The Monticellonian., 1906-11-15
AN EPiToME OF THE MOST iM- PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Carefully Oigestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.



 5000 feet. tossed % feet, falling into the ocean. He swan to the rocks and clung there until rescued by his wife He went down the Hume so fast that his clothing was torn off and then his skin was burned off
 Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston has arrived in St. Louis and taken charge of the Southwest division of the United States army, removed there from Ok lahoma City, Okla. The Northern di- vision headquarters have been re- moved from St Louis to Chicago.
 James D. Money. Jr.. nephew of United States Senator II. D. Money, Of Mississippi, who killed L. J. Hender- son at Money station, Miss, has been released on s20OOO bond
 John Smalley, of Futile, Okla, killed his wife and then him self after she had applied for a divorce.
 Prospeetors near Watertown, N D., are searching for the source of gold nuggets found in the crop of a duck
 William Randolph Hearst has gone to California for reeuperation from the strain incident to his gubernatorial campaign.
 Ambrose L. Thomas, president of Lord x Thomas, advertising agents, Chicago, and interested in other enter prises. dropped dead in d department store in that city from heart disease
 Railroads are expending s7000.0O0 improving Ashtabua tO) harbor, the greatest iron ore receiving port in the world
 Jonah P. Sappington, who died in St. Louis county. Missouri, was the last of seven men who assisted IT. $. Grant to build the log cabin in which he lived on farm south of St. Louis few years before the civil war
 St. Louis chapter of the Daughters of the Confeleracy have subscribed 5000 toward the erection of a monu. ment to the eonfederacy in Forest park. in that city.
 The preliminary returns to the de- pertinent of agriculture on the pro duction of corn in 1906 indicates a total yield of about 2,Ss1 ,0gG bush els. or an average of 30.2 bushels per acre. as compared withan avera e yield of 2S.3 bushels as finally estimat- ed h 1905, 26.S in 1904 and a ten-year average of 25.2 bushels
 Thomas Doughetty. prominent young man of Dunmore, Pa, died in the state hospital at Sacranton, as the result of being stabbed by an un- known woman. The corner says the wound was in the heart and was in filcted by a hat pin
 Mrs. Esther Summer Damon, said to be the last surviving widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war, died at her home in Plymouth Union Va, aged 93. She was married in 1885, when 21 years old, to Noah Damon, who was them D years old. Damon served through the revolutionary war, having enlisted in 1775.
 The federal grand jury, in it's inves tigation of the Shelby tube scandal al Pittsburg, Pa, returned indictments against three individuals. charging them with conspiracy to defraud the government by selling it defective boilers. Some of these tubes accord ing to the grand jury, are in use or the battleship Louisiana, on which President Roosevelt is making his Panama trip.
 A lone boy bandit. weighing scarcely no pounds, held up the Golden State Limited, the fast Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train, near Slater. Mo-, ano telling the passengers that he was from Missouri. robbed the rear Pull man car, forcing the porter to collect in his cap the booty from the oceu pants of each berth. He allowed the women in the car to go unmolested saying that: Jesse James never robbed ladies'
 It is stated that a general investi- gation of what is known as the Harri- man system of railroads, under the authority conferred by law, is one c the subjects that has been discussed for some time by the interstate com merce commission. and that body, it is said, really stands committed to an inquiry.
 The directors of the State bank of New York have declared a dividend of 900 per cent. payable in cash, on the banks capitalization of $100,000 The directors also declared the usual sem-annual dividend of 50 per cent
 Every member Of the faculty of Cen tenary college, Jackson, La, except President Moncreif. has resigned, as a consequence of the recent stabbing of Rev. Miller by Moncreif. Two days previous the entire student body left the college on account of the reten- tion of Prof Moncreif
 The United States circuit court of appeals, at St. Paul, Minn., has hand ed down a decision upholding the va lidity of contracts for the purchase and sale of grain for future delivery, as it is practiced by the Chicago board of trade and the Merchants exchange of St Louis.
 The twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico and Mime Carmen Romeo De Diaz was celebrated in Mexico City. Among the telegrams of con graduation received from abroad was one from Emperor William of Ger many