The Monticellonian., 1907-10-24

MdStl, the UTSl Wlle Ol MdSlH. III his instructions to the jurors the judge said the state had failed tc prove the corpus delecti. The verdict was greeted with applause.
 The peace conference at The Hague has finished it's work The delegates have agreed on thirteen conventions
 At the semi annual conference oi English Mormons at Finsbury. fl was stated that no less than 300 mission aries are working . in Great Britain and that they have gained approxi mately 15. 900 converts within the past seven years.
 There is some speculation as te the whereabouts of Mrs. Upton Sinclair wife of the Socialist and novelist. Her continued absence from the Sinclair cottage in West Point Pleasant has given rise to rumors. one of which is that she may never return.
 Four masked robbers. after binding and gagging C. D. Cash, the night operator at the Missouri Pacific depot at Webb City. Mo, cracked the safe and escaped with $500 in money and checks.
 Between twenty-five and fifty dead, GOO injured and city of 1000 people wiped out Such is the fate which oyertook Fontanet, Ind, when the Du Pont powder works exploded Tues day. Where stood a thriving and busy town of 1000 people, there is ruin and scattered wreckage. The dead and more seriously injured have been taken away. Five hundred in habitants. all more or less wounded, remain to gather their scattered house. hold goods and sleep under tents and cots guarded by soldiers of the state.
 A train made up of passenger coaches bound from Scotland and the North of England to Bristol left the rails as 1t was entering the station at Shrewsbury. Sixteen persons, in cluding ten passengers, were killed and many were injured.
 Monroe M. Deaderick, grandson Of the late Chief Justice Deaderick of the Tennesse Supreme Court. and Miss Hazel Wilbur of New York eloped on a handcar from Unatra Springs to Edwin, Tenn, the county seat of Uni. coci County, and were married.
 Among the concerns against which fraud orders have been issued for fake mining and land development compa- niaG hl of mer, a convict who has been in Carson City penitentiary since last April for swindling. Hamer operated his pres ent venture. the Pitt=burg- g-Manhattan Mining Company, from his cell.
 Helen Maloney was not welded in Canada. Uncle says license was is sued. but was not used
 Arrivals from the Bear Lake en- campment tell marvellous stories of the presidents hardihood and capacity for roughing it. When he carried his blan- kets with him from the upper camp last Friday and that night and next morning ate only cold bread and meat he had taken in his saddle pock- Cbo lHtN AidI AlldN q pltsldChl could be so easily satisfied. but when he jumped into Bear Lake for a swim with the temperature at 40 degrees, their astonishment was almost with out bounds.
 That railroad executives generally approve of the plan for government control and regulation of the trans portation lines of the nation, as advo- cated by Robert Mather, president of the Rock Island railroad, in his speech to the Chicago Association of Com merce, was strongly indicated by vari ous officiaiS.
 The announcement that William G. Rockefeller, assistant treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, has been notified by Frank B Kellogg, special assistant attorney general, to be in readiness to testify before EX aminer Ferriss in the governments suit seeking to dissolve the New ter sey corporation under the sherman antitrust law. has been received with interest.
 The body of Gen. Webb Syck. Civil War veteran. was found in the yard of his home in Fairview, Ky, and that of his young wife, bride of two weeks, in her bed. It Is be lieved Gen. Syck killed his wife and then committed suicide
 With a series of flashes that filled the Marconi station with binding hght and of booms that fairly rocked the station William Marconi launched the first commercial message by wire less across the Atlantic ocean.
 Miss Alice l.. Stanton Smith of St James. L. l., heiress to s1O0,o00 and a cousin of Mrs. Stanford White, has appealed to the Society for the Pre- vention of Crime for protection against relatives who, she says, are seeking to send her on insane asylum for a fourth time.
 Col Alfred I. Dupont vice president of the Dupont Powder Co, accompa- nied by General Superintendent Con nable, arrived at Fontanet and began an investigation as to the cause of the disaster. in which 40 persons are known to have been killed and sev- eral hundred injured.
 Blame for the shooting in Browns vile, Tex, last year, which resulted in the killing of one man, the maim ing of another, and dismissal from the army, without honor, of whole bat talion of colored soldiers. has been placed upon Company B of the Twen ty-fifth infantry, according to the re port of Brig Gen. William Crozier chief of ordnance.
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