The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
AEMS OF The WEEK
|hE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
|0RTA, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
|oreiqn Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.
Turning suddenly from an inoften
Ire lunatic to a bowling maniac
birstv for human blood, and armed
him a short crow bar, Andrew Light
bot a powerful mulatto inmate of the
Government Hospital for Insane a.
Washington, ran amuck, killing two
ersOns and breaking the arm of q
hird before he was shot and over
lowered.
The British government has lifted
be ban which was placed on American
beef following Upton Sinclair's agita
hen and the revelations resulting
rom it.
In remarkable telegram to the
President of the United States, calling
BIZ him to prove the charges he in
orses against Gov Haskell or else
ldmit their falsity. William j. Bryan
tuesday offers to submit Gov Has
kell's alleged connection with the
Standard All Co as a bribery agent to
b. finds Gov Haskell guilty, to dis
miss the governor from his position as
rhairman of the Democratic Finance
Committee.
William J. Bryan, II. has the habit,
too The scion of the house OF
<Nebraska S three time candidate for
&president entered the race for the
presidency of the sophomore class at
the University of Nebraska. Like his
distinguished father, young Bryan al
SO has redhot .ght on his hands, anu
he purposes gettins little practice
q in practical politics BY making a re-
Fl gular "whirlwind campaign
Mark l.. Denote. former congress-
Z man from the Tenth Indiana District
and dean of law for many years
In the Valparaiso University, died at
Valparaiso, Ind, Wednesday, at the
age of II
Interstate Commerce Commission
at the Southwestern rate hearing in
Atlanta calls for production of all
letters relating to advances in freight
) rates.
A. Russell Peabody, counsel of re-
cord for Harry X. Thaw. in his two
trials for the killing of Stanford White.
died suddenly at his home in Babylon,
i. l.. Wednesday.
Orvilie Wright. the aviator, who has
! been at the Fort Myer Hospital since
the aeroplane accident in which he
was injured and Lieut.. Selfridge was
killed. continues to improve.
Reports are coming in of the de-
struction wrought by a typhoon that
swept through the central portion OF
the group Philippine. including part
of Samah northern Leyte, southwest
q ern Luzon. northern Panay, Nasbate
and a part of Romblon.
Il Boston paper publishes the dis
closure Of an alleged filibustering eX-
petition which intended to start from
B Boston on October l, composed of 200
men fully armed and equipped for the
overthrow of the United States OF
81 Colombia
81 The president has decided not to
give permission for the establishment
of a wireless telegraph stated on the
washington monument.
The commissioner of the general
land office has ordered the with.
drawal of 2G3. 600 acres Of public land
). in Modoc county. Cal.
Il A race war between whites and
H. ri
& their home is y, aeing here, with pro-
aspects of serious trouble. Citizens de-
Aclare they will drive the Greeks out
q of town.
While playing with goat, 6-year-
8 old Hal Kerr, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
#Nill Kerr of Jonesboro. Ark, was
u butted Appendicitis resulted and an
y Operation was performed. The child
u is not expected to live.
d An unidentified young man killed
himself at Jonesboro, Ark, by jump
ing in front of Frisco passenger
s. train. He was found to have been
suffering with smallpox and was
buried Immediately.
Desertion is the charge upon which
j Nat Goodwin. the actor. is basing the
suit for divorce which he has brought
against his wife, Mayine Elliott, in
Reno, New.
Four states are endangered by
forest fires, owing to the continued
drought. and everywhere in the wood
belts of Wisconsin. Michigan, Min
nesota and Western New York farm
ers, and inhabitants of towns border
ed by forests, are praying for rain
while they fight back the flames, or,
/ exhausted, fee for their lives to some
nearby village
Luffenhoitz, Cal, town of several
hundred persons, has been destroyed
by forest fires, which are sweeping
the mountain ranges in the vicinity,
and the inhabitants barely escaped
with their lives after running Tor
miles through burning forest
An inexplicable air of mystery sur,
rounds the nature of the accident that
befell Miss Violet Asquith. daughter
of Premier Asquith. who. after an all
night search, was found unconscious
on the brink of high cliff near
Strains Castle, in Scotland. They
would give out no statement.
AS a freight train was crossing the
Baltimore & Chic Railroad bridge
a. II.