The Monticellonian., 1895-05-03

A DISPATCH from Vienna says that the Russian government has expelled Mme Modjeska, the well-known ac- tress, from Warsaw, owing to a violent speech she made against Russia in Chi cago. Mime. Modjeska has also been notified that she may not again appear on the Russian stage.
 Mas. VIRGINIA MARSHALL BROWN has been granted q divorce from Archi- bald Dixon Brown, ut Louisville, Ky. The defendant is Gov. John Young Browns son and secretary, and the plaintiff is a member of one of the most prominent families in the state.
 WHILE trying to escape from pursu- ing officers at Buckhannon, w. Va, on the 25th, Everett Miller, a green goods man, jumped into the river and was drowned. His partner, c. D. Lew is, was arrested.
 JOIN MCCABE, 60 years old, ex-chief of the New York fire department, com mitted suicide in the Milholland club rooms, New York city, on the 25th, by shooting himselfin the right temple with a revolver.
 HE Nicaragua canal board met at the war department, on the 25th, and organized. No officers were elected, as Col. Ludlow, it was understood. will act as chairman and disbursing officer. Application will be made for the at taching to the commission of naval surgeon
 TIE complaint sworn to before a justice of the peace on which Lord Sholto Douglass was arrested for in. sanity at Bakersfield, Cal, was with drawn, on the 18th, before the case was called up in the superior court, and the judge at once discharged the prisoner.
 EMILY THORNTON CHARLES died at her home in Washington city, on the 25th, in her fifty-siXth year. She was native of Indiana, having been born and reared at Lafayette, in that state. She was a writer of much force and a poet of no little merit. She wrote al. most exclusively under the nom de plume of Emily Hawthorne"
 JOHN FERTILE, shot and killed his wife at sydney, O., on the 26th. Mrs. Perkpile had been arrested, in com
 
 to fifteen days imprisonment. Perk pile went to the jail to pay her fine, and calling his wife to the bars drew a revolver and shot her dead.
 A WAGON load of fnitro-gIycerine, con taining roo quarts, exploded miles from Bluffton, O., on the 26th, with shock that was felt for forty miles. Will Elmer, the driver, was blown to atoms, and of the team only part of one horses neck could be found.
 DURING the week ended the 26th failures i'll the United States, as re- ported by k. G. Dun k Co.,, were 230, against l7a for the corresponding week last year For Canada the failures numbered 37, against 26 last year.
 FIRE, on the 26th, destroyed the greater portion of Minnewaukan, in northern North Dakota, near the Man itoba border Only two business houses were left. The aggregate loss is S40 GOO, with S15, 200 insurance.
 AN explosion of fire damp took place in a colliery at Denny, Clustering, Scotland on the 26th, while IF men were working in the pit. Thirteen of the number were killed and several were injured.
 AN attempt was made to wreck a Santa Fe east-bound passenger train near Pasadena, Cal, on the night of the 18th. A powder and plank placed across the track were discovered by a young lady named Wilson, who dashed into her house, seized lamp from the table and succeeded in Tagging the train just in time to avert eatas- trophe.