire any relations with Crespos government.
 CUSTOMS officials at Port Townsend, Wash, arrested two Indians from Quil- layute, on the 27th, for smuggling. Investigation showed that the Indians had been buying merchandise in British Columbia for the past twenty years and bringing it into the states in ca- noes ana selling it to farmers. It is thought that many thousand dollars in duties have thus been avoided.
 
 TIE prisoners Gronemeyer, Thies, Nestler and Drechow, who were ar rested in Hamburg in June, 1894, for eounterfeiting and forging American and other notes, were sentenced, at the conclusion of their trial on the 2sth, as follows: Gronemeyer and Thies to eight years imprisonment, Nestler to four years and Drechow to three years.
 ACCORDING to the census report GOV ering the statistics of churches, which has just come from the press, the total of commandments of all denominations in the United States is 20, 6l2, s06, who belong to 165, TIT organizations or con- gregations. These congregations have 142, ,521 edifices which have sittings for A, 3,564 s63 persons. The value of all church property used exclusively for purposes of worship is S679, ,63o, 139.
 NEWS from Santa Ana in the state ot Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, states that the rebel forces under Saldanha da Cana were badly beaten by govern.