The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-08

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Judge De Lacey in the United
States Supreme Court. has rendered a
decision maintaining the constitution.
aiiGy OF the act 10 regulate child labor
IN tho District Of Columbia. and de-
ctded thai newspapers. in the sense in
which they are -As red in the act. are
not merchandise.
he largest Gffaan steamship ever
built. which viii typify the greatness
and power Of he German nation. now
IS being constructed. and when il is
launched Oct 81, it will be named
George Washington
In The hope of prolonging the life
of Marquis lnonyo. who is seriously i'll
at 0kiisu. fnkumora Takoho. a girl
OF L. and an orphan. stabbed hersen
TO death and gave her blood to the
fast sinking nobleman. according to
adtfees received from Japan The girl
died Ill tn. belief that her blood could
be used to help the marquis to re-
coNerN.
Following a flying visit to the Paci-
nc coast cities, President A J. Earling
OF The Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. PAU
railroad, is on his way east He stated
before leaving that he expected the
extension of the St. Paul 10 Seattle
July 1
Loeomotor ataxia hitherto con
sidered incurable. has at last surrend-
cred 10 the advance of science. accord
ing 10 claims made before the New
York Academy of Medicine by DR.
Leerand \. Denslow, which are oc-
easioning wide comment.
\ special dispatch from Rome says
that the Duke de Abruzzi and Miss
Katherine Eikins. daughter of Senator
Stephen 4. Elkins of West Virginia.
will be married on or about Dec 10.
Official notification of the wedding
will be given out in November.
That a repetition of the fatal Hub
bard expedition into Labrador barely
was averted in the Arctic regions bor-
dering the mouth of the Mackenzie
River. Alaska. last month became
known when three letters from With
jahlm Stefansson and DR.. r. NJ. An
derson. leaders of the Alaskan-Arctic
chronological expedition of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History. were
received by the museum authorities.
chn1tnr.
less. facing starvation and threatened
with fever pestilence, as the result
of the flood that has devastated the
city of Haldarabad and the entire
Musi River Valley in Indian
President Roosevelt will give all the
trophies collected in his African hunt
next spring 10 the National Museum.
This was the official announcement
made together with a few other details
regarding the presidents forthcoming
trip.
The Aero Club of France sent vii
bur Wright its check for $1,000 as the
winner of its prize for the longest
fiigi3 over prescribed course, his
official fight of ! hour minutes, and
1l4 seconds made Sept. s. not having
been approached by any other con
testant
Chicago was chosen as the place for
next years meeting by the American
Bankers association
4 gang of masked men held up the
postoffice al Slater, Ia. and escaped
with 5000 worth of stamps and money.
One man has been arrested as sus'
peet
Henc- forth a one ounce letter to
England. ireland. Scotland or Males
will need only 2-cent postage stamp.
instead of 5.eent one, to insure de
livery. This remarkable reduction in
rates has been agreed upon between
the two governments as the best
means of promoting commercial and
friendly relations between the United
States and Great Britain
At the Children's Hospital in Wash
ington 10 little patients have been in
oculated in the interests of science
and humanity with the deadly germs
of both human and bovine tubercu-
losis. The experiment, which is to de
termine the value of a new method of
diagnosis advanced by DR.. Laszios De
tee, professor of baeteriology at the
University of Budapest, Hungary, is
being watched with keenest interest
by the delegates to the International
Congress of tuberculosis.
Thousands have been drowned,
towns wiped out, an area many miles
in extent turned into an inland sea,
and the bodies of food victims found
lodged in the branches of trees and
lining the banks of the terribly swol-
len streams as the result Of a mood
that is now ravaging the Deccan region
in East India.
Forest and meadow fires are raging
in Ohio. West of Cleveland hundreds
of acres of wood and meadow land
are afire and are travelling rapidly
toward Rocky River, few miles from
the city square. Hundreds are night
ing. apparently in vain. to check the
progress of the flames. The country
is dry as finder as there has been no
rain here in over eight weeks.
Mistaking his son Oliver for burg
lar. DR.. P. e. Ashbrook of Woodriver.
Ill. near Alton, fired a revolver shot
in the darkness, wounding the boy in
the right hand. DR.. Ashbrook dressed
the wound and then walked TO the
poljee station and surrendered him
self He was released on $500 bond.
n Asbbrook is candidate for police
magistrate.
.&,o~ firing Two bullets both