The Monticellonian., 1906-04-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Newfoundland sealers are hay ing the greatest success in 49 years, and now expect the seasons catch to aggregate 100000.
 The joint conference of bituminous coal miners and operators at Indian apolis finally adjourned without being able to reach an agreement on the wage scale, the miners standing sol idly for the 1903 scale and the opera tors, with the exception of the inter ests represented by F. L. Robbins, standing as solidly against it.
 A convention of independent win do% glass manufacturers. at Pitts l burg, Pa. voted to advance the price of their product ten cents a box.
 Mrs. Daniel Clark Chadwick. moth CT of RearAdmiral Chadwick. l.. s. navy. died at Englewood, N j.. aged S4 years.
 The use of Polish as the language of i instruction will henceforth be permit ted in all the schools and universities of Poland
 The Russian constitutional demo- erats have won a sweeping victory in the municipal elections in the cities and towns of the St. Petersburg dis. trict
 An attempt was made by party of college boys and technical students at Kharkoff, Russia, to rob the Volga Komma bank in broad daylight, but one cool-headed clerk frustrated it Four of the would-be robbers were captured
 Elmer Jordan, recently converted at a Methodist revival at Vermillion. s. D.. has confessed to participation with Richard Brueszhweiler in causing a number of fires in Vermillion last summer.
 David Burhaus, coachman for Cor nelius N. Bliss, in New York. shot and fatally wounded Thomas Hegerty groom to Mir. Bliss, and then killed himself. The cause of the tragedy is unknown.
 Lawyer Albert T. Patrick's plea that an actual test be made to prove or disprove his contention that em- balming fluid and not chloroform was the cause of the condition of Wm Marsh Rice's body has been granted District Attorney Jerome's office in New York will undertake the investi. gation
 The Kansas Natural Gas Co.'S big gas we'll below Caney, which was set on fire by lightning February 23, has finally been extinguished. The bituminous coal mine operators of the central district met in Indian apols, after the disruption of the joint conference. and adopted resolutions asking President Roosevelt to ;sppoint a commission to investigate condi- ditions and the wage problem.
 The street railway employees of Winnipeg, Man, went on strike for higher wages, and attempts to run cars were followed by serious rioting There was some talk of calling upon the mounted police for aid.
 Associate Justice John M Harlan of the United States supreme court will resign from the bench to take up church work with the united New York Avenue and Assembly Presby- tcrian churches of Washington.
 Miss Nina Virginia Brandt, who has returned to her home in St. Louis with her father Rev Dr. John L. Brandt, now says that the robbery story she told was all an hallucina- tion,
 Mrs Emma Leaoux, who had posed as the wife of Albert N McVickar, whose body was found in a trunk at Stockton, Cal. was arrested at Antioch, Cal charged with the murder. She lays it 10 a man named Joe Miller. l. is thought that 5000 life insurance policy cut some figure in tls case.
 "Sonney' Anderson, a negro, ran amuck ill the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson City, stabbing Guard James 1 Wood to death. seriously cutting Will fam Sheridan and William Rockville, i fellow conyicts who went to Wood 5 assistance, and was finally shot to death while hurling missiles at his pursuers,
 SeTgt. John J. Connors and Patrolmen Vollmer, Edward Cantillon and Will fam J Haherstroh were dismissed from the St. Louis police force for protecting panel workers. The principal witness against them was Ollie Roberts. the former Queen of the Bad Lands" They made no defense.