The Monticellonian., 1906-08-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST I'M. PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully pieested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
SCECtANEOUS.

| hlfS Alfonso and brlde go to Scot land to visit Lady Keith, who was Miss January of St. Louis.
 Mir. Bryan,s idea of public ownership as to railroads is to divide control be- tween federal and state governments, says dispatch from Zurich, Switzer- land.
 Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte recommends death penalty for all an- archists who attempt to kill.
 President Roosevelt, it is said, is de- ternined to appoint Gen Leonard Wood lieutenant general and chief of staff before ne retires from the White House.
 Judge OaNeill Ryan, of St. Louis, in speech at Milwaukee, urged new Ireland, an Irish republic.
 Riots took place on Coney island cars because passengers refused to pay double fare, and 50,O00 persons were showed off trains and had to walk.
 Gen. Lineviteh is recommended for Russian war commander by Grand Duke Nicholas, who declines post.
 The Mad Mullah raids the Rare I,UU capturing 10000 camels.
 On the first day of the c. A. R. en. eampment at Minneapolis, Minn., 75,- 900 visitors were in the city.
 The Pennsylvania railroad manage ment announces that in future all pas senger cars for that system will be constructed of steel as measure of safety.
 Returns from the principal railroad for the fiscal year show large in crease in gross and net earnings
 At least q dozen persons are re- ported dead or missing as the result of a cloudburst in the vicinity of Lang try, Tex. small town on the south ern Pacific rosi. 900 miles west of San Francisco. The property loss will reach s1,500,000.
 W. II. flyers, who dead body was found in field near Kansas City, Mo, was secretary of the national board of trade of Kansas City. His suicide is said to have been due to financial diff. fuculties.
 Mir w. j. Bryan has eabled his brother. c. w. Bryan, of Lincoln. Neb., fixing the date for his arrival in New York August 30 He will visit New Haven and Bridgeport August 31; Jersey City, September 1; Chicago, September I; Lincoln. September 5; i; St Louis, September Il; Louisville, September 12, and Cincinnati Septem- Der 13, stppoing at Kansas City on the return trip.
 The Longworths have arrived home from Europe.
 Grain rates from Missouri river to cents.
 Paris professor says X-ray will restore natural color to gray hair.
 Chicago's new city directory shows a population of 2,50O.500
 Cattle raisers of the west met Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson in Chi cago, and asked for a square deal" Secretary Wilson assured them, as we'll as the representatives of the Chicago packers, that a square deal' was exactly what the government in tended to give every branch of the meat industry in this country, and at the conclusion of the meeting ex- pressions of the utmost satisfaction were voiced by all interests con cerned.
 The king of England and the em. perors of Austria and Russia will be godfathers to Emperor Williams s grandson, whose christening was post. poned from August l2 to August 20.
 United States customs authorities at New York have taken action which may result in the confiscation of a Gainsboro painting valued at s30,000. The importer is a resident of Chicago, whose identity has not been divulged. The painting was invoiced as having value of $15,470. Appraiser Fowler had the importation examined and. upon certain information which came into his possession, advanced the value to S30,000.
 telegram has been received at the bureau of insular affairs, in Wash ington, from the comptroller and gen eral receiver of customs at Santo Do mingo, announcing that John MilbuTn, a Porto Rican, was killed, and Charles P Thurston, an American, wounded, by smugglers in the vicinity of Las Matas, on August 5. and that Thurs ton died of his wounds August s.
 w. ]. Bryan and his party spent a day sightseeing at Rome, visiting St, Peters, the Roman forum. the colise. um, the Appian way and the cata- combs. Mir. Bryan did not see the pope, having had an audience with him at the time of his former visit to Rome.
 Iowa democrats put state ticket in the field and declare for a tariff for revenue only"
 Cashier Herring of the wrecked Mil waukee avenue bank, Chicago. has been arrested He places the blame for the ruin of the institution on Presi- dent Stensland.
 President orders cutters sent to Pri. byloff islands to protect Amercan seal rookeries from marauding Japs.
 Oklahoma and Indian territories have been visited by almost unprece- dented downpours. Wheat in the shock is reported injurtd. but GOTH greatly benefited.