The Monticellonian., 1906-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPiTOME OF THE MOST I'M. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully oigestad and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MiSCEICANE

in German New Guineau, in the South Seas, which caused great loss of life. A tidal wave swept the low.lying coast of the islands, leaving hardly native hut standing
 James H Delaney, Chicago and New York business man, was found dead in a boarding house in Chicago with bullet hole through the back of the head and near by was his wife, also dead, having been shot in the mouth. The theory is that the woman killed her husband and then shot her self. She was stage-struck, and the police say consorted with other men.
 The impression in grain centers is that the northwestern spring wheat crop has been overestimated
 Bradstreet says the coming holiday trade will be a record breaker
 Shipments of wheat from Argentina prove larger. than estimated
 The. release of gold by the Bank of France to the Bank of England has caused a business boom in Lon don and throughout England.
 The rise in cotton goods and the delayed deliveries are due to the fact it is said that wholesalers made no effort to provide for requirements un- til it became evident that no conces- sion in prices could be secured, and the manufacturers now control the situation.
 Joseph F. Smith. president of the Mormon church appeared in the dis IalsA 1, pleaded guilty to charge of unlaw- full cohabitatien and fine of s300 was imposed. The complaint was based upon the fact that on May 21 last President Smiths forty-third child was born to Mary T. Schwartz Smith the Mormon presidents fifth wife, at her home in Salt Lake City.
 Executive officers of western roads met i'll Chicago and resolved to cen tinue to issue pases to members of tinue to issue passes to members of
 W. s. Harlan. manager of the Jack son Lumber Co. was found guilty oi peonage at Pensacola, Els.
 Royal s. Soper. for many years pub fisher of the Elmira (N. Y) Gazette dropped dead at his home of heart dis ease
 Because strikers and strike sympa. thizers ran strike-breakers out of town and paraded and stoned street cars, the mayor of Toronto, Can called for government troops. They arrived in a few hours and order was restored.
 Mayor Eugene schmitz of San Francisco, upon his arrival from Eu- rope, declared political enemies were responsible for his indictment.
 During 'the past fiscal year 220,oS6 miles oi railway in the United States earned $2,3l9. 760.0 .030. After all eX- penscs and betterments. etc. Were paid the net earnings were s7S7 ,597. : ST. being s35S0 per mile.
 At a session of the National Acad- emy of Science in Boston, Dr. Alex Graham Bell. Of Washington, eX- pressed the opinion that the proble II of flight had been solved by Langle.. and his flying machine.
 Chihuahua, Mexico. has been visited by heavy rains, in some places eight to ten inches. Snow is almost un- known there.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw and Wnt J. Bryan were cheered by thou sands at the Transmississippi Com mercial congress at Kansas City, Mo. Mir. Bryan objected to subsidies for steamship lines, as urged by Secre- tary Root. He said that Mir. Root and Mr. Shaw were the two greatest men tn Roosevelt's cabinet.
 The official count ousts the negro fudge. Ferdinand L. Barnett, of Chi cago, and seats Thomas B. Lantry. Lantry is democrat.
 Late news from Austin, Tex, as serts that there is no foundation for the report that II. Clay Pierce, of the Waters-Picrce Oll Co. had been in dicted there for perjury.
 Three unions of cotton mill operat- ives at Fall River, Mass, have voted to strike if their demand for an ad' vance Of 10 per cent in wages is not compiled with.
 At Norfolk Va, ten thousand Jumbo torpedoes exploded in a store, wrecking it. A negro porter who was packing torpedoes for stor' age until Christmas, was blown halt way across the street, and was slight ly injured
 In an interview at Kansas City, Mo, Secretary of State Root is quoted as saying that MT. Roosevelt will not ac- cept a renomination if rendered by the republicans. When MT. Root was asked if he was a candidate, MT. Root said: q anl not a candidate and won't be"
 Receipts of hogs at western packing cente-s arc falling off and prices ol provisions are advancing.
 In an address before the Commer A cial club at the St. Louis club, Secre tary of State Elihu Root predicted tha the deep waterway from the lakes t6 the gulf would eventually be realized
 The Oklahoma statehood convention adopted a resolution embodying state rights feature in it's constitution.
 President Roosevelt received warn welcome in Porto Rico. He addressed large crowds: visited schools, travelling across the island from Ponce 10 SaI Juan