The Monticellonian., 1898-06-17
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OI lIh W lCI ON NO1 lN LDt Prof Coddngton of the Lick observa. tory in California has discovered new comet.
 Final orders have been issued for John Jacob Astor's battery to go to the Philippines.
 Several assertions are reported from the Second Tennessee, stationed at Camp Alger, Va.
 Many members of the Twenty-seeond Kansas, at Camp Alger, Va, are suffer- ing from measles.
 August Kirsch, aged 31, committed suicide at St Louis by hanging to big wire nail in an outhouse.
 Officials in the treasury department are working hard making preparations for enforcing the new revenue law. Fifty cases of measles are now in the ospital at Camp Merritt, San Francis e and it is feared it will become an epio nic.
 The >,port of agricultural products for the Ii ,al year ending July l will amount to >s35, ,ooo, 0o0 the largest ever known in thlAcountry.
 Chief Naval Gssstructor Hichborn is confident that SOIL, of the ships sunk in Manila bay can z raised and re- paired to our advantag
 t.sRumbold is gett.sg the cream of the St Louis boys as rees'it for his famous Battery A. the crask votun- teer battery at Chickamauga
 Two freight engines on the Celaral Ohio railroad collided near ZanesviliA Sunday, killing one engineer and seri- ously injuring two other men,
 It is estimated that there will be a ma, 'rity of 10 votes in favor of Ha- waiia. annexation when the vote is taken h. the house Wednesday.
 The Urea nry is now equipped with the means o. carrying on the war un- til the meeting of Congress in Decem- Der, if the contes. lasts so long.
 The papal officis organ at Rome auds the tactics of t. American ad= ministration and derid, the Spanish telegrams announcing fan estie victo- ries.
 The statement comes from W shing- ton that the government expee no peace until the Ganaries have b n seized and Barcelona and Cadiz threat ened.
 The prize recently captured by the St Louis, proves to De the British steamer Twiekenham, with 3,200 tons of coal on board intended for Gervera's | feet
 Reports are again rife that the queen regent of Spain wishes to shift the re geney to the lnfanta Isabella and to let her accept the American eondi- tions
 The drought at camp Thomas, Chick amaHga park, was broken, Sunday, by d tremendous downponr of rain. Many of the tents, improperly ditched, were flooded.
 The semi-offieial papers of Berlin am nounce decisively that the ordering of German warships to Manila has no other aim than the protection of Ger man residents in Manila.
 War between the Transvaal and Swaziland may break out at moment. The Swazil king has 20,OOO warriors well armed and drilled, and there i. much anxiety i'll the fransvaal.
 Judge J. E. Hartley aged - years died at his home in Stockton, Mo. II, was the wealthiest man in Cedar coun ty, and the founder and principal own CT of the Stockton Exchange bank.
 Missouri has furnished more than q fall regiment of men who volunteered for service in the regular army. This in addition to the regular volunteer state troops under the presidents first call.
 Miss Maggie Durmier, aged 20 years killed herself with poison at Jones burg, Mo, Sunday. She attended church in the forenoon and apparently was in good spirits. No cause is as signed.
 Notwithstanding the official an nouncement that the torpedo boat de- stroyer Terror is safe in Porto Rican harbor there is considerable anxiety al Madrid regarding her exact where abouts.