The Monticellonian., 1906-10-11
AN EPlTomE OF THE MOST I'M. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Carefully oigestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

 shall have passed away ner voice may cheer her sorrowing husband
 The frs landing of American troops ir Cuba was al Havana camp was established near that city
 When George V l.. Meyer. of Mas Sachusetts, enters the cabinet of Pres ident Roosevelt he will be succeeded, probably. as American ambassador to Russia by Lloyd C. Griscom. of Penn sylvania, the present American ambas- sador 10 Brazil.
 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jeffrias, of Coles county. Illinois, celebrated the siXty-fourtn anniversary of their we'd ding Mrs. Jeffries, as girl, lived neighbors to Abraham Lincoln, when his father, Thomas Lincoln, moved to Coles county, and built his cabin.
 II. Blackburn. a negro. was lynched at Argenta. Ark He had been arrest. ed on suspicion of shooting at white men. i dispatch from Little Rock says there is belief that the negro Ras innocent.
 A movement mas been inaugurated in Cuba, for the organization of good government club, with the object of securing q more stable government for the island Americans Cubans and men of all nationalites are join Ing
 Daniel ]. Jewett, former United States senator from Missouri. the nes- tor of the St. Louis bar and the oldest lawyer in the west, died at his home Had MT. Jewett lived until Sept If, 1907, he would have been 100 years old. He witnessed the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1929
 The new bullet, whica the ordnance department at Washington has been testing for several months, will be adopted by the war department. The tests conducted have been highly sat isfaetory and have shown that the bullet, which weighs only f10 grains and is therefore 70 grains lighter than the bullet now used, has the advan- tages of higher velocity and much fatter trajectory up to 1000 yards and has greater energy up to 400 yards
 Philibert Audebrand, the lone sur. vivor of the last generation of famous Parisian writers. has passed away, at the age of 9l, at his lite house al Montmatre. France.
 The state and municipal ownership party has nominated full state ticket ill New York
 Secretary of State Elihu Root will not make any public statement con corning his recent South American trip until next month, when he will deliver an address in St. Louis
 An "infernal machine" sent Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania was evi- dently joke.
 In an address before the Mormon conference in Salt Lake City, Utan, President Joseph Smith of the church said: Let every man live such an exemplary life that there can be noth- ing said against him Let him be true to his people; let him be true to Zion and pure in his own way, and the one God will uphold him. whether he is deprived of his liberty or in prison cells. Smith is under indict- ment for living with five wives. He Is the father of 43 children
 Fifteen men were entombed in the Dutchman mine, at Slissburg. N. NJ, and it is believed all perished
 Question of legality of advertising contracts in exchange for railway transportation will probably be ap- pealed to the courts for final de cision.
 A special train carrying soldiers bound for Cuba ran into the rear end of . regular passenger train on the Bos- ton & Maine railroad, at Lansingburg. N. Y, wrecking two Pullmans and kill ing five passengers and injuring 20 Among the dead are MT F L. Block a merchant of Peoria. III. and Mrs. J. W. Dacey, of Boston, bride of 24 hours.
 Clutched ill eacn others arms. two young men fell from the fourth story of the Lake Shore railroad office building in Cleveland O.. to their death. They were | V Bunts. aged 90, and Harry Wilfred. aged Pc. and were clerks in the office of the Lake Shore railroad, They had engaged in friendly scufAc, slipped and fell out Of the window.
 Two retHements from the prosi- dents cabinet are slated for the com iEg winter They arc those of Atty Gen Moody, whose resignation will become effective about the ist of De cemher and that of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, who will retire in February.
 Correspondence discloses the Palma regime in Cuba planned to force in tervention months ago by resignine their posts and begging for United States troops.
 William Weston, a pioneer. who in his life helG many municipal offices died in Kansas city. Mo, aged 75.
 Senator Beveridge fears revolt will again rend Cuba. and the United States flag must then go to stay, he de clares.
 John D. Rockefeller, in Cleveland interview. declares French peonle hate Americans and would crush sAem i they could