The Monticellonian., 1908-04-23

employed. killing one man and seri- ously injuring himself
 Options are being secured on Louis iana lands suitable for raising of to- bacoo, which will be utilized in colo nizing victims of the night riders in Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and | West Virginia. The New Orleans | Progressive Union was first asked to | foster this movement and now the | plan has developed so extensively that it was announced that all the available lands in St James and other parishes where the famous Perrique tobaccos are raised had been covered with op- tions
 Should the plans of the American | government be acceptable to Mexico, the cruiser Albany will be utilized to convey Ambassador Greet and ". I. Buchanan on their mission of peace and good-fellowship to the Central American republics
 President Roosevelt sent the nom ination of Lawrence o. Murray of New York, as the comptroller of the currency, to the senate. Mir. Murray for the last five years has been as. sistant secretary of the department of commerce and labor.
 The ban of the Catholic church against another marriage on the part of Helen Maloney, daughter of Mar tin Maloney, Standard oil magnate, and papal marquis, to Samuel Clark son, the Englishman with whom she eloped, was announced by Archbishop Ryan.
 Frank Monaco. arrested in Hunting ton. Ind. charged with the murder of the aged millionaire, Julius T. Rosen- heimer, at the latters country hvme in New York last June, still insists that he is the innocent victim of his wife's jealousy and desire 10 get him out of the way.
 As the resalt of i'll feeling over the tobacco situation. Joe Gerhart and Ben Rinehart fought a street duel at Clarksyille, Tenn. Gerhart was wounded slightly. as were also Tom Williams and Dub Smith, bystanders.
 Rear Admiral Charles NJ. Thomas, in temporary charge of the battleship fleet during the absence of Rear Ad- miral Evans, has applied to Washing ton to relieve him from duty ard the command of the fleet early ii May
 It is proposed to hold national spelling contest in connection with the annual session of the National Educational association, to be held in Cleveland beginning June %.
 As a means of Feimbursing the Mer- chants National bank of Carlisle, Pa. from which he is accused of stealing s45000, John V Harris. former teller. wants to commit suicide so the bank can recover his insurance. Harris holds several large policies which, he thinks. will cover his defalcaton.
 Five persons were seriously injured when a limited traction car on the Shelbyville line of the Indiana Trac- tion Co. was wrecked at the junction of Prospect and Michigan streets, in the suburbs of Indianapolis
 Sorority girls of the University of Wooster threaten to strike because of an order of the faculty which praeti- cally abolishes the local chapters of their organizations.
 Korean rebels control most of the Southeastern Korean interior, accord ing to private advices from Seoul and Tokyo. Most of the Japanese settlers have been driven from the district | hc ir1a in bt oot est danger Several colonies are re- ported to have been completely wiped out.
 If the injunction suit instituted by Attorney General West to compel Ok lahoma newspapers to cease publish ing whisky advertisements proves sue cessful, it is the intention of the state l officials to attempt to shut off the sale in the stae of newspapers, magazines and publications of all kinds that car. l " whisky advertisements
 Because he is Republican before he is tariff reformer, President Roosevelt has asked that his name be stricken from the rolls of the Reform club in New York.
 The Memphis police department is mystified over the disappearance of c. Lawson, wealthy Englishman, who. it was learned. has been missing since March 2S. when he dropped from sight while going to the depot He carried large sum of money with him.
 Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio again hurls denuncation at the head of l President Roosevelt because the chief executive hat dismissed three regi- ments of negro soldiers as result of the Brownsville riot
 After two weeks of probing by the federal grand jury, assisted by Spe- cial Agent H. S. Smith of the inter- state commerce commission, indict- ments were returned against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co, against a former traffic manager of that line and against E. Ii. Bunch, a prominent commission mn of Little Rock, Ark.
 James Soular. the original of Ian MacLaren's character, James Soular, the cynic of Drumtochty. in Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush," died at the home of his daughter Mrs. o. w. Jew cit, in Santa Monica, Cal. He was so years old.
 A private telegram, not yet con- firmed officially, reports an engage ment between regular troops and the 1 constahulary and Moro outlaws near Lauao a town on the Island of Min