The Monticellonian., 1905-10-05

sophomore classes of Trinity college in Hartford
 A dramatic scene occurred al the h. ternational Railroad Y. NJ (. \. con vention at Detroit Mich. when Sur geon-General Suzuki of the Japanese navy addressed the convention declar- ing that he had been twenty years a Christian. and that all of his family were of the same faith
 Hubert o. Barber, one of the alleged wreckers of the Commercial bank at Cambridge, O.. was acquitted by jury in the common pleas court al Cald- well O.
 The campaign recently inaugurated by the post office department against ob jectionable post cards is to be pushed, and all indecent, suggestive or vulgar cards will be excluded from the mails.
 Postmaster-General Cortelyon has re- turned to Washington from his vaca- ton.
 Capt. James Russell Selfridge ord nance officer at the Charlestown tMass.) navy yard, son of the late Rear-Ad- miral Thomas 0. Selfridge. [. $. N. died of apoplexy.
 Officers from Savannah. Ga, arrived in Montreal Can. on the 29th uIt., to escort Col GaynGr and Capt Greene back to Savannah for trial on charges of defrauding the United States govern ment They fought extradition 10 a finish and lest
 William R Travers, a millionaire man of leisure son of the celebrated wit and Wall street operator of the same name, committed suicide in his apartments in New York. where he lived alone. with the exception of his valet. by shooting himself through the head The suicide is inexDIieabie
 The Chicago X Northwestern Rail road Go. will push to immediate com pletion the new line from Casper Wyos vest to Lander and the Wind River reservation where 50O00o acres vii. soon be thrown open to settlement
 Brg.-Ger. John F Weston viii rep- resent the war department al ts.e cele- Hrajion i'll honor of the install aiicn Of Prof. James the new president of the University of Illinois, a GhamEaign, October 17=1S.
 Three members of the Danla Rome, Of Boston. were seriously injured an3 nearly every member cut and htuiseI by the collapse of q band stand ai Law renee. Mass
 A great stampede is on from ihe towns in southeastern Alaska 10 Chi. ca2o island south from Sitka where al enormously rich quartz ledge has been discovered
 Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson says that lower retail prices should prevail during the coming winter for meat. dairy products. poultry and other neces- aitie.. brought about by the enormous crops of small grains.
 The board of consulting engineers Of the Panama canal and several mem bers of the Panama canal commission have left fer Colon, in company with Chairman Theodore P. Shonts. 10 in spect the work and formulate an opin ion as to the best kind of canal D construct
 NJ. Wiite, the principal Russian peace envoy, was summoned to meet the ezar on board the imperial yacht Polar Star at Bioerke.
 Mrs. Phoebe j. Adams a missionary dropped dead in the aisle of Bethany Baptist church in Shellwood. suburi Of Portland. Ore. presumably from heart disease.
 The decennial census of Kansas, jus completed, shows a population Of L. 543. SIS, an increase of 2090S4 over the population as shown by the eenstts Of 1895.
 When the British ship Chatham, sunk in the Suez canal, was blown up, wreckage was thrown 1000 feet in the air and in falling destroyed 500 feet of the east bank of the canal, which will be immediately repaired. The Franco-German accord on the Morocco affair has been signed and is the cause of the keenest satisfaction l terminating, as it does, a periad of acue suspense
 Police Commissioner McAdoo of New York city has asked the cooperation of Western Union and the New York Telephone Co in closing pool rooms.
 Miss Helen Miller Gould has given $150000 for the erection of q Railroad Y M C. A building in St Louis as memorial to her father the late Jay Gould. It will be a fireproof, six-story l building, and up-to-date in it's appoint m~lt3.
 Dr. Arthur Weir Johnstone. a lead ing specialist in abdominal surgery. died at his home in Cincinnati of ap- pendicitis, complicated with acute peritonitis
 The Improved Order Knights of Py- thias, in session in Washington, re- elected J. H. Bieler of Indianapolis, supreme commander
 The Lon >9n Chronicle is poking fun at President Roosevelt because the lat ter addressed the German kaiser as His Majesty William IL. Emperor of -Germany."
 ' A 10000 word paper read by Surgeon General Suzuki of Japan before the con vention of army and navy surgeons ia Detroit, Mich. is decared to be the most valuable document of is kind pro duced in modern times.
 A report from Annapolis. Md, o1 September 27. said that there were at that time nine fully developed eases of diphtheria and five cases of typhoid fe- yer at the naval academy
 Eleven contractors charged with con spracy in importing English tile set ters to the United States under contract, were arraigned before United States Commissioner Runway in New York city and held in S2,5O0 bond each for examination October l.
 Attorney General Coleman of Kansas has hegun suits of nustar aea.nst Mayor