The Monticellonian., 1906-10-18
AN EPlToME OF THE MOST I'M. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
4 Carefully oigestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Hamilton, farmer, was arrested charged with the murder, and con fessed. There were threats of lynch- ing, and the sheriff spirited him away 10 the Ozarl, mountains
 Secretary Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and Gen. Funston sailed from Cuba, their labors there being completed. The government of Cuba was turned over to Gov. Chas E. Magoon in q simple American man. ner, devoid of show
 The aged emperor of Austria is con hned to his apartments with cough and catarrh. Medical advisers agree hat he should be removed to a milder climate
 A mass meetings Of citizens, held in Union square, San Francisco. called to form committee of public safety. broke up in disorder, two factions striving 10 gain control of the assem- blage.
 The big steamer James LaughIin hroke the wheat cargo record at Du iuth, Minn She loaded 7S,000 bush els. The cargo is the largest indiYid- ual one Of wheat ever fioated. The boat gets freight of 234 cents bush. el for transportation of the grain to Buffalo.
 Fraulen Bertha Krapp, the richest woman in Germany, and Gustav Non Bohlen und llalbaeh, an army officer, were married One hundred and eighty thousand dollars was distrib. pIod arnopy he opsr Io,sae of tl,o E,,,,,,. gun works on the occasion.
 Judge John W Wofford, of the crim- inal court. Kansas CitR declared from the bench that John n Rockefeller was the most malicfousty maligned man in the world.
 Attorney "y-General Moody announced Tn Washington after eonfenine with the pre:ident that he would retire from the cabinet January |
 The interstate commerce commis- sion has received flood of complaints from shippers regarding lack of freight car service, showing that rail roads are nol able to care for the enormous tonnage offered
 The British steamer Hankow was burned while lying alongside her wharf al Hongkonk. China. Hundreds Of Chinese passengers. mostly women, were burned to death, and the valua- ble cargo was destroyed All the Euro pean passengers and crew were saved.
 An imperial order giving notice of the retirement of Lieut.-Gen Stoessel on the ground of ill health, has ap peared The trial of Lieat.-G Stoes- sel for surrendering Fort Arthur to the Japanese has been going on since September 29 His resignation from the army has been expected 1t has been asserted that he would resign because he preferred to face the court in civilian garb instead of in uniform
 The middle of October having beer reached, the time set for receiving news from the Peary Arctic eXpedi tion, hope practically was abandoned of hearing this year from the band of explorers which sailed from New York fifteen months ago. If Peary had decided to srend a second winter in the Arctic circle, 1t was expected that news would come from the expedition through the whalers when they sail into Dundee, Scotland, at the end Of their cruises this fall.
 Gen Miguel Nibold has been ap- pointed Mexican consul at St. Louis. He succeeds Rafael P. SeTrano, who was dismissed from the service b, President Daz because of his alleget relations with the revolutionary junta whose headquarters were in that city. Senor Nibold has been in the consular service for the past ten years, acting in the capacity of an agent.
 Forty counties in Misso-ri give em- ployment to 34,000 persons, says la Dor bureau report
 Al a conference betwen union rep reseatatives and several contractors, in Chicago no solution of the penang labor difficulties was reached, and a the close the contractors issued ar ultimatum which was in effect: Re turn to work or staA away foreyer..=
 The United States through it peace commissioners, is not read to announce when 1t will withdra from the island of Cuba and surrel der the reins of government to tho Cubans but this action can not be taken until the time arrives whe fair elections are assured
 statue of Jose Martn. the Wash ington of Cuba was To have been unveiled at Cienfuegos. Cuba. on the anniversary Of the beginning of the Ten Years War. but the event was postponed because of the fear tha it might result in political demonstra. tion.
 Report of the Illinois Central for tn fiIty-sixth fiscal year shows a hand some surplus after payment of divi- dends.
 The Bank of England has raised it's discount to : per cent The bank has lost s6.000, 060=to the United States with the past nine months.
 Five of the most prominent bishops Of Spain, in protest to the govern ment. say: "What he people want i7 food and measures Of relief. so tl.1. will not be obliged to emigrate.''
 Concessions granted Dowie ir Mex. fnrfos Tl Fx.,.