The Monticellonian., 1906-08-02

uelS pl HIS CHAlti al idIl y lpN IL \. si that he was glad to be home again, although he had enjoyed his visit to Europe
 careful compilation shows the gross amount Of insurance involved by all companies in the San Francisco fire to be $222 .S36.3o to be reeoy. cred from reinsurance, s65246.77f i: salvage, s33.S14.4fs. Net loss. $lS2,- S23.067.
 By the capsizine of the yachts Nora and Alvin R.. on Hereford Inlet bar, during a squall. off Anglesea. \. j., eight persons out Of 4f composing fish. ing parties and the yachts crews were drowned. Heroic rescue work was done by Capt Sudlam and crew of the Hereford Inlet life saving station.
 Taylor Keith. of Westport, Ind. fore man of Rig Four construction gang, was killed and several of a freight crew injured in a head-on collision of freight and construction trains near Nashville Ind
 A special federal grand jury will conyene in Chicago August 6 to probe the methods of the Standard oil Co. in the transportation of it's products.
 Frank Kern. wao. with Miss Bertha Bowlin tsince dead). was murderous- l ly assaulted in Kansas City, Mo, has finally regained consciousness, and definitely accuses Albert NJ. Grone. under arrest charged with the mur- der of Miss Bowlin. with having first abused them and then assaulted them with lead pipe
 Spain is said to be irritated over the action of the United States in the affair of Guatemala and Salvador. The Madrid journals declare that Spain was the proper arbitrator
 Judge Quafles, in tae United States district court in Milwaukee, released l Joseph Black. John C. Black and Au- gust Anderson, of Shawano. Wis. on habeas corpus proceedings. The men were indicted at Portland, Ore. in connection with alleged land frauds. but Judge Quarles did not consider the evidence warranted sending them there for trial.
 The supreme court of Georgia de. nied the motion for new trial for Jesse and Milton Rawlings, convicted of complicity in the murder of the Carlis children, near Valdosta. over year ago.
 John Black and William Resgin. ne groes, charged with the murder of Ed Granger write tnrpentine operator, were lyne1ed by mob near Fort Gardner Fla.
 Secretary of State Root was given m enthusiastic welcome on his 1T. rival at Rio Janeiro. The historic Abrantts palace was placed at the disposal of himself and party. A grand reception in his honor was given by l President Alves.
 Russell Sage in his will. bequeaths HI of his estate to his widow, Marga- aet Olivia Sage. after the payment of s25 600 to each of MT Sage's nephews and nieces. and S10.000 to his sister. Mrs Fanny Chapin. of Oneida, N. Y, now dead.
 Henry C. Brockmeyer, former lieu tenant governor of Missouri and one of the best-l<nown business men, writ CTS and politicians in the state, is dead, after a long illness. He was one of the founders of the Concord school of philosophy.
 William J Bryan has accepted an invitation, recently extended. to at l tend a monster reception in his honor to be given. on date yet to be select ed, in Louisville. Ky.
 Willie Stewart accidentally dropped a chisel he was showing to a GUS toner in La Grange (Ga.) hardware store. into a case of dynamite. Stew art was instantly killed, several per sons in the store were hurt, and the | building and stock was badly wrecked.
 James Richard De Remer, one of the most noted railroad builders in the i, country, died at Denver. Col, of pa | ralysis, aged 59 years. He built the famous swinging bridge on which the Denver & Rio Grande railroad goes through the Royal gorge.
 committee has been named by i President Jordan of the Southern Cot ton association to investigate charges that certain officials of the association are owners of stock in well-known cotton brokerage firm.
 Justice William Day, of the United States supreme court, has accepted an invitation to deliver the principal ad- dress upon the occasion of the unyeil- ing of the monument in honor of Will liam Mckinley at Columbus, O.. Sep tember IA
 In a battle between regular negro in fantry and native constabulary on the one hand and fanatic Pulajanes on the other in the island of Leyte, fifty of the latter were killed and upwards of sixty wounded. One sergeant of con stabulary was wounded
 Reports from the City of Mexico say that the sensational stories of plots against Americans are largely based on false reports or distorted versions of threatened strike among factory operatives.
 The superintendent of the Municipal Cancer Research fund laboratory in | London says that, as the result of ex- periments with mice, the prospects of discovering the mystery of the origin 1 of cancer are more hopeful than ever.
 The Jackson Lumber Co, of Lock | hart Ala, is charged by Germans whe escaped to Pensacola. Fla, and claim ed protection of the German vice-con sul, with having inveigled about 100