The Monticellonian., 1905-04-06

Former senator Stewart, of Nevada. has left Washington to make his home in Tonopah NeY.
 President Roosevelt has left the na- tional capital, to be absent about two months. The first week will be taken up by the trip to the southwest, cul- mInating at the Rough Riders reunion at San Antonio, Tex, after which hs will plunge into the wilderness and live next to nature for awhile.
 A Naples dispatch of the I'd inst. said that Secretary of State Hay, who arr rived on the steamer Cretic, spent a portion of the day there and proceeded to Genoa, was feeling greatly improved by the trip.
 President William F. Potter of tha Long Island railroad died in New York of eerebro spinal meningitis after a months illness.
 Thirty pieces of old silver coins, the latest decipherable date being TIPS, were fonnd by Nicholas Goetzinger while digging fence postholes at Tenn pleton, Ia.
 Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans. Fighting Bob Is al sea again. in command of the battleship squadron of the North Atlantic fleet He has hoisted his flag on board the Maine. ]
 John MeGiintoek, for many years member of the band of Angel Dancers at "The Lords Farm" near Park Ridge. N. !. where he was known as "Inhn tho Baptist" committed suicide by shooting. .
 Montasife White, professor of ora1 tory at Beloit tWlsj college. was ac- cideniaiiy drowned in Rock River.
 On the testimony of two former em- ployes of the defunet Storey Cotton Co.,. of Philadelphia, Stanley Francis. accused of being one of the promoters has been held for trial in the United States court. with bail fixed at $50 1000.
 frank Rvers. of Harlan. Ia, student in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, was drowned while canoeing l9 the Huron river u
 The eerener's jury at Colinsvile, H.. in the case of the killing of Barney Vassal6 by John Berta, returned a yer dict of justihabe homicide, as the kiil- ing was done in defense of his Ser ta's) wife. who was killed by Vassalo.
 Eight thousand people assembled in Convention hall at Kansas City Mo. 10 hear the Metropolitan opera com pany produce "ParsifaI Excursion trains were run from all neighboring cities to accommodate patrons.
 Francis MeGord. son of the late mili- ionaire James McGord of St. Joseph. Mo. died unexpectedly at Asheville, N-l C.. of tuberculosis.
 The will and eodieil Of the late Mrs Jane l.. Stanford have been admitted to probate in San Francisco Outside of specific bequests covering $4,0O0, 900 to relatives and $125.000 to various charitable institutions. the entire es- tate goes to the trustees of Leland Stanford. Jr., university.
 Lightning struck the flagpole on the public school building at Riverview. kas., shattering the cupola and caus- ing a panic among the $50 children who were playing in the school yard. A few were stunned and others hurt by flying bricks and splinters
 Unfortunate speculation by the cashier is alleged to have been the cause of the failure of the Citizens sav- ings bank of Lorain, o. The shortage amounts to sS7 000 The cashier and two others have been arrested on charges of embe2zlement.
 The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co. will build an extension from Chamberlain. s. D.. west through Lyman county. s. D.. opening up a new region of rich, new lands.
 The date of sailing of the transport Manchuria for Manila, with Secretary of War Taft and party. has been changed from July 1 to July s, in or der to allow some of the party to fill desired engagements.
 By the wreck of west-bound Great Northern passenger train, just east of Basin. Mont, by the engine running into a slide. Engineer John Weber was killed and Fireman Davis severely in jured. The passengers only received shaking up.
 J. Morgan Smith and wife, sister and brother-in-la of Nan Patterson. were arrested in Cincinnati on charge of conspiracy to murder Caesar Young. in New York An additional indict- ment. charging conspiracy, has been returned against Nan Patterson.
 The dedication of the statue of La fayette. which was to have taken place in Washington on July of this year. has been postponed till 1906, as the statue will not be ready in time.
 Upwards of 800 acres of forest and prairie west of Coshocton, O., has been swept by fire, doing an immense amount of damage
 Mrs Roosevelt. accompanied by some of her children and relatives. boarded the yacht Sylph at Jackson vile. Fla, and will take cruise for several days. Miss Alice is mistress of the White House ad interim.
 NJ. J. Hornshy, young negro. who was appointed postal clerk at Yazoo. Miss, complains that the white people of Yazoo will not permit him to work in the office. and have whipped and threatened to lynch him.
 Gov Mickey of Nebraska has ve- toed. on constitutional grounds. the bill passed by the legislature outlaw ing the practice of Christian science.
 Gov Joseph w. Folk of Missouri was the guest of honor at the annual banquet of the Missouri Society of New York city at the Waldorf Astoria. His address was on The Missouri Idea