The Monticellonian., 1907-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma. tien and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

rapid succession in the financial dis trict as the result of the collapse of the projected corner in United Copper and the suspension of a permanent brokerage firm The firm of Otto Heinze & Co. was suspended on the stock exchange. F. Augustus Heinze, the Butte copper magnate. resigned the presidency of the Mercantile Ma tional Bank of New York. The Anal gamated Copper Co, at its directors meeting, cut its quarterly dividend from ? per cent to 1 per cent. The di- rectors of the Boston X Montana Cop per Co. declared quarterly dividend of $6 in place of a former dividend of SIP
 Kaiser Wilhelm has been sum- moned to the witness hcair in a most unsavoryhcase as one of a long list of royal and aristocratic personages, on whose testimony Editor Maximil- Han Harden of a Berlin weekly news paper relies to win the libel suit brought aSiinst him by Gen. Count Guno Moltke
 The first railroad ever built in Low CT California will be in operation in few days under E. E. Calvin, gen eral manager of the Southern Pacific. This line was built by E. H. Hartman. and runs g miles southward from Calexieo as far as Paradones
 Counsel for the Standard Oil Co. have prepared an elaborate defense A tion of the oil combine, which they say will be developed in it's entirety.
 One man, Harry Bausch, was killed and 20 passengers injured, several so seriously that they may die. in the wreck of street car in Cincinnati
 With impressive ceremonies and significant speech by Secretary of War Taft. the first Philippine assembly was opened in Manila.
 Capt. Roland Amundsen, the Arctic explorer who arrived on the steam ship Oscar IL, said he will make an attempt to reach the north pole in 1910. He announced that he is having four big polar bears trained to haul sleds and intends to use them in the far north
 The governor of Connecticut is on junket to the Jamestown exposition the lieutenant governor is on a trip to Europe; Senator Stille Judson of Stratford, president pro tenn of the state. is on hunting trip; but Con necticut is not suffering. for woman is seated in the official chair.
 Immediately attired as a minister of the gospel, a stranger entered the office of the lndiaia state prison at Michigan City. Ind. and declared he was an escaped convict and had come to serve the <est of his sentence My name is Allen J. Lawrence, and I es. caped from this prison in September, 1906. he said.
 David Redtield Proctor. S1 years old, a cousin of United States Sena- tor Redfield Proctor of Vermont, was found dead in a cheap lodging house at l4S South Clark street, Chicago.
 Terrific storms, torrential down. pours of rain, high wind and floods are prevailing to an extent never be- fore realized in France Spain, Italy and Great Britain. The storms have been so general that an accurate esti- mate of the loss of life is impossible
 Miss Rose L. Fritz of New York City has successfully defended her title of champion typewriter at the National Business Show at Madison Square Garden. defeating Paul Hunter of Chicago, from whom she won the championship three years ago.
 But three out of crew of twenty one have been saved from the Dan ish steamship Alfred Erlandsen. which went ashore near St. Abb's Head, and was battered to pieces by the surf during the night. Eighteen were swept by the mountainous waves from the deck and drowned. Of the saved, one was a woman.
 The suit of the territory of Okla home against the Rock Island rail road, which has been pending for some time. was dismissed by the supreme court of the United States.
 that railroad company. which opens at Chicago. The order of the court was practically identical with the mod ification asked by the attorney of MT Hartman.
 At Fontanet, Ind, the Dupont Pow der Go. has telegraphed the governor of Indiana to draw on them to any extent for the aid of the sufferers.
 H E. Williams, Rock Island brake man, was killed in the corridor of the New State hotel at Chikasha, I. T. w. J. Bellows is under arrest.
 Republican national committee call to be issued Friday or Saturday. Town with money to land convention is belief of Secretary Dover.
 An injury to his knee will keep Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., out of foot ball for a fortnight at least.
 The citizens of California, particu- larly of San Francisco. are making ready to give a royal reception to the great 5attleship fleet when it passes in the Golden Gate next spring.
 Standard to merge gas companies of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Yir- ginia-$1oo,ooO.OoO corporation.