The Monticellonian., 1906-03-22

uSieG ana burned Dy hufQS m Lne pres ence of Turkish officials and soldiers
 Miss Agnes Inman. aged 32, a corset maker, formerly of St. Louis, was suf- located in her room in the Altman building annex in Kansas City, Mo, during fire in the building,
 The loss of life by the recent earth quake in the vicinity of Kali, island of FOrmosa iS yariously estimated at from l00 10 800 and hundreds of houses de- stroyed. The railway lines were twist ed and telegraph poles thrown down.
 Herr Johann Most, the noted an arehist, died of erysipelas in Cincinnati. His body was cremated.
 Dr. Herman Feist, prominent phY- sieian of Nashville, Tenn, has been arrested on the charge of murdering Mrs. Rosa Mangrum. whose body was found floating in the Ohio river, at Cairo, H., several weeks ago. The evidence against the doctor, who has been released on S10,000 bond, is said to be purely cireumstantial
 The shortage in the accounts of W. R. Delaney, the missing cashier of the Centerview fMo1 bank, has been fig ured up to s25,000 He was curator of several minors, estates and was re- puted to be worth S50600 to $60,060; but none of this or other moneys that had been intrusted to him for invest ment is in sight.
 Rear Admiral Train. commanding the American Asiatie fleet, cables that the naval men wounded in the Mount Daio fight will be removed to hospital. and need not be sent home.
 The business portion of White Pigeon. Mich, was almost wiped out by fire.
 K. $. lnuni, q Japanese student, won first honors in the annual ora torical contest of the University of Michigan at Ann Afbor, receiving $t00 in gold and the Chicago alumni gold medal His subject WAS The Mission of New Japan
 The friends of Major Generals Cor bin and Macarthur in congress are making spirited fight to prevent the abolition of the grade of lieutenant general until those two officers can be promoted and retired with that rank
 The Missouri state board of immi grafton, formed to induce foreigners to settle on unoccupied lands in the state, has died from lack of legislative susterance
 F. H. Everett. cashier of the First national bank at Ffeeland, Pa. has been arrested charged with embedding s56. 900 from the institution William .Beckley, a lawyer. was also arrested on charge Of conspiracy in connec ton with the embezzlement
 The region between the San Jea Quin and Kings rivers, in California Is threatened with the greatest flood in years on account of the unprece dented snowfall there, which at the summit of Pine Ridge is 22 feet deep.
 The state department al Washing ton has received from the Christian Herald. through the National Red Cross, and forwarded to the American embassy in Tokio, s5oo0o for the re lief of the Japanese famine. making s80.000 forwarded from the same source Another $50,0oo was promised in a few days.
 Three tiremen were killed and nine others seriously injured by the col lapse of the roof Of the old sixth regi ment armory at Camden. x. J.. during q fire that entirely destroyed that building.
 The body of man, identified by young Antonio Bozaffi. who was recently Kidnapped and escaped. as the man who acted as his keeper up to the time of his escape. was found in the Morris canal al Newark, x. Y. He had been murdered.
 The information executive board of the United Mine Workers of America at it's session in Indianapolis, approved the finding of President Mitchell in the matter of the busting of Patrick Dolan from the presidency of District No i
 The alleged plot in New York to as sassinate Rev Dr Charles Parkhurst. according to the man who made the con fession, is now declared to have been q hoax and he has been held to the grand jury on charge of perjury.
 The New York grand jury inyesti gating insurance matters submitted by District Attorney Jerome is at sea on the question as to whether a political assessment by a director of a corpora tion constitutes the crime of larceny.
 Arthur l.. Currey. a special national bank examiner, has been appointed ap- praiser of the estate of the late Marshall Field. to ascertain the value of the es- tate for inheritance tax assessment.
 Rev. William D. Shea, one of the old est and best-known ministers of the Methodist church south, died at Allan la, Ga, aged v years He attended the wedding of President Roosevelt's moth CT.
 Colorado has had the worst snow of the season, and traffic through the state has been badly hampered by long stretches of railroad tracks being buried under immense snowslides from the ad iacent mountain sides.
 At a banquet given in Washington by the trustees and alumni of the George Washington university, in be- half of the forward movement of that institution, 250 persons sat down, many of them prominent in public life
 Corporal" Tanner, commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Repub lie, has written letter to Representa- tive Tawney, of Minnesota, chairman of the house committee on appropria- tions. vigorously protesting against the