The Monticellonian., 1906-10-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPiToME OF THE MOST IN. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Dieestsd and Condense d Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS,

6,OOO houses damaged in Mobile, Ala, as result of hurricane. The prop. erty loss is placed at s3,0000O0.
 Cotton in Mississippi. southern Alabama and southern Arkansas was greatly damaged by the storm the lat ter part Of September.
 Quanal Parker chief of the Com anche Indians, is advocating the in termarriaSe of whites with the In. dians for better citizenship among the Indians. He is quoted as saying: Mix the blood. put white man $ blood in Indians, then in few years you will have q better class of h. dians.' Quanah's mother was a white woman, and several of his daughters have married into white families
 Eugene C. Bagwell was arrested in the office of Alton B. Parker, 32 Mas sau street. New York. under an in dictment for bigamy in Oswego, Kas. He is MT. Parkeris secretary.
 David R. Francis has arrived home in St. Louis from his visit to royalty. He said he was glad to get home and that the worst thing in Europe is warm drinks.
 Word has been received from Mar seilles. France. to the effect that Sen ator W. A. Clark. of Montana. was in an automobile. wreck and sustained broken rib. Al last accounts the patient was slowly recovering.
 George H. Poor, the inventor of the air brake generally used on American railroads, died in Portland, Me
 Mrs Howard Gould's sister has married a Chinaman in San Fran. cisco A complete and very elaborate Celestial ceremonial marked the cele- bration of the nuptials, and Miss Ella Clemmons is now entitled to the name Sun Yue She has been mis- sion worker in San Francisco for sev- eral years. She said For eight years 1 labored night and day attend Ing the women and children in China town, the only Catholic who ever de voted herself to that branch of mis- sionary endeaVor.
 Mrs. Eleanor Reede, of San Francis. co, was robbed in Paris of a zibetene stone worth Sf0,000 A man intro. d hotel as the representative of a big iewelry firm. An accomplice then came up an announced to Mrs Reede the call of a prominent resident and she left the room to see him. When she returned the alleged jewellers representative and the stone were gone.
 During the 24 hours ending at a. n. Saturday 216 inches of rain fell fn St. Louis, according to the official fig. nres of the weather bureau Tle total tall since it began raining about D n. Thursday was 267 inches The rain. which was due to the gulf storm, was general over the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri valleys. The storm has moved northward and is expected to reach the lake regions Saturday and continue down the St Lawrence val ley.
 Paul O. Stensland, the Chicago bank convict, was put to work in the sorting room Of the broom factory. where he will labor by the side of John A. Linn, the ex-clerk of the SUI perior court of Chicago, under sen tence for embezzlement
 A natural gas franchise. which gives the Kansas City-Missouri Gas company the right to serve the city with natural gas for thirty years, at an average rate of twenty-eight cents per 1000 feet, has been passed by the city council and signed by the mayor of Kansas City, Mo The rate for manufacturing purposes is to be as low as the price in neighboring cities some of which pay eight cents.
 President Roosevelt has appointed H. Morgan Sinister as member of the Philippine commission, to fill one of the vacancies caused by the resig- nation of Governor General Wright and Governor General Ide. The other vacancy recently was filled by the ap- pointment of Judge Charles F. Ma goon, American minister to Panama and governor of the canal zone
 President Palma agrees to Secretary Taft as arbitrator, and il is now hoped that Cuba may be pacified.
 Becoming Respondent over ill-health, Mrs. N B. Carson, of Eldon, Ia, com mitted spicide by drowning in Des Moines river The body was found about ten feet from the river bank en- tangled in fish net
 President Roosevelt has contributed $100 to be used by Rear Admiral Thomas in legal suit at Newport, R l., to detarmine whether or not a man may be excluded from a place of public entertainment because he wears the uniform of the United States army or navy.
 John R. Walsh has secured en. trance into Chicago for his two rail roads, the Chicago Southern and the Southern Indiana. The financial com mittee having his roads in charge i'm mediately increased the selling price from twenty-five to thirty ml..ion dol lars.
 Senator Bailey of Texas has issued a statement in reply to assertions that he was employed by tae Oil trust, The senator asserts that the stat ments are made by his enemies an4 that his connection with H. Clay Pierce, the oil man, was susa as any honorable lawyer might sustain.