The Monticellonian., 1903-04-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Sturms shot and fatally wounded Albert Tatro, an ex-eonvict, and shot Charles Forkner through the thigh, at Concordia, Kas., on the 1st. The men were trying to break into her house.
 A man supposed to be a Chicago clerk was found murdered at Belle Plaine, Ia., on the 31st. His throat was cut, his head crushed and his leg broken.
 Several students were injured at Elf fngham, H., on the 1st, where a bat tic was fought between the college of photography and Austin college for the possession of a cannon.
 In the Illinois senate, on the 1st, Parkers resolution for the investiga- tion of the office of the attorney gen eral, II. J. Hamlin, was laid on the table by vote of ? to ?.
 Dr. Theodore ]. Bluthardt, of Chi cago, was appointed, on the 1st, Unit ed States consul at Barmen, Germany, vice Max Bouchsein. of Illinois.
 Col. Edmund C. Banbridge, U. s. A., retired, died in Washington, D. C., on the 1st, of heart trouble and eompli- cations incident to old age.
 The Henry James-Ten EYck prize at Yale was awarded, on the 1st, to William Pickens, colored, whose home is in Little Rock, Ark
 Minister Merry. on the 1st. reported to the state department in cable gram that martial law has been pro- claimed in Nicaragua.
 Mrs. Olivia Worden, widow of Ad- miral John l.. Worden, died at her home in Lakewood, N. J., on the 1st, aged s3 years.
 President Roosevelt began his II GOO mile tour, on the 1st, in one of the finest special trains ever run out of Washington.
 The award of the anthracite coal strike commission went into effect on the 1st throughout the anthracite coal region.
 Col. Jonathan k. Miles died sudden ly at his home at Miles Station, Ma coupin county, H., on the 2d, age1 s5. Col. Miles was at one time a business associate of former Gov. Stanard, of Missouri.
 Ten American fishing vessels which have been frozen into the ice field since January r, at Bay Island, \. F., were reported ill a perilous position on the 2d. Provisions were running low.
 A mob attacked Gov. Reyes of the 4 state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, at Mon z terey, on the 2d, and stoned him. Po- lice were called, and four men were killed during the riot.
 A severe snowscorm began early on the 2a in Colorado. Many snow and landsIides occurred in the mountains. doing much damage to railroad and mining property.
 A fight broke out in a mission hos pital in Seattle, Wash, on the 2d, and three men are at deaths door as result.
 One person was killed and eight others injured in panic in which 22 families were driven into the street, caused by fire in I New York tcne- ment on the Ed.
 Iowa democrats gave a Jeffersonian banquet at Des Moines on the Ed. w. J. Bryan and former Vice President Stevenson were the principal speak. CTS.
 Philip II. Sternbergh, vice-president and treasurer of the Kansas City (Mo.) Bolt & Nut Co.,, died there of pneumonia, on the 2d, aged 3s years.
 B. E. Reed, right eminent grand commander of the Masonic order of Wisconsin, died of Bright's dis sase at Chippewa Falls on the Ed.
 John McQuade, for 33 years treasur CT of Tammany Hall, died in New York on the 2d
 George Edward Mills, business part ner of the son of Dr. Richard c. Flow CT, was arrested in New York, on the Sd, on the charge of attempting to bribe Assistant District Attorney Garyan, who is the prosecutor in the case against Dr. Flower.
 Herbert Bowen. representing Vene- zuela, emphatically rejected, on the Sd, clause in the arbitration pro tocol which sought to make Nenezue- Ia pay the cost of the blockade. MT. Bowen's reply was cabled at once to Europe.
 Dr. Lewald, the commissioner of Ger many to the St. Louis Worlds fair, held, on the 3d, in Berlin, what the artists call an art parliament to de- eide on Germany's art exhibit at the fair.
 Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, the new Chinese minister to the United States, with his entire suite and. party including in all about forty-five per sens, reached Washington, on the 3d.
 A severe storm passed over Okla homa, on the 3d, cutting off Guthrie and practically all Oklahoma from the outside world. It began with a severe dust and windstorm.
 Prof. B. F. Marsh died in Helena, Mont, on the Sd, aged ss. He made the first survey of lands within the present limit of Montana. He was born in Vermont in 1915.