The Monticellonian., 1905-10-26
GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS.

. in Vermont on the 22d inst. The yi- bration lasted few seconds and Was sufficiently pronounced to shake houses. smash crockefy and cause con siderable alarm.
 Two children were killed and eight persons injured north of Southport, Ind, by traction car striking wagon load of picknickers returning from the country.
 Admiral Togo was given an enthusi- astie reception when he made his tfi- umphal entry into Tokio, 10 report to The emperor the return of the fleet from the war.
 During the recent storm on the lakes. according 10 latest computation, 21 human lives were lost and 42 VCs- sels either lost or badly damaged. Ses- eral other craft are unuceounlad for.
 The interned Russian cruiser Lena will IeaYe san Francisco for NiadEo- stok. having been fully repaired and supplied with 2,000 tons of coal She has her complete crew, no assertions having occurred.
 Owing to the shortage in the MeXi- can wheat crop i is expected the duty on American and Canadian wheat will be removed.
 The employing printers of Utica, N. Y, have granted the eight-hour day after January 1 next.
 President Loutet of France went 10 Madrid to return King Alfonso's visit. He had royal time.
 A monument to Pope Plus K, sub scribed for by Catholics all over the world, has been unveiled at Riese, the little Venetian village where the pope was born.
 Belgium has under discussion Inc fortifying of Antwerp so as 10 make it practically impregnable against na- val attack
 John c. Dondero, aged 27, was fatal ly injured in football scrimmagc q. Jewett City. Conn Cerebral heIaor- rhage was the doctors diagnosis.
 Police Commissioner McAdoo of New York city found it necessary to sup plement an order to arrest uEescorted women found on the streets at night with caution not to interfere with respectable women.
 Frank l.. Busche shot and killed George Stadler, his brother-in-law at Plattsmouth, Neb, while the latter was trying to force his way into the Busche home, where Mrs Stadler and her chil- dren had taken refuge after the hus- ho fa I,oI I lr;l them. Busche was exonerated
 Prof Sylvester Dwight Judd, aged 8 years, formerly an assistant profes- sor of biology st Georgetown CD e. university. committed suicide by hang ing in the sarret of his home in Phil adelphia.
 Seven men out of party of ten were drowned in the Delaware river, near Beverly N. J., as the result of the launch in which they were sailing colllding with q barge
 Mrs. Theo. Planz was instantly killed ia San Francisco and her mother-in law badly injured by being thrown from an automobile which Mrs. Planz was guiding, and which upset on a quick turn being made 10 avoid run ming down pedestrian.
 Thanksgiving services were held in all the churches throughout the Rus sian empire and festal masses cele- brated. on the 22d, for the conclusion of peace.
 Frederick Thee and Henry Feufer were drowned and Edward Duffy and his son, Edward, Jr. were badly burned as the result of an explosion on the gasoline launch Myrtle on the river at St. Louis.
 David Hobbs. customs agent for the Canadian Pacific railway at Montreal, Can, is charged with being defaulter 10 the extent of $40,000 to $50,0O0. He has decamped.
 Mrs. Alice Hartman and five children were burned to death in a midnight fire which consumed their home at Port Royal, Mo. Only the husband and fa- ther. William Hartman, of the entire family escaped.
 Secretary of War Taft will start on his trip to Panama on the 27th inst.
 Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria and the Infanta Maria Teresa, sister of King Alfonso of Spain. have been formally betrothed.
 The entire business section of AL turas, Cal, was swept away by fire, causing a loss of s100,000; insurance licht