The Monticellonian., 1907-07-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST IM- pORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
q Carefully Digested and Con- densed Compilation Of Cur rent News Domestic
 and Foreign.

Frank T. Hawley, national president of the Switchmen's Union Of North America, made statement denying any connection with the reported movement to get an eight-hour day for railroad switchmen all over the United States Such a movement has no sanction Of the organization, he says, and the present agreements with the railroads will be preserved.
 The preliminary inquiry in connec tion with the plot unearthed last May at Tsarskoe- -Seloe against the lives oi the emperor. Grand Duke Nichola and Premier Stolypin was conducted al St Petersburg. Three of the prison CTS will be tried by court martial,
 Fly process of elimination the naval board which has been investigat- ing the accident whereby the men in the turret of the battleship Georgia lost their lives has arrived at the con clusion that a delayed fiareback caused this catastrophe.
 Mrs. Charles ". Fairbanks. wife of the vice president, and other members of an automobile party were in an ae- eident but all escaped without serious iniuries. The loss of tire ditched their machine.
 The field for argument, both for the prosecution and defense of WilliamD Haywood has been limited by Judge Wood, who in a decision removed from consideration of the jury all evidence bearing on the alleged conspiracy by mine owners and others against the Western Federation of Miners.
 After being out just month, the telegraph operators in the Oakland and San Francisco offices of the West ern Union and Postal Telegraph com panies settled their strike Friday.
 The will of Theodore Triton, whose suit year ago against Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher brought his unuleasant notoriety, was filed for probate in New York. MT Tilton died in Paris, for some time his home, on May 9 last but in his will he describes himself as domiciL--Aw w York city.
  withdrew S01, ,525 acres of vacant or unappropriated lands in the Dardan elle, Harrison and Little Rock land districts in Arkansas. pending action as to the inclusion in the Ozark nd tional forest.
 It has been learned that Mrs. Rus sell Sage had recently given $250,0O9 to the association for the relief of re, spectable aged indigent females in the city of New York.
 Cotton thread until q short time ago the most stable ill price of all the staples, selling the country over TOT 3 cents spool, is to be advanced again, ,1o that the retail price will be 10 cents.
 The state department received a communication from friends of Emil Simon. of New York. stating that he had been arrested in Germany for ac cidentally killing a woman with ar automobile, and asking the department 10 look after his interests.
 After hearing her pastor appeal to the members of his congregation in a suburb of Lincoln, Neb., to lead clean lives, woman confesses to improper re lations with the preacher, who Is sus- pended from the church.
 District Attorney Jerome of New York, who is suing W. K. Hearst for $250,000 for libel, refused in court to reveal the names of the contributors to his campaign fund in 1905.
 Fire insurance companies are con- .cerned over the unexpected litigation in Kansas. which presents new points and may make serious trouble.
 Standard Oil Company files an addi- tional answer to the suit of the gov ernment at St. Louis.
 New York Herald denies it Is adyo eating war. Says modern journal loses money during hostilities. Edi torial insists transfer of fleet to Pa .cific is patriotic undertaking.
 The pope has conferred the grand cross of the Order of the Holy Sepul chre on King Menelik of Abyssinia King Menelik recently conferred on his holiness the decoration of the Ytar of Ethiopia.
 \ day of argument on the adm!ssi bility of portions of the evidence fol lowed the announcement from the de fense that they had no further wit nesses to offer in behalf of William D. Haywood.
 Stocks advance sharply in the early trading on the New York stock ex- change. but a reaction follows and the market becomes stagnant.
 New York public service board be gins searching inquiry into the strest car systems of that city.
 Central Americans appeal to na tions of world to aid in establishing Central American confederation.
 Ouida, the novelist found starving is granted pension by England
 KeeHe's colt. Peter Pan. puts up best performance in history of Brighton handicap.
 Presidents of Chicago railroads To pudiate the statements accredited Io President Winchell of the Rock Island ''that the railroads are out of politics.
 Mammoth oil tanks at Bridgeport In.. exploded by lightning, causing ]120,000 loss.