The Monticellonian., 1905-12-14

game between high school teams.
 The executive committee of The joint statehood league of New Mexico will send d committee 10 Washington to look af,er the movement while con gross is in session.
 The conservative papers of London feel compelled to admit that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has formed stronger administration than hal been thought possible.
 The anthracite miners at their tri- state convention held in Shamokin, Pa took up the question, among oth- CTS. of demanding an increase of wages Of from 10 to 20 per cent
 Commissioner General of lmmigra- ton Sargent sasy, in his annual re- port that grave problems are pre- sented by the rapid growth of our alien population
 A tablet is to be erected OH the bat- =ledeId of Gettysburg, Pa, bearing LincolR's famous Gettysburg address.
 During the navigation season just closing there have been 2f5 lives lost on the great lakes. against total of r in 1964 It is the heaviest list in many years
 Al meeting of American merchants the Chinese guilds and the boycott committee of Canton, China, the Amer jeans agreed to recommend modifica- ions Of the exclusion law as proposed by the Chinese as a hasis on which they would call off the bosee,t on American goods.
 The examination has been completed ard the duties paid on Miss Alice RcaseveH's souvenirs of her trip to the orient and the young lady is ION show ins Jhemfto her frienas.
 N. H. Thomas. formerly q deputy United States marshal at Springfield, Mo was fined $l.aoa in the Enitoa States district court al Kansas City for having falsiied his expense account.
 Joseph N Fairbanks. one of the founders of tue republican party. and fer mere than half century prominent in hankius. mercantile and poitiea, af- fdrs Gie5 at Farmnet0n, Me. aseI 8i years.
 President Harvey Jordan of lha southern Cotton association has issued 2 cal fef q general convention of farm ers. bankers. merchants and others throughout Inc south 10 be held in New Orleans January 11-13 Hext.
 At the c0nft renee of t3 colleges and universities in New York city. a resoiu- fier was adopted 15 10 $, declaring that feztGaa should not be abolished. but should he reformed
 An explosion of a siX-ineh main in lie plant of the Washington CD C. Gas Light Go. demolished the buildings that heHsed the eng he room and in tlieate machinery of the pant, doing damage to the extent of $f5o44a
 Enited Nine Workers of Webster anG Union counties, Kentucky have been eajoncd from interfering with the property of the Kentucky Coal Co.,. WEose mines. it is alleged, they had threatened to bow up
 Water Warner, aged 20 years who was hanged in the San Quentin (C7lD prison for the murder of Marie Fomaya at Santa Barbara, declared to Warden fomkins. on the way to the scatfold: This is the happiest day of my fife.
 Prince Min Yueng Tchan of Korea, a sreeial envoy to this coustry was prostrateG by the shock of the news of the suicide of Is brother in Seau.. as 2 protest against the Japanese protec- toIate
 The legislative committee inyestigat- ing Life insurance conditions in New York have reque ted District Attorney Jerome to institute proceedings aga nst Thomas F. Ryan fer refusing to answer questions before the commit tee
 United States Senator John H. Mitchell Gied in Pertlond, Ore, following an unt eoatroliat'e hemofrhase fro n the eavi- ty of all extracted tooth, winch weak ened him so that other ailments were fatally aggravated
 Mrs. Mary Nal el Rogers was eXe- euted in the Yer rnoat state priso al Windsor for the murGer of her ha B md at Benn n2t0n. August 13, 19- .
 Mrs. Mary Spaueh was found guilty of murder in the second =6eeree and her son William of mur6er n the first degree. at Centerville, Mo. or the mur- Ger of Sheriff Polk of Iron #ea19tx last May. Mrs Sropeh was seE.e2 el to ten years in the penitentiarv.
 Lawyer Albert T. Patrick the con yieted murderer of William Marsh Rice was resentenced in the criminal branch of the New York supreme court to be electrocuted in the week beginn no Jon uary 22 next Notice of appeal to the United States supreme court, on a writ of eifor, was at once filed
 The Norfolk & Western and the Della ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad companies have announced that they will. after January 1, discontinue the issuance Of passes.
 Second Lieut.. Grayson Murphy, Sev- enteenth infantry, has been detailed to proceed to Santo Domingo and organize and train a rural guard similar to that which has been so successful in Cuba.
 Pat Grove who was tried at Omaha Neb., on the charge of shooting with ir- tent to kill Officer Albert Jackson, was acquitted. He is yet to be tried for highway robbery.
 Vice-Pres' dent Eldridge of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co. produces documentary evidence to substantiate his assertion that Col w H Phelps, of Missouri, demanded and received s, 3,500 (by check) from the company for legal services
 The French senate, after a long de- bate. adopted the bill for the separation of church and state by vote of 1S1 against 102.