The Monticellonian., 1905-10-19

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 One man was killed and large number injured, some fatally by q stampede of artillery horses attached to limbers beIonging to the Twenty ninth battery, at target practice near Fort Riley. Kas. The horses dashed over a small cliff, landing iu frightful mass with their drivers.
 Sir Henry Irving the well-known English actor, was seized with syncope after returning to his hotel following a performance at Bradford England, on the night of the 18th inst, and died in few minutes
 The Missouri building at the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland. Ore, with all of its contents, including ex- hibits and the art and statuary collec- ton, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th inst.
 Maj.-Gen Joan F Weston has been formally detailed to the command of the northern military division, with headquarters at St. Louis, to succeed Maj.-Gen. George NJ Randall. retired
 A dozen firemen were cut and bruised by falling debris and a score of horses burned to death in the destruction of the Lasalle Avenue livery barns in Chicago One fireman and an employe of the stable may die.
 Ten negro roustabouts were drowned when the steamer Elk struck a snag and sank while backing away from the landing at Vieksburg, Miss. A Mexico City disatch reports Alex ander Dowie and party leaving for fampieo on special car to inspect the lands it is proposed 10 purehose for the new Zion city Dowie was in good health
 The profits of the alleged conspira tors in the cotton crop leakage are placed approximately al $2o0000, of which. it is alleged. E. s. Holmes re- eeived $25.o17.
 Gen A. L. Mills. superintendent of | the West Point military academy, says that hazing in any form has shown no symptom of reappearing among the ca | dets
 The president has committed sentence of dismissal from the army of Louis McLaue Hamilton. great grandson of | Alexander Hamilton. 10 reduction of 90 files in rank
 There was a run on the Germania savings bank in New Orleans started by newspaper story, but all demands were met. the institution being one of the staunchest in the city. John Donahue. who was committed to jail in Chicago by Judge Kohlsaat, | for contempt of court. and who took an appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals. has signified a desire to purge himself of his contempt
 Six miners were imprisoned by fire in the mine of the Clyde Coal Co. at Fredericktown. Pa, and al last ac- counts all hope of rescuing them had been abandoned
 William Mills Wins has been selected as the republican candidate for mayor of New York city in place of Charles E. Hughes, who declined the nomina- ton. Mr Wins has accepted
 Arrangements are practically com pleted for the exchange of notifications of the treaty of Portsmouth at the White House in Washington During the month of August of the present year 64,409 aliens landed in | this country. The greater number of these were from Russia, with Italy sec ond and Austria third Chairman o. ] Bailey of the Peoria GlI0 scheol board has been indicted for malfeasance in office in connection with the peculations of Superintendent Dougherty, against whom 4S additional indictments have been f,und.
 James NJ Beck, of New York speak ing before the Fire Underwriters Asso- ciation of the Northwest, declared that many of the conceded evils of the in- sufanee system are due to conditions for which the insurance companies are not responsible.
 Harry A Leonard. the young bank clerk who secured $359 900 worth of se- curities from the National City bank of New York on a forged check. has been indicted for larceny in the first degree
 Miss Corneia M. Dow, daughter of Lorenzo Dow, and well-known work CT in the fields of charity, philanthropy and reform, died at her home in Port land, Me, aged 6S years
 Prince Sergius Troubetskoy, regard ed as the foremost liberal in Russia and a marshal of the nobility. was seized with apoplexy while attending q conference with the minister of edu- cation in St. Petersburg, and died with ing two hours.
 The American Bankers association, at its convention in Washington. placed itself squarely on record in favor of the rehabilitation of the American mer chant marine by means of a subsidy law or such other legislation as would bring about that end
 The big excursion steamer Corwin Fl Spencer, while being painted and re- fitted for the winter cotton trade .n the lower Mississippi, near the government reservation below St Louis, was burned almost to the waters edge
 As the result of the recent conference betweeen President Roosevelt and the athletic representatives of Yale, Prince ton and Harvard il seeems likely that more faithful observance of the rules in regard to roughness. holding and foul play will be enforced.
 Robert Newcome. a negro in Chica- go. while maddened with liquor. killed a woman and policeman and fatally wounded another man before he was captured
 The effort to settle the affairs of the Western Life Indemnity out of court proved unsuccessful, and the matter will now core before Judge Kohlsaat in Chicago judicially.
 In accordance with the will of George w Catt. deceased husband of Carrie