The Monticellonian., 1905-10-05
GENER AL NEWS ITEMS.

The Peruaa Drug Misunderstanding Co. n2s brought suit in the superior court of Chicago against the publishers of the Ladies Home Journal for $259 900 dam= ages The suit grew out of a statement of the Ladies Home Journal that te5- 'monia from Congressman George 5. White. of South Carolina used by the Peruna company, was fraudulent The Peruna company claim to have the original letter of Congressman White, and will offer it as evidence.
 Mrs. Clarence Markham. of Cam bridge, H.. in fiji of insanity, killed her seven children with hatchet. cut her own throat and set fire to her home. The husband and father, crazed by the aw- tul tragedy, committed suicide by shoot Ing himself
 John Alexander Dowie. first apostle of the Christian Catholi. church of Zion. was stricken with paralysis while en route to Mexico Believing his end is near lie has selected his successor. but has not announced his name as yet.
 The British association football team met their first defeat ill Chicago during their American tour The all Chicago team beat them 10 in the fastest game of the kind ever witnessed in the Nest
 Mrs. Mary A. O'Hare, A years of age, of Cherry Nallfy Mass, walked into a pond at the rear of her home with her 11-months-old baby boy in her arms and both were drown 2d
 One person was fatally injured and over score of others more or less se- rieusly hurt by collision in the rail- road yards al St. Paul, Minn. Two Pullman sleeper5 were hurled over a retaining wall into a gully 20 feet down.
 A switch engine jumped the track in the Louisville & Nashville yards at Birmingham, Ala. and three young men who We're riding on the running board were ki.td and terribly man ged
 The Oceanic Steamship Cos steamer Alameda, outward bound, went on to the reef near Fort Point. Cal, during a dense feg, and at last accounts was hard and fast, with 24 feet Of water in her hold
 The remains O. Maj.-Gen. K9ldraten- ko. Russia'a for most hero in the war with Jaran. who was killed during the siege of Port Arthur, were received at Odessa with a great civic and military den. nnstratien. A special train con veyed the hody 10 St Petersburg fer in- torment in the Alexander Neysky mon astery. the last resting place of the em- pire's mcst celebrated men.
 Fire among tha temporary military storehuuses at Hiero.hima Japan be lieyed to have been of incendary origin caused less of from S2 900, ,000 10 $5,- GOO O0o
 The total registered attendance ot delegates at the international confer cree of the Railroad Y NJ C. A, in Detroit, Mich, was 1,539
 Senator Hepburn, Of Idaho. who has been i'll with mild attack of appeEdi- cits n Washington, is improving rap idly.
 !. Walter Franklin was arrested ir Birmingham, Ala. on the charge Of big amy, while taking part with wife No | in Salvation army service
 The German government is said to bt watching with keen interest the iuyesti. gation going on in the United State. into the conduct of American life nsur- ance companies.
 The next international postal con gress will be held in Rome during th' first week in April. 1906
 The New York Pinkertons believe they are on the trail of the man wht pulled off the s360.000 job or the Ma tional City bank. He is thought to b q millionaire speculator of shady all tecedents, and an arrest is expected.
 Cholera continues to manifest it' presence at Lodz Russian Poland.