The Monticellonian., 1895-09-06
TIE coroner's fury in the case of the

TIE coroner's jury in the case of the Gumry hotel disaster at Denver, Col, say that the testimony was so conflict ing that 1t was Impossible to fix the responsibility for the disaster upon any one person, but that the owners, Peter Gunry and R. c. Greiner, were blamable for requiring their engineer to work sixteen hours out of twenty four, and for employing an inexperi. enced engineer, whose habits were dis sipated and unreliable.
 JAMES r. Joy, s4 years old, and the oldest member of the Detroit fNicB.) bar, in some way lost his footing on the gang plank of pleasure yacht, on the goth, and stepped off into the river. Mr. Joy would probably have drowned had il not been for the promptness and bravery of Judge Dickinson, of Ten nessee, who guilantly leaped into the water and supported Mir. Joy until the officers and crew of the yacht came to his assistance.
 ON the e9th terrible explosion was reported from Lafayette township, in the extreme western port 1n of Allen county, Ind, in which two men were killed. John FIaugh was at work in his fathers sawmill with another em- ploye, named Phaial, when the boiler exploded and hurled the men across the building into the yard. Both were killed
 IRE drug with which Howard Pite- gel Is believed to have been killed be- fore hIs body was burned in the big stove in the Irvington cottage. Indian apolis, was found on the 23th. 1 part of a bottle of cyanide of potassium was found buried in the barn.
 OFFICIAL reports show that there were 40 GOO deaths from cholera in Pekin during the month of August. 2
 WM A. HARPER. of Butler county, confined in the Allegheny county jail in Pittsburgh, Pa, on charge of as sault and battery preferred by his wife, committed suicide, on the @0th, by jumping from the top tier of cells to the stone 1aor 45 feet below. He struck sqHarely upon his head, and death was almost instantaneous.
 ADyIcEs from Behring sea by the steamer Bertha, arrived at San Fran cisco on the 80th report the whaling catch & follows: Newport, 8 whales; Rosario, 1; Jesse IT. Freeman. l; Wm. Baylies, f Mary D. Hume, 5; Wander CT, 1, and Triton ?.
 THE keeper of the Brough light house, Orkney islands, telegraphed, on the 30th, that the Norwegian steamer Ansgarius had been lost on Lowther rock. Six of her crew were saved, and aeven were missing
 TIE Paris Estafette protests against the action of the English and Ameri- can newspapers in deuouneinR tae sen tenee imposed on ex-United States Consul Waller, and says Waller ought te have been immediately shot for his treaeAerE.
 LoUIs WuacH, one of the best known German poets and journalists in America, died in St. Louis on the 8oth Deceased's full name was Louis Willich yon Poellnitz, his family be longing to the German nobility He was plain man, however, and in this country was always known as Louis Niliich.
 BY the new Ontario game law the close season for deer is from November t5, 1895, to November l, 1896 and no moose, elk. carbon or reindeer shall be hunted before October 25, 1000. Hounds found running deer in the close season may be killed by and per son on sipht. No more than two deer shall be taken in one season by one person. The provisions for the pro tection of smaller game are core spondinglY stringent