The Monticellonian., 1905-10-12
GENER NEWS ITEMS.

Official returns Of the easualtie- of the Japanese army throughout the war show 4G.1S9 killed. 10970 died of wounds and l5.3oo died of disease a total of 72 450 dead.
 Fire al Minneapolis, Minn.. gHtted the extensive store of the N K. Morrison Hardware Co.,, causing d loss estimated Al s75.000; insured
 Near BainbriGge, Ga. T negro was lynched by mob of his own race. He had assaulted a gro girl
 The sixth annual convention of the National Society of the Army of the Philippines was held in Chicago.
 John s. SImmergil, aged 21, died at Chester Pa. from injuries received dur inG football game.
 Walter Palmer was instantly killed; Chauffeur Blake fatally injured and Mrs Walter Palmer and her daughter badly bruised in an automobile accident near Athens. Mich
 A New York syndicate has offered SlSo0G0 for Dan Patch, the pacer, which went a mile at Lexington, Ky, in the rccord-breaking time of 1:55A
 Traffic on the Suez canal. which was temporarily suspended by the sinking and subsequent blowing up of the Brit ish steamer Chatham. has been re- sumed
 Lord InverolYGe. chairman of the Cunard Steamship Go, died at Castle Wemyss. Scotland of pleuro pneumonia, aged A years.
 Miss Alice Roosevelt. passing through Tokio Japan, ea route to Nikko, was met by an imperial carriage and the governor of the city and escorted to the railway station.
 Japanese fire insurance companies refused to pay claims for losses by fire caused h.: tla anti-peace rioters in Tokio. but argeed to make partial pay ments as money of sympathy"
 Ths funeral of Maj-Gen. Krondra- tsnko. in St Petersburg. was one of the most imposing affairs since the early days of the war Grand dukes, minis ters of state and high officers of the army and navy followed the coffin on foot, with the widow and son. to the Alexander Nerslly monastery.
 The propos d Salvation Army co., onizinS scheme. as far as Australia is concerned, has fallen through. because the Australian government objected to having needy cclonists unloaded upon the commonweGth.
 Eleven of the bandits who he'd up l. Dc. oh; foreman of the Buena Vista mines and one of his assis ants near Hostipaquil- 10. Jaliseo. Mexico. have been captured and shot by rurales
 Mrs. Bertha Hamer is under arrest at Cincinnati, on suspicion O, having caused the death, by poison, of her husband. Lorenzo Hamer.
 Gen. William T. Clark, the only sur yiying adjutant general and chief of staff of Gen Grants army of the Ten nessee, is dying from cancer in St. Luke's hospital, New York city.
 Thirty-five miners were entomD2d by fire in coal mine near Florence Col At last accounts ten had been rescued and the rest were in no imme diate danger.
 Capt. F. J. Drake has been detached from the command at the Mare Island navy yard and ordered to the command of the battleship Wisconsin
 Dr Joseph Huyett, the oldest phy sician in Illinois, having practiced ir Rock Island for 57 years, diel at his home in Milan. aged S5 years.
 Forty mayors from different cities of Illinois attended the state fair al Springfield as guests of the Illinois state board of agriculture.
 The great southeasterly gale whict recently swept the coast of British Columbia is belieXel to have resulted in the iro~nlng of at least 90 Japanese fishermen who were out on the Gull of Georgia fishing for salmon. The whole gulf is lined with wreckage o fishing boats