The Monticellonian., 1907-11-14

5ItSSilldH W. BDuIke OOCHIdu, Jue famous Tammany leader, was arrest ed in polling place on the charge of having voted illegally On reaching police court, he was at once dis charged
 While waiting to have her infant daughter examined by a physician at Edwardsyille, H., Mrs Gus Pellegreen was mortified to see the child die in her arms. The baby had pneumonia. and it is said that the mother had been giving 1t cough medicine. Ac. cording to local physician, the medi- cine contained d drug which kept the child from crying. and its mother thought it was getting well.
 Five thousand persons were killed. and 76,2SG injured in railroad acci- dents during the fiscal year ended June 90. according to statistics pub lished by the interstate commerce com. mission This was an increase of ITS killed and 9,577 injured over 1896.
 Secretary of War Taft has definitely decided to return home by way of Nladivestok through Siberia and Flu rope He has received. through the American consul at Nladivostok the assurance of the Russian government that the recent disturbances there will have no effect on his plans.
 A dispatch received from Samarkand says that newspaper man. who was sent to Karatagh. ill the Hussar dis triet of Bakhara, which was destroyed by landslide following the earth quake of Oct. 2f. reports that 3.40O persons perished and only 70 escaped.
 Three safe-blowers cracked tn strong box in the bank at Canoya, s. D. and secured $6.000.
 In Maryland ex-Gev. Smith defeated Gov. Warfeld in the primary contest for the United States senate.
 The message of Gov B. B. Conner, sent to the special session of the Ala hama legislature, which convened Thursday, was bitter attack on Pres ident Smith of the Louisville X Nash vile railroad.
 A. L. Brothers, democrat, is proba- bly elected governor of Maryland ts' a reduced majority.
 In New Jersey, late returns indicate the election of j. Franklin Fort. re publican, for governor, over Frank s. katzenbash, democrat.
 A motion to dissolve the injunction restraining the directors of the Illinois Centra! Railroad Co from allowing 5.500 shares of stock, held by the Mu- tual Life Insurance Co of New York. to be voted at the annual meeting was filed in the Cook county Gllinois) superior court Thursday afternoon.
 The Tammany ticket in New York county. headed by Thomas F. Foley. was elected ty one of the smallest plu- ralities in years. The returns, with several districts missing, give Foley plurality approximately over Ihim- sen of 27,000. The two Bartletts were elected judges of the court of appeals over Lyon and McDonough. Independ- ence league candidates. McCarren was defeated in Brooklyn, the entire re publican ticket, with the exception of district attorney and possibly surro- gate, winning out
 John C. Dueber, owner of the Due Der Hampden Watch Works at Can ton, O., said to be the largest watch factory in the world is dead
 Fire which gutted the five-story brick building on C street. Southwest Washington, occupied by the seed dis tribution division of the department of agriculture. caused damage amount ing to S75,000
 Forest R. Nichols, secretary of W. H. Andrews, terrorial delegate to con gress from New Mexico, was placed on trial in the United .,ates court at Pittsburg. charged with aiding and abettng Cashier T. Lee Clark, who killed himself, in the misapplication of funds from the Enterprise National bank of Allegheny.
 John Harding to whom P. T. Bar mum offered $500 a week to exhibit himself, died in the poor house at Nor folk, Conn Hardings pride would never permit him to place himself on show with the midgetsa the giants. and the fat ladies, and so, while he might have amassed a considerable fortune, he died pauper.
 Miss Etta Mclean who, with A D. Gordee. is under arrest in Chicago on the charge of selling government SC crets in recent cases of national i'm portance, formerly lived in Boston. She was involved in a shooting af- fair in that city four years ago.
 An attack on Robert G. Ingersoll by Anthony Comstock in the Purity convention brought forth a spirited defense from Rev Caroline E. Crane, Kalamazoo, and SC. the meeting in an uproar. Comstock said Ingersoll had tried to discredit him. The woman preacher denied this.
 A verdict of not guilty was returned in the case of Benjamin H. Tallmadge of Denver, tried in the federal court on the charge of land fraud.
 John Sweeney, married man S5 years old. narrowly escaped lynching from a mob seeking revenge for his assault on Anna Koon, 14-year old girl.
 Nine prisoners sawed their way to liberty from the Madison county jail at Canten, Miss. Six of the number were awaiting trial for alleged mur. der and three were well known des- perate characters.