The Monticellonian., 1908-02-20

democratic delegates rom VI lsCOnSln to the national convention a Denver.
 The Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. has capitulated in it's contest with the Nebraska railroad commiss on over the e0mpaHy,s right to issue passes, despite the statute forbidding their issuance to anyone except bona fde employees.
 Because he interferel with plans for the marriage Of his sister, Henry Bean, prosperous yoang farmer of Prichard, w Va. was shot through the head and instantly killed by Vir- gil Hatten. the young woman's fiance.
 A special train of three cars on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, conveying the Philadelphia orchestra, crashed into the rear of a freight three miles below Chester. Pa. killing two and contempt occurs in open court. where verelv.
 Fred Slocum, who was recently taken to the insane asylum at Elgin from Woodstock, Ill, committed sui eide by cutting his throat with a piece of glass
 Because Mrs. Lillian Lewis of Chi cago refused to secure a divorce and marry him. defied his threats and drew a hatpin as a weapon of selfdefense, she was shot and probably fatally wounded by George Barber.
 Fire destroys the establishment of the bankrupt firm of Heath & Milli gan and downtown Chicago ehokes un der the fumes from burning paints and oils.
 The possibility of premature burial has so alarmed two Massachusetts justices that they have engaged Dr. John Bixweil of Harvard university to guarantee that they shall not meet that fate.
 Notwithstanding feline music of the midnight back fence variety will be unknown in Washington, says District Commissioner Mcfarland, vixen con. gross enacts into law a bill he has had prepared
 Judge Peter s. Grosseup, addressing the Rock Island Club at a Lincoln ban. quet declares against "erusades" in dealing with corporation problems John Maynard Harlan in a notable address in New York warns men of wealth of danger ahead if war on cor ruption is not continued i'll good faith.
 Denial has been issued by Mrs. Cor. nelius Vanderbilt Of the report ca bled from Hungary that she is en- gagged to marry Count Alexander Ha- i dix, a somewhat notorious member of the Hungarian nobility.
 Nearly fifty women suffragists. who made raid on the house of commons. were arraigned in fhe London police court and sentenced to pay fine or one months imprisonment All buz two of the women preferred to go 10 jail rather than pay the fine.
 Announcement that King Manuel's new cabinet has decided to "rescind none of the dictatorial decrees pro mulgated during the last days of King Carlos reign, except those offensive to public dignity has given Portugal a tremendous shock
 For s1,000 900 Swarthmore may cease to be boys" college and here after be devoted entirely to the edu cation of girls. This plan has been suggested to alumni and alumnae ot the institution and is being discussed with the greatest interest | Liquor advocates tell House commit tee that mince pies cause more crime | than strong drink.
 Held indirectly responsible fer the | death of William Hamlin, a prisoner at the Pontiac 6llll reformatery, Diseiplinarian A J. Renoe and Capt. J. W. Rogers of the institution were discharged by the board of trustees. Undaunted by his defeat in the Ohio primaries, at which Taft delegates 10 the state convention were chosen. Sen l ator Fcraker will carry on his fight in the cougrs sssional districts Of the stat7 which will choose their delegates to l the convention.
 Fifteen American miners were blown through the roof and sides of their boarding house at the Santa Rosa mine in Sonora. Mex. 20 miles south ot Douglas Ariz.. when Mexicans explod, ed several sticks of dynamite beneath the structure and at the samc time made an attempt to kill every Ameri can connected with the mine.
 From all over the country dis | patches tell the story of thousands of workers returning to their aceus- toned tasks. and seem to mark an end of the depression following the recent financia! furry.
 The first step in the action to annul her marriage to Arthur Osborne, the young broker, has been taken by Helen Maloney. daughter of Martin Maloney, the multimillionaire traction magnate of Philadelphia
 Flossie Ford. years old. killed her 3year-old brother with pistol a. Whitestown, Ind The father. Quincy Ford, was so shocked by the news of the tragedy that he became a raving maniac.
 Gladstone Dowie, the "unkissed son of John Alexander Dowie, may go into court ill an effort to recover the famous sable oyercoat his father bought for S450 in England and wore on special occasions in the United States.
 The decision of the Rhode Island supreme court that dance halls and l other places of amusement may bar men wearing ;he uniform of the army and navy probably settles the eonten