The Monticellonian., 1895-10-04
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five fatally injured by an explosion of dynamite in the Belgian mine in Ade- laide park miles from Leadville, Col, on the 26th. The explosion caused a eave-in under which the miners were crushed to death.
 IN the United States court at Guth- rie, Okla. Mrs. w. c. Taylor was, on the 26th, acquitted of the charge of murder, the jury being ont but two minutes. Mrs. Taylor shot and killed William Henry Harrison on February 9 last, while the latter was trying to force an entrance to her house.
 DURING q recess in the Irish national convention in Chicago, on the 26th, nearly 1,o00 of those present signed petitions to congress in favor of recog- nizing the Cuban patriots as belliger- ents.
 THE Venezuelan authorities at Cara cas refused to interfere with meeting of young men held for the purpose of organizing club to aid the Cuban in- surgcnts, and it is stated that the Spanish minister to Venezuela will re- sign and leave the county. Thus Ven ezuela may be the first to recognize the struggling Cubaus.
 ON the morning of the 2sth Martin Adams, of Cincinnati, who caused the death of John Dinner by putting strych- nine into pail of beer, was hanged in the Columbus penitentiary annex at 12:0s. His neck was not broken, and he died of strangulation in twelve and one-half minutes. Adams was indiffer- ent to his fate up to the time he mount ed the death-trap, when he showed slight nervousness.
 REv. DR. TALMAGE, of Brooklyn, has accepted the call to be co-pastor of the First resbyterian church of Washing ton city. This decision was communi- cated by him to the special committee of elders, deacons and trustees in a let ter received on the 26th. Dr. Talmage is to be co-pastor of the church, with equal authority with Dr. Sunderland.
 SIR ARTHUR FACET, of the British legation ut Washington, has ordered the Herreshoff firm to construct 211- rater yacht to be used for racing in British waters. The boat will be 27- feet water line, and will be finished in Hld1DS duJ uC null Will De COfeF0Q with bronze.
 PASSENGER train No. on the Balti- more & Ohio side-wiped passenger train No i, lying on the switch near Tunnelton W. Va, on the 27th. United States Marshal Garden, of Wheeling, ". Va, and ex-Secretary of State Vim. A. 0hIeF. of Charleston, were fatally sealded hg escaping steam; Miss Mary L. Downtain librarian of the state, was also probably fatally injured. Several other passengers were injured slightly.
 TIE British ship Star of Austria, from Santa Rosalia, March 8. for Swansea and Falmouth. and the British ship Lord spencer, from San Fran cisco. April 9, for Queenstown. long overdue at their respective ports of destination, have been given up for lost
 A STRANGE hog disease has within two or three weeks swept away thou- sands of fat porkers in Mclean and ad- joining counties in Illinois and threat ems the extermination of swine in those parts.
 THE Standard O1l Co. has leased 35,o0o acres of land in the Rugby tract in Tennessee, where oil and gas have recently been discovered in paying quantities.
 \ DISPATCH from Shanghai, on tht 27th, said: Great Britain at length appears to be in earnest. She has now five war ships on the Yang-Tse-Kiang and four more ships will join them inn mediately.