The Monticellonian., 1906-07-26
1HE WEEKS NEVIS
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An Epitome of the Most lmpor- tant Events at Home and
 Abroad the Past Week.
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A Carefully Dgested and Condensed Compilation of Current News Items, Both Domestic and Foreign, For People Who Want the Best.
GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS.

 nine wagon loads of liquors ani wines dispatched from the Moulder depot warehouse at the Jefferson Park hos pital storeroom. Both Gen. Greeley and the grand jury have instituted rigid inquiry.
 Russell Sage, the veteran New York fnancier, died of ailments incident to old age, somewhat sud ienly, at his summer home. "Cedarcroft., in Law renee. Long Island, July 22. Had he lived till August he would have been 90 years of age.
 According to the report of Superin- tendent of Insurance Kelsey of the state of New York, the life insurance companies doing business in that state wrote $151.724,S54 less insurance in 1905 than in 1904.
 The operators in the anthracite coal region authorize the statement that profound peace and activity reign, and that the output of coal Is nearly normal. The board Of coneiliation is doing good work in promptly deter mining the petty grievances that pre- sent themselves.
 Gerald Pierce, manager of the ad vertising department of the Chicago Record Herald, and Mrs. A. D. Barthol- omew were seriously injured at Val paraiso, Ind, and others bruised by the upsetting of carriage caused by the team taking fright at an automo- bile.
 With due ceremony and in the pres 1f pf rti the parade ground of the Ecole Milf taire, in Paris, Maj Dreyfus, the erst- while prisoner of Devils island but now fully rahabilitated in the French army, was invested with the insignia of a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
 The executive council of tie Amer ican Federation of Labor has issued It's promised declaration eXhorting it's members and friends to work for the election to political office of men known to be favorable to the labor cause.
 The Pan-American congress, which Is expected to have important results in establishing the relations of the smaller South and Central American republics on a basis Of comity, is in session at Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
 Practically with a stroke of the pen, Emperor Nicholas has set Russia back to where she stood two years ago. By imperial ukase he has dissolved the duma and established a modified form of martial law In St. Peter sburg The move is looked upon as the rais- ing of the curtain on the last act of the revolution in Russia, and stirring events are looked for.
 The Russian premier, Goremykin, has been relieved, and his mantle placed upon the shoulders of J. NJ. Stolypin, minister of the interior M. Stickinsky, minister of agriculture, has resigned.
 Five persons were killed and num- Der injured by a bolt of lightning which struck the grand stand at the baseball park in Manitowoc, Wis. where players and spectators had sought shelter from thunderstorm.
 A Seaboard Air Line passenge@ train collided with an extra freight near Hamlet, N. C., with disastrous results. From IS to 25 persons were killed, including the engineer, fireman and baggamaster of the passenger train, and many injure1. Most of tae victims vera negroes.
 Latest reports from St. Peter Sburg. by way of Buda Pesth, said that the imperial troops refused to obey or ders. that the Peterhof palace was burning with 10000 workmen besieg- ing it. and that the Romanoffs were in imminent peril. This is uncon- firmed
 Brig. Gen. Edmund Rice. retirei, died at his home in Wakefield, Mass. after a brief illness of heart disease, aged GA years.
 A treaty of peace between Guate- mala and Salvador and Honduras was signed on board the United States cruiser Marblehead, at sea. July 20. thus ending a war that threatened to involve several other Central Ameri- can republics besides those concerned in It's beginning. The United States has added another plume to its cap of peace.
 Archbishop John Ireland, of St. Paul. WlO Is d m6DlDeT Ol ACkeI IOSl 4NO I, Department of Minnesota, Grand Army of the Republic. has accepted an ap- pointment as aide-de-camp on the stafl of Commander-in-Ch Tanner. and will ride with him in the parade at Minneapolis, August Is.
 When the announcement was made ln Denver that Philadelphia had been chosen for the next Elks convention, . band from the Quaker City ap- peared and started playing "There'll be 2 hot time in the old town tonight" The vote stood: Philadelphia, 495; Baltimore, c65.
 A band of robbers at Rostov-on- Don relieved two government blnk clerks of sI20,000 which they were carrying form the post office to the bank. The pursuit of the robbers, however, was so hot that they aban. doned s100,000 of their booty and es- caped with the rest,