The Monticellonian., 1906-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPiToMg OF THE MOST iM PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully DiaestAd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items. Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANY EOlJS,

Dutiu5 i9oo the Oil Kle!uS or the United States pioduceli i34,7l75sl barrels of petrolsum, as against III. 0SO,s60 in l90l. aeeo. ding to rep I; issued by the United States s ologica survey. This was greater by 17.G36. GEO barrels than the production in any previous year, although the value was $l7,0ls,560 less thaA that tf 1901.
 A dispatch rec i.ed fin London from Vladivostok by Li6..d ds az sncy says tn Russian wooden cca.tias steale Warjagin struck floating mine and foundered. Some ef her pa ssenytrs an crew were saved, but zoo per ons we?. drowned
 Col, D. r. Dyer. Un.ted States d "a uict attorney, fC. the oastera district of Missouri. has notified Atty. Gen Moody that he will resicn, if neeessar to defend his son. D. P. Dyer. Jr., wae mas been susp nded in connection wit an alleged shortage In tn United States subtreasuly in St. L uis. Col Dyer expres ed lis firm te'ief in h innocence of his son
 Gov. Magoon has visited the na tional insane ylun of Cuba and di, covered q deplorable sta.e of affairs there. One thousand six hundred and sixty persons of both se. 5 are crowd ed into filthy dni Cilap da ed build fngs with ca?aci.y for 10 Fer. ons cnly.
 Late dispatches tell of great dam. age in Colorado from a blizzard which ragged there two days and nights. Snow is from two to five feet deep. Orchard were broken down. roofs caved in. live stock perished. and traffic is sils d Wyoming reports wind, snow and rall. way blockades.
 The Jap. schooner Sud!h Ma. u Is held at Victoria, R G. for attemptin l. to run d number of Japanesa Into Canada.
 The body of George Rlsehi.d. the Syrian leper. was eremated d in a shock ing manne at Pickins Va The shanty h which ne had en saying was set on fire. and his body was con. sumed vii f. II is now declared that his death was t!e rasul. Of foul play
 Statistics prepared by the geolos ca survey of tle natural gas industry shows that in the calendar year 1895 the valus of natural gas produced and sold exceeded that O. anS previous year by s3,0GG.o .o99
 The b ggest conf agration in the history of this city occurred carly in the morning -a3s cores 3ond=nt Welling N. Z
 Action ot Bank of England in advan. the financial mar.S.
 Bankers convention at St Louis places currency plan in hands of com mittee, to b. submi .ed to congress
 Colin Nj. Scloh has walkoyer in tte Twelfth Miss )uri der ocratie 6istrict direct primary for c nsress combined opposition receiving less than soc votes.
 Delegates to mining convention at Denver, Colo, vote overwhelmingly for Joplin. Mo, fer the next convention.
 Missouri Pythian5 break camp and start for home. after select ng Bostcn as the site for the next m ct
 The typhoid fever germ, the agri cultural department says, may attach themselves to the hea's feet or feath- CTS and may then penetrate the egg before It Is matched The egg of worms, as well as grains and seeds, are found in eggs, having made their way there while the white and the shell were being added to the yolk in the egg land of the fowl
 The Bank of EnglaEd incre asel its discount rate from , to G per clnt, causing sensation in the mtnay market of the worli. The lalk Is endeavor ng to protect its god rev. nua which has grown rather below the re QuiremCnts.
 Havana was visited by severe cyclone. which caused camags to pro perly 10 tae amount O. $2,C0l,040 and the los, or 20 lives. The storm went eastward, and great tidal wave eneulfed Elliot.. Ky, an island off the coas, of Florida. about 20 hi es from Miami A sea cap ain says that every ,ne of its inhabitants. 25o. were lost. A barge on which 100 people hal
 
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 Pythiaas select Boston as site for mex. me, [.
 The Gry gods j9bblug trade at New York re; or $ the largest rsorders from ail parts of the country ever known at this season of the year Many cotton goods az. nts are unable to ,,a bus ness ewing U tine inability of mills U namA p:ices under present market Condit.cas.
 The investi@a ion of the alleged shortage ef sci geo in the St. Lou!s sGbtreasury has prsclt ded 10 a point where the Wash.n gton experts, who are to copnt the $-0.e0 1000 h ths treasury vaults. are led to the opinion that the sio tlgc may have been of loag standing.
 Secretary and Mrs. Taft, Assistant Secretary Of State Bacon anl Mrs Bacon. Gen. Funston and others com posing Secretary rafts part have ar rived in Wash ngton from Cuba.
 Fire, nh hicA caused loss estimated at ss90,0o0. destroyed several build irxs at Birmingham. Ala.