The Monticellonian., 1908-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma tlon, and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.

Rough Rider poet and graduate oi Cornell university, was arrested at Bellingham, Wash charged with pass ing forged checks for $50. The police allege Stills used the name of an attorney.
 Gen. Enrique Floris Magoon. one of the alleged leaders of the Mexican revolution, is being hunted in Chicago by special agent Donahy of the United States government If Magoon is cap tured he will be incarcerated at Fl Paso, Tex Magoon is charged with shipping guns and supplies into Mexico from Texas.
 letter read by J. w Van Cleave of the National Association of Man ufacturers to Chairman Payne of the ways and means committee was made public Friday Van Cleaye says he will not appear before the committee. He declares manufacturers would rather bear the ills of the dingley tariff than be party to tariff revision in the old manner.
 Mrs. Barbara Billik, mother of Her man Billik, the condemned Chicago murderer. died at her home in Cleye- land Friday
 While passing Florence, La, a gravel train on the New Orleans Great Northern jumped the rails and plunged through the station platform and into the building Mrs John w.. Crandall seated in the waiting room, was crushed to death, her body being cut in twain. The wife of the station agent was buried beneath the debris, but was rescued with slight injuries. A 10-year-old boy was hurt, but not seriously.
 Redman Clark, 19 years old, is under arest in Paducah. Ky. charged with murder. It is alleged he com pelled little son of Ira Davis, a farmer to drink whisky, which caused the boys death.
 Unless Turkey withdraws her boy colt on Austrian goods and methods within six days diplomatic relations between the two countries will be severed. This ultimatum has been served on H0fle uHOIHCidllA
 Thirty-three minutes to impanel jury; three hours for trial thirty nine minutes to reach a verdict; ten minutes for sentence and John Men tesana went to the jail at Newark, N. J., condemned to die in the electric chair the first week in January for the murder of 14-year-old Edith Pickett, with whom he was madly in love.
 Eight lives are believed to have been lost as the result of collision between the Panama steamer Finance outward bound, and the White Star freighter GeorSie, inward bound off Sandy Hook. The Finance was almost cut in two and now lies hopeless wreck northeast of the Hook her deck houses. funnel and masts are all that can be seen above the ocean.
 A carefully prepared plan for a wholesale prison delivery has been discovered at the Missouri peniten- tiary. Convicts whose identity has not yet been learned, tunneled through g feet of the 10-feet thickness of the foundation of the eastern wall of the prison, almost directly under guard tower No 4. Only compar- atively thin crust of stone remained between them and liberty when the discovery was made.
 The Bell Telephone company is charged with attempting to form a telephone trust in violation of the sherman antitrust law. in suit filed at Toledo. O., by the United States Independent Telephone company.
 Footpads have started reign Of terror in the vicinity of Van Buren, Ark. preying upon the farmers and cotton growers en route home after disposing of their cotton.
 Mrs. Cornelius Westerhouse, of Grand Haven. Mich, deranged by loss of her son and her husband in rail road wreck, set fire to the upper story of her house and was burned to death
 A man who had demanded $1,000 from w. R. Poag, wealthy farmer living 10 miles south of Alton, H., on pain of death, was shot by Henry Joerger, hand in Poag's employ, as he crept under culvert near the Poag home searching for the tin boS of money he had ordered to be placed there
 It has been learned from a sup posed1y authentic source that Anna Gould, now Princess de Sagan, is to re-marry Count Boni de Casteliane within ninety days, in the event thai she can secure a divorce from hel present husband.
 The amount of Peter Van Vlissin gems forgeries grows daily. The county recorder declared that one mar whose name he withheld. appeared With $61, 900 worth of mortgages whicf ne had purchased from Van Vlissin gen. He discovered that $46,O00 wortl or the securities were forged.
 After falling 16O feet into th Eufeka mine east of Joplin. Will Nc soy' holster man at that plant, live, TOT 50 minutes and was unconseiou .o the last. His brother was blow 'o pieces in mine explosion two year ago.