The Monticellonian., 1907-10-17

JACK, pidCed Il EoIuen Udli on top or the Singer building flagstaff, TOT feet above the level of the street.
 August Hartje's fourth attempt to buy his wife off has failed
 Missouri sues 600 corporations be- cause they fail to file statement of location of their offices. factories T plants.
 Dr. Rand of Washington attended services at his avn grave Surround. ed by friends, he watched the dedica. tien of a monument in his own honor
 Mrs. Morris, who was forcibly eject ed from the White House a year ago, has been pronounced hopelessly in- sane.
 French capital exclusively is being used in constructor of the St Louis, Bartlesville X Pacific. which will con meet with the Orient line.
 Tales of cannibalism and famine among the natf>es of northeastern Canada, between the eastern shore of James Bay and Labrador. are brought back by J. \. Osborne, editor of the Fort Francis (Man.) Times
 That d shameless intimacy existed between Fred H. Magill and Faye Graham before the death of Pet Ma gill, Fred's first wife, and that the two wanted to put the wife out of the way SO that they could marry, was the assertion of F. B. Mitchell, one of the prosecuting attorneys in his opening statements to the jury in the Magill case.
 With Theodore Roosevelt. Presi- dent emblazoned on one side the first bale of cotton shipped direct to England has been started from Mem phts, Tenn. The journey will be en- tirely by water
 Gladys Vanderbilt will renounce Professionalism and become q Roman Catholic in order that a priest may marry her te Count Szechef&i in Catholic church. This announcement has been confirmed
 King Leopold considered the rich est monarch, refuses to pay the deb.s of his eldest daughter. who is forced to sell the jewels owned by her moth CT. the late Queen Marie Henrietta
 The story of q woman's love turned to hate after the man she loved had repulsed her advances for two years, and the horrible sequel in the suicide of the girl. who died rather than live without the man she worshiped at d distance. was told by Samuel F. Whit low of lola, kas., al the coroner's in quest over the body of Miss May Sapp, who, he testified, cut her throat in her own yard
 The German foreign office says there is no truth in the report that Germany has offered to send a war. ship fleet under Prince Henry to visit the Atlantic seaboard of the United States during the ab.ance of t.le American Atlantic squadron in the Pacific as d demonstration of German friendship.
 Al the annual meeting of the Last Mans Club in Wilmington, an orsan- ization composed of prominent Ma sons C. T. Toppin. the president, was presented with silver pitcher in hon. or of his 50th birthday There are % members of the club. and each year dinner is held and the seat of deceased members is left vacant and draped in black until there is but one survivor, who will dine in state, surrounded by the 21 empty chairs.
 Dr. Carl Liebknecht. noted German socialist, is brought to trial charged with treason, for his appeal to soldiers and young men.
 Driven pack and forth from pillar to post across the Canadian boundary. first into the state of Washington then back into British Columbia, the sev- eral thousand Hindus dumped on this unfriendly shore are objects of pity as they wander about seeking employ ment to earn enough to keep body and soul together.
 Two companies of French sharp shooters were ambushed by tribes men in Morocco.
 Mike Cronin. one of the presi- dents Adirondack's guides, has been adiudged insane and sent to the state hospital.
 Before Thanksgiving day. William ]. Bryan says he will inform demo- crats just what his attitude toward the presidential nomination is.
 Four young men were drowned and three others, all from good families, so seriously burned in the explosion of a gasoline launch on Raritan Bay that they may not recover.
 French aeronauts leave Paris bound for the St. Louis balloon races
 Texas cotton raisers are holding their crops for a price of 15c.
 Conviction that 14-foot channel is assured prevails in Memphis since ad journment Of the deep waterways con vention, held there. The gathering was fruitful beyond the anticipatlons of even the most hopeful waterway ad- vocates.
 United States authorities begin cru sade against watered, skinned pr adulterated milk dealers in Illinois.
 The effort which President Diaz is making to prevent the indiacriminate imprisonment of American trainmen by Mexican authorities when accidents and train wrecks occur. may be sup plemented by an amendment to the ex- isting laws.
 Insurance Commissioner Hartigan of Minnesota abandons his plan for com pulsory uniform classification on ac- count of adverse ruling
 Mrs. John c. Breckenridge, widow of Gen. John c. Breckenridge, at one