The Monticellonian., 1908-01-09

steamer MOuHt hOydl HUN go uo'S | 4 out from Antwerp, with Capt. Purcell T and nearly 400 persons on board, is v | causing great anxiety. Not one yes | sel arriving in the last three weeks has reported the missing steamer. Her mind unbalanced by religious | fanatieism, Mrs. Elizabeth Mosher de | liberately burned herself to death at E her home in Lincoln. Neb, praying V | fervently and singing while her body II was being consumed by flames. - Lamar Jackson, full-blooe' es >(o | taw Indian at Otoka. Okla..e hut tbare appointed to a cadetship in
 | States military academyts s9''' 2"''y Point by Congressman Chah hun. ter. The production of gold in>uOiie l1ehai States fell off s4,75S.4O welcome at against 1so6' whereas thetday night. silver produced was ineres
 one million fine ounces. y and family, | Philip F. Kramer of P relatives here | locomotive engineer il
 | of the isthmian canal con
 | murdered at Paraso durin avidsop and | of Dec. 16, according to
 received at Washington. 'Heie sistei' | The supreme court of Tn this city.
 of Columbia dismissed
 which sought to restrain tasS, ot I tHe of a statue of Gen. Grant inIts, Mr. and States Botanical gardens up6 this citv that certain historic trees destroyed.
 After falling 150 feet frnlators for | Blackwell's Island bridge
 East river, Henry Smith swaluiates tue not seriously harmed by fs
 ordinarily would have been z Store.
 As he was entering his off
 Beauier, editor of the Ha9o, w. O. | tTex) Herald, was shot and made a do- his wife. She was arrested ang afna af under $2,000 bail Domestic are said to have led to the kill
 Ramon Portas. second officer O 1.=. | steamer Ibero, has arrived at Vera | Cruz, reporting that the vessel sank i | in storm on the night of Dec. and E all on board were lost except three. } | Probably the first lynching of 1908 { occurred at Brookhaven, Miss, when mob in broad daylight took a negro l away from police officers and shot I known, was accused of killing police
 man at Oakyale. Miss
 Robbers wrecked the safe in the
 Bank of Fairmount, at Fairmount, | Okla village 10 miles from Enid, ( and escaped with S1.200 in currency.
 David B. Ellis of St. Louis was found { dead near Mt. Vernon, H.. with a bull ( let hole in his temple and another through his chest, below the heart. He I | is thought to have committed suicide.
 An explosion of 240 quarts of nitro t
 glycerine at the plant of the Eastern Torpedo Co. at Sapulpa, Okla, shook | the town and caused much damage. l No one was hurt.
 Trigg county (Ky.1 farmer charged t
 with night riding. Released on s2,000 (
 bond. | | Missouri farmer struck with an ax { | dies, and wife and employe are charged with murder at Poplar Bluff. l
 The successful use of fire drill pre- {
 vented a panic among 2,700 children l in the public school at 96th street anc {
 Lexington avenue, New York. Crossed
 electric wires started threatening l were aware of the danger they had '
 been marshaled and marched out of
 the building in an orderly manner. (
 The president has signed proclama- ( l ton creating the Verde National For { est in Arizona, with an area of 721,-
 ESQ acres, located in Maricopa and f Aavapai counties. An evidence of the country's pros
 perity and remarkable purchasing I power is to be found in the annual
 report of the appraiser of the port of l New York The value of merchandise l imported in 1907 in excess of imports
 in 1906 was s67,000,G00. l Exports from Japan last year
 amounted to more than 435,500,000
 yen (s217,750, ,o00) and the imports to
 almost 494.200,000 yen ($247 100, ,000). | The grand total of the foreign trade
 in 1907 exceeds that of 1906 by more | tkan S2 000000 yen t$4l 000000).
 Mrs. Mamie G. Hoagland, aged 92
 years, widow of the late millionaire 1 pbilanthropist. George T. Hoagland. is l dead. She was prominent in church l work and was member of the Meth
 odist church in St. Joseph Mo, for 55 years. She was a native ef Havernill, Mass.
 In letter received at Lincoln, Neb.. ! Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland declines an invitation to the democrat
 ic dollar dinner of Jan. 15 for the
 reason that the Sc fare is to go into | effect on street car lines of Cleveland l the same date. In letter expressing l his regret over inability to attend the | Nebraska feast. Mayor Johnson says | he does not want to be absent from | Cleveland just at the continuation of his long fight.
 During the year 1907 the total num-
 Der of vessels arriving at the port of New York, according to the books of 1 the government at the barge office, | was Il, ,122, of which 6,624 were steam CTS and 4,49S sailing vessels. This l shows decrease of 5S4 vessels, com l pared with the year 1906. There was
 an increase of PIP in the number of | steamers and decrease of 790 sail ing vessels.
 | Col. Robert H. Thomas civil war