The Monticellonian., 1905-11-23

west Washington have decided to shut down for 60 days, beginning Deem Der i
 The final count of the result of the Norwegian plebiscite shows 259, ,962 votes in favor of calling Prince Charles of Denmark to the throna and G9 ,2G4 in the negative
 The earl of Minto. who succeeds Lord Curzon as viceroy of India. has arrived al Bombay, and Lord Gurzc n has started for home.
 The big plant of the Republic Iron < Steel Co. at C0yington, Ky hss been closed. throwing 300 men aIt of work The work will be transferred to Youngstown. O.
 The losses by the recent prai4 ie fire in South Dakota are estimated at half a million dollars Many farmers are practically ruined.
 Two men were fatally injured by an explosion Of gas while engaged in repairing q main in Chicago.
 The number of fatalities from rail road accidents in Chicago for the past II s-321-exceeds the record for all of England.
 Bradstreets says that the only drawback 10 the fullest development of the country's present phenomenal business activity is the widespread railroad blockade
 With the opening of the main shaft, fhe Michigan Central Railroad Co has begun the actual construction of the projected big tunnel under the De- roit river from Detroit Mich. to Windsor, Ont
 Former United States Senator Ma son. oflllinois, in an argument before ludee Landis in the United S-ltes aistfict court in Chicago. declared that the writ Of habeas corpus the fcunda- lien of American liberty. has become d myth in Illinois, because the judges have agreed not To review the find ins5 of one another
 The Montana supreme court has de clared The antitrust law of Montana unconstitutional.
 Fire al Knoxville, Tenn. destroyed he building occupied by Sutter X Beller, pants makers and the wholesale cleth- ing house of Biekley. Mcclure ( Co.,, 5he loss aegresating $200 000
 Eey N \. Patterson. of Princeton. Ind. declared before the Presbyterian Psalm5dy convention in Chicago that Lead. Kindly Light was nnfit as a song of praise and worship Of Gel.
 Mnnle Mitchell. aged 2&. and Aiine Bowers. her cousin, aged 22, weta found dead in their flat in the western part of St Louis. evidently the victims of poison that had overtaken them sud denly. as they fell and died in their kitchen just as they had finished wash ing their luncheon dishes.
 Nice-President Russell Harding of fhe Erie Railroad Co. has resigned and will go into private business.
 Contributions for the suffering Jews in Russia. up to the 1Gth inst. had reached total of $3o267S
 Eriah B Wilson. the oldest member of the Old Timers Association of Tel esraphers. and one of the founders of Ann Arbor Mich, died in Denver Col, aged - years.
 As a sample of the election methods in New York one case is cited as shown by the canvass, where in the twelfth precinct of the Second assem- big district William T Jerome was not credited with a single vote in the return, whereas the tally sheet showed thal ba received 51.
 Acting Public Printer Ricke;ts told the joint congressional committee that the report Of the board Of lady managers of the Louisiana Purchase exposition which was printed at public expense in private office could have been done much more economically in the government office
 Emperor William of Germany has sent his congratulations 10 the Man. haitian Chess club on it's victory over the Berlin Chess Society in the recent cable chess match
 HarrH Bunkers. the former San Frans cisco state senator, conyietel of bribery and sentenced to five years Imprisonment. has been denied a new trial bE the appellate court.
 Upwards of 2.009 bales of cotton were destroyed about l .000 bales bad lN scorched and several hundred bales damased by fire in a warehouse at Columbus, Ga, used jointly by the Central Railroad of Georgia an the Atlantic Compress Go. Loss, $t5Q,0o0; fully insured
 President Richard A McCurdv of gae Mutual Life Insurance Co created q sensation at a special meeting of the beard oi trustees by announcing that. Ii his own request his salary had been caf from $t5o,0a0 year To S75,000
 TWO men were killed and two seriously injured by triple explosion at the Buckeye powder works at Ed wards station. northwest of Peoria, Ill. Several others received minor hurts
 The Standard oil Go. has declared a quarterly dividend of $10 a share
 The eight hundred thousand farmel members of the Patrons of Iusbandry are asked by Grand Master Aaron Jones to take measures to cure present insurance ills by the forma on of @u- tual companies
 Bishop Earl CraHs,on of the Meth odist Episcopal church and Miss Lucia Mason Parker were married at the home of William Christie Heron all uncle of the bride. in Cincinnati
 Grant5burg Wis. suffered $65 900 damage by fire Prompt assistance from Rush City and North Branch saved the town from probable destruc- ton
 Two eases of yellow fever have re- gently developed in Havana Cuba, one of the stricken persons being A. E. Out