The Monticellonian., 1905-05-04

and carrying away many small houses. The town of Berino, Tex. Mas entirely abandoned.
 The plant of the Lemonville (Tex) Lumber Co. was destroyed by fire; loss $50 GOO
 With characteristic energy the citi- zena of Laredo, Tex, cleared away the debris left in the wake of the recent tornado, and the city has resumed its customary appearance. There is sor- row in several homes for the dead, while in many others the injured are nursing their wounds.
 A personally dictated message from the president, received by telephone by i Secretary Loeb, at Glenwood Springs, | Col. on the 28th inst. set at rest the published story that the president was i i'll. Among other things it said that 1 the party got four bears the day before. l Frank G. Bigelow. former president of the First national bank of Milwau- 1 kee, has been turned out of his pa latial home in that city, which has been taken possession of by the Wisconsin Trust & Security Co. The family went to the home of Mir Bigelow's son, talk ing little more than their personal eff fects.
 George W Beavers, former chief Of the salary and allowance division of the post office department. has been placed under $20 .000 bonds to appear in Washington and plead to an indictment In connection with frauds in postal supplies.
 William l. Bryan was the guest of honor and Congressman Champ Clark was toastmaster at the Monroe day banquet at St. Joseph, Mo.
 All the passenger associations of the country have granted practically one fare for the round trip for the North American Gymnastic union festival in Indianapolis. June 21.
 Prof. John Bach MeMaster. of the ! University of Pennsylvania says: We have Carnegie libraries and Carnegie heroes, and now We are to have Car ne2ie professors l do not like it..
 The final report on the cotton crop of 1904 issued by the census bureau. shows a total production of 13,5S4, 451 bales of 300 pounds each.
 Minister Herbert W. Bowen, at Cara cas, Venezuela, is to be called to Washington to explain his charges against Assistant Secretary Loomis of the state department.
 The government of the Netherlands will appropriate s2S0 900 for the pur- chase of the site on which will be erected the Palace of Peace. for which Andrew Carnegie donated s1 .500, 900.
 At the behest of the Employers l Teaming association of Chicago, in- corporated under the laws of West | Virginia so as to secure federal pro lection, Judge Kohlsaat issued an or der directed to the Teamsters' union, returnable May 10, restraining defend- ants named from interfering in any way with the business of the petition | ing corporation.
 Gen Fitzhugh Lee died in Providence 1 hospital. Washington, D. C., on the night of the 2Sth inst, as the result of stroke of apoplexy suffered earlier in the day while en route from Boston l to Washington.
 The total of the alleged peculations of ex-Tax Collector Smith of San Fran cisco continues to grow. At last ac- counts it had reached nearly $90 900.
 A police census of the District of Co., lumbia. just completed shows popu- i lation of 322, ,445, being an increase of 43.727 over the federal census of 1900. Of this population. 227 GOT is white. Experts working on the books of ex- Tax Collector Smith, of San Francisco, say that the entire shortage will reach a total of at least s6s,000. Smith Is said 10 have been accompanied by woman when he left the city.
 Bankers throughout the country are l staggered as the full story of the lia- | bilities of ex-President Bigelow of the | First national bank of Milwaukee IS revealed There are ramfications ex- tending over several states. and the to- ] tal al last accounts was placed at $3.- PIT 900
 Owing to the exgeneies of public l business President Roosevelt has con cluded to curtail his hunting trip, and will break camp May 8. stopping only at Denver and Chicago on his way 1 east. The programmes at these points will be advanced to meet the changed l plans.
 A number of miners narrowly es- capped death as the result of fire that l broke out in the Colorado Fuel & Iron l Go. s mines at Pieton, Col. Several were overcome by smoke, but were res cued
 Victor N Yont, a graduate of the University of Nebraska employed in the test department of the General l Electric Co, at Sehnectady, N Y.. was electrocuted by coming in contact with transformer carrying 6,000 volts.
 The Illinois house of representatives concurred in the senate joint resolu- ton petitioning the national congress 10 appropriate $3,O00,000 for the erec- ton of a Lincoln memorial monument 1 in Washington.
 According to the present plans Of ] Gov Hoch of Kansas the state bonds 1 for the Kansas state oil refinery Will not be placed on the market for sale, l but will be turned into the permanent school fund which has more than enough on hand to take up the bonds.
 Thanks to the prompt action Of the i directors of the First national bank l of Milwaukee and the ready assistance afforded them by Chicago and Milwau- kee moneyed institutions. financial af- i fairs in the Cream city resumed their normal condition following the Bige- low dedication without any serious consequences.
 Prof Walter L. Howard of the