The Monticellonian., 1906-04-05

fire, Loss, $155.O0O; insurance, $1S5,- 900.
 The national W C. T. U. convention will be held in Hartford. Conn, Oeto- Der 2631 next, following the worlds | convention in Boston.
 The part taken by the American del- egates to the Algeciras conference in i drafting the final text of the Moroccan | police regulations is fayorably com mented upon by the Paris press.
 In her standardization trip off Rock land Me, the battleship New Jersey ex- eeeded her contract requirements G9 knots) by AS of a knot per hour.
 A Japanese fishing boat struck relic of the late war-a floating mine off the province of Echizen, Japan. and Was blown up. losing seven out of crew of ten.
 Jacob H. Schiff. the New York fnan- cier was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun, personally. by the em- peror of Japan, during an audience. A score of states were represented by about 600 veterans who wore both uni forms al the opening session of the Blue and the Gray reunion in Atlanta, Ga The utmost harmony prevailed. Former State Auditor David F. Sher- rick. of Indiana. convicted of embez- zling sl20.000 of state funds, was denied a new trial by Special Judge McCul- tough, at Indianapolis. and was sen tenced to serve from two to 21 years in the state prison at Michigan City.
 Gen. Luke Wright, the newly-appoint- ed United States ambassador to Japan. will sail from Seattle, Wash. for his post April 29
 The Modern Samaritans of the World fraternal order doing business in In diana, Illinois and Michigan, with head quarters at Eikhart, Ind, has been placed in the hands of a receiver
 By an explosion in the Takashima coal mine, near Nasasaki, Japan. 25o miners were killed.
 George W. Perkins. former first vice president of the New York Life Insur- ante Co.,, has been arrested in New York, on charge of grand larceny. at the instance of District Attorney Je- rome. in crder to test the status of cam i'tt'7ii 'Ni4hA lbhIIOllo Dy tOl DDIdlIOHS. The question will probably go before 5he highest judicial authority.
 Petitions in behalf of Shelby NJ Cul- lom and Richard Yates for the United States sena,orship for Illinois have been fled with the secretary of state in Springfield. Ill, that for MT. Cullom bearing 121 ,676 signatures, and that for Yates 24000
 The hacked and mutilated bodies of six Bulgarians. evidently workmen were found lying in pools of eoagulated blood in little tumble-down house, in Minneapolis, Mlnn. Four of the bodies were found in sleeping room on the second floor cut and slashed in a shock ing manner. while in the cellar were two others with their throats cut from ear to ear.
 Charles F. Baihes, mayor of Milford, H.. and Gilbert Nennum. a politician, charged with enticing Myrtle Taylor and Essie Chi!ds, 16-year-olG girls, were acquitted after trial in the circuit court at Watseka. III.
 The Russian tide of emigration has tNN H. HNg tiO iViN HIS bS IIlOuodHbs for America by way of Copenhagen and German ports.
 Century No. |. of Chicago. took the first fiye-man team bowling prize at the Louisville tky9 tournament with a score of 2,7S4 Lersy No. l. of Peoria, Ill. was second, with score of 2,7S1.
 Hundreds of veterans who wore the blue and the gray assembled at Atlanta, Ga. and paid tribute to the memory of Gen Joseph Wheeler. the old hero of two wars.
 Members of the firm of R. D. Wood & Co, iron manufacturers. are on trial in the federal court in Philadelphia charged with accepting rebates from the Great Northern Railway Co and Mutual Transit Go. oa shipments to Winnipeg, Man. Other cases are to fol- low
 Attorney General Hadley of Missouri has completed the taking of testimony in New York city in his suit to oust the Standard Oil Co of Indiana. the Waters Pierce Oil Co and the Republic Oil Co. from the state of Missouri, and the tes- NAhAtChy NllA bt Nta tliItu lO ldc Stipl tiilt court of Missouri John D. Rockefeller managed to evade service to the last.
 Willie Hoppe defeated George Slos- son, in New York in a billiard match for the championship at 1S-inch balk line. one shot in by 800 points to 392.
 The man arrested in Vienna in Oe- toter last for robbtng a depositor at the teller's window Of a bank there, has admitted that he is Joseph Killoran. the American post office and bank robber who was concerned in the post office robbery at Springfield, H., in 1895.
 Prince Arthur of Connaught and suite, homeward bound from his trip to Japan. arrived at Victoria. B C., on board the steamer Empress of Japan.
 The National business college at Quincy H.. has made an assignment. Liabilities. $3O000; assets, $100,000,
 largely in tuition notes. President John R Hutchinson, manager of the aellege, has =been arrested for false pre- .enses, iu connection with the sale of stock Of the institution
 John A. Locke and H. C. Harris have been arrested in San Francisco on the charge of safe breaking and train rob- bery committed near Richmond, Ind.
 The town of Wrangel, Alaska, has esIY, o