The Monticellonian., 1899-05-12
OTHERWISE UNNOIICED.


 The Wardner fTdaho) rioters are 10 re tried on the charge of murder and arson.
 The American Tent and Awning Co, i.t St. Louis, suffered severely from fire Sunday night.
 Mrs Giles F. Filey. wife of the weII-known St Louis foundry-owner, d;ed at her home Sunday.
 The Germans of St. Louis celebrated the eighty-fourth anniversary of the death of Schiller Sunday.
 Southern stove manufacturers have vaiuntarily advanced wages ten per cent, to take effect immediately.
 Dr. William Lambert Russel died at Rarre, Mass. of humps, aged go years. He was the oldest Harvard graduate
 The annual meeting of the national conference of charities and correction will convene in Cincinnati May 1923.
 The Venezuelan government has sig Eitied it's intention of taking part in ihe Philadelphia commercial museum.
 popular subscription has been started in Kansas to purchase a sword fer Gen. Funston, to be presented him on his return home.
 Ten thousand Chicago citizens met Sunday to express their approval of the present policy of the administra- ton in the Philippines.
 The situation in South Africa is growing more intense daily. The crisis in the fraHsvaal is beginning to over shadow all other topics of public in- tefest in London.
 Robert Hilliard, the actor, the star Of Sporting Life. which is being pro dGeed at MeNicker's theater, Chicago, broke his hand in the boxing act in which he takes part.
 The Chicago Civic fedration will, in a few days. call a meeting of gover- nors and attorney generals of the diff fefnt states to confer on the question of trusts and combinations.
 There isgreat excitement in Austrian military circles by q bold theft, by tho agent of some foreign power of an iu,- portant secret in the construction of Anstria's latest quick-fring gun.
 William Quade died at Staunton, H., aged 66 years. Mr Quade had been confined by serious illness for several years. He had been proprietor of the Quade hotel for the last 20 years.
 The powder mill plant of the Potts vile (Pa.4 Water Co, located in the Indian Reservation valley, seven miles west of Pottsville, blew up Sunday, de- stroying IS tons of powder. No casual ties.
 Capt Will Stott. formerly of Frank l Ind Nyh ha dred and Sixty-frst volunteers, has decided to return to Cuba in the near future to manage a tobacco planta- toif
 The annual directory canvass of Peoria, H., has been completed. There will 33,000 names in the book. It also shows that the population of the city i9 T4,250, a gain of 1000 since last year.
 All the buildings connected with the Woonsocket R. I) Driving park were burned. Sunday, and 50 pounds of dy- namite stored in one of the stables, exploded, shaking the country for miles around.
 \ terrific hail storm passed over Mo- weaqua, Ill.,, Sunday evening Hail fell to depth of six inches. Many were us large as robins eggs. Skylights were broken, are lights smashed and much ether damage done.
 Gov. Thomas of Colorado has an- ncunced that he is about to begin pro- ceedings in the United States supreme court to determine the powers of the president to hold volunteer troops in service in foreign countries.
 Edward Quick, of Chicago, manager of the Ridpath Lyceum bureau, walked through the open elevator door at the Barnet hotel, Logansport, Ind, and fell 20 feet to the basement floor. He sustained only body bruises.
 r. Franklin Valentine, aged 51, city clerk of Carlinville, Ill.,, was drowned Sunday evening in lake near his home. For ten years he was a head postal clerk on the Chicago & Alton between Chicago and St. Louis.