The Monticellonian., 1906-05-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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 GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
 The reservoirs of the San Francisco water supply have been found abso- lutely safe. anG the city is HOW reeeiv- ing a supply amply sufficient for do- mestic neea8 and fire protection i'll the unhurned districts
 The fattath anniversary of the estab lishmeut O. the Foreign Missionary so- eiety Of she Methodist Episcopal church in British India Was celebrated in Car negie hall New York.
 Returns from the senatorial primary tn Tennessee show that former Gov. Robert fszlor aafeated Senator Car mack L. approximately 5000 votes. Taylor carries 75 out of the 9G coun- ties. sone of them. however, by very cIese margin.
 C W 2Iawn, enc of the founders of the Terre Haute eindD Gazette. died a. the advanced age of .8l years
 The mahrajah Gbekwar of Baroda, tho second greatesr.prince in all India, accompanied Ly h5s.4qife and his broth CT Samfatfa-, aF4.Fed in New York on the steamer Ced le. EIe .anEouaces his intention of visiting the various prin- cipal seats Of 'lfaf3..ns iu the United States He.as greatly interested in edu- cadCEa meters
 A eorBze supposed to be that of Fa- ther Gapen4 las been found hanging in the upper chamber of loaely villa in the summer suburb of 0zerki, Finland. William se!le aged 5p years. shot and killed his wife, who was suing for di vorce, in Milwaukee. attempted to kill his daughter and then shot himself
 AccorG.ns to a report made to the in surance department of New York the net losses by Insurance companies car rying risks in San Francisco will total Si13,441 aS5.
 The enormous plant of the New Or leans Naval Sjore5 Co ana s. Sh0tter & Co.,. at GHltp1rt Miss, including six acres of resin yards. warehouses, com- missary and storage rooms were entire ly swept away by fire, entailing loss of $4000Ga, with 5&a0.0oo insurance
 The North British X Mercantile h. surance Go. has taken over $45,o00 oo0 of insurance carried by the Mutual Life Insurance Go. of New York on persons living il GGelJ Britain by an arrange ment mado with the Mutual.
 The first battleship of Russia's new navy, the John Statoust. has been launched at Se5as,opol
 Work has been generally resumed in practically all of the anthracite col lieries Of Pennsylvania. the imported men having all been shipped away.
 Two children of Marcus A. Wood ward of Clifton, Pa, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home
 Two hundred funerals in one day fol lowed the settlement of the strike of the 1900 funeral drivers in Greater New York.
 Rosie Davis and Kate Walter, both about Is were drowned by the upset ting of a salboat at Clark's Landing in the Mullica river in New Jersey Their male companions succeeded in swimming ashore
 By decision of the Kansas supreme court the title to lands in the West bottoms Of Kansas City, kas., valued at between enc and two million dol lars, which has been in litigation for nearly half 8 century is awarded to the heirs of Silas Armstrong, a Wyan- dotte Indian or his assigns
 Willie Hoppe broke the worlds rec ord at l82 balk line billiards in q game with Jake Schaefer in the Chi eago tournament when he made a run of 307. The former record, 255, was held by Louis Cure.
 dispatch rom Appleton Wis, says that the General Paper Co. will reoreanize on entirely new lines.
 There not being sufficient evidence forthcoming, the charge of bribery and corruption made by the state against James s. Gibson, county at torney. at Kansas City, Kas., will be withdrawn.
 The policy holders association of the Mutual Life Insurance Co, at meet ipg in Washington, decided to lncorpo- rate under the laws Of the District of Columbla. The membership extends to every state and territory, to seven Ca nadian prCvinces and to several foreign countries.
 Edwin g Greenfield aged 3O the trusted confidential clerk of the Phila- delphia brokerage firm of Harrison Shy der X Co.,. is defaulter to an amount that may reach s175,0O0 He lays his downfall to bucketshop speculation The coneerIs has gone into the hands of receiyer.r~-
 The Bosnn grand jury is probing charges tfat money7was used to defeat the anti-bucket shop bill in the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature
 The insurance companies have inti- mated that they will pay their losses in San Francisco as rapidly as they can be adjusted.