The Monticellonian., 1908-12-03

aus Si ille ilttIe mOdel mining
 town that the death list may exceed
 that number.
 A message from Chihuahua, Mexico.
 says William Jennings Bryan had a
 narrow escape from being hugsed to
 death by bear he was trying to kill
 tn the mountains about sixty miles
 rom that city. He was with a party
 or hunters, Of which Gen B. Reyers.
 governor of Coahuila, was a member.
 Ho Arabic numerals appear on the new issue ef 2-eent stamps, more than 200,0e0.090 of which have just been printed and placed on sale by the post office department. It has been assert ed that this is not in conformity with the provisions of the universal postal | convention.
 \ heavy rain and snow. the latter l from six to twelve inches in depth in some places, has fallen all over south I western Kansas. in the Oklahoma and l Texas panhandles, and as far south as | New Mexico.
 In an interview Cardinal Gibbons declared the indiscriminate shaking off of the marriage bond as shown by l the report on divorce of the census bureau, is making marriage little bet | ter than free love-
 A detail of militia was attacked by band of men, presumably night riders, at the Gleason sawmill, near | Samburg, Tenn One of the soldiers was wounded in the hand and about fifty shots were exchanged between the military and the attacking party
 Six men were suffocated to death in | the village of Oakwood, outside the western outskirts of Detroit They were at work 330 feet down in a shaft being sunk for salt mine, when the canvas tube, which supplied them with air. became clogged and the shaft | filled with gas.
 Because his mother is dying of pneu- monia, Willis Antwhistle. sentenced to serve four months in the Bridewell, in | Chicago, got his freedom The youth was sentenced by Judge Freeman. who was one of those to recommend a com mutation of sentence. The case was investigated by the state board of par dens and the communication was made | by Governor Deneen, on recommends tion of that body Antwhistle was ar rested for larceny and sent to the Bridewell, where he served six weeks. | The agriculture department has is sued an order quarantining the entire 1 state of Maryland on account of the foot and mouth disease
 i Investigation was begun Friday by the United States government into the causes of the wreck of the Panama l railroad ship Finance off Sandy Hook, 1 in collision in which four persons 1 lost their lives. Although the Finance l had three watcrtight compartments and only one was punctured the ship sank
 Carrie May Vanderver, who dis 1 appeared from Kansas City six weeks | ago, has been found in Dallas, Tex. Since deserting her husband and two children she has been attired in male apparel and has worked in a furniture l factory.
 Luther Lafin Mills, one of the best. 1 known orators and lawyers in the country, is believed to be dying at | his home in Chicago as the result of | a stroke of paralysis. Several physici- ans have been in constant attendance l on him since he was stricken. Uncle Joe Cannon paid his respects | to the president Wednesday, it being | his first visit to the White House | since the early summer. Thomas Crone, one of the victims of the Illinois mine explosion, died in hospital at Mt. Vernon. He is the | third to die
 The revolutionary movement against | President Nord Alexis is spreading. The gunboat Croyant, which has fal- | len into the hands of the revolution | ists, encountered the gunboat Centen- aire off Jeremie and shots were ex- changed Gen Le Comte, who went out at the head of the government | force against the rebels, has been ] tnaken prisoner. maybe killed. Showing no evidence of his 67 years. either in his vigorous handshake or his sturdy frame. Richard Croker celebrated the anniversary of his birth Tuesday very quietly at the Dem , oeratic club Scores of his old time friends called to see him. and MT. | Croker evidenced the keenest interest in seeing them and talking of old 1 times
 . r"Ah dicate that the Persian situation is again acute. While the fighting In tbe capital is desultofy, it is intimat- ed in the dispatches from the British
 minister that it is likely to soon in yolye the entire city and that civil war is imminent in the south.
 An announcement that Russian | riqbfs to the use of the Wrights aero nlare have been purchased by the Rus | sian war office is expected following tbe conference next Tuesday between Grand Duke Peter Nicholaievitch, head of the engineering corps, and C. r. vim cent. representative of Hart 0. Berg, European manager of the Wright | Brothers.
 The army transport Dix, en route to
 Manila with a cargo of 200 horses and
 25O mules. is six days overdue. Ad-
 infant General Ainsworth sent
 cablegram to Manila, ordering that
 vessel be sent out to locate her. The
 Dix was probably caught in the
 tvnboon which struck the Relief near |