The Monticellonian., 1907-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPtToME OF THE MOST tM. PoRTANT EVENTS AT NOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
c Carefully DIgesfed and Con- densed Compilation of Cur rent News Domestic
 and Foreign.

Many wife deserters in Tennessee have suddenly awakened to the fact that the statute enacted by the legis- lature four months ago is not dead law True, it slept while after it's enactment, and only recently has re- vived to become a menace to this class of offenders.
 Aladar Stolincki, an aristocratic lieutenant of the Hungarian Hussar regiment, has resigned his commis- sion to become an apprentice to a pork butcher in Budapest.
 Ouida, the novelist, refuses to re- ceive offerings of money sent her by Italians. She tears up bank notes and throws the pieces into the street.
 Coney Island, the playground of New York's millions, was visited by a dis 6strous fire and seven blocks in the amusement were destroyed. s9 The severe drorth on Long Island selling water to the farmers whose cisterns and wells have become dry. The farmers are paying 10 cents a barrel for water, which they have to haul themselves.
 Mrs. Lucinda M. Morton. wife of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's war ov- ernor died at her home in Indianapo- lis She was S2 years old.
 Investigation by the federal govern ment shows that the number of men held in peonage in the South is ap- palling; renewed efforts will be made to crush evil.
 Rich New York Armenians get let ters saying they will share the fate of the murdered Tavshanjian.
 Police Commissioner Bingham of New York says his department is pow erless to protect the city from the horde of criminals preying upon It.
 Love letters written by John Warner to Isabella Robinson before their mar riage are brought into the famous case at Clinton, H.
 Wisconsin bankers plan to put a check on "shaky" borrowers by regu- larly auditing affairs of firms.
 Impeachment proceedings in Con gres against Federal Judge Peter C.. Pritchard are rumored because of his decision in the North Carolina rail- way rates case.
 Accused of tearing down a United States flag and then trampling upon it. James Grant, q British subject at Birch. was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail and pay fine of $10.
 The father of Prof. Karl Hau, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife's mother, Frau Moliter, suffered stroke of apoplexy and lies in a critical condition.
 Conductor Hamilton, in charge of the freight train which collided with a Pere Marquette excursion train, costing more than 30 lives. in for nal statement issued through the company's. legal department, accepts responsibility for the wreck.
 Rev. Dr. c. F. Aked, pastor of John D. Rockefeller's church in New York, says in an address at Chautauqua, N. Y., that most of England's economic and religious progress comes from America.
 Samuel l.. Clemens (Mark Twain) returned from England on board the steamship Minnetonka. MT. Clemens stateroom number was 23, but he said that was some one else's joke. and not his.
 The work of piercing the five-and a. half-mile tunnel through the Tauern mountains, in Tyrol, has just been completed. The work has occupied six years, and the last important work in the completion of the Alpine rail ways.
 Karl Hau, brilliant young law professor of Washington, D. C., was condemned to death after five days trial for the murder of his wife's mother. Frau Molitor, wealthy resi- dent of Baden Baden, in that city, No vem per last.
 The French newspapers are greatly incensed over the decision of the Ger man authorities to suppress the teach ing of French in the common schools of the Host provinces" Alsace and Lorraine.
 A. Lansing Baird, formerly New York broker. accused of misappropri- ating employers cash, and three months missing, returns and kills himself.
 James Wilson, a Cincinnati negro, oied of fright following an exciting chase and his arrest for shooting Charles Bariag, white. Wilson was chased by a crowd of men, and the. police had to use force to save him from the mob.
 Charles Warner, insane man, kills a woman clerk in New York store, ia tally injures friend and is fatally hurt before he is subdued.
 Board of review raises taxes of 300 members of Chicago's smart set by reading of new yachts and autos in society columns of newspapers.
 Judge Pritchard. in the federal court at Asheville, declares the pen altay clause of the new North Caro- lima rate bill unconstitutional. and scores the state for defiance of ha- beas corpus for agents sentenced to csain gang.