The Monticellonian., 1905-08-03

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 Near Wreford. kas.. e,oudburst caused Lions creek 10 rise more than twenty feet. overfiowing its banks and doing much damag- -4rE lands and the railroad
 Thirte Chinese, who were snug gled across the Mexican border, were discovered in q Santa F'e box ear at Fl Paso. Tex. provisoned for trip to Los Angeles. They were placed under arrest.
 Fire broke out on board the White Star steamship Teutonic, lying at her pier in New York. and did damage to the amount of 5000 or more before it was eXtinguished
 The Norwegian storthing unani- mously adopted the proposal for a ref erendum on the question of dissolution of the union with Sweden, and fixed August I3 for the submission of the question 10 the people
 A thorough examination has devel- Cped that the hull of the gunboat Ben nington is intact. A court of inquiry has been detailed to investigate the cause of the disaster
 It has been discovered that. under an act of congress, passed after the Maine disaster, the bodies of the vic tims of the Bennington explosion at San Diego Cal, can be sent to their homes at government expense. Such of the relatives desire can have the bodies shipped to them, for which purpose they will be disinterred.
 Eight women joint smashers who put a saloon at Industry, kas.. out of busi- ness, have been arrested on a charge of unlawful assembly and destruction of property. They will be tried at Abi- lene.
 George Thomas, acting chief of the bureau of city property, and William Maher acting chief of the bureau of highways. appointees Of Mayor Neav- CT of Philadelphia. have resigned be- cause they failed to pass the civil ser vice examination.
 Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Mrs Reid gave dinner at Dorchester house their London home to Senator and Mrs. Lodge and Assistant Seere- tary Loomis Quite number of for eign diplomats and members of the Bri- tish nobility were among the guests.
 While Hon William J. Bryan was making an address al the Montana Lake (Wis) Chautauaua, crowded boat landing broke down and several hundred persons got duelling. No one was seriously hurt. Joseph Mover. Detroit (MiehD pawnbroker. was fatally beaten by thieves. who stole $500 i'll money and $1 ono worth of diamonds.
 The boycott of American goods in China as a result Of the Chinese pro- test against the exclusion law, is said to be developing rapidly
 In a collision of passenger trains at Hall Road station. Liverpool. England, g persons were killed and many in lured
 Four men were killed by the wreck ing of an east-bound freight train on the Northern Pacific between Myers and Big Horn Mont
 The health authorities of New Or leans are hopeful that they will be able to control the fever outbreak so as to prevent anything like wide spread epidemic The city is getting | thorough cleansing.
 IL has been definitely arranged that the peace plenipotentiares will be re- ceiyed by President Roosevelt on board the Maydower at Oyster Bay on August ,, and after luncheon the Japanese will board the Dolphin. the Russians remaining on the Mayflower and pro ceed to Portsmouth. N H.. conveyed by the cruiser Galveston. Chief Examiner Isaac Vonderpool. in | a report just made. charges the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co. of New York, with eoneealments of judgments against the company amounting to S1S2 767. eXaggeration of it's surplus by over $500 GOO and a fixed policy of de-
 lay in settling claims l The Equitable Life Assurance socie- tvs income for the first six months of 1905 shows an increase of S2,3S6, S10 over the corresponding period of last year
 Coal railroad and dock properties, cGueeryatiyely estimated to be worth $50 600 000 embracing seven corpora tions in Ohio and West Virginia have been combined under one management ID be known as the Sunday Creek com pany
 Prof Henry C. Davis a member of the philosophy faculty a Yale has 5zen chosen professor of philosophy and biblical literature in Washburn college, Topeka, kas
 The bond for S965 800 of State Treas Hrer Thomas r Kelly of KaHsas was approved by the unanimous vote of the state executive council. This ends the fight
 Judge Marshall of the Missouri su- preme court. issued a writ, rpturnabe at the October term. prohibiting off cers of St. Louis county from arresting and trying St. Louis policemen for tres pass in breaking into the Delmar race track iuclosure
 The St. Petersburg Viedomosti sharp ly critCises the visit of Secretary Taft and Miss Roosevelt to Japan and com plains that the moment for the trip was tactlessly chosen. adding that ef- forts to prove the visit devoid O. poit- ical meaning are "childlike
 John Mueller charged with the mur- der of his wife and child. in Chicago. makes the novel plea of "epileptic son. nambulsm declaring that he eorn- mitted the crime in his sleep
 The Chicago City Railway Co. has filed d bill in the United States circuit court for an injunction to restrain the city of Chicago from interfering with any of +ha comnanv'S lines