The Monticellonian., 1905-04-13

who go out of their way to see him are refused interviews He wants rest.
 A. B. Symns. founder of the Symns Wholesale Grocery Co, of Atchison, Kas., one of the oldest and wealthiest concerns in the west, was run over and killed by a locomotive at Hot Springs, Ark
 Advices from the Caucasus give an alarming view of the railway situation there. The authorities are afraid to run trains at night lest they be wrecked
 G. V. L. Meyer, the new American ambassador to St. Petersburg, was cor dially received on his first official call on Foreign Minister Lamsdorff. Mrs. Roosevelt and three of her chil- dren, who had been away on a short cruise in Florida waters on the Sylph, are again al home in the White House.
 The king of SaXony has consented to an increase of the yearly allowance of his former wife, the Countess Montig nOso, to S15.000 in return for the sur render of their daughter Princess An na Monica Pia.
 The bankers handling the American end of the Japanese loan say the small subscribers will get nearly all their subscriptions; others will get from ten to fifty per cent, while the speculative bidders will be weeded out as far as possible. Trade, grain crop and industrial con ditions throughout the country, ac- cording to Bradstreets. are favorable except in the south, where cotton planting Is backward. Representatives of 30 independent oil companies in Kansas met at Cha mute and decided to form a company representing $7,000. 900 invested capital, and build a pipe line to Kansas City where they will build and operate refinery
 A. J. Parshall, of the United States geological survey, confirms the report of the discovery of rich gold deposits near Kendall, Uintah county, Wyo- ming
 Indians in the White river country, in Colorado, where President Roose- welt expects to hunt. are reported to be sullen and ugly because the game wardens want to drive them back to the Uintah reservation.
 The Union ice works plant at Los Angeles. Cal, was destroyed by fire following the explosion of a big boiler. Two workmen were seriously injured; loss $100, ,000.
 According to the ideas of the French and British ambassadors in Washing ,ss in Mgrnqan and will continue so. They are not aware of anyone's efforts or desire to close it.
 Bishop Hamilton. of San Francisco, addressing the New York Methodist conference, declared that the success ful preacher of to-day must be man of the world, and not bother himself too much about heresy.
 The federal grand jury in Chicago Investigating the so-ealled beef trust, is said to have acquired large amount of inside information concerning the meat packing firms, and indictments may be expected soon.
 County Treasurer Stewart at Spring field O., in order to collect S1,200 taxes, attached the Springfield & Vest ern railroad, part of the Appeyard system, chaining a car to the track to stop traffic.
 M. L. Sheppard, recently of Holden vile, I, T., shot and killed his wife and committed suicide at Oklahoma City, Okla.
 A blooded Kentucky horse and pack of wolf and stag hounds have 1 been sent to Oklahoma for the use of the president during his hunt there
 Alexander E. Granville Gordan has been sentenced, at Minneapolis, Minn., to one years Imprisonment for send ing a threatening letter to the presi- dent
 The Hartman interests, it is said, will accept as final the decision of the United States supreme court in the Northern Securities case.
 An epidemic of meningitis has brok- en out among the inmates of the gov ernment boarding school on the Mes calaro Indian reservation in New Mex icO
 Cassius Brown was convicted at St Joseph, Mo. of the murder of Mrs. Nancy Gay. whose throat he cut in November last.
 A Bombay dispatch says that at all posts on the upper Oxus, troops of the ameer of Bokhara have been replaced by Russians drawn from the Mery garrison.
 The epidemic of spotted fever in Si- lesia has assumed such alarming pro portions that governmental measures for checking it have been invoked. The schools have been closed.
 La Soufriere the volcano on the isl and of St, Vincent is showing signs of subterranean activity. and all erup tion would cause no surprise.
 s. T. D: Dodd, chief solicitor of the Standard Oil Co. denounces as false and vile" the statements made by min isters that John D. Rockefeller made his money dishonestly
 Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister of the late President L. s. Grant, and widow of Dr. NJ. J. Cramer was found dead in bed al the home of her sister, Mrs. Virginia Grant Corbin, at Orange N. J.
 Miss Gladys Bryant Smith daughter of MT. and Mrs. James E. Smith, has been selected by Mayor Wells of St 1 Louis to act as sponsor at the christen- ing of the new cruiser St. Louis, in Philadelphia, May 6.
 The California supreme court de- cides that a municipality can not recall an elected officer and substitute an other in his place after an election by h.. in