The Monticellonian., 1906-09-13
AN EPlToME OF THE MOST I'M. PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully 0ieestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANY EOUS.

dt lHe southern hotel. Death, It IS believed, resulted from natural causes
 Attorney-General William Fl Moody will go on the supreme bench this fall 10 fill the vacancy caused by the re- tfrement of Associate Justice Brown. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte will succeed Attorney-General Moody as the head Of the department of justice George Von L. Meyer, ambassador to St Petersburg will enter the cabinet as the head of the navy department. This. 1t is said, is the administration programme.
 The republicans of the Sixth con gressional district of Alabama, have nominated l, Green. of Tuscaloosa. for congress. He will oppose Capt. Rich mond Pearson Hobson, who defeated Bankhead.
 Mrs. Laura E. Dent eister-in-law of Mrs. |. S Grant, died in California insane asylum.
 IL P Hedges. of Fresno Cal, a thirty-third degree Mason. dropped dead at Ogden, Utah. immediately af- ter aliehting from d train. Heart dis ease the cause
 Three New York autoists arrived at San Francisco, having made the trip across the continent in 24 days, s hours and f5 minutes.
 Intervention Of the United States in Cuba is being discussed on all sides. Many Cubans who hitherto were not favorable to intervention. now believe that fl will be the only means of plac- ing Cuba permanently in her rightful position.
 John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, in statement telegraphed a Rich mond tNa.1 paper says T am op- posed 10 government ownership of railroads-ifreroeab now and for ever. in theory and in practice--a ques- tion concerning which Mr. Bryan and I agree to disagree. We will simply vote it down if offered as plank in the democratic platform.
 During the past fiscal year the United States took of Mexican exports $1S6,0t0052 Great Britain, s47,272.- S73 Germany, s20.a23 156; France, SS.101.27 Mexico imported from the | HIIbu oidItS u tue dIligdllN Oi Si 600,313. from Germany, s20.344 GAS; from France. $1G, 1888. .255. All sums are in Mexican standard currency. the unit being one-half American dollar gold.
 Clarence K. Wooster, vice president of the Peoples Gaslight X Coke Co, Chicago, committed suicide by cut 1. I..1f t., have been temporarily deranged
 King Edward has authorized Dr. Ott to make the following statement: The king underwent an excellent cure Cat Marieaben. Bohemial, is in splendid health and the best of spir- it's, and has lost the proper amount of weight
 The sultan of Morocco is willing tc give up Stensland, the defaulting Chicago banker.
 Forgeries for more than S250,000 by trank k. Nipple. the suicide presi- dent of the defunct Philadelphia Real Estate Trust Co, have been discov- cred by Receiver Earle.
 Reports of Mexican uprising against Americans are laaked upon as ridic- ulous by leaders in that republic.
 Citizens of La Ceibe, Honduras, at tackled an American physician who re- ported yellow fever there. He took refuge in the United States consulate, which American citizens were calico upon to guard for a week.
 Earthquake shocks shook south hut Ja age About the same hour so dis patches say. shocks were felt in the Windward islands. southeast of Por- to Rico
 Former Gov David R. Francis, of Missouri. had an Audience with Elm peror Francis Joseph, for the presen- tation to the emperor of the St. Louis exhibition commemorative medal.
 The newspaper, Kysten, of Chris tiania, Norway, states that United States Senator KnV-e Nelson of Min nesota has proposed that the Ameri- can government purchase the steam CT Gjoa which recently completed voyage through the northwest pas sage. in order that she may be the nTSt NtSStl lO SO blli JuSu tHt I ana ma canal. and thus be the only ship thss has sailed around America.
 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Bryan received a warm welcome from home folks" at Lincoln Neb, There was no par tizanship shown.
 pr. F B. Gault of Tacoma has been appointed president of the South Da- kota university This ends a Ing controversy and political fight.
 Under the flcor in a lonely hut oc- cupied by a hermit named James James. near Sault Ste Marie, ilieh., the skeleton of a man was discov- cred. The hermit committed suicide and the authorities, in searching the place in which James had lived alone for years. made their gastly find.
 Secretary Shaw has issued an order prohibiting national banks from send ing federal deposits to New York to be loaned on call for speculative pur- poses, ordering return to the aas- ury of such portion as can not be absorbed by their respective commu