The Monticellonian., 1906-08-30
AN EPlToME OF THE MOST I'M. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
SCELUANEOUS.

or them prematurely dropped bomb in the ante-ehamber The four men were blown to atoms. and 34 others We're killed. The premier escaped with slight injuries, but his son and daughter were seriously hurt Among those killed were number the ter rorists had marked for death. The incident caused intense excitement throughout St Petersburg and in Rus sia. wherever it became known.
 At secret meeting of independent distillers in Chicago, resolutions against the denaturized alcohol bill were adopted.
 Bitter rot threatens the southern Il. linois apple crop, despite heroic ef- forts to stamp out the disease by picking bad fruit
 President Roosevelt has aE.ointei Basil Mics of Pennsylvania, as first secretary of the American embassy at et Petersburg. Mr Miles was pfi- yate secretary to Ambassador Meyer
 \ terrific electric wind storm swept a large section around Marion. Ind entailing much property loss. Many persons were injured. but no deaths are reported. Three and onehalf inches of rain fell in 45 minutes.
 The authorities of the city of Buda- Pesta, Hungary, have decided to un- veil the Washington statue, now un. der erection. on September 16, and have gent out invitations to the may ors of American cities. presidents of American universities and many nota- ble public men of the United States to attend. The idea of raising this statue arose out Of the erection In Cleveland, O.. some years ago, of a statue to Kossuth
 Kermit Roosevelt. son of the presi- dent was in q railway wreck in North Dakota. but escaped with slight shaking up.
 Imports and exports for July exceed by many millions those of the cor responding month of last year. and tine imports and exports for the seven months of the present year exceed those of the seven corresponding months of last year by ss5.O00,O0
 A correspondent of London paper says of the situation in Russia: "Beastiality and humanity are now struggling for the upper hand and the chances gre on the side of beasti- ality"
 Gen. Min. close friend of the czar, was shot five times and killed by a mere girl at the railway station in mere girl at the railway station in St. Petersburg. where he was with his family. I've generals wife seized the girl by the head and held her until she could be arrested
 A negro was lynched at Calhoun. La. on Sunday, for the usual of fense.' The following was pinned to the body: This is warning to all negroes who attempt to force an en- trance to the apartments of white women
 The jury in the case of Doss Gal. braith, the alleged leader of the mob which lynched and burned three ne groes in Springfield, Mo, in April last. and who was on trial, charged with second degree murder, was dis charged by the court when it reported that it's members were unsble to agree. The jury stood 10 for acQuittal to for conviction.
 One thousand of those Who were killed by the earthquake at Valparaiso have been buried, and there are more than one thousand corpses beneath the ruins.
 President hoosevek has resolved to adopt the reform" or Carnegie meth cd of spelling. in his messages and executive correspondence. Comment ing on the presidents decision. the London Standard bluntly declares that MT. Roosevelt overrates his pow CTS. adding that 1t declines to believe tkat scholarly and cultivated Ameri- cans will sacrifice the history and meaning of the language by adopting the Carnegie jargos."
 Alfred Stevens. the celebrated Bel gian painter. Is dead in Paris. He was born In May. 1923.
 Finance Minister Kokovsotf of Rus sia has authorized the press to deny oategorlcally tie constantly recurring reports that Russia intends to enter the foreign market for new loan this autumn.
 A mob took Wm S9ain. negro from jail in Dorchester county. s. C., hung him to tree and fired five hun dred bullets into his body. He was charged by white girl with attempt ing to climb into her window. This made three lynchinss of negroes in that state within ten days.
 An intense hot wave has prevailed over northern Illinois. northern Iowa and Michigan. In Chicago. four deaths from heat occurred in one day and four in Milwaukee.
 CommissioneT le..1es says distillers VIII not be harassed under the de- natured alcohol law.
 Thirteen negro soldiers of the Twen- ty-fifth infantry were arrested at Brownsville, Tex, by the civil author ities, and will be held on charges of riot disorders, in which one man was killed.
 Hoke Smith carried the democratic primaries in Georgia for governor.