The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-11-12

the defeated Republican governor, and
contest with Democrats may follow.
Analysis Of vote in Wisconsin shows
that Taft ran as well as Roosevelt,
that La Toilette followers 1siost to
Governor Dayidsons men and that the
Social Democrats were routed.
The Central Union Labor of Omaha
adopted resolutions instructing it's
delegates TO the annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor.
which meets at Denver next week to
vote for Samuel Gompers for presi-
dent The ballots are to be cast first.
last and all the time. .
Twenty persons were injured, two
seriously. as the result of about 700
students of the University of Illinois
rioting at the Walker Opera House
and at the city Jail, where they en-
deavored to release two freshmen i'm
prisened on the charge of being lead.
ers in the fights.
The governments contention that
the American Tobacco company is a
trust, operating in restraint of trade
and in violation of the Sherman anti
trust law, was sustained in decision
handed down by Judges Lacombe,
Coke, Moves and Ward, in the United
States circuit court In New York.
Judge Ward dissented
William d. Cornish 50 years old, of
New York. second yice.president of
the Union Pacific Railroad company,
and director in many other Harri-
man corporations. was found dead in
his bed at the Auditorium Annex in
Chicago. Death apparently was due
TO heart disease.
William Adler, the millionaire New
Orleans banker, who turned pirate,
and, after suffering shipwfeck, es-
capped and in twelve months dug
enough gold out of three mines he
owns in Honduras to pay off $4,000.
600 OF debts. Is coming back to stand
trial before a federal jury on the
| charge of misappropriating the funds
of the State National bank. of which
he was president This news has just
reached financial New Orleans
While the body of Charles Fisher,
| 20 years old. son of Robert Fisher,
was in the casket there was an ex.
| plosion which set fire to the dead
mans slothing and the coffin. The
| casket was destroyed. the dead mans
| clothing was almost burned off and
| the body was scorched.
At meeting of the Manufacturers
| Association of Lynn, Mass, Secretary
| Sawyer said the shoe business would
start up Immediately. and that he
| looked for a prosperous year. General
Manager Fish of the General Electric
company said he looked for more pro-
| sperous conditions.
John Wilson. motorman, was killed
and IL passengers injured, one seri-
ously, when Lake Erie & Western
| passenger train eollided with a Chi
cago, South Bend q Northern Indiana
electric ear near LaPorte, Ind. The
only passenger badly hurt was Mrs.
Edgar Austin.
President Roosevelt will make the
country home of J. P. Morgan his head
quarters during his visit to England at
| the expiration of his African hunting
| trip next year, The Morgan country
home, Dover House, at RoehamptoH
is reported as already oyerhauled in.
anticipation CT the presidents VISIT. :
George r. Delong, 50 years old,
travelling representative OF Pofk &c
Co., publishers. Sioux City, Ia, com
mitted suicide at Okialfplaa CITY. Ok,
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Island & Pacific passenger train in the
presence of so speS iors. His head
was crushed to a pylp., He attempted
to kill himself first with a revolver in
| a hardware store. ~
prominent New York dressmaker
is said to have received word from
! Mrs. Stephens b. Eikins stating that
| Mrs Elsins and her daughter, Miss
Katherine Elkins, whom it is cur
| rently believed to marry the Duke of
Abruzzi will arrive in New York the
latter part of this week. They come.
ii is said to order Miss Elkins'
trouseeau. II is reported that Miss
Elkins had decided to have her entire
trousseau made in America, and that
so far as possible American materials
shall be used throughout.
Wallace II. Hopkins, the Chicago
mining broker arrested on charge of
defaulting. was taken to Chicago and
| placed In cell.
G. Gampagnolo and Raphaele Car
faro We're sentenced to be hanged at
New Haven. Conn. Feb. % and "a.
respectively. for numbering George ID.
Sheehan last August
The Clark O. n. T. and Mile End
Thread Mills which since last April
have been running on short time,
notified its 5000 employees that full
time will be resumed next week.
Charged with falsifying accounts
and postoffice money orders to the
amount of more than $1,000 Thomas
s Lewis. postmaster of Grand Works,
H., was arrested by Postoffice In
spector Llewelyn and Elston and
taken to Chicago for arraignment be-
fore Commissioner Foot Lewis is the
head of the Knights of Columbus OF
Grant Works, and prominent socially.
The first election case taken up by
the grand Jury in St Louis was the
assault on Oliver r. Burkart, Repuhli-
can judge, who was slugged by
Indians" as he left the Missouri hths
letie Club
Her clothing igniting from the fro
under kettle in which she was boil
ing the family washing at her home