The Monticellonian., 1907-07-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST IN. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
q Carefully Digested and Con- densed Compilation of Cur rent News Domestic
 and Foreign.

John D. Rockefeller, in a statement issued through John D. Archbold, says he invited serving of subpoenas issued by Judge Landis.
 Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, retiring Chinese minister. is presented by Chi cago Celestials with an umbrella talk ing up a whole car
 Chicago views not kindly the ar raignment by Dr. Beatty of Philadel- phia of kissing as a health menace.
 United States Labor Commissioner Neill arrives in Chicago to begin ar bitration of the telegraphers' diff culty.
 New York postman. aged S5, said to be the oldest letter carrier in the country. who has been in the service continually for fifty years, will retire Snly 16
 Responsible heads of 1awless cor porations should be placed in prison. as the present system of fining the corporations as useless and absurd, says Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university. in a speech at the Jamestown exposition.
 Congressman Rainey of Illinois warns Tammany that Roosevelt in tends to enter the race for reelection and declares tsat Bryan is the man to defeat him.
 Governor Folk of Missouri, speaking at Evansville, Ind. declares that the states rights are menaced by federal courts, which hold up laws by injunc- ton without a hearing as to their con- stitutionality.
 A 19-year-old Italian girl is shot dead at her home in New York, and the police believe it is a murder, the perpetrator of which sought to con ceal the crime in the holiday noise.
 Miss Anna Eckstein of Boston pre- sents to The Hague peace conference petition signed by 2,0o0,o00 Ameri- cans asking for general arbitra- tion treaty
 National Life insurance Co. of the United States of America defends the valuation of its building, claiming that it is earning per cent, and charging complaint was made by discharged employe.
 Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Sqaires of Australia i'll the first round of boxing bout at San Francisco.
 Highball sets | new worlds record for green trotter at Libertyvilie aud Ed Geers drove three winners.
 J. G. McMaken. a former United l. clan of Ohio. died suddenly at a san itarium while ecnversing with his wife. He was G1 years old.
 George E. Roberts, director of the United States mint, was unanimously eleeted president of the Commercial Nffional bank of Chicago.
 Fire broke out in the forward hatch of the steamer Monterey of the New York and Cuba mail steamship line Havana to New York, just as the ship was being cleared from quarantine. Capt. Smith beached the craft while the crew was fighting the fire.
 Judge Newman. in the United States circuit court, granted a perpet- ual injunction, restraining the state of Georgia from collecting taxes on the franchise of the Georgia Railway and Banking Go.
 Gov. Hoch granted parole of four months to Emmet Dalton, the former bandit, now in the Kansas peniten- tiary Dalton is suffering from an old wound in the shoulder, received in the famous battle at Coffeyville, Kas. and it will be necessary for him to undergo an operation to save his arm.
 Chester B. Runyan, the defaulting teller of the Windsor Trust Co.,, was arrested in New York and 54,41O of the money stolen from the bank was recovered
 Secretary of Navy Victor H. Metcalf, in an interview confirmed the report that large part of the United States navy will be seen in Pacific waters next winter. Eighteen or twenty of the largest battleships will come around Cape Horn on practice cruise and will be seen in San Francisco har- bor
 Young preacher who goes to New York in the guise of poor, untraned man, to live the life of the poverty stricken people of the city. finds plen- ty of sympathy for men In his posi- ton, but no jobs.
 Buent Vista Lake levee, near Bakers field, Cal, breaks flooding SC. GOO acres and causing damage estimated at $1,. 900. 900.
 Japanese merchants appeal to cham. Der of commerce in United States for lair play. Express regret at recent events
 Bryan takes issue with Senator Bev- eridge about Philippine question. De- sires early freedom for natives Think Filipinos are capable
 The properties of seven breweries h St. Louis and two on the East Side sfe transferred to the new holding company.
 The Grand Prix of the Automobile Club of France was won by Felice Eazzare, tho Italian champion, against field of thirty-eight entries.
 Western lines decide to cut of half rate concessions for clergymen in and put of Illinois.