The Monticellonian., 1905-12-21

l SONtlIlbt Ol bShOtd OlCu al Ills HolHt III Richmond, lad, after a brief illness, aged 7S.
 A bomb found on a train on which President LouGet of France was trav- cling with a shooting party proved. on examination to be a harmless affair
 Some uneasiness has been caused in France by the Spanish proposal to change the meeting place of the con ference Gn Moroccan reforms from AL geeiras to Madrid.
 Prof. $. Stanhope 0rris, professor emeritus of Princeton university. and one of the foremost scholars in the United States. died at Harrisburg, Pa, of paralysis. aged n years.
 Marquis Ito is said to have accepted an appointment as resident general in Korea.
 Two men who held up the Colby state bank al Colby. Wis. were cap tured in a saloon ill Wausau. Wis. and all of the stolen money recovered They claimed to be farm hands, out of work and desperate
 Mrs. Wm. Marsh and her two children and James Dwyer lost their lives in d fire that destroyed the Yerbeek theater in Eorain. O.
 TWO of the principal blocks in Dallas, H., including the First national bank and the Weekly Review office were de stra2ed by fire. Loss, $SQ0oo, with but little insurance.
 Dr. W. s. Eorbes. professor of an- atomy and clinical surgery at Jefferson medical college Philadelphia. died at his hone. in that city of angina pee toris aged II wears.
 Charles E. Fame vice-presiGeut of the St. Louis adit-cleafinshouse vas killed al his home while burning off the stock of an old muzzie-lo -loaaius army rifle which he had bought to add 10 his collection of old firearms, a hul- let from the gun penetrating his head
 Henry F. Weaver. president of the Weaver Coal X Coke Co.. Chicago. dropped dead in his home on DreXeI Eoulevara
 Former State Senator W k Baron, president of the defunet Chamberlain bank. has been hoHnG over to tEe dis i triet court at Tecumseh Neb., on a charge of perjury in connection with testimony given al the tr:al Of Cashier Chamberlain.
 k. II. Hoffer, an asSayer, widely known in western mining circles was overcome by The fumes of ores he was testing d Sal Lake City, Gtah4 and dieG shortly after being found.
 The iHry il the ease of Mrs Sarah Caldwell, charged with the murder of her husband, at Salina, Kas. disagreed and was discharged. Two are said to have held out for aequittal.
 The transport Buferd sailed from San l Francisco for Manila and way ports carrying ten troops of the Third eaval- ". a number of recruits and 2,00a tons of army supplies
 Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte is l incensed at the latest act of hazing at the naval academy. and has declared that the guilty midshipmen will he summarily dismissed and that other dsmissals will follow as often as mid shipmen are found guilty of hazing CT countenancing it.
 II J. Freeman, alias ". H. Morton, wanted at Memphis. Tenn, on a charge ] of embedding $25,0o0 from the Chiei5a- saw Bank & Savings Co, was arrested in the Bad River country in South Da- 1 kota and taken back to Memphis.
 Nebraska is not vet done with Pat Grove. therefore Gov Mickey has Ge ciGed not to honor-for the present at least-the reauisition Of tEe governor of Iowa for the removal of Grove to that state
 Hush Watt, fnaneler and former member of parliament was placed on tral at ,he Old Bailey in London, on the charge of melting hired agents to murder is divorced wife Julia Watt, and Sir Reginald Beauehamp
 Fire, in Portland. Ore. destroyed the wholesale grocery establishment of Wadams & Kerr Brothers, causing q loss of upwards of $100,000. Four fire men were seriously injured
 M NJ. Let's, convicted of arson and robbery at Princeton, Kas., and who escaped in a sensational manner some time ago, is en route home from Colon, Panama in the custody of two officers.
 III Her 1Odi-HGuI tiluuIdIitt lCal along the New England coast the bat tleship Louisiana made an average speed of 18,S23 knots an hour Her contract speed was IS knots.
 The actual number of post offices in the United States at the close of the last fiscal year was; First class, 275; second class, 1,25S; third class, 4,120;
 
 The abolition of the eoncordat in France, and the substitution of the new regime following the separation of church and state involves an extensive change in the existing conditions un- der which the state carried on thou sands of churches.
 The Kansas state board of railroad commissioners decided to order re duotiOn of five per cent in freight rates on all classes of grain
 An effort is being made to secure q pardon for Long John Dolan, former chairman of the St. Louis democratic city committee, who is serving a five year sentence ip the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth. kas., fer procuring fraudulent naturalization of aliens.
 James B. Oliver, president of the Oliver Iron & Stel Co, died in Pitts burg, Pa, after a four days illness from pneumonia. aged 61 years.
 Former Circuit Judge Horatio Wood dropped dead at his home in St Louis of apoplexy. He had been i'll for sev- eral weeks and had just returned from Asheville, N. c.