The Monticellonian., 1895-05-17

Densloner, died, on the l6ths at her home miles from Knoxville, Tenn, She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1904 Her husband died tifty-one years ago.
 IF was announced in London, on the 9th, upon authority of the Exchange Telegraph Co, that the Niearaguan government would pay the entire amount of the indemnity demanded by Great Britain at the foreign office in London in few days.
 ON the oth Gov. Morton signed the Lexow New York city bipartisan pc lice bill and AssemblYman Ainsworth's $ bill, prepared by the New York city tenement commission, providing for the construction and supervision of New York city tenements.
 SCOTLAND YARD detectives, on the 9th. submitted to United States Am lassador Bayard evidence Chat Mendal Howard, now in custody i'll London as q counterfeiter, was fully prepared to make and issae spurious United States greenbacks and postage stamps.
 Ing government is endeavoring to secure possession of some 1000 letters of great historic interest and public value, owned by member of Che lief. ferson family residing near Charlottes- vile, Va, to whom they were handed down by inheritance from Thomas lief ferson.
 As A result of the action of the i'm migration authorities in Washington, General Manager Garterof the Detroit X Cleveland steam Navigation Co, on the lGth, directed thataE aliens in the employ of that company he removed and that none but citizens be em- Plafea.
 DESPITE an almost universal belief to the contrary. Mir Lorrin A. Thurs ton is still recognized by the state de- paftnent a. minister from Hawaii. The diplomatic list for May, an official issue of tue department, contains his name with the simple word absent after t,
 PREMIER TeRSrB of British Col ambia, eH the l0th, presented to the British colonial office protest oil be half of British Columbian seal fisher men against lhe delay in the payment of the compensation to seized vessels awa1aeH by the Behring sea arhitra- ton tribunal.
 Irvas stated in Santiago de euba, on the sth, that tbe revolutionary chiefs in interviews, had declared their opposition to annexation t5 the United States. They desire the inde- pendcncr of the island under the pro lection If and free trade with the United States.
 TuF Nicaraguan legation in Wash ineton received a telegram, en the sth, from the minister of foreign affairs at Managua, stating that there was no foundation for tle reports that rioting had occurred in that city CT in any part of Nicaragua during the British occupation of Corinto
 TuE post office department has re- volied a fraud order, issued in Febru, HrY last, against the Hematic Brother hood Circle of Isis represented by Dr. Phelon, of Chicago, Dr. PheIon having agreed not in future to send out through the mails the curative discs which were the subject of tho order.
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 A DISPATCH from Tolio, on the 10th, said that Admiral Viscount Kabavama, with Mir Mdmno, chief secretary of the lower house of the diet, the latter, as the head of the civil administration, with q suitable escort, would proceed to I'ormosa in few days for the pur- pose of formally annexing that island
 HE post office department has taken steps to secure and destroy the coun- terfeit postage stamps recently un- earthed in Chicago. Should coun- terfeit be discovered in the mail, the parcel carrying it will be held for postage and not delivered until the name and location of the sender are discovered.
 GEN MARTINEZ CAMPos has offered the American Railroad Go. in Cuba monthly payment of S20,000 in consid eration of the company's employing the idle natives along the route in the work of extending their lines of track Gen Campos has also advocated an eX- tensiye improvement of the harbors as means of giving work to the unem- ployed.
 k fight between striking furnace men from the Illinois steel works at South Chicago and large force of police on the 7th, quite number on both sides were more or less seri- oaSly injured, though no one was killed. The strikers were finally routed and the immense works of the company were taken possession of and pauoled by the guardians of the pub lie peace.
 WAgpES <. W. CHASE of the Kansas state penitcntiary, on the 9th, swore to complaint against Edmund NJ. Nor Till, governor of the state, charging him with obtaining money from the state treasury under false pretenses. The charge was based on certain vouchers issued by the governor against the contingent fund of the executive department in payment of certain sal aries and office rent incurred for the state before Gov. Morrill's inaugura- tion.