The Monticellonian., 1895-11-01

caping gas, in their room in the Gault house in Chicago
 BANDS of Bulgarian marauders at tackled and destroyed the Turkish vii. lage of Catunitaa. near Melhicll, in Houmania, on the 23a The village was defended by Turkish soldiers, tWenty-three Of whom were killed in tine fight.
 JUDGE BAKER, of the fe leral court at Indianapolis. Ind, sentenced Fran cis A Coffin, Che former president of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co, for aid ing in the wrec5ing Of the tndianapo- lis national bank, to eight years in the penitentiary.
 IT is announced in Colon that early next spring work on an extensive seale will be resumed on the Panama canal. Already B s,000 men have been engaged to work on the excavation at Culebra and to construct extensive wharyes there.
 TIE Cbiekasaw legislature ad- ieuraea on the 25th. Four delegates were appointed to 70 to Washington and watch the Indian Situation. and do everything possible to influence na- tional legislation against the opening of.the Indian territory.
 A LAKE SHORE 6a MICHIGAN SOUTH ZEN train let Chicago as ?::29:a7 A. m., on the 24th, and arrived at Buffalo, \. Y, at f1:30:34 q. III. Elapsed time, s.0107 Average, including stops. 63. 10 miles per hour. Average, excluding stops, 64 9s miles per hour This beats the worlds record.
 Mas. JOHN L. WALLER. wife of the imprisoned ex-United States consul at Tamatave, Madagascar. had an inter- view with Secretary Herbert, on the e5ta, bat did not call oa Secretary 0l- ney. She will call on Hr. Olner as soon as al the papers la behalf ef her hus- band have been classified,
 ALL silver coinage. except that of subsidiary coin, has been ordered sus- pended after November next by Sec retary Carlisle, In carrying out this policy the New Orleans mint vii be practically closed and dismantled after the date named, and its seventy em- ployes furIouFhed without pay.
 TIE weekly statement of the New York city associated hanks, for the week ended on the o6tb, showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, e1,309, 525; loans, decrease. st,se7, 800; specie, increase. St, ,ea9. 500: legal ten. ders, decrease, S30s aJg: tjepas ts de- crease, Sl,270, 900; circulation, decrease, eSo, 500
 \. K WARD, alias Albert w Ken. neth the forger and emhezzter, who abstonde5 from Memphis, Tenn, with a shortage of Sau1 n9o, arrived at Puerto Cortez, Herd4ra@, on the Royal Mail line steamer Breakwatcr, from New Orleans, on the 23l. accompanied by his wife. He was under police sur. velllat
 CHARLES D. ROSE withdrew his chal. lenge by cable, on the 23d, for a yacht race against the Defender in 1896 for the America'S cup. The reason as. signed was that his challenge was gen, orally construed in yachting circles in England as d rebuite te Lord Dunra- ven for his course in the ValkyrieDe De fender race.
 MRS REBEocA GRAHAM, aged 1o3, died at Grimestown, Ala, recently. Her funeral was attended by her four widowed daughters, the youngest of whom was Gs years old fifty grand children. over 100 grandchildren and eight great-grea t-grandchildren She had resided in the same spot for eighty-ive years.
 NEWS from Cuba, received via Key West Fla, on the 25th, stated that, on the Fist, Gen. Maceo, who, by forced marches. had reached the province of Matanzas, with 5000 Cubans, entrapped force Of 9, 800 Spanish cavalry into an ambush, defeating them, after a four hours fight in which the Spaniards lost 500 men killed
 MR ROBERT l.. O'BRIEN, of Massachu- setts, who during the last campaig n acted as Mr. Cleyeland's stenographer, and who has since Mir. Cieveland's $ election been rated on the White House books as rrincipal executive clerk, has resigned to become the Washington correspondent of the Bos ton Evening Transcript.
 DR. SPAIaHT, vice-consul of the United States at Georgetown, British Guiana, now in Washington, is quoted as saying that Venezuela never claimed the land involved in the bound- ary dispute until gold was found there, and that the United States will n5aise mistake if she endeavors to assert the Monroe doctrine in connec- tion herewith.
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 Ex-SENAToR VAN WICK, of Nebraska suffered a stroke of paralysis in Wash. inRton on the 21st. As this is the sec. ond stroke suffered by the ex.senator and owing to his advanced age-7s years-his physicians hold out but lit