The Monticellonian., 1906-03-15

lODdCCO growers by permitting lheii " sell leaf tobacco without paying the tax of six cents a pound heretofore charged.
 GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
 France has just suffered the worst mining calamity in her history. Of |. Sa0 men and boys who went into the network Of coal mines eentering at Coarriefes. .too lost their lives as the result of all explosion and the conae- quent accumulation of afterdamp Six thousand fathers mothers, wives and children are bereavcd
 The anthracite mine operators have replied io the demands of the miners, refusing all of them, and offering as d counter proposition a continuance of lhe terms Of the anthracite coal ettike commissions $ award for further tenn of three years.
 Gen Joseph s. Gage died at San Jose. Cal. as the result of d paralytic stroke, aged G years. He was a native o1 Maine and had a good war record.
 The Chinese enlperor's illness is not sery serious He is able 10 attend per formances in the palace theater.
 The Mount Hamilton stage was held LID at Grand View, Cal. Daniel How ard and wife. of Brocton, Mass, and other eastern tourists occupied the ve. hicIe. The amount of booty secured was noJ large
 Two persons were killed and 15 in juted in a wreck of two freight trains aEI fasf passenger train on the Balti- more & Ohio failroad near Bloom dale o.
 Later reports of the casualties at the battle with the Moros at Mt. Dajo, on the island of Jolo place the Moro loss al about a00, many of whom were wom- on and children. who accompanied the male member of the band into the for lttied crater ot Mt Bajo.
 Thomas R McKenna, managing ed itor of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver tCol0 Times, died in Denver of Brieht.s disease, aged 45 years.
 Two Burlington passenger trains col lided head-on, on a curve in deep cut two miles west of Akron, Col. One man was killed and four injured. The passengers escaped with q severe Jolt, ing.
 The Carson building. the largest ir Amarillo. Tex, was destroyed by fire; loss. $l04,0oe
 Bishop Potter. of New York, is to succeed Bishop Leonard, in charge oi the American Episcopal churches il Europe
 Capt. Ward, with detachment oi Al artillerymen is going To Pekin the end of the month to qua, d the British legation there.
 Owing 10 ,he failure of the wheat and barley harvest terrible famine l. imminent in Morocco.
 \ London Daily Mail correspondent at Aleeciras says that France has beer cGelced by the neutral powers into making concessions on the police ques- ton.
 Emperor William of Germany, it i: announced will, during the summer gazette his brother, Prince Henry oi Prussia, as commander-in-ehief of the entire German fleet in active service.
 In a race riot at Winner, Ala, A. ! Ellis, all aged white man, was fatally wounded and several others more oi less hurt Four negroes were arrested
 The three Missouri convicts found guilty of killing Guard Clay during the attempt tO escape, some weeks ago were sentenced to be hanged April 20 but an appeal to the supreme court vii, act as a stay until next fall at least,
 The New Jersey court of pardons has committed the sentence of Mrs. Tolla who was condemned to death for killing Jos. Sonta, in defense of her honor, te seven years and six months imprison. ment
 The Washington Post has il figured cut that Secretary Taft is to succeed Justice Brown, resigned, on the bencl of the supreme court of the United States, and that in the event of the re tirement of Chief Justice Fuller during The present administration he is to steI up,
 By the collapse of a gallery staging in Earl's mine at Raibl, in the district of Taryis. Austria. 10 miners and an engineer were killed
 Weayers of Fall River, Bedford. Law. ton and Lowell Mass, and Baltic Conn, have organized the Nationa Federation of Weayers.
 Mai Gen. Thomas J. Wood, retired the last of the famous West Point class of 1915, died at his home in Dayton, o. after long illness. aged s years.
 Mrs Sarah Rumbly. mother of the late Walter c. Gresham, former secre- taqy of state. died at her home neaI Lanesville, Ind aged 9S years.