The Monticellonian., 1895-05-10
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

victed in the recorders court at Detroit of willfully and fraudulently forg- ing and altering the tabulated election returns of Wayne county on the state salaries amendment in 1892. Clark was | never sentenced.
 TIE home of Stanford Kimely, in the country near Atchison, Kas., was burned, on the 30th, during the tempo rary absence of Mir. and Mrs. Kimley, and their two children, aged 3 years and 15 months, were cremated The origin of the fire is unknown. THE body of Dr. C. $. Dixon, a prom inent citizen of Ashland, Wis, who was lost in the woods last winter, was found by searching party on the 30th
 A CRUCIAL. test of Carnegie Harvey ized plate armor took place at the In- dian Head proving grounds, on the 1st, in which, after all the required tests had been successfully resisted by q plate l6 feet 911 inches long, feet , l1-lG inches wide, of tapering thick ness from Is to inches, and weighing 79, 300 pounds, a 13-ineh Carpenter shell, weighing 1,100 pounds, dis charged with velocity of l,SlO feet per second with striking energy of 25,0 000 foot tons, was almost pulverized upon the plate, which was penetrated only to the depth of 10 inches.
 TIE Baltimore railroad tunnel one of the most remarkable engineering feats of modern times, built under the city of Baltimore, Md, from Camden station to Bayview junction, on the Philadelphia division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, a distance of 71 miles, was formally opened for busi- ness on the 1st
 A NoRrH-BoUND passenger train on the Chicago x Alton railroad Was boarded by three robbers at a point one mile north of Carlinville, Ill.,, on the night of the lst, and in the fight which cnsued with the train men, Engineer Holman, one of the oldest engineers on the road, was killed. The robbers were pursued and captured.
 ON the steamer Vigilaneia, which ar rived at New York, on the 1st, from Havana, was Ramon C. Williams, con sul-general of the United States at Havana. Mr. Williams declined to say anything about Cuban affairs.
 TIE town of Patterson. kas., was visited by death-dealing cyclone, on the lst, which destroyed property to the value of of s225, 900 and caused the death of many persons and injury to d great many others.
 GUATEMALA has united with Hondu- ras in dispatch to Secretary Gresham asking him to use his good offices to bring about q peaeeable solution of the Nicaragua dispute with Great Britain.
 LAKMER, small town in Union county, la, was nearly wiped out by houses were burned. The loss and in surance are unknown The fire is sup posed to have been incendiary.
 HE bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer CZizek, of Mount Clemens, Mich, were notified, on the 1st, that there is de- falcation of funds amounting to about Sl0,0 GOO, and they are requested to make the shortage good.
 THE department of state received cable message from Ambassador Bay ard, on the 2d, stating that Great
 
 made by Salvador of the payment of the indemnity by Nicaragua in Lon don within fortnight and that so soon as Nicaragua should confirm the guarantee and so inform the British admiral the latter had been instructed to quit Corinto.
 ON the 4th Warden Sage of the Sing Sing (N. Y.l state prison sent out invi- tations to the witnesses selected to at tend the electrocution of Dr. Buchan- an, the wife-murderer, the date of whose eXecu tion had been twice post poned through efforts of his attorneys in his behalf.
 REFRESHMENTS of the Goeso pow der mills, near Nenia, O., were in Gin cinnati, on the lst, arranging to ship forty carloads of powder to Cuba. They would not say whether the or der was from the government or the insurgents.
 LIEUT. NALENTIN GALLEGE, who sur rendered fifty Spanish soldiers to the Cuban rebels, and who was afterward arrested and turned over to the Span ish military authorities, was, after trial by court-martial, shot on the 1st, in the fortress of Cabana at Ia- vana.
 SECRETARY CARLISLE, it is stated, will enter the Kentucky campaign about the 18th of this month, and de- liver two or more speeches, at points yet to be selected, in favor of sound currency.
 IN the Cape Colony parliament, which opened in Cape Town, on the 2d, proposition was submitted to ab= sorb Bechuanaland.
 TIE preliminary examination of Dur rant on the charge of murdering Miss Lamont was commenced at San Fran cisco on the 2d.
 THE secretary of war has ordered two companies of the Fifth infantry, now stationed at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, and the two troops of the Third caval- ", with the regimental band, now at Benton Barracks, Mo, to attend the encampment of the national guard to be held at Memphis, Tenn, beginning May 1 | and ending May 21.
 JOHN HUFF, who is said to have fall en heir to Sl, 300, ,OOO by the death of Charles Easthof, a wealthy Califor- nian, in 1893, died at Mateawan, N. Y, on the Ed. Huff nursed Easthoff twenty years ago through an attack of typhoid fever, when no one else would go near him, and the entire estate has been his his reward.
 CAPT. JOHN BROWN, Jr. died at his home on the island of Putin Bay,