The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16
that the details have already been ar

that the details have already been ar
ranged.
Senator Plat of New York and 9TH
ers have been made defendants in q
$150,0OO damage suit in the Omaha
courts by Mae Catherine Wood, for
mer clerk in the postoffice department,
Washington, who says she was once
the affianced wife of the senator.
Postmaster General Cortelyou will
not be transferred to the treasury de-
partment next February, when Secre-
tary Shaw retires, according to reliable
information. Hamilton Fish, assistant
treasurer at New York, may be consid-
cred for the treasury portfolio.
At meeting of the board of trustees
of Boston university Professor Hinck-
ley G. Mitchell. against whom charges
Of unsoundness in doctrine were made,
was removed from the faculty OF the
university. with which he had been
connected for twenty years.
In a speech at Topeka, Kan, Thurs
day. ex-State Senator Hanna of Clay
county declared that President Roose-
welt was a Populist and that the Pop
ulists would hold their national con-
yention in 1908 and nominate him for
president.
Charles H. Darling has retired from
the Office of assistant secretary of the
navy. which post he has held since
Dec. 16, 1901. He is succeeded by Trli-
man H. Newberry of Detroit, Mich,
who took the oath of office on Wednes-
day.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
shows that Tor the month of October
the total receipts We're $50, 492, 691 and
the expenditures $50, 710037, leaving a
deficit for the month of $5,217346.
At meeting held in Cleveland May
or Johnson introduced Governor Joseph
W. Folk of Missouri as his choice for
the Democratic nomination for the
presidency in 1908 and predicted that
he would be the next president.
Rev. George H. Ferris, pastor of the
Calvary Baptist church of New Haven,
Conn, and one of the most prominent
Baptist preachers in the state, has ac-
cepted a call to the First Baptist
church of Philadelphia.
Former Governor Levi p. Morton will
build an industrial home and reading
room in the village of Rhinecliife. n. y,
at a cost of about $4,000. Mr.. Nor
toms summer home, Ellerslie, is near
Rhinecliffe.
Negotiations for a new commercial
agreement between the United States
and Germany have been opened by
Ambassador Tower at Berlin and Am
bassador Won Sternburg at Washing
ton.
State Superintendent of Public Works
Franchot has announced that he has
fixed upon Nov. % at midnight as the
date for the official closing of the New
York state canals for the season.
The national executive committee of
the Woman's Christian Temperance un-
ion has voted to hold the next national
convention in 1906 at Hartford, Conn.
The date has not been set.
President Roosevelt has issued the
regular annual Thanksgiving procla-
nation, setting apart Nov. 30 as the
day for the expression of gratitude.
Governor General Wright of the Phil
ippines sailed for San Francisco on
Saturday. All classes of the popula-
! ton gathered to do him honor.
1t is expected that the first class bat
tleship Connecticut, building at the
navy yard in Brooklyn, will be finished
in little more than a month.
James J. Hill has closed his deal for
the purchase of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, say st. Louis finan-
ciers and brokers'
President William R. Harper of Chi
cago university is said to be dying of
the cancer of the stomach that has
afflicted him.
Drought threatens serious injury to
California crops. In some parts of the
state no rain has fallen since May s.
1t is rumored in railway circles that
the Southern Pacific railroad will be
continued to the City Of Mexico.
The United States circuit court of APP
peals has refused a new trial to Cassie
L. Chadwick
Manila is to have ffty-two miles of
sewers and more than ten miles of wa
ter mains.
CRIMES Three cnllulen were
killed and thirteen per-
sons injured as the re-
suit of gas explo-
cioO on SI1p1oxy in Tcb Mich