The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-08-27

\ j. which in importance I'm mill
tary circles compares fayorably to the
national contest It will follow the
Camp Perry tourney and will run sew
en- days from Sept. 4.
Twenty more indictments, making
90 all told. were returned by the spe-
cial grand jury Of -Sangamon county.
Ill The latest batch of accusations
includes five Indictments against
Thomas Marshall and Il other ne
groes, whom he is accused of having
led in murderous assault upon WI
liam Bowe. chief clerk of the county
treasurer's office.
The Ohio state board of agriculture
announces that 90 young women from
Philadelphia will stroll around the
state fair grounds during the fair,
dressed in directolre gowns They
come under the direction of Miss
Anna Delaney, who. in d letter to the
board, says that they will wear the
genuine article, split up to the knee.
A special from Brandon, Miss, an
nounces the death at that place OF
Col William Walker, editorial writer
OF the New Orleans Picayune for the
past 80 years, and at one time editor
in-chief of that paper. He was G5
years old and a native of Alabama.
At meeting of the Orientalist con
sress Prof. Paul Hanpt of Johns Hop
kins university of Baltimore had an
exciting discussion with several of the
Jewish rabbits who We're present, Prof.
Haupt maintaining that Christ was
not Jew but an Aryan.
Ignorant that the husband, who
braved leprosy for her sake. is dead
of cancer. Mrs. Isabelle Wardwell.
wife of the late Gen. David c. Ward
well, is raying in the contagious ward
of the county hospital at Los Angeles,
Cal, and crying piteously for him
Striking printers have closed down
TWO daily papers. the Monitor and
Messenger. at Mayfield, KY. The
printers recently submitted new
scale, which was rejected by the en-
ployes.
Oklahoma. the youngest state which
has already given her older sisters
several shocks in the way of new
methods in state administration, is
preparing to set another example in
the establishment of regular adyer
Using department in connection with
the state banking board.
Thomas Denham. wealthy farmer,
and Ralph Scar of Boswell. Ind. We're
seriously injured. and William Gotten
berg, Leo Schuessler and Warren
Mankey. also of Boswell. were burned
by the explosion of an automobile 60
ing at 30 miles an hour. causing it to
run into a fence.
Miss Flora Draper. reader in the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, New
York City. is a patient in the psyche
pathic ward of Roosevelt hospital. a
victim of the Authorization that some
one is trying to hypnotic her.
Smashing the door OF the state
building at the prison farm at Mil
ledgeville. Ga. Andrew Ford. a con
vict. stole a gun and pistol. after
which he ran to the stables. took a
horse and fed. \ posse started in
pursuit. Ford is a desperate char
aeter and "a bloody fight is certain
when he is oyertaken.
The body of a woman about % years
old was found hanging TO a tree in
the woods at Evanston, H.. by Thorn
as Sweeney, a carpenter, about three
blocks from where the body of an in
FAINT child was discovered the day
before. The baby had been killed
by being stabbed in the brain with
hatpin.
The American gifts of Peters
to s3Oi,700 The pilgrimage headed
by Archbishop Farley contributed 81
COO; the Newark pilgrims, $1,1o0, and
the American college at Washington,
$1,000 1t is probable that the sum
will reach $500 coo by the time the
last of the American contributions
We're received
In a duel between a negro and Mar
shall NJ A. Davis and Lon Davis at
Hiawanee Miss. Lon Davis was shot
in the face and the negro was killed.
Davis, who was trying to arrest the
negro on a warrant. was eXonerated.
Within the past sixty days twenty
five negroes have been lynched in diff
ferent parts of the United States for
alleged assaults on white women.
Growing out of sensational charges
made against him in connection with
the Standard Oil suit now pending in
the Supreme Court, Gov. Haskell filed
suit for libel against o. X. Benedict,
publisher of the Oklahoma City
Times.
The rivalry of two working girls for
the affections of a young social leader
of Springfield led one to prison cell,
while the other is dying from bullet
wound
The most simple of services marked
the funeral of Ira D. Sankey, the
evangelist in the Lafayette Ave
me PRESBYTERIAN church, Brooklyn
HYMNS written by Sankey were sung
bv his cousin. c. c, Sankey. e d
Bailey. assistant pastor, announced
that a special SankeE memorial ser
vice would be held il!is fall.
On the charge CT ;aa3dshing and
shooting their cousin. Il. L. Craddock
Ladd Cofinsworth a lawyer OF Hum
boldt. Tenn, and his brother, Frank
Collinsworth. have been arrested. The
arrest followed the trailing by blood
hounds to the home Of Frank Collins