The Monticellonian., 1906-05-24

:, ne Columbia will step at Guantana- TO. Cuba for final ocdzrs.
 Charlotte, N. C.. he'd four days celebration Of the one hundred and th.rty-frst anniversary of the signing of the Mec1lenburg Gec,atation Of inde- pendence, promulgated there May 20. 1775. The president extended official recognition by sending federal troops sGd the Marine uand to grace the Ccca- sicn
 The St Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph declares that the days of the Rus ian parlia- ment are numbered; that in the eyes of the court party il is already dead, the enly question not solved being how and when to arrange a decent burial.
 Mark Wilson, his brother, West Wil- son. ard Arthur West were found shot to death, with reyoivers lying beside them, in a warehouse owned by Mark Wilson. prominent merchant at Lynn Vile. Ky The details Of the tragedy will probably always remain a mys tery.
 The navy department at Washing ton has been advised that 9 Ameri- can sailors were mobbed by natives at Guantanamo Cuba, and that all were more CT less severely wounded. One was shot, the rest being elubbed, stabbed or hacked with macaetes.
 Upwards of loo dwellings and a doz- en business houses at Stanley, Wis. were destroyed by a fire that at one time threatened 10 sweep the entire town The loss is estimated at SS00.- a60
 The association of German metal working establishments has voted to lock ont 60 per cent. of the Worlmen. June 2. in order 10 coGnteract the strikes in various cities.
 William IL Kuhn. aged 79, who helped lay out the city of Denver. Col. died at his home near Council Bluffs Ia.
 It tFanspires that the records in aver 20o,0o0 cases of citizenship were destroyed by fire in San Francisco. tSe political importance of which can hardly be overes;imated.
 Julius Kahn. president of the Cash Buyers National Cooperative soei- aty. which failed last winter. was ar rested in Chicago. on an indictment found by the federal grand jury charging him With having used the mails to defraud
 Marathon. Wis. had a big lumber fire that destroyed about 3.o0o.oo0 feet, and owing 10 the extreme dry ness and surrounding forest fires the town was placed in imminent peril.
 Fire destroyed the plant of the Boone Ga Cereal Co, owned by Fred Fear & Go. of New York city The loss is placed at s105, ,001 insurance. $43,250. Dan Vesten, sn employe was injured.
 The general assembly of the South ern Presbyterian church IS in session at GreenyHe. s C.. with 2lo commission CTS, representing every one of the s prestytesies Of the south, in attend ance
 George W Jiminez the New York pohceman who went to Panama to re- organize the police department of that republic, has given up the job. Geclar- ing that political considerations render the task impossible
 United States Marshal Darrough is coatiGent that it is only question of short time now until the three Wick life brothers. the Cherokee outlaws, are ether Killed or captured.
 Fourteen men were injured, three fla tally in the National tube works at BeGweoG. W Va by the collapse of seaffold. on which they were al work, under the weight of a huge casting
 Prof Paul S Reinsch, O. Madison Wis, has been appointed one of the American delegates to the Pan Ameri- can conference at Rio Janeiro in place of James s. Harlan, who has been obliged to decline owing to an accident
 President Roosevelt. speaking to delegation of the Merchant Marine leacGe who called upon him at the White House. expressed himself as heartily in favor Of the ship subsidy bill new pending in congress
 Rev pr Hunter Corbett, a dstin- suisked missionary to China for many years, was chosen moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly at Des Mo.neS. Ia. after a spirited contest, on the third ballot
 Rev Dr J. J. Tisert, secretary Of the general conference; Rev. Dr. Seth Ward, of Texas. and Rev. Dr. Joseph Atkins. Sunday school editor, were e'ected bishops by the general conier- euoe of the Methodist Episcopal church south at Birmingham, Ala
 Two men, belonging to a construc- ton gang, were Killed and five others injured, one fatally, by a premature explosion of dynamite near Blooming ton Ind, on the line of the Indianap- oils Southern railroad.
 Michael Davitt, the well-known Irish nationalist, has had to submit to a sec ond operation for blood poisoning, and though in a very enfeebled condition, may have to submit to third, to save his life
 The National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots held it's eighth annual meeting in Washington. D c. Mrs Henry V. Boynton was elected president ard Mrs. Lucy M. o, Marsh secretary.
 By an explosion of dynamite and the consequent ignition of mine gas in the Shenandoah City (Pa) colliery, of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co, seven men were torn to pieces and