The Monticellonian., 1905-06-29

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 Fire in the retail shopping district of Nashville. Tenn, destroyed property valued at upwards of half million dol lars Including the big department store occupied by Harris Bros. and Jacobus Bros. the Nashville Dry Goods Go. and other property contiguous
 Georges Rodrigues, Parisian bank CT, who had recently suffered serious financial losses, committed suicide The liabilities of his bank are given as g. 900 900.
 The British Indian steam Navigation Co.'S steamer Ikhoma. carrying mails and rice from Rangoon 10 Yokohama. was sunk, on June ,, 150 miles north of Hong Kong. by the Russian cruiser Terek, The crew was landed at Singapore by the Dutch steamer Perlak, which the Terek met June l9
 Hon Whitelaw Reid. American am. bassador b the court of St. James, was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Pilgrims Society of Lon don at Carriages. Several hundred guests, including some of England'5 most famous men. with a sprinkling of Americans were present, Lord Rob- erts presiding.
 American owned or built yachts had field day at the KieI regatta on the 23d four of them winning the races in which they were entered Emperor William had the wheel on Meteor III. of ha ha- had his distinguished guests. includ. ing Ambassador Tower, hauling ropes and trimming ship.
 Former Capt. George ". Kirkman. Twenty-ffth infantry, has been re- ceived at the federal penitentiary at Leayenworth, kas., on a sentence of three years at hard labor
 A state of panic is reported at Lodz, Russian Poland where a strike is general and all factories and shops are closed. Clashes between soldiers and the people have resulted in the loss of many lives Many liquor stores have been sacked and much public property destroyed.
 With the completion of it's double track the Union Pacific announces a mile a minute schedule between To- peka and Kansas City.
 The Russian auxiliary cruisers Dnei- per and Rion, which have been har- rassing British commerce. ostensibly looking for contraband of war. owing to the vigorous representations of the British government, have been ordered to return 10 Libau.
 Thomas and Paul Hyatt, brothers. were found guilty. al Warrensburg. Mo. of murder in the second degree in having killed Herman Martin, last New Years eve. during fight near Columbus. Mo-. at a church entertain ment They were given ten years each.
 The sentence of seven years and SIX months imprisonment imposed upon James R. Kellogg, for participation in the affairs of the E. 5. Dean discre- tionary pool concern. has been affirmed by the appellate division of the New York supreme court
 H. " Jones the Minnesota grain ex- pert says the winter wheat crop will be between 34o,00O 900 and 370,00,000 bushels
 Judge stephen NeaIe, the author of the fourteenth amendment 10 the con stitution of the United States, died at his home in Lebanon. Ind. after an illness of lasting several months.
 The Austrian government has con ferred upon David R Francis, presi- dent of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- ton Co.,, the commanders cross of the order of Francis Joseph. with the star
 The jury in the case Of William c Crawford, tried in Washington fol conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with post office depart ment contracts, failed 10 agree and was discharged.
 The list of fatalities in the wreck o. the Twentieth Century limited al Mentor, O., on the Lake Shore road, is placed at 19 All the victims were prominent in the business or profes. sonal world in New York. Chicago Cleveland and other cities. The re- sponsibiity for the open switch has not been placed
 While 115 men-of-war cutters. pin naees and gigs were racing in the outer harbor of Kiel, Germany. a sud den gust of wind capsized half a dozen of the boats. Nothing worse than ducking happened to the crews.
 The French torpedoboat Harpon struck a rock and sank during the maneuvers off Cherbourg She was subsequently, retloated and lowed to the arsenal
 Gov. Bell of Vermont has granted a reprieve. antiI December B. to Mrs Rog CTS condemned 10 death for the murder of her husband. in order that the Unit ed States supreme court may pass upon the case.
 Webster M. Samuel aged "A years, a former president of the s. Louis Mer- chants exchange, died, on the night of the 22d, after a brief illness oi pneumonia
 An order of the war department an- nounces that $l a month additional pay will be given enlisted men in the army who qualify as expert ridemen.
 The jubilee convention of the Chris tian church at Des Moines, la, had a large attendance of delegates from all points in Iowa.
 A storm in Nebraska, which followed the Elkhorn river from O'Neill to Nor folk, distance of 100 miles, with hail falling in spots. ruined many hundred thousand acres of crops.
 President Roosevelt supports Attor- ney-General Moody in declining to pro ceed against Paul Morton in connection with the Santa Fe rebate cases, and MT. Morton goes to the Equitable board with clean bill