The Monticellonian., 1906-08-30

out of Cuba by importers
 Plans are already under way to build Valparaiso again. making it a more beautiful city.
 Present interstate railroad rates must remain absolutely unchanged un- til September 25.
 Judge Magoon. governor of the Panama zone is to succeed Gen. Smith as governor general of the Philippines within twelve months.
 Chief Engineer Stevens cabled the isthman canal commission that the recent earthquake in Chilli was not noticed at Panama, and that there was not even a record of It made on the seismographic instruments there. At the canal commissions offices there is firm conviction. based on gov ernment scientists reports, that the canal zone is entirely without the earthquake area, though it has been popularity supposed to be within its range.
 Japan, it is said, will send com mission to the Pribilof islands to in vestigate the killing of Japanese seal poachers by American guards on the islands. The Japanese consul at Van couver reported to his government that 1t was impossible for him to ob- tain a satisfactory report of the affair, hence the action determined upon by Japan
 Sud Miller. pioneer merchant tailor of Fairbanks, la, was drowned while bathing His wife almost per ished in an attempt to save him.
 Edward NJ Ames was elected com mander-in-chief of the Sons of Neter- ans at their national encampment at Peoria, ILL The next encampment Will be held at Dayton, 0.
 King Alfonso of Spain has signed the decree making the treaty of com merce between the United States and Spain effective
 The czar has determined to dispose of crown lands and appendages to the peasants. and thus make hid for the support of Russia's peasant millions against the revolutionIsts.
 Thirteen negro soldiers of the Twenty infantry were arrested by
  Tex. and will be held on charges of recent riot disorders, in which one man was killed
 The Cuban government has asked the United States for eight rapid-fire guns, manned by American artillery men. to assist in suppressing the re bellion.
 .f .Nf Veterans closed at Peoria ILL, with the election Of officers and the selec- ton of Dayton. O.. as the next meet ing place Edward NJ. Aimes. of Al toona, Pa, was elected eommander-in- chief.
 At Anadarko, Okla Annie Dress back. aged 1G. shot N Mulliken. acct dentally. discharging revolver, and then, believing she had killed him, shot herself. Both were fatally wounded
 The tenor of the London press is that the United States must sooner or later intervene in Cuba and re store orier uRder the Piatt amend ment.
 During the past year the Salvation Army has sent 12,000 immigrants from the United States to Canada.
 The Cuban government has ordered a number of rapid-fre guns in the United States, and will endeayor to secure experienced American gunners to man them.
 Michael McNamara, St. Louis po lceman, shot and killed James J. Brophy and Mrs. McNamara ii ho- tel Brophy had just registered as U. C. Wilson and wife, Centralia, Ill"
 Three hundred and fifty Chicago tel ephone girls strike because ordered to enter through rear door. Company yields after 13,500 phones are tied up.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw di- rects that $3,000000 be distributed among small national banks.
 The democratic state convention of Illinois, at Peoria, indorsed Vim. J. Bryan for 1908, and tabled resolu- tion requesting Sullivan to resign from the national committee from Illinois, as demanded by MT. Bryan.
 The democrats of Ohio indorsed w J. Bryan for 1908, in the state con vention.
 It Is reported that the pope, i'm pressed by the frequency of earth quakes in the new world. intends or dering special prayers to be said after mass for deliverance from similar visi tations. The archbishop of Santiago, Chile, cabled to the vatican, reporting loss of life among the clergy, and the pope In reply sent his apostolic bene fiction, assurance cf prayers and pro- found sympathy.
 Arrangements for the entertainment of William Jenni3s Bryan during his visit to Chicago include reception and luncheon at the Iroquis club end q banquet at the Jefferson club. w Randolph Hearst has been invited to deliver 3n adcress
 A commun.c- or emanatng from the reform ar ;inaple as se-ts that the the sultan of Turkey is grac M IS and that a fatal result .a expected shortly
 Count Fermoi. colonel on the gen. eral staff. aid-de-camp to the govern. or of Warsaw, and a member of one of the most aristocratic families of Russia. was mortally wounded by rev olutionists.
 The democratic state committee of Tennessee met and indorsed Wm J l