The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-29

BRUSH opinion ON the developments
in the Balkan situation.
George Robertson. driving a SO
horse power American Locemobile
won the Vanderbilt Cup and at the
same time broke all American track
records by averaging 643 miles an
hour for the eleven laps around the
23.46 miles track. Herbert Lytle,
driving 50=herse power Italian
lsotta, was second. being less than
two minutes behind the winner. whose
elapsed time was 4 hours IS seconds
for the 25806 miles.
Silas c. Mcfarland. consul general
at large and inspector of consu1ates
for Europe. shot and killed himelf on
railway train between Hamburg and
Berlin. The state department was ad.
Fised Of his death by Consul General
Thaekeray, at Berlin
Shippers believe the railways are
planning to increase freight charges
after election, and an organization has
been arranged that is expected to
give the roads the backing of 17,000,-
600 persons.
New railway commission law in Ne
braska is said to have produced good
results, and a report is being prepar
ed by the commission suggesting Ger
tain needed amendments to the
statute.
A iG an 10 haI a
dummy presidential election on the
isthmus of Panama. Booths will be
erected and a set of commissioners,
watchers, etc. will be appointed at
each of the big towns The total
vote will be compiled and the result
to the successful candidate, Bryan or
Taft
Summary of political conditions in
the country, published by the New
York Herald after a careful impartial
canvass, indicates that Taft is sure
of $50 votes in the electoral college
and that the next House of Represen-
tatiyes will probably have a Republi-
can majority.
all punishment for beating his wife
and soul mate Julia kuttner Earle,
for which he was arrested, after Sc
curing his release on 81 1000 bail some
weeks ago. He was held to await the
action of the October grand jury, but
that body finished its months labor
and was discharged without handing
up any Indictment against Earle. This
to all intents and purposes, quashes
the case against Earle.
The state bank of Virgil S. D., was
robbed of $500 in cash and valuable
papers by eraeksmen. The robbers
dynamited the vaults and safe and
took everything in sight, escaping be-
fore citizens could reach the scene.
Mr.. eHarst's Thieves" is the cap
ton of an article appearing in Col
lier's Weekly, purporting to be the
real story of the 'Archbold Standard
Oil Letters" read on the stump by
Vim. r Hearst during the political
campaign. The story sets forth how
a negro file clerk in John d. Arch
holds private office at No. 20 Broad.
way and a messenger conspired to
steal and photograph the letters and
sell them TO Hearst for $4,000. The
messenger IS quoted as saying
Hearst has rot read the most sen
satienal of the letters.
To guard against indiscreet utter
ances of chiefs of bureaus at the
navy department during the cam
paign, Secretary Metcalf directed
that nothing contained in any regular
annual report of those officers shall
be. made public until after the cleo
ton in November
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Miss Edith Writ. school
teacher in Kansas City, Kan, be-
cause she pasted strip of court
plaster across the lips of Harvey
Galloway, a 9-year-old pupil who
talked too much in school. The war
rant was sworn out by the boys
father and charges cruel punish
ment
Destructive forest fires are raging in
western Kentucky. The smoke is so
dense that it obseures the sun. In
Caldwell county 300 acres of fine tim
Der has been damaged, the damage to
fences. barns and hay stacks is esti-
mated at SEA. 1000 Farmers are working
night and day to save their property.
Herman Billek. fortune teller and
3eeromaneer, must hang for the muir
Ger of six members of the Vrsal
family. The supreme court of the
United States at Washington dismis-
sed, for want of jurisdiction, the plea
of the condemned murderer for writ
of habeas corpus The writ had been
demanded of Judge Lands, but he
refused to issue it. Appeal was then
made to the United States supreme
court.
Mrs. Catherine T. Gelshener., widow
.f the former president of the Gar
field bank, who. it is rumored two
wears ago, Charles W. Morse would
marry. made sig 600 dealing in ice
stock through Morse, according to
testimony at the trial of the former
ice king and Alfred H. Curtis before
Judge Hough in the United States
circuit court.
The English court of appeals has
found that the fire which swept the
business portion of kingstown Jan.
IA of last year, the day Of the great
earthquake. was not caused by the
earthquake, but preceded it. The in
surance companies will. therefore,
have TO pay, several million dollars to
Kinkstown policy holders.
Arch c. Grisnam. ex-postmaster,