The Monticellonian., 1905-05-25


 Young. a Texas X Pacific train dis patehar. was killed The town of Min eral Wells is said to have been prac- tica.ty blown away.
 \ hunger riot broke out at Alcazar de san Juan. in the province of Ciu- dad Real Spain workmen attacking several four mills.
 h riot in Chicago between whites and blacks, in the vicinity of where Enoch Carlson, the eight-year-old boy Vas killed. James Gray, negro. was killed Harry Bernstein mortally wounded and building partially wrecked
 Ihe cruiser Reina Mercedes. captured at Santiago during the war with Spain. and which has been undergoing repairs al Portsmouth, N. IL. for nearly five years is now one of the best equipped receiving ships in the navy.
 Two persons were killed and 40 wounded during a socialist demonstra- ton in Buenos Ayres Argentina
 Secretary of the Navy Morton will retire from the cabinet July if the president will accept his resignation and name his successor by that date
 President Roosevelt insists that the JRitad States is entitled to the most favored nation" clause in it's contracts with American concerns for material for construction of the Panama canal
 Johann Hoeh was convicted i'll Chi eas8. of causing the death of his wife Marie NelekerHoeh, by poison. and the 5ary after only half an hours de liberation. assessed the death penalty
 George H. Wood. the Dr. Jekyl anj Mr Hyde in real life, was allowed . withdraw his plea of not guilty to the charge of murder al Somerville, x. J. and eGJer plea Of eailty of murder ia the second degree. He was given 39- yeaH9 sentence. He killed George Williams, whom he had hired to take him or a trip into the country
 Emperor Nicholas of Russia sigaai- ized hi= birthday by signing a mani festo fixing the date for the converting of the 'zen3sky soyet. or council Of 5ae people for October r.
 Fh= police of Joplin. Mo. do not b. lisye John 5. Quinn committed suicide. because there are no powder marks ab3u. the wound They are looking Up an alleged quarrel between Guina and another prominent resident of Joa= lin Q find motive for murder
 Tie suit of the Mutual Life Insas= aEee Co. of New York against the viii ON 9f the late James L. Blair. of $ Louis. To cancel insurance policies a. gregafing s200, ,060. has been wisl- drawn. and the presumption k that ] priTase settlement has been reached
 When George Merkel was taken iae9 custody al St. Louis to be sent to tha penjfeariary fer TWO years on affrma- ti0u 0f his conviction of embezzlemaut ic was discovered that for seven moHeh,, while under sentence for taa crime he was member of the s Louis police force and his sponsors Were aware of his conviction
 -rarspires that the Cunard li1e~ Caraaia Was beached off Sandy Hook by the pilot to prevent running into and probably sinking the steamsh ? Kaiser Wilhelm H.. which was al an ehor directly in her path. and which could no, be seen sooner on account Of ,h4 fog
 \ Milwaukee dispatch says that F c. Bigelow carried $10S00oo life in surarce, over $500,000 of which acerue5 10 the benefit of his creditors
 Russian statements that the Japan ese government contemplates the ra- nova of the emperor of Korea to Ja- pan in contravention of the treaty of Shimonoseki, are pronounced ineor- rect by Japan. the report being cireu- lated with mischievous purpose in view
 King Alfonso of Spain pardoned II prisoners on the occasion of the cele- bration of his nineteenth birthday.
 Morris s. Ago. charged with an at tempt to blaekmail Editor Rosewater of the Omaha (Neb) Bee, has been held for trial in the district court at Omaha.
 France will send special envoy to Berlin to attend the wedding of Crown Prince Frederick William and the Schwerin June 6.
 John H Dalton, recently on trial in Chicago for alleged fraud in connection with a land lottery scheme. and John Harrison Dalton, capitalist and Texas oil land operator. are two distinct per sonages.
 The Iowa Congregational conference at Sioux City declined to discuss the Rockefeller gift 10 the foreign mission board. on the ground that enough had been said about it already.
 The parents of six children who had taken part in the recent school strikes in Chicago were fined $20 each and costs, by Judge Hurley, for not send ing their children to school
 The Philadelphia councils. by over whelmiug majorities. after stormy ses- sions voted to lease the eity's gas works 10 the Unite9 Gas Improvement Co for a total sum of $25,000.900. The final passage was greeted with hisses and cries of thieves from the gaI- lerF.
 Preparations are well under way for the annual encampment and reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Denver. Col.
 Chicago t.tectiyes raided the Bel mont Corresponding club, an alleged matrimonial agency. and arrested three persons, whom they charge with dis orderly conduct Several thousand let ters and photographs were seized
 John B. Quinn, a mining engineer and prominent in social circles. suicid- ed at Joplin, Mo, by shooting himself in the head
 The Cuna.d liner Caronia, which