The Monticellonian., 1895-05-10

THEnE is an alleged shortage of about $25, ,000in the office of the county treasurer In Doniphan county, kas. When the present treasurer, ]. Dev- eraux, took charge last October, he discovered some thing was wrong, and an investigation has revealed the ai- legged shortage.
 Col. R. II. MCLEAN was passenger on the steamer Alameda, which sailed from san Francisco, on the 2d for Honolulu. Col Mclean was recently appointed by President Dole to take command of the Hawaiian army.
 WILLIAM H. MEGQUIER, assistant cashier of the First national bank of Omaha, Neb., committed suicide, on the 2d, by shooting himself through the head at the residence of George Barker, president of the National Bank of Commerce. No cause for the act is known
 A TELEGRAM received at the secret service bureau in Washington from Hamilton, Ont, on the 2d. stated that Mrs NJ. r. Mack, charged with being amember of the Chicago postage-stamp connterfeiting gang, had been commit ted for extradition.
 TIE mystery surrounding the disap- pearanee of Capitalist James G Me Nab from Duluth, Miun., on April 16, was cleared, on the 2d by finding his body in Lake Gnesen. It is supposed to have been an accident
 THERE is said to be good reason for believing that the civil-seryice com mission will be completely reorgan- izcd The voluntary resignation of Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt is soon to be followed by the involuntary retirement of Commissioner Lyman.
 HE Chinese officials of the maritime province of Fo-Kien, in which the island of Formosa is situated, have sent a memorial to the throne protest- ing against the cession of the island to Japan. They offer to contribute the purchase money instead of Liu-Kum- Ii
 ACCORDING to a statement published by the Marine Hospital bureau there were 1,G20 deaths from smallpox in the United States in 1894, ST of which oc- cured in Illinois.
 A CYCLONE of frigHtful fatality visited Sioux county, Ia#, on the 3d, dis mantliug nearly dozen towns, and destroying crops, buildings and other farm property in it's track, and caus- ing loss of human lives to the esti- mated number of 200 The work of rescue, promptly entered upon by the survivors, was greatly bampered by ..if | .1 4 wreckage stfewn everywhere.
 THE pope has expressed his entire approval of the conduct of Archbishop Agliardi. papal nuneia to Austria, whose attitude upon the Hungarian eeclesiastiea1 bill WAS denounced in the lower house of the Hungarian diet OH May day.
 TIE steamer N. K. Fairbanks, from Chicago to 0gdensbnrg with 50.ogo bushels of corn. ran ashore on Nor gan's point about miles west of Port eotborHe, Ont, on the ad. She then caught fire and was entirely consumed.
 ON the Sd the transport steamer An tonic Lopez arrived at Santiago de Cuba from Spain with o34 regular troops
 WARREN T. THOMPSON was arrested in Chicago, on the 3d, in connection with the eounterfeiting postage stamp case He was held in s, 900 bail
 sERAPHIHE CESErrE and Delphine Chaput, two girls who jumped from fourth-story window during the fire in the Mcdonald Tobacco Co. $ fac tory in Montreal, Can, recently, and received external and internal inju- ries, died, on the 3d. at Notre Damo hospital