The Monticellonian., 1895-07-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

HENRI RoCHEFoRT is excited on the subject of Cuba, and says in his Paris paper: America, to which the island belongs, will one day take Cuba from the Spaniards. We demand that this shall be done immediately If Ameri- cans had any idea of seizing Cuba, the moral and vocal support of Rochefort would paralyze them.
 THE kaiser's observation that the seas now connect, instead of divide, is not far from right when the rapid and luxurious transit on the ocean grey hounds is considered. A railway jour- ney of six days is not much faster and far less comfortable.
 JOHN E. MUNDY, who was arrested in St. Louis for the murder of his wife in Toledo, O., two years ago, and whose body he buried under the house where they lived, and which was re- gently unearthed by dog, confessed his crime while being escorted back to Toledo
 ON the 1st the Illinois Steel Co., raised the pay of all the men employed in their Joliet works. except the ton mage men, 10 per cent
 FLoRIANo PEIxoTo, ex-president of Brazil, died on the 29th, aged 52 years. He was accounted the most adroit poli- tician in Brazil and won military fame in the war with Paraguay.
 GEN. GREEN CLAY SMITH, the veteran preacher, soldier and politician. died at his residence in Washington city, on the goth, after an illness of several | .-T- ,l, 4s ~ malignant carbuncle, which resisted all treatment
 ON the goth Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley, the distinguished English nat uralist, died at Eastbourne, England. He was born May f, 1925.
 MRs. BENNETT, widow of Benson Bennett, locomotive engineer who committed suicide at Indianapolis a few months ago, locked herself and her two children in their home in Jeffersonyille, Ind, and administered poison to each. When found, on the lst, by Mrs John Gonoe, a visitor, Ella, aged 10, and omer, aged B. had long been dead. The woman was gasping for breath, but unconscious. All were dressed in spotless linen for their burial
 TIE body of w. I. Lothrop, an ap- prentice attached to the cruiser Con- cord, who died and was buried at Wuhu, China, about year ago, is to be disinterred and brought to this country for burial at Cherokee, la, the former home of the deceased
 TIE Otis Steel Co. of Cleveland, O., posted notice. on the 1st., of 10 per cent. increase in wages beginning on that date The increase affects all de- partments. There are 500 men em- ployed at the works
 CLARENCE AND SADIE ROBINSON, con victed of killing Montgomery Gibbs at Buffalo, N Y, will, through their counsel, Judge Hardesty, apply for new trial on newly discovered evi- dence which, it is claimed, will estab- fish a complete alibi, while indicating that Gibbs was killed by another
 TIE big Rex mine at Leadville, Col, was drowned out, on the 30th, and has now over 25O feet of water in the shaft. All the workmen made their escape. The owners had spent thousands of dollars in sinking and pumping the plant.
 WORK was resumed, on the lst, at the plant of the Cumberland Nail and Iron Co.,, at Bridgeton, N. J., after an | idleness of more than year. Elm pIoyment was given to l50 men.
 DR. THEoBoLD SMITH, chief of the division of animal pathology in the bureau of animal industry, agricul- tural department. has been called to chair in Harvard university.
 THREE masked highwaymen held up north-bound Southern Pacific pas senger train near Riddles, Ore, at 1915 o'clock on the morning of the 2d, by placing dynamite upon the rails. They secured a large quantity of registered letter packages, and robbed the bet ter-dressed passengers. Officers were sent in pursuit.
 TIE funeral services over the re- mains of Dr. Buchanan, who was cleo trocuted at Sing Sing, were held in New York city, on the 2d, Rev. J. F. Halsey, officiating The interment was in Evergreen cemetery.
 TIE house of Trotter Holiday, at Gridley, Col, was burned on the 1st. Holiday and Miss Mary Turle, his niece, perished in the flames.
 THE Stamford (Conn.) Manufactur- ing Co.,, employing 800 hands, an nounced, on the 3d, that the wages of all it's employees would be increased at once 10 per cent
 THE loss by the burning of Godillot's military quitting establishment and other buildings in Paris, on the lst, is now estimated at between 1000, 900 and 5000, GOO francs.
 Two BOMBS were exploded near the police barracks at Monopoli, Italy, on the night of the 1st. No one was hurt and very little damage was done.
 WHILE 600 persons were crowded on bridge at Bristol, Ind, on the 4th, witnessing a boat race on the St Jo- seph river, the bridge suddenly col lapsed and went down with It's living freight into the stream forty feet be- low A desperate and narrowing scene ensued as the victims of the ac- cident, many of them severely injured, struggled and sought to escape from their perilous position. Many casual | t;as hut no deatha were reported