The Monticellonian., 1906-11-01
AN EPiTOME OF THE MOST IM PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully oioestsd and Cordensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

N. J., gong oil Into the water. Wo of the cars were submerged with their living freight, but the third car was not submerged until he people were able to get ou, or were rescued. The dead was variously estimated at from 55 to 75. Many of the injured were perhaps fatally hurt.
 The San Francisco school board states that it was simply obeying the laws of California when it established separate schools for Japanese and other orientals. Many of the socalled Japanese pupils are grown men, and are not fiji associates for little girls and boys in white schools. The super intendent says: We do noi deny the Japanese any educational light, but there are separate schools for them, and those they must attend
 Says a Tokio dispatch Among the 266 coral fishing vessels which were caught in the hurricane off Goto island, only 3s of them lived through the storm Of 1,210 men on board. S22 were drowned and 100 injured
 Three persons were killed and number injured by an explosion of natural gas al Coffeyville. Kas.. which wrecked five two-story business build. ings
 Fire partially destroyed Trowbridgs hall the young ladies' dormitory ot Defiance tOhio) college and 56 girls had narrow escape.
 William c. Robeson. for the past g9 years supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum, died Of pneumonia al his home in Wellesley Hills, Mass, after an illness of two days. He was born al Loyal Oak., Md. in 1923.
 President Felton of the Chicago ds Alton positively forbids he employ ment of relatives in any capacity, and heads of departments have all been notified
 Paderewski has canceled his en- gagement te appear in his country in January
 Al Sai:.oea. \. f., Italians started | run on the Adirondack Trust Co, of which State Senator Bracket is presi, dent. The italians are said to have become alarmed because Bracket was not renominated for senator
 E. II. Hartman has 10000 laborers at work on a railroad he is building on tine Pacific coast of Mexico. The road is l.500 miles long, and will be months.
 Robert M Snyder, a Kansas City, Mo. millionaire. was fatally injured in an automobile accident, during which a boy was struck and fatally hurt. Both died at the same hospital a short time afterward. Snyder was under indictment at St. Louis on the charge of bribery Not long ago Carey Snyder, son. was found murdered in Oregon.
 The months statement of the collec tion5 of internal revenue shows that for the month of September, 1906 the total receipts were s21 ,362 .639. which is an increase as compared with Sep tember 1905. of Sl3s, ,l5l.
 Increased shipments ol wheat from Argentina has had weakening effect on the wheat market Wea her there was said to be favorahl, for the growing crop.
 The first test of the federal eight hour day law ended in q victory fo. the government at Cincinnati. After being out only l5 minutes, tIe jury in the United States cours found the Sheridan-Kirk Contracting Co. guilty of violating the law in the construction of the big Ohio river dam at Fernbank. nine miles below Cincinnati.
 4 drastic measure against the rebel lious clergy according to well-informed persons, has be n decided upon by the French cabinet which intends to deal with them as foreign officials.
 Mrs Robert E. Peary, wife of the ex- plorer is quoted as saving; l feel just as sure as 1 am living at this moment that my hus3and has found the norti pole, and that he will soon be home to .ell Us about l.
 PIes.dtn Roosevelt has directed Victor II Metealf. cretary of the de partme nt of commerce and labor, to proceed to San Francisco, and make a thorough and complete inquiry into the situation affecting the exclusion ol Japanese children from the schools provided for white children and tha determination te plsee Japanese pupils fin separate schools.
 Reports Of llOor scsrcity arr still we'll nigh universal says Bradstreet and the movem Tt Of the cotton crop the shipments O llmber. the outputs of coal and the deliveries of various mills are still ie5tr.cted from this cause. or by reason of inadequate cal supply.
 Fear is expressed in some quarters iE Washington tha. persistence in the enti-Japanese agitation on the Pa cific coast will result in anti-American boycotting in Japan that will dwarf in magnitude the injury inflicted or American trade in the orient by the boycotting in China.
 The president has issued procla nation naming Thursday. Novembe 29, as a day of thanksgiving.
 The wife of the Siamese charge d'affaires at Washington having died the remains will be cremated, accord ing to Siamese custom. and the ashsi gent to Siam