The Monticellonian., 1907-11-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands, Thrcuehout the Ma tion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

 by fire in a tenement at Rivington and Forsythe streets, New York, during which police battled with maddened men on fire escapes, and woman. about to leap from a window and d policeman elinging to shut were rescued.
 Elihu Root. secretary of state. is to retire from President Roosavelt's cab inet within q month or two. Incident ally he will quit political life permant- iy. It is the second time Mir Root has made up his mind that the prac- tice of law is more suited to his liking than the intricacies of international diplomacy.
 Five well dressed cracksmen dashed into Florence Ky in red automobile dynamited the safe in the Florence DepoSil bank, partially wrecked a building and firing six shots at citi. zens who rushed to the bank. gave them the laugh and sped dewn the pike.
 Five thousand marriages which have been performed in Hammond Ind. within the last five years have been declared illegal in an opinion at Ham, mond by Attorney Loren o. Bomburg- CT to Ernest L. Shortridge. clerk of the circuit and superior courts
 With six cases of bubenic plague reported, Seattle offers ten cents for each rat tail delivered to the city treasurer.
 A boy was burned to death. wom. an and her 12-hour-old babe probably fatally hurt. and several other persons injured as a result of fire which de- stroyed a three-story tenement at 399 West Fourteenth street, Chicago, in the heart of the congested Ghetto dis trict. Fourteen families were trapped in the building, and the flames spread fo rapidly that escape was cut off
 V. l.. Kline jewelar of Goldield Nev.. said to be worth S100.000, was shot G.aad in a battle with sheriffs posse after he and an accomplice had been detected in the act of stealing the plates of the vada-Goldfield Re- duction Co., plant
 With s10,000.000 in gold in her strong box and new transatlantic record written in aer log, the Gunard turbiner Lusitania steamed past Sandy Hook light ship al 1:40 Friday morning. In one grand performance the great ves- sel bre3se her own worlds record and brought to the relief of the money market in New York S10 .000.00 in gold in unprecedented time. The westbound trip was made approximately in i days 10 hours and ten minutes.
 The recent death of Gertrude Folks of Clark eousy. Kansas, brings about an unusual condition by which ]. F. Folks, against whom she secured a judgment <for s3,000 IF the district court of Clark county, inherits a half interest in judgment against him
 Wilson. the republican candidate for governor of Kentucky, is elected by about 10000 majority, carrying with him the entire republican state ticket. United States senate. the defeated democratic candidate for governor.
 Vicomtesse Nigier. formerly Sophia Cruyell, the famous prima donna, is dead, aged Sl years. She created the leading roles in Verdi's Ernani and Attila. The husband of the vicomtesse was an equerry to Napoleon III.
 Dr Julian D. Thomas of New York has purchased from Oscar Erbsloeh the balloon Pommern. in which the German aeronaut recently won the international cup race.
 Mayor Tom l.. Johnson was elected mayor of Cleveland. O. for the fourth time, defeating Theodore E. Burton, the Rooseyelt-Taft candidate, by a ma jority of 9..313. He ran on platform favorng municipal ownership and 3 cent fares on street cars.
 Finding that high wages and a coun- try dance given in their honor did not suffice to keep hired men, Walter Smeet5on. wealthy farmer residing near Wagner s. b. has offered to pur- chase an automobile for the use of his farmEands.
 With women working at the polls and school children paradng the streets of Jacksonville and many spectacular incidents in other Illinois towns, the first elections under the new local option law resulted in a decided victory for prohibition.
 While the minister of her church was urcnonncing funeral services over the Supposed dead body of Mrs. Fred EaraeH of Monterey. Mex. the wom- an stirred. sighed and ther sat up in the coffin, to the astonishment of the relatives and friends. The minister tainted.
 Edward Lee Stockton. IT years old. is on trial at Bardwell, Ky. charged with attempted murder. grand lar ceny, arson and assault and battery. It is said. that he attempted to kill his uncle agd aunt so that he might get moGey with which to marry.
 Col. Webb C., Hayes, president Of the Chinese battlefield commission, left San Francisco for the orient to place the bronze tablets on the monu. ments erected at Tientsin ard Pekin in honor of the. American soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the Boxer outbreak.