The Monticellonian., 1895-05-24
THE Madrid government has decided to send no more troops at present to

THE Madrid government has decided to send no more troops at present to Cuba.
 TIE National Woman Suffrage con- yention at Salt Lake City, Utah, came to sudden end, on the 18th. by Miss Anthony's being called to return home.
 ADMIRAL MORN, Italian minister of marine, in speech at Spezzia, on the 18th, said the total retrenchments in tic Italian navy department for the current year would be 5000, 900 lire, and boasted that it would be the most cheap1y administered marine estab- lishment in Europe.
 Col. HUDSON D. BINGHAM, assistant quartermaster general, was placed on the retired list of the army, op the 10th, having reached the age of GA years
 TIE British steamer Billion, from Langlfat, was reported burned outside of Penang, Malica strait, on the 18th All on board were supposed to be lost.
 HE powder factory at Dollar Bay, Mich, exploded on the l6th. Fred Shepard, the only man In the mixing house, was killed by the explosion. The works were badly damaged. They had just been rebuilt, having been blown mp with loss of life at the noon hour two months before. JONES & LAUGHLIN, operating the extensive American iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th volun- tarilY advanced the wages of all their skilled w0rlzmen 10 per cent. The wages of laborers remain at S1. 20 per day About i, ,0d0 men participate in the advance.
 OWING to an epidemic of rabies which prevailed in that state the house of representatives of Florida passed q bill, on the 1Gth, putting the control of animals affected with hydrophobia in the hands of the state health officer.
 TIE one hundred and seventh gen. eral assembly of the Northern Presby- terian church opened it's sessions in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 16th, in the his i toffc Third Presbyterian church, with the customary cere monies. Dr. Robert Russell Booth. of New York, was chosen moderator.
 PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH of Batten- berg and party arrived at Chicago. on the 10th from San Francisco and spent q day or two in looking over that city before proceeding eastward.
 0s the 17th the Swedish chambers jointly voted I,0o0,0 900 kroner to the government to supply its immediate wants in the event of possible war, or to send Swedish troops to Norway in case of d revolution there.
 GEORGE l. BoALs a very prominent attorney Of Denver, Col. was taken with eonvulsiens in his office, on the morning of the f7th, and died at noon.
 TIE appointment of Count Col ehowski b succeed Count Kalnohy as imperial prime minister of Austria, was gazetted in Vienna on the 18th.
 IT was stated at the interior depart .ment, on the 17th, that the Siletz h. dian reservation in Oregon will be opened July 2a next.
 TIE Spanish steamer GraYina. with her cargo. was, on the 17th, lost off Capones in typhoon. Only two of her crew were saved.
 A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the 17th, said the Spanish government was mals- ing arrangements to send 1,500 cavalry to Cuba.
 FREDERICK CLEVELAND. a distant rel ative of the president, died at Phelps, N. Y, on the 17th, of Bright's disease. aged 78.
 EDWARD PAYsoN PITCHER, principal of New York city grammar school, died suddenly in Newburg, N. Y., on the 10th, eight hours after his mar riage. Organic heart trouble was the cause.