The Monticellonian., 1895-05-24
CURREN T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


 of the building and fatally scalding Theodore McHenry, a visitor James Anderson, nachinist, was struck on the head with flying brick and badly cut. He is also terribly scalded, and his recovery is doubtful.
 FUENTEs, the New York newspaper correspondent who was arrested in Santiago de Cuba, and Richelieu, the American sailor, who was imprisoned for time on suspicion of being impli- cated in the insurrection, sailed from Santiago de Cuba on the Niaia, on the 14th, for New York.
 MENDAL HOWARD, the American re- gently arrested in London as coun- terfeiter, was again arraigned in the Bow Street police court, on the 14th, when an official of the bank of France testified to the uses to which enlarged envelopes are put in forging banl; notes.
 ON the 14th the president appointed John F. Connolly, of Pennsylvania, consul at Osaka and Hioga. Japan
 TIE Hungarian house of magnates, on the 14th. for the third time, re ieeted, by vote of l19,to 115, the see ton of the ecclesiastical bill granting equal right to persons who do not pro- fess religion.
 z TIE trial of Messiah" Schweinfurth fl at Rockford, H., was, on the 18th, postponed until the next term of court. SHORTLY after midnight, on the 14th, an explosion occurred in the new s24, 900 school building at uSleepy Eye, ,I ;,, was in flames from foundation to tower. In the basement WAS the village eiec- tric plant. The total loss is S32, 800; insurance, s23, 300 The cause of the explosion Is a mystery
 ExSECRETARY HUeH McCUILoeH was reported on the l4th. as very ill at his country home, Holly Hill Farm, Prince Georges county, Md. He is sui fering from debility. due to old age, and from kidney trouble. Mr. MeGu1- 1och is nearly 90 years of age. Gov. EVANS of South Carolina has issued a lengthy address to the citi- ] zens of the state in which he deals 1 very harshly with the recent decisions in the dispensary and registration cases He refers to the political his, tory of the state and argues that the state can conduct it's business without national interference
 CHARLES SIMMONS aged 4, was de- eapitated in the Gagnon mine at Butte, Mont, on the l4th. The engineer mis- took signal and hoisted before Sim mons was in the skip His head caught between the skip and the shaft timber and was torn almost completely from the body.
 THE president is said to be deter. mined to punish Admiral Meade for his alleged attack on the admlnisbra- ton, but hesitates to order his trial by court-martial because of the difficulties that might be found in proving that Admiral Meade made use of the re marks attributed 10 him.
 TIE treasury deficit passed the $50, GOO, GOO mark on the 14th, the exact amount of tue excess of expenditures over the receipt since July 1, i894, be ing S50, 404, ,s57. This Is the second year since 1865 that the expenditures of the government have exceeded it's revenues.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM, on the 14th, ac- eepted the resignation of Freiherr von Der Goltz, the admiral comnander-in- chief of the German navy. Admiral von Knors succeeds Admiral von Der Goltz as commander-in-chief
 A CABINET rumor is floating about Washington to the effect that Secre- tary Lamont is to resign and exGon- gressman 0uthwaite Is to be put at the head of the war department.
 CHARLES BAYARD, wealthy cattle. man of Arizona, was in Los Angeles, Cal, on tue 18th, and said he looked for big uprising of the Apache In dians in the territory. He thinks the Kid has rallied all the Apaches, and the absence of the troops gives them a chance to do great damage before they can be reached
 THE Spanish government, having nc more soldiers to press into service, is taking convicts from the prisons and enrolling them for active military service. This is being done not only in Spain, but also in Cuba. A soldier who enlisted with patriotic motives may have to fight side by side with an assassin, burglar or common thief
 TIE La Fama cotton mills, situated near Monterey, Mexico, were destroyed by fire recently. They were the largest in northern Mexico, and the loss is placed at S125, ,0Oo A company of Monterey capitalists owned the mills.
 THE railways of Mexico have not been troubled during the last decade with many robberies. but provision in the new constitutional amendment authorizes the shooting on the spot o train robbers, ii murder has been com mitted.
 THE senate of the Breslau university declined, on the 18th, to accede to the request of the German government that disciplinary measures be taker against the students of that institution who signed the protest against the anti-revolution bill.
 HONOLULU advices by the steamer Australia, which arrived at San Fran cisco on the 18th, state that the Ha waiian foreign office had made reply to the note of Secretary Gresham or course it upholds.
 FOUR mills of the Sohaghtico5e (N Y) Powder Go. blew up on the 10th i The shock was terrific. Chauncey Loanes, unmarried, was killed, ant Charles Cum, who had wife ant three children, was fatally injured
 SIR CHARLES II. TUPPER. Canadian minister of justice, having been per emptorily ordered by his physicians te