The Monticellonian., 1906-05-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Lightning struck a Missouri Pacific freight train near Jefferson City Mo. instantly killing W. H. Edwards. a brakeman. Several cars were slightly damaged.
 The anniversary of the battle of the Sea of Japan was celebrated in Tokio with brilliant festivities.
 For the first time i'll many years Louisville, Ky, experienced dry Sunday, the lid being down on every thing except hotels, drugstores and railroad and street car lines The scheduled game of baseball between Toledo and Louisville was stopped in the first inning, and the park ordered closed.
 James A. Hayhurst, carpenter, who had been separated from his wife, at Memphis, Mo, shot and killed her and then killed himself
 Mrs. Fran,is Ernest Drake. nee Col ten, of Chicago, wife of the director of the American electrical machinery de- partment at the Paris exposition of 1900, died in Berlin of heart failure.
 The Ogilvie company grain elevator at Fort William. Ont, slid into the river. causing a loss of S250, 900. It contained 350, 600 bushels of grain, much of which was saved
 Nine miners were burned, two Seri- ously, by an explosion of gas in the Brazenell Gas Coal Co.'S mine near Bentleyvile, Pa. The mine had to be flooded
 party of picnickers went boat rid ing near Willow Springs, on the Des- plaines river, south of Chicago. and someone rocked the boat, with the re- suit that it was capsized and three out of five were drowned
 Mrs Julia Ward Howe, the venerable authCress, celebrated her eighty birthday anniversary, surrounded by her children and friends in Boston. She was the recipient of many loving re- membranes.
 Princess Ena. of Battenterg, won the hearts of her future subjects when she successfully pleaded for the life of a man condemned to death, and whose pardon reached him just as he was about 10 led out for execution.
 Atty Gen. Hadley, of Missouri, vii, make every effort to secure for the Missouri creditors of the American Reserve Bond Co. the million dollars deposited with the state treasurer Creditors in other states want the money turned into the general assets of the company.
 After having had the lid down for tW Sundays the shopkeepers of Kokomo Ind, who had been in the h9bit of do- ing Sunday business concluded to open up and let the law te tested
 l.. M. Dyke, president, and w. R Lawley, cashier of the First national bank of Attalla, Ala, which was closed April "A, have been arrested on war rants charging them with misapplying moneys of the bank.
 Russia Is apparently more nearly on the verge of revolution than at any time during the past year Parliament has defied the Czar, and the country awaits the response
 One ueaQ ana oo lDJureQ IS the result of a collision on the battle-ground inter urban line near Lafayette. Ind. The victims are nearly all civil war veter. ans attending the state G. A. R. en- campmeat With the exception of Rev Peter H. Owens, of Medaryville, Ind. all are expected to recover.
 D. c. Smith E. F. Inland, Conrad Lappen and Henry Block. the four prin- cipal owners of the failed Teis- Smith bank of Pekin, IL, have been indicted under 125 counts each by the TaZewel county grand jury. They were held ir $35 ,000 bond each. The charge in eact count Is embezzlement
 An underground Chinese colony, sim liar to that which existed in San Fran cisco, has been discovered in Seattle Wash. with passages extending many hundreds of feet under sub-cellars and sidewalks. leading to rooms where gambling and opium smoking is car ried en.