The Monticellonian., 1906-10-04

| 4iOtAei eiSHC years ago escaped from
 the institution at night, and her pres ent whereabouts is unknown It is said she left by the fire escape and was whirled away in an automobile
 News has been received here, says a Honolulu dispatch, that Along, the well known Chinese capitalist, for merly of Hawaii died in China on Tuesday. September 25 Along mar. ried half-breed white woman, by whom he had two sons and thirteen | daughters. The daughters are ex- eeedingly handsome, and married well, one becoming the wife of Rear Admiral Whiting of the United States navy.
 4 gulf hurricane caused great loss to shipping at Pensacola, Fla, also i to wharves, warehouses, residences. railroads and farms. The storm ex- tended along the coast from New 1 Orleans to a point south Of Atlanta, moved northwest into Mississippi. Alabama and Tennessee, continuing northwest to the St Lawrence valley. In the gulf states great damage was done to cotton, rice and other crops.
 Complete plans for campaign against the Standard Oil company have been drawn by the department of justice. Attorney General Moody has returned to Washington from his vacation and will take them up at once. and if he approves. as it is ox- pected he will, hostilities will be be- gun against the great oil concern as quickly as possible. and pressed with yigor until the supreme court determines whether the Standard Oil company can exist under the Sher- man antitrust law
 William Randolph Hearst was nomi. 1ated by the democrats for governor of New York.
 The republicans Of New York nam mated Charles E. Hughes for gov srnor.
 Abba De Larue. cara of Chatenay, France, who disappeared about two months ago. and who was thought to lave been assassinated has been seund to be alive and well, living in Brussels with a teaeler. formerly a aun of the same town, with who, it ap- pears, he eloped.
 Six are known to be dead. 36 injured, several probably fatally, and two have been driven insane from injuries and shock, as the result of a wreck that occurred when a Wabash fast train, aastbound from St Louis, struck an open switch at Catlin. siding six miles west of Danville, IL, and crashed into a freight
 Committees of switehmen, in pur- stance of a general movement, have presented a demand for shorter hours and increased pay. It is asked that a response be made to the request with in thirty days.
 The Pulaski county fArk) grand jury has indicted Will Gay. a negro. for murder in the first degree for kill ing Mrs. Charlotte Leetham, in Little Rock, on the night of June f Gay worked as houseman for Mrs Leet. ham. lie intimated that he was hired to commit the murder. Sensational reports that Mrs. Leetham knew some thing about alleged beodling in the last legislature were current soon after her death.
 The proclamation for opening the Kiawa lands in Oklahoma to settle ment. which was signed at Oyster Bay recently, has been made public at the state department by Acting Secretary of State Adee. This proclamation names no date for disposing of the lands, and has nothing to do with the regulations of the interior department
 Paul o. Stensland, to whose self confessed embezzlement of s490000 was due chiefly the collapse of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank. was given an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary within three hours after his arrival in Chicago.
 The members Of the Cuban cabi net presented their resigaations to President Palma, and it was an nounced that the president would call congress together and present his own resignation. This will practic- ally leave Cuba without government, and American intervention is inevit- able. The United States has seven thousand marines and bluejackets ready to land in Cuba. and force near at hand sufficiently strong to back them up.
 Rev. R. Amos, a negro preacher. who had been advising his people to assert their alleged social rights against white people, was shot an, fatally wounded Dy train news agent on the Iron Mountain road near Boeuft Station, La.
 Paul o. Stensland, the Chicago banker, says he wants full justice, and will both protect the innocent and tell of the guilty.
 A 500-pound octpus was caught by fishing party in Mississippi sound, and killed. after struggle which lasted eight hours. The octopus lowed the boat of the party. stern first. for ten miles. It was finally killed with rifles.
 Gross earnings of railway lines or the United States last year exceeded the s2,o00,O00,000 mark The sta tistics of the commerce commission show a reduction in both freight ana passenger rates.
 In dispatch from Lucknow, India the correspondent of the London Stan dard says that boat containing 200 persons capsiZed in mid-stream while l tl, I,,J 0ir,tl