The Monticellonian., 1907-02-21

liuSd NlAu tut ottdIlleI OIlt0ud, not far from Cardin, Wales. Fourteen lives were lost
 The people of Nicaragua demand reparation from the government of Honduras for the invasion of their territory by Honduras troops, and have offered financial aid for a con flict With Honduras The country is excitd
 George M Morton and wife. regis tering from New York, were found dead in their room at the Tampa Bay (FlaJ hotel. having committed suicide, A no5e Was found in the room saving they had killed them selves by mutual consent
 There is a divergence of sentiment in regard to the immigration bill passed by congress. Some believe that the effect will be good for the Ha= waiian plantations, assuring them q labor supply Others express the fear that the islands will be flooded with Japanese and irretrieyably oriental ized
 American missionary from Syria predicts trouble between United States and Turkey.
 Sioux lands in Dakota may be thrown open to settlement
 Eleven hundred miners have been discharged from the Warren district at Brisbee, Ariz. The camp has al ways been an open" one, and it is claimed the miners are organizing.
 About 150 persons went to their death in Blon- Island sound, off the coast of Rhode Island, at night, as q result of d collision between the three masted schooner Harry Knowlton and the Joy line steamer Larehmont, bound from Providence, k. l., to New York. It is estimated that including the crew there were nearly 200 per sons on board the steamer when she sailed from Providence. Of these only 19 appear to have survived the dis aster. ten members of the crew and nine passengers.
 Former Gov Higgins of New York died at h.s home in Clean He re mained unconscious to the last, death coming in it's most peaceful form and free from pain. During his term as goyeronor Le suffered from heart trou- ble, but it is declared that he was faithful to the trust imposed in him, and left no duty undone.
 The railroads of the entire country it is said are preparing to make a gen eral increase in freight rates, which will bring them several hundred mil lions added revenue annually
 Pulajanes have attacked and burned two towns in Occidental Negros and killed six of the constabulary. Two American teachers, W. K. Baehelder and Walter J. lse, are reported to be missing
 Leaking gas exploded in restaur- ant at Los Angeles, Cal, killing four, manglng two and injuring about twen- ty other people. The building was de molished
 A new British expedition to the north pole will leave England next Oc- tober, under command of E. H. Shack teton. who was third lieutenant on the Discovery expedition to the Adriatic. 4 novel feature of the expedition will be a motor car built for ice travelling
 The receipt of the news from Washington that the treasury depart ment would pay s25,000,000 Of the nearly matured per cents of 1897 at F w2s the signal for animated buying on the New York stock ex- change.
 Gov. Conner has approved the bill re ducing passenger rates in Alabama from cents to 212 cents, and the law will go ito effect in 60 days.
 A special dispatch from St. Peters burg says that an internal machine was discovered accidentally at night in a chimney of the house occupied by Count Witte, the former premier. The machine was timed to explode af ter the family had retired.
 For the first time in many years snow fell on the streets of Mexico City Unusual conditions have caused suffering among the poor, who habit ualy go about clad in light garments and with bare feet.
 Italy has asked for the punishment of the aggressors in the recent fight of Italian-Franeiscans and Armenian Greek monks in the sacred grotto at Bethlehem.
 Gen. Kuropatkin's history of the Russo-Japanese war which was con fscated by the Russian government, has become accessible. The three vol umes contain, it is said. amazing rev citations of Reorganization and in capacity The general pathetically concludes: That if Russia had been united and ready to make the sacri fees necessary to safeguard her dig nity and integrity, the valiant Rus sian army would not have been sub dued"
 President Eliot of Harvard univer- sity, speaking before the Twentieth Century club at Boston, defended the separate school system of the south, and said that if the number of negroes attending Harvard university was in creased to any extent tthere are now about thirty. he would favor separa- tian.
 Gov. John s. Little. accompanied by his wife and two physicians, has gone to the gulf coast of Texas to re- cover his health.
 Edwin W. Reidnauer. a baker, and his four children were burned to death at Allentown, Pa. Reidnauer was boil ing doughnuts, when the fat boiled over on the floor. setting the house on fire.
 President Roosevelt has received a number of protests from persons who think that the newspapers printing the