The Monticellonian., 1905-04-20

keith's Chestnut street theater. Phila- delphia. and his wife. May Belle Eckers," were found asphyxiated in their residence by the parents of the latter. who had just arrived from New York and had an engagement to dine with the Hecks.
 President Roosevelt received a cor dial welcome at the various cities through which he passed in Colorado, on his way to the hunting grounds. At Pueblo the school children presented ] him with big stick.
 \ body has been unearthed. in the course of the excavations made in Paris under the direction of Ambassa- dor Porter. that in every detail an swers the description of John Paul Jones' the famous American sea fight CT.
 The lockout of building trades i'll New York city has been withdrawn and truce declared between the Brother hood of Carpenters and the unions or ganized by the Employers association. This dssipates fears of national strike of carpenters.
 A Salonica dispatch says that the AlbanianS are threatening a general massacre of Christians at Prizrend. Ipek and Diakora, because they were thwalted in an attempt to lynch pris- oner suspected of the murder of an Albanian.
 Frank Litzo. young man arrested i'll Chicago fer a minor offense, has de- elared to the police that he had com mitted two murders. shot one man, who recovered. and had committed nine robberies and burglaries.
 Ambassador Choate was the guest of honor al a farewell dinner in the great dining room of the Middle Temple of the inns of court in London. at which were present nearly every distin- guished jurist and barrister in Eng land. It was remarkable tribute worthily bestowed.
 Santa Fe boilermakers In the shops at Topeka Kas.. have gone on strike. they object 10 having to do over the botehed work CT non-union workmen employed at western Santa Fe points.
 Joseph Jefferson is seriously ill at his winter residence in Palm Beach, Fla. and his recovery is hardly expected.
 The scope of the alleged beef trust Inquiry by the special federal grand jury in Chicago is broadening. By the seizure of number Of trunks filled with records of the Aetna Trading Go, which are legally impounded. new lead in the gathering of evidence has been struck.
 The houses of William Cate, col= ored, and Alexander, a white man, both non-union miners. were wrecked by explosion of dynamite at B>oos- burg. Ala. \ -year-old daughter of Alexander was Killed and two other children injured A strike has been on there since last summer.
 Johan Hoeh has been granted a change of venue from Judge Tuley's court, in Chicago, to that of Judge Kersten, where his trial for bigamy has been set for April 19
 Cerebro spinal meningitis has made it's appearance at Dunbar, Pa, and the citizens are greatly alarmed.
 A story circulated through the press that Mrs. Craven. who sued the estate of former Senator Fair. had been ad- judged insane is denied from Burling- ton. la. where Mrs. Craven has been critically i'll for some time.
 A terrible and mysterious malady is sweeping away the population of To- nopah, Nev The most healthy are stricken, and as death certainly over takes them their bodies turn black. A state investigation is being made.
 President Roosevelt has asked the Colorado newspaper men to let him alone during his hunt, otherwise he will be compelled to forego the pleas ure he has anticipated and return home.
 Rev. Charles s. Mills, D. D., pastor of Pilgrim Congregational church in Cleveland, O.. has received call to become pastor of Pilgrim Congrega- tional church in St. Louis.
 Seven hundred democrats attended the Jefferson day banquet at the Wal dorfAstoria, New York city. There were many present of national reputa- ton, among them being Judge Alton B. Parker. democratic candidate for president last fall.
 The IS wolves killed by the presi- dents party during the hunt in Okla homa were skinned and the skins shipped to Washington. where they will be dressed and kept as mementoes of the hunt.
 Frank Williams business manager of the Gordon theater Memphis, Tenn, died al South MeAlester. l. T., imme- diately after stepping off a train, on which he was a passenger to San An tonic, Tex in search of health.
 The peasant agitation in the Cau- casus is said to be spreading quickly and widely the leaders forcing all peasants to join them in pillage and destruction.
 Four men, three of whom are em- ployes of the Swarzchild < Sulzberger company packers, and the other an at torney for that corporation were in- dicted by he federal grand jury in Chi cago on charge of obstrueting and impeding a deputy marshal in his eff forts to serve a subpoena upon clerk of the company.
 Resolutions have been introduced in both houses of the Minnesota legisla ture appropriating $150 as gift to each reporter representing newspaper during the sessions.
 United States Ambassador Meyer presented his credentials to the czar of Russia in the Alexandra palace at Tsarskoe-Seio amid surroundings of imperial pomp and splendor The keenest interest was manifested in Rus sii over tho event