The Monticellonian., 1905-09-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The government is about ready to in- augHrate pros cations against eleven heads of manufacturing and contract ing firms in NeW York city for con spring through the medium of an em- ployers' association to violate the alien contract labor law.
 Col Cornelius Westbrook, q we'll known Grand Army veteran. died in the state hospital al Middleton. \. Y, as the result of injuries received dur ing the civil war
 Russia is heavily reinforcing her garrisons in Finland.
 Fire at Evansville, Ind, destroyed 800, ,o00 worth of business property. in- c,uding a large clothing store.
 Typhoid fever is epidemic among the conyiets in the Washington state pani- tentiary at Wala Walla.
 Capt C. M F Godfrey, assistant surgeon al Fort McPherson Atlanta, Ga. committed suicide by shooting himself through the brain.
 bomb was exploded inside private car at the Pellin (China) railway sta ton. carrying che of the four missions ordered abroad 10 study foreign politi- cal methods Four minor officials and the bomb-thi over were killed and 20 injured Amosg the latter were Prince Tsai Tohe and Wu Ting-fang, former minister to tn United States
 Butte, Mon: has suffered s1.000, 900 loss by fire in it's business district, ba of p Symons dry goods store.
 The presidents last week at Saga more Hill has been largely devoted to work ill assen. bling matter for his an hual message 10 congress.
 Two hundred and twenty-four Typo graphical unions subordinate to the h. ternational Typographical union are now working on an eight-hour basis or have arranged to do 50 not later than January l, lss 6.
 Several tra.Hmen were injured by a work train rear-ending a freight on the Big Four, hva miles south of Paris. III
 A masked mob of White Ribboners" took Moses Loyern, negro, serving a 60-days' sentence for assault, from the jail al Williamson, w Va, and whipped and stoned him until they be- lieved him dead, when they took him cacN to jail
 The courthouse at New Madrid. Mo, was destroyed by what is believed to have been aa incendiary fire The pa Fer. II siX murder cases awaiting trial wtre among the records lost.
 TcH memb rs of the Louisville base bal club who were hurt in the accident ar Kansas City. Mo. August 3l. have brought suit against the Metropolitan Slest Railway Go Of Kansas City for Gama,es aggIeaatin $5S,000.
 The National Association of Rural Mail Carriers, at their convention in Indianapolis. selected l'cosla, H., as the meeting place for 1906
 Audubon Boy paced a mile at the Rcadyille (Massl track, under adverse conditions, in l:59A, equalling Star Pointers record made seven years ago.
 Jason Chumhley returned to his home q, Gravel Switch. Ky, after an absence and took hold of lis six-year-old daughter by the chin to kiss her He tilted her head back too far and broke her neck
 C. J Dc,llA, the bankrupt Kansas coal operator, who has been travelling ir Europe. writes that he has com ple.ely rega.Lcd his health and is com ing homa
 Two men and ore girl hare died of Asiatie cholera at Lodz, Russian Pc land
 B. Y. Dunham is under arrest at Get tysburg. 5. D.. charged as principal in securing $SS.S00 from d bank there by a wire tapping dodge.
 Buffalo Bilrs Wild West show is quarantincd in Frarce and all his horses have been shot ea account Of glaEie:s