The Monticellonian., 1907-08-08

years record Still being unSatfS1ac- tory. An injunction preventing elevator men from withdrawing their ware houses from the public's use is upheld by Judge Carter of the Illinois su- preme court.
 Chicago policemen uphold the rec ord of force for bravery by staying two desperate criminals. True bills are voted by the grand jury at Clinton. H.. against Fred H.
 Magill and Fay Graham Magill for the
 murder of the first wife of the for mer.
 J. P. Morgan & Go. buy s15,000,000 of Atchison convertible bonds. More than $1 1.500, 900 of the s200o,- GOO paid by the state of Pennsylvania for metal furnishings in the state cap itol was graft, report to the investi- gating committee shows. Civic Federation committee. in it's report, says that municipal untillties must be controlled by cities either by ownership or regulation. the choice depending on local conditions.
 Do good to others and shun butter fly pursuits and you will be happy and successful, says John D. Rockefeller. addressing his Cleveland Sunday school
 Prof. Charles J Bushnell, of Wash | ington, asserts the nation Is rushing into bankruptcy by spending yearly billion dollars more on the vicious and pauper classes than the increase of wealth amounts to, and backs up his position with a startling array of | figures.
 Governor Swanson, of Virginia, bit terly denounces the railroad rate law l! injunction issued by Federal Judge Pritchard, and advises that it be ig. nored
 After working for months and spending thousands of dollars spread | Ing a dragnet that has caught men in | three states, the United States Steel corporation has rounded up what is l believed to be the worst gang of black hand assassins in the country. Forty | men are now in jail In Newcastle,
 Youngstown. sharon, Pa, Plainfield, N. J., and Rochester, N. Y White and Stoddard- Dayton runa- bouts in tie for flower trophy, finish | first day of extra contest with perfect | scores in journey from New York 70 Albany
 Railroads file petition in Judge | Pritchards court saying they were ,1t int bt=N Tfa
 olina authorities and that they signed | the p@ace agreement under duress. Ore handlers at Duluth offer to ar
 bitrate differences with railway of.
 ficials, who may agree. but demands l for union recognition still present
 serious stumbling block No trouble
 was reported from the range district. Henry Clews, banker. at Ghautau- qua assembly urges publicity as | cure for corporation abuses and favors
 the naming of a government directo.
 for each interstate railroad company. Indicted Milwaukee men will get
 hearing on alleged Colorado coal land
 frauds in September.
 Members of the house of lords at | tack the government of the Congo
 Free State for it's cruelty and greed
 and demand that England take action
 to bring about better conditions.
 Officials of the administration are
 all at sea as to the result of the first
 general election in the Philippines.
 Expensive litigation over the Ger
 man of Freeport receivership may be
 settled promptly by an offer of $1,
 S50OO0, which the Royal makes for
 it's assets.
 In formal statement Haywood de- clares that he bears no i'll will; that he will take up his work where he l left it.
 flower automobile trophy contest
 ends at Buffalo with White car win
 ner.
 Charges of collision and fraud are made against Vespasian Warner, Unit ed States commissioner of pensions. by his two halfsisters, daughters of | the stepmother whom he declared part regress.
 | Edward Robeson Taylor, the new
 mayor of San Francisco, Las taken the
 oath of office and the graft prosescut-
 ors. represented by Spreckles, Heney | and Langdon, have retired from the | direction of municipal affairs.
 Radical reforms in the territorial; | government of New Mexico are to be inaugurated upon the arrival in Santa | Fe of Gov Curry, who has just re l turned from the Philippines to assume | that office.
 Grandson of Mark Hanna becomes | fascinated by stage beauty and fingers | by her side during vacation in defiance l of mothers commands. l The outbreak of holy war, with
 the massacre of all Europeans in Mo
 rocco is threatened. At Casa Blanca. where the murder of foreigners has | already begun, British and German 1 steamships are taking off refugees.
 New evidence which may save Carl l Hau, the Washington college profes- | sor, found guilty of killing his moth. l er-in-law, Frau Molitor, If he is grant
 ed new trial. has just developed. | Joseph Root, hermit resident of
 Presque Isle peninsula. says he has
 not slept in 25 years, and those who | have become interested in the case
 believe the story.
 | New York stockholder In the Chi
 cago City Railway company attacks | the traction settlement ordinance in
 a proceeding in mandamus
 War department at work on the
 problem ot filling the depleted ranks
 of the army, getting information ready
 for action by congress.