The Monticellonian., 1906-08-09

Highly sensational reports reaen London from Tangier to the effect that Morocco rebels desire a holy war. The anti-French feeling is violent. in fact It has not been so intense for 30 years
 Senator Willard has been invited tc accompany the president on his trip tc the isthmus of Panama.
 Miss Galbraith. schoolteacher. and the Misses Hilda and Margaret Sawyer were drowned in the South Coos river, near Allegheny, Ore. The young ladies were bathing, and Miss Galbraith, who could not swim. got into deep water went to her rescue, but could do noth- ing with the drowning girl. and the three were drowned.
 Reports indicate that the strikers on the Mexican Central railroad are losing ground, quite number of men having come forward to take the places of the strikers. IL is not be- lieyed probable the strike will spread to other railroads.
 There is a cry from Minnesota. come and help us" A bumper crop Is ready and there is not one-tenth of enough men to harvest it. The same conditions exist in Iowa and the Dakotas.
 Ex-Gov. Samuel Van Sant of Mime sota, has been chosen as grand mar shal of the G A. R. parade in Mime apolis August 15.
 Bradstreet's reports decidedly op- timistic feeling in all lines of trade, the heavy crop yields and the phe- nomenal demand for iron and steel in building operations being the maln factors.
 The town of Hamburg. Pa. was all most washed away as the result of a cloudburst, which sent ten.foot flood sweeping through the main portion of the town. One man was drowned and there were many narrow escapes.
 Three little girls. the oldest not much more than 12 years of age, ar rived, unaccompanied, at Boston, on the steamer lvernia from Helsingfors, Finland, tagged Portland, Ore, [. S A, where their father awaits them
 DtlItidl1 INpobs ptlOlt DaliiDS HUH Rio Janeiro for Montevideo. gave a farewell reception on board the ( uiser Charleston. Mrs Root was made the recipient of some beautiful and costly presents from President Alves, on be half of the nation, and others.
 David Hoover, United States col lector of customs at Gateway, Mont, I bound over to the federal grand jury at Helena to answer charge of con spiracy to smuggle Chinese into the country.
 Rear-Admiral Charles ]. Train, com mander of the United States Asiatic fleet. died at Chefoo, China, August 4, of uraemia.
 As a result. primarily, of one man failing to pay his union dues, between 5000 and 4,000 men employed by the Boston & Montana company, at Butte, In the mines, the smeltermen at the Great Falls smelting plant and the train crews engaged in hauling all are idle.
 From 1881 10 1905, inclusive. 4,425 miners and 2,452 mine laborers were killed in Pennsylvania, due largely to their own negligence, carelessness, wrecklessness and ignorance.
 Brig. Gen Albert L. Mills, comman- dant of the military academy at West Point has received orders to proceed to the Philippines and relieve Brig Gen Winfield S Eagerly, in command If Fort William Mckinley. who is or 1ered to San Francisco.
 Ed Misener. accompanied by his wife and son, has just completed a trip from Chicago to Red Wing, Minn., via the Chicago drainage canal, the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, in an 1S-foot launch, without q mishap on the trip.
 E. A Gage, son of former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, shot himself through the heart at the Tour ist hotel in Seattle. Wash. Aeguaint- ances said he had been acting strange ly for some time.
 The federal department of justice has taken up the case of the alleged burning of rebate evidence by the Bur lington Railroad Co.,, when two cars. loaded with documents. were burned at Belfast siding in Greeley county, Neb.
 James B. Postlethwait, employed in the clerical department of the Michi- gan Central Railway Co. at Detroit, lasted 49 days for the benefit of his health and then died of exhaustion. Mrs. Grace Hutchinson was acquit- ted of the charge of murder in the killing of Mrs. Mary Bode at Salida, Col, last June, after her husband had confessed intimacy with Mrs. Bode
 An investigation of alleged irregu- larities in the Philippine islands is be- Ing conducted by Col. Wood. inspector general under the direction of Mai Gen. Leonard Wood.
 Floyd Carmichael. q negro, was shot to death at Lakewood. suburb of Atlanta, Ga, after he h~d been idsn- tified by Miss Annie Poole, aged 15. as her assailant
 The United States government has paid Germany the award of s20,000 in the Samoan case. Great Britain paid her damages in the spring, and the matter is therefore settled.
 Emil Lesser, president of the Ger man Immigration Society of Alabama, reports. after personal investigation at Loekhardt, that no trace of peon- aPa eyistS in tho camDS of the lack