The Monticellonian., 1905-08-17

on the transport Logan for Ilo-Iio. 1 Russia has no particular objection to Japan absorbing Korea, but she wants Japan to ayow her purpose plainly and not disguise it under the subterfuge of | .preponderating influence Allen w. Wood, the millionaire iron master of Pittsbufg, Pa, who under went an operation in New York re
 gently. is dead.
 According to a recent measurement by a United States geological survey party the actual height of Mount Whit
 ney, in California, is 14,502 feet above sea level. 20 feet less than the gen erally accepted hgures.
 Twelve persons were killed and over a score injured. eight of them ia tally, by the collision of an east-bound
 passenger and freight train at Kish-
 man, o. due to a disobedienee of or ders. The victims were mostly Italian
 employees of the Standard Oil Co, on l their way from Fort Seneca to Brook 1 field. O.. who were riding in the smok. ing car.
 | Venezuela has contracted with the Schneider company. of Creusot.
 France, for eight batteries of 75-mili-
 meter campaign guns and four bat 1 terieS of mountain guns of the same calibar
 The national referendum on the dis 1 solution of the union between Norway ana Sweden. held in Norway, resulted unanimously in favor of dissolution.
 An anti.foreign outbreak is feared
 in the province of Soo Chow. China.
 Secretary Taft. speaking al a banquet
 given by natives in Manila, forcibly l outlined the administration policy to-
 ward shc Philippines as one of prepar- iFg them gradually for self-goYernment which could be best brought about by education and the cultivation of habits of thrift and industry
 The post office department has desig- hated S. Louis. Troy. x. Y., and Wash | ington. D C.. as tke points for dstri- button of postal cards 10 postmasters in 1 their respective sections of the country.
 CfeatoEe Che Italian bandmaster. was 1 placed under bonds in Detroit. Mich, te pay his wife s a week for her sup l port and to pay her expenses from New  1 York to Detroit and return
 An army of millions of mosquitoes 1 and a heat wave of sweltering intensity | descended upon the peace plenipotentia- ries al Portsmouth, N. H.. almost im- 1 mediately after the Japanese terms were made known The combined | forces made the situation almost intol- erable for the Russians The Japs were as impertnrhabe as ever
 Gov H0ch of Kansas was the guest of honor al a public reception in Phila- deiphia. Many prominent citizens were present and the governor delivered an address on Reform"
 Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has | authorized the use of his name as a member of the advisory board of the Bennington Memorial association of San Diego. Cal, which proposes to erect a modern sailors clubhouse as me morial to Bennington s dead.
 Mace Hitchcock, alias MeHenry. and John Carter. alias John w Reath. wanted at Bedford. Ind. the former for attempted murder and the latter for minor offense, have been arrested al Los Angeles Cal
 Ships of the North Atlantic fleet have communicated with one another al distance of about 262 miles. the greatesl distance yet attained from ship to ship. Four people died in Chicago, on the 11th, as a result of the heat, and 23 others were prostrated The mercury didn't rise about 90 on the street level. but the humidity made the day exceed ingly uncomfortable.
 Scenes unprecedented> in a British naval port were witnessed at Ports mouth when the visiting French sailors fraternized with the British tars, the sailors of the two nations parading the streets arm-in-arm. sing ing their national songs.
 Sam Black. a member of the Ken lucky legislature, Policeman Britton and Walter Stolls, saloonkeeper, engaged in a pistol fight on the street
 in HarrodSburg, Ky. Black was killed, Britton got bullet through the jaw and Stolls one in the abdo- men. Both the latter will die.
 One of the happy events of Secre- tary Taft's visit to Manila was a dinner rendered him and the gentle men of his party by Archbishop Harty. formerly of St. Louis. President Jordan of the Southern Cotton Growers association has de- manded the resignation of Vice President Col E. s. Peters, of Texas, because the latter is not in harmony with Jordans ideas with regard to the department of agriculture President Roosevelt's visit to the Wyoming valley In Pennsylvania was continuous ovation. The entire population took holiday and turned out to do him honor
 The name of Rt Rev Bishop Theo- phile Murschaert, of the Oklahoma and Indian territory diocese. is prom inently mentioned in connection with the succession to the archepiscopate of New Orleans.
 Texas fever has appeared in a herd | of 400 cattle at Grand Summit Kas.. l near the Oklahoma line. Thirty-three | of the animals are known to have the | disease and few have died One of the alleged parties to the
 murder of Pawnbroker Joseph Mover in l Detroit, Mich. offered to confess if 1 promised immunity; but as no such 1 promise was forthcoming there was l nothing doing"
 Postmaster-General Cortelyou has di- | rected the issuance of new form of | postal money order which it is believed
 will be proof against alteration at the 1 hands of forgers.