The Monticellonian., 1908-01-16

354,000 in Africa 342, ,000 in Asia and 17,O00 in Australia.
 Thirty-one words, a postscript to an | old letter, has been admitted for pro bate as will in Pittsburg, Pa. in spite of the fact that only the initial is signed to it. It was proven by 1000 old prescriptions that the late Dr. William c. Simcex simply used the initial as his signature and the court accepted it as such to the will which disposed of an estate valued at s50.000
 Mrs. George A Custer, widow of the dashing cavalry general, who was killed by Indians. has purchased 1G lots on Palmer avenue and Bronxyille road, near the Bronxyille station. New York, for purpose of erecting thereon | home for young girls. The prej= ect will be in memory of her husband. Pfetro Sarooehi, an ironworker, and his wife, Reina. fought duel to the death in their little four-room cottage in Oakland Cal. He was armed with large butcher knife and she with a razor. After battling for fifteen or twenty minutes the husband finally l slew the wife and cut his own throat from ear to ear, expiring on her dead 1 body.
 Admiral Evans fleet of sixteen bat tleships may make d trip to Puget l Sound after leaving San Francisco in the early summer. according to an of 1 fieial statement made at the navy de- partment
 A prohibition lobby is the latest re- form organization to be established in the national capital It will be operated under the auspices of the national committee of the prohibi- 1 tion party. to urge congress to pro. tect dry" states from federal liquor 1 interference.
 With the New Year q new brand Of justice has been inaugurated in the police court of Cleveland No man is to be deprived of that priceless boon of citizenship. liberty, except as the last resort. Convictions can not be | obtained without evidence saeh as would hold in a higher court The tra. ditienal effhand grind" of police court is relegated to the discard Hearsay testimony is swept asida.
 Nora Turner, 20, was acquitted in l the Williamson county GID circuit court of the charge of raurdering her l fanee, Robert Kennedy, who in dy. ing statement said that the girl shot him. Her defense was that he shot her and then himself.
 Seven persons were killed and score injured when a passenger train on the Alabama & Mississippi rail. road dashed into a log train near Vine. gar Bend, Ala. Five of the dead were conyiets. Hardly person in the pas. senger train escaped injury
 The terrific coast storm which has been raging for nearly three days col tinues to sweep the waters of the Baltic far inland. The rolling plains in the vicinity of Lubeek, Germany which is higher than the neighboring towns. is suffering from the flood. What is probably unique occur renee, happened at the Birkenfeld Iu- frinary, Berlin. Dr. Merli, who was performing an operation on child. died suddenly of heart disease No other surgeon was present and tke chl1d died before another one could be procured
 An execution against former Seaa- tor Joseph R. Burton of Kansas for the fine of $2.500 imposed in the Unit ed States district court. where he was convicted of representing get rich quick concerns before the postoffiee department. was asked by United States District Attorney Hen,y w Blodgett of James R. Gray. clerE of the United States circuit court. Me. Gray was clerk of the district court at the time of Burton's conviction
 After five days, on three Of which night sessions were held, under an or der by Justice Bowling. the 12 men who will pass upon the fate of Harry K. Thaw in his second trial for the killing of Stanford White. the archi. tect were finally accepted.
 The love letters of man past hia three score and ten to beautiful blonde of 24, said to have masquerad. ed as his "grand-nieee," are the prin- cipal exhibit in suit to break the
 will of Thomas Shell, eccentric mil lionaire of Clinton, H., who, dying al the age of 90, cut off his oily living son, Richard Shell, with an annuity of $50 out of an estate valued at $2,- 100000.
 Marriage and more pay are part of the inducements by which General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff, hopes 70 keep experienced soldiers in the army His suggestions are embodied in special report, made at the re quest of the president. He proposes to provide quarters for the married non-commissioned officers.
 Urban Angney, a senior in the Uni ~ksls4ty Q4~ haQsas and captain of the university f9otpaii team, enuru nls ..,e by Jumping from window of the fift!! fleor of Fraser Hall, the main build. ing of the university
 Calling guns are placed in streets of Lexington. Ky, to repel expected