The Monticellonian., 1906-04-12
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l Wall street sharks in stock deals
 Fire destroyed the upper story of the Chamber of Commerce building in Portland. Ore causing loss of S100,060. and, indirectly, the death of ! Homer H. Hallock prominent rail road man. who in a frenzy of fear jumped down the light well and was instantly killed There were some | spectacular rescues by the firemen
 Att'y-Gen. Hadley of Missouri is re- covering very slowly from his recent attack of pIeurisy.
 The business portion ol the town of Butler. Ga. was destroyed by fire; loss, $55.000.
 Typhoid fever is almost epidemic in Pittsburg, Pa, due, it is said, to the swollen condition of the rivers
 D. (. Smith, president; Conrad Luppe cashier: D. C. Smith, Jr., book keeper; Habbe Velde. Henry Block and E. F. Gnland, partners in the Ties-Smith bank at Pekin. H.. which failed April ?, have been arrested on charges of embezzlement, on com plaint of depositors
 Gen. Russell A Alger has an nounced his determination, on ac- count of failing health, to not again be candidate for the United States senatorship for Michigan.
 The steamer Burrsfield is detained at quarantine at Philadelphia with cases of suspected bubonic plague on board. A meteorological examination will be made
 Dr. Charles A. Snodgrass. health commissioner of St. Lotus, died of pneumonia.
 Clarence NJ Stark, the Louisiana fMo3 nurseryman. has been declared insane by the probate court at San Antonio Tex. and his wife will take hiQ to q sanitarium at Waukesha, Wis.
 Benjamin F. Ellis of Peoria. IlE, and Mrs Louisa ]. Pratt, of sharon, H., have been declared the joint heirs to the S750.0a0 estate of Miss Susan Murdoek. of Carver Mass. deceased. There were about eighty claimants
 Jennie Rogers, q St. Louis panel worker, told the board of police com missioners that in two houses she operated during the Worlds fair an average of about $900 daily was taken from suckers, and that she paid .hree policemen 8 week regular and d percentage of the spoils.
 John Norcross, who was arrested ill northern Mexico in connection with the recent hold-up of the Dolores mine treasure train, has confessed and named his alleged accomplices.
 The license of the Metropolitan Coal Go, of Boston. has been revoked by the secretary of state because of eX. tortionate prices fixed for coal since the strike movement was inaugurated,
 James P Nolan, who. two years ago. was candidate Tor secretary of state in Wisconsin, has been arrested at the instance of Peter Blessef, farmer, who charges that Nolan ap- propriated $500 which he had collect ed for the complainant. Fifty-fve persons were known to be killed and fully 100 injured, some dan gerousiy, by the collapse of the Hotel Zum Hirsch. at Nogolg in Little Black FCrest. Germany, that was under re pair. while about 200 workmen and townspeople were engaged as guests of the keeper in merrymaliing ih the banquet hali.
 Chancellor Prince Von BueloW of Germany was seized with a fainting spell while addressing the reiehstag on the Aleeciras conference anG it was rumored that he had been stricken with paralysis. He recovered. however, in a few hours
 Tho National Association of Mail Carriers have in contemplation the erection of a national home for con sumptive members of the association at Colorado Springs, Col. where l60 acres of land has been donated for the purpose.
 Patrick Dolan, former president of the Pittsburg district of the United Mine Workers, and Uriah Bellingham. former vice-president, have been ex- peled from the organization for yiolat- l ing instructions.
 White cappers at Cripple Creek Col, are threatening to deport Judge w, P. Seeds. of the district court, for his ac- tion in dealing severely with yiolators of the Sunday closing ordinance.
 King Edward of Great Britain has ordained that Princess Ena of Batten- burg, the future queen of Spain, shall henceforth be styled her royal high ness
 1 Secretary of State Root. after attend ing the International conference st Rio de Janeiro, will extend his trip 70 as to circumnayieate the southern continent, visiting BUenos Ayres, Montevideo, Santiago de Chile and Lima, coming up the west coast to Panama and crossing the isthmus at that point.
 J. Burdett president of the Eufaula q. T) national bank, merchant and ore of the most prominent and wealthy Een in the Creek nation, was shot and killed at the rear of his home by an unknown assassin MT Burdett carried quarter of million life insurance.
 In the district court at Nermillion. S. D.. Elmer Johnson and Richard Brueschyeiler pleaded guilty to having fired three old buildings, last summer, to improve the appearance of the town" and were each sentenced to five years imprisonment.
 Upwards of 200 delegates. represent