The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-21
FORECAST OF NEWS
CHRISTMAS WILL BE THE PRINCE
 PAL EVENT.
Christmas week Opens With the Prog- peet That the News VIII All Be of a Very Spontaneous
 ChaFH c4eF.

Christmas week opens with the prospect that the news will be of a spontaneous character.
 Congress has adjourned until Jan. (, and lively developments which have been so numerous during the past fortnight at the National Capital seem likely to suffer pause during the last days of 1908.
 The cable will bring q good budget of doings abroad. The battleship fleet Is in the Indian Ocean on It's way from Ceylon, where 1t has for several days been resting in the harbor of Colombo; its next mark of homeward progress will be registered at the. entrance to the Euex Canal. Meanwhile the Pa- cific cruiser squadron continues on it's way to Chile. Both fieets are due to arrive again in American waters on Feb. 22. the battleships at Hampton Roads. where they will be reviewed by President Roosevelt; the cruiser squad ron at Panama. on its return from the south Pactfic.
 The new Turkish Parliament, mark ing an epoch of hedeparture from cen- turtles of despotism in that country, continues it's sessions full of unknown possihitlties: the Russian Duma like wise; the Japanese National Legisla- ture opens at Tokio on Tuesday.
 At Santiago de Chile the day before chrlstmae will be held the preliminary session Of the Pan-American Scientific Congress. Venezuela continues in the curious posture of being at the point
 Of war with Holland while her absent
 President, Castro, is centre of won dering interest, as he was pictured, first. as a seeker after medical atten- ton, and again as eiaborately dining and wining as an honored guest abroad.
 Thornton Jenkins Hains win resume
 tomorrow his place as defendant In the court at Flushing. L. T., where he Is under trial as alleged joint prfnct- pal with his brother, Capt. Peter c.
 Hains, IT,, in the murder of William
 E Annis; the boy Hazel at Toledo, ia nearing the end of his trial for the murder of his mother, In Whang Chang, the Korean Is in like position in San Francisco, charged with Killing purham wlaite xens epd EEnilp of alleged murderous might riderss are before judge and jury for the iynching of Capt. ouentin Rahkin at Reelfoot Lake. in Tennessee, last oc- tober.
 Sentence is expected to be passed on Thursday on Abraham Ruef, recently convicted for bribery in San Francisco. On Tuesday. at Nashville. motion will
 be made to admit to bail Col. D. B. | COoner. EtoNln OOOPeE ana AONtttSE Sheriff John D. sharp. indicted as prin- cipaIs and accessories in the killing of former United States Senator Edward w. Carmack.
 John Mantassana is sentenced to die by electricity this week at Trenton, N.
 J., prison for murder. This is the case in which it was said. an attempt would be made to revive the man after the physicians pronounced him dead. The experiment. however, will not be made. Andrew Carnegie has been sub | poenaed to appear Monday before the ways and means committee of the
 House of Representatives to testify in
 regard to his published arguments in
 favor of the abolition of the tariff on steel and iron products. His appear
 ance is awaited with interest. Several, senatorial contests, more particularly those in Ohio and Pennsyl-
 vania for the seats to be vacated by
 the expiration of the term of office of Senator Foraker and the elevation
 of Senator Knox to be Secretary of
 State will become increasingly acute
 from now on.
 Taft and Bryan will both figure this
 week in the dispatches: the President where he must continue his prepara-
 tions for his inauguration in March;
 Mfr Bryan in a series of public ad-
 dresses in Pennsylvania, the most in-
 teresting perhaps, being that to be
 made tomorrow night at "dollar din-
 ner" at Uuiontown.