The Monticellonian., 1907-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands. Throughout the Ma ton and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

Rate war between ocean liners has grown.
 Middle west to benefit by new tariff treaties, it is reported.
 Seventeen Illinois counties soon to vote on question of saloons or no sa- loons
 Alleged slayer of former Gov. Goebel of Kentucky named in womans afti- davit.
 Wierd ceremonies at funeral of Chi nese envoy's wife caused amazement to Romans.
 Plueky woman built home for her self welding all the tools with her own hands.
 Illinois state fair this year expected to break all records; Tom Lawson CD { tered prize cattle. T French artist scoffed at beauty of Ametican girls and praised that of English and French.
 Western railroads are making effort to handle heavy shipments of old corn and oats to market.
 International airshtp races to be held at St Louis next month promise to be largest ever held s' Abuses of privileges assailed by Governor Folk in address at the Jamestown exposition.
 British earl and countess refused seats in London restaurant because not in evening dress.
 New ocean steamship Lusitania starts on her return trip and will make an effort to establish a new record.
 Gabrielle d'Annunzio. Italian author, threatened to whip some one unless gossip concerning him was brought to end
 Big turbiner Wauretania expected to lower Lusitanias record across At lantic Germans planning still bigger liner.
 Night operator at New York station kidnapped from key by desperadees; thought to have been done by bank robbers.
 Former American circus man and a globe trotter given job as official boomer of British East Africa, praised by khedive.
 The navy department and powder experts are finding intricate problems in trying to solve cause of des fuctive explosions of smokeless powders on battleships.
 Chicago City Railway Co orders 300 new cars to be delivered Nov. 1. A new plan of fare collection by whlcl the passenger pays as he enters will be adopted.
 Cracksmen made raid on Vernon. Ala, blew open the safe in Thomas Guyton's store and got over Sl 900 in gold. They also robbed the safe of J. A. Cobb, another merchant and secured $50 in cash and s6.600 worth of valuable papers. They then stole the sheriffs horse and escaped.
 Uniform increases in the prices Of meats stir government legal forces.
 William F. Ravens, Is years old, escapes prosecution for stealing 5000 from packing company partly because of his acumen in investing.
 County jails throughout the land de- clared moral ulcers and political in fuenees blamed by Rev. H. H. Hart before Prison Association of America.
 Chicago lawyers and jurists rejec. Attorney General Bonaparte's sugge"- tion for capital punishment
 John F. Uetz, the outlaw of Cam eron Dam," who for years blocked a Wisconsin river, is paid $l5.050 by lumber company to allow its lUss to pass.
 So numerous are the complaints of typhoid contracted on lake steamers stopping at Buffalo that the New York legislature will be asked to pass d bill requiring sterilization of all wate.' used on such vessels.
 Records of the stockholders lf tho Standard Oil Co. of New Je'sev dis closed the fact that John D. ROchefel. Ter owns 247 ,692 shares, or nearly five times as much stock as aay othe individual shareholder, and that he and Lis associates who signed the trust agreement in 1882 still control a majority of the Standard Oil stock.
 Mrs. Letitia Greenhaulgh, GA years old, 2900 Gabriel avenue. Zion City. follower of the new religious sect, the Parhamites,' was tortured to Lcath, her arms, legs and neck being frae- tured in an effort to cast out demons so that she might recover from ihe matism.
 Thirty shoe cutters out in two fac tories at St. Louis. Members of in dependent union begin strike for more money and fewer hours.
 Captain Judson, of engineering de- partment of the army, sees war with Japan and Germany in the future.
 Townspeople of H. H. -.ogers see no sign of illness reported to have strick- en the oil magnate.
 Joplin comes to assistance of strick- en newspaper Rich mine owners of fer unlimited funds to repair News. Herald ax.d find perpetrators of dyna- hitting.
 Three killed in Cincinnati crash. Store building collapses. crushing to death two men and one woman. Was undergoing repairs. Other occupants escape.
 Premier Laurier of Canada will en- force the observance of Japanese Eng. fish treaty, even if he must use forcs.