The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-07-30

| accident.
Ruby casselman, convicted forger,
| sentenced to seven years lmprison-
ment for eashing more than 50 forged
checks for sums ranging from s15 to
5000 at banks and business houses in
Los Angeles, is one of the strangest
criminals that ever appeared for trial
in the southwest. She is known as
the girl enigma"
A rubber balloon which Miss Grace
| Cochran, clerk in toy store at Jep-
| lin was showing a prospective pur-
| chaser bursted and a fragment of it
struck her in the eye with great force.
| 1t is feared the eye will be permanent
| ly blinded.
William Bargee, one of the best
known lawyers in Illinois, died at his
home in Dixon as a result of a street
car accident near his home several
| weeks ago Mr.. Barge was the legal
school master of many Chicago law
yers and iurists of prominence.
Richard Croker, the old-time leader
of Tammany Hall, is to return to New
York this fall according to advices re-
ceiyed. While denying thai he would
take active part in the campaign for
Bryan, Croker said he hoped the Ne
braskan would win, and thought his
chances good.
Vim. Stamm, a farmer residing 10
miles north of Chester, Illinois, was
arrested and lodged in Jail charged
with the murder of MS TWO sons, who
disappeared about a year ago. The
preliminary examination has been de-
layed while search is being made for
the bodies
Matthew Cummings of Boston, was
elected president of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, over J. p. Dolan OF
New York at the convention.
Michael Scereiznski, real estate
dealer of Gary, Indiana, was attacked
by wolf in Broadway, the main
street of the new steel town, and his
condition is critical. His legs were
badly torn and doctors fear blood
poisoning.
Mrs Mary Foster, the oldest woman
in Randolph country, Illinois. died at
the home of her daughter. Msr. Eliza
McGonachie. She was born in Abbey
Vile district, South Carolina, Nov
II. 1909 the year Illinois became a
territory
Philip B. Mans Jr., who killed Ar
thur w. Krafts and shot Mrs. Krafts
killed himself by shooting himself
through the head A farmer driving
along the road near St. Matthews
near Louisville, found the body.
The most desperate struggle that
has yet taken place between the revo
lutionists and the shahs troops in
Tabriz is now being waged. Mes
sages received from Tabriz tell OF
musketry battles between the Loyal
| lists and the Nationalist mobs.
The federal Grand jury in Chicago
returned indictments against % al
legged "get-rich-quick" concerns, in
volYing the use OF the mails to de
fraud clients out Of $5.000,000
An unknown thief hurled & brick
through the plate glass window OF c.
D. Peacock Co. jewellers at Adams
and State streets, Chicago, early We'd
nesday and escaped with 4 tray OF
| rings valued at $1,000.
| Judges Grosscup, Baker and Sea-
man, sitting in the Federal Court of
Appeals at Chicago, knocked out
Judge Lands $29,24O,000 fine imposed
on the Standard Oil Company for re-
| batting. The higher court reversed the
| decision and remanded the case to the
lower court for new trial. The
Standard Oil attorneys left court with
| their faces wreathed in smiles of
| triumph.
Night riders burned the station
houses of the Illinois Central railroad
early Wednesday morning at Gracy,
in Christian county; Cerulean, in
Trigg county, and Otter Pond, in Cald-
| we'll county.
! The Minnesota, Red Lake & Mani
tobe Railroad Co.. of St. Paul, We'd
nesday served notice on the state
| anu W al tIiOuot tQliAlliAS so CiA
that beginning Aug. l it would charge
passenger fare of cents mile,
thus ignoring the 2-cent fare law.
John T. Burford, Chattanooga
(Tenn) real estate man, lost suit
case containing $4,000 worth OF
stocks and bonds. He fears they have
been stolen. Burford was a witness
before the federal grand jury in Chi
cago and, after testifying, got his suit
case and hired a boy TO carry 1t to
the station He stopped at a store
to buy cigar, and when he emerged
the boy had disappeared.
Twenty members of tallyho party
were scattered about the road at Col
ma. near San Francisco, when San
Mateo electric car smashed the We
hicle in splinters. Five of them are
still in a precarious condition.
G. w. Rowland of Cynthiana, Ky.
for two years clerk in the state peni
Tertiary. has confessed TO the board o.
nrison commissioners that he is short
81 coo in his accounts of "conyiets
fund"
E.P. Cropsey, Al, a wealthy real es
tate dealer and member of the Crop
sew family of colonial fame, shot ant
killed his wife in his home in Bath
Beach.
The men injured in the explosion or
BOARD the warship Kearsarge severa
DAYS ago are all improving and it is
expected they will recover.
BECAUSE she refused to live will