The Monticellonian., 1906-11-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN ePlToME OF THE MOST I'M. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Dieestad and Condensed Compilation Of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MiSCEUUANEOUS.


 r., sister of Horace Greeley, died in that city, aged s.
 A special board appointed by the secretary of the navy has under con. sfderation plans for the most power full battleship ever built IL will be far more powerful than the English Dreadn aught.
 The hattleship Virginia Was rammed in Hamp ton Roads by the Old Domin- ion liner Monroe Neither vessel, it wes believed. was seriously damaged.
 King Leopold of Belgium denies the charges of cruel treatment of Con. go nat;ves Every native, he says, is compelled to work 30 hours each month for the government, and to encou' age them to labor over 30 hours each month the government pays them. We are really not so bad after all" says the king.
 William Greer died at his home near Mount Vernon. H. He was born November 2i, 1900. and therefore lived in three ccnturies-3S days in the eighteenth century, 100 years in the nineteenth and almost six years In the twentieth.
 At Jackson. Miss. Mrs. Alice Byrd, divorced wife of merchant. has been enjoined from passing in front of his store and telling customers he is fraud and cheat.
 St Louis has been selected for the international balloon races for the James Gordon Bennett cup next year.
 Not in years has London society supped so full of scandal as over the quarrel between the American duchess of Marlborough and her husband, the duke The duchess was formerl. Consuelo Vanderbilt.
 IL is the intention Of the provisional government to have the American troops make extensive practice marches throughout Cuba. This should not be interpreted as d threat ening demonstration; the step is taken for it's moral effect on the restoration of confidence.
 Mrs Edward Wilson Nye widow ot the famous Bill We. died al Ayoea plantation, Louisiana at the home Of her scn-inlaw. Eugene \. Pharr.
 Representative John Henry ketch. dlll, Ol pONCI 1IdlL5t N | ., ultA ol dpO- plexy at hospital He was "A years old, and served many years in con. gress.
 At Atalntie City, x. J., Coroner Gas kill has announced that experts in his employ have decided that loose rail caused the accident on the Penn. sylyania railroad at the Thoroughfare draw. in which more than fifty per. sons lost their lives.
 Principal Stevens of Eugene Field school. St. Louis. observes natal day of poet by testing knowledge of him among pupils.
 The various railroads in Missouri have united on letter to be sub mitted to Folk for immigration com missioner
 R. H. Murphy, granitoid walk con tractor of Granite City Ill, is held under peace bonds for menacing coun' cil.
 Plan for dealing with inebriates. made famous by Judge Pollard. of St. Louis. is indorsea in England.
 Merger of lines in Pennsylvania for carrying out the project of Joseph Ramsey, Jr.. is finally approved by the governor.
 Michael Angelos lost art redscov- cred in the vatican by German artist. Gfoss-like paint to revolutioniZe mod ern frescoing.
 News has been received direct from Robert E. Peary. Arctic explorer, that he failed to reach the north pole but made the record of "farthest north 87 degrees and six minutes. or about 203 miles He was beyond the S5th degree of latitude for eight days, where he found an open sea, but ter rife gales drove the ice eastward, de stroying his caches of food, cut off his communications, and compelled him to return. The secret of the north pole is still hidden, but an Amer ican now holds the honor of "farthest north"
 The monthly circulation of the comptroller of the currency shows that at the close of business October 31, 1906, the total circulation of ma tional bank notes was $5S3,171 ,9S5, which Is an increase as compared with October 31. 1905. of s5S. 763. 736, and an increase for the month Of $9,- 2GS,S77.
 By agreement of Prosecuting Attor ney Rhoton, at Little Rock. Ark, and attorneys representing five of the cot ton oil companies doing business in Pulaski county, orders were entered ending the antitrust suits against the companies. Four of the companies paid fines of 300 each
 The monthly statement of the gov ernment receipts and expenditures show that for October. 1906, the re ceipts amounted to s57 .999 and the expenditures s54,617.7ss. leaving surplus for the month of $2,624,211 against a deficit for October, 1905 of over $5,200,00
 At Atlanta, Ga. in the case against George W. Blackstock, charged with assault with intent to murder negro woman, returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence was deferred. Rlackstock was declared to be the leader of the mob of September 22. when several in