The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-09-10


ihs campaign during the month of
October, devotins his time principally
| % those states which the National
| committee may consider doubtful, if
the ideas q both the candidate and
bis national chairman Frank II Hitch.
cock are carried out.
The Republican National COMMITTEES
has issued the campaign textbook for
1908. It's 5a6 pages contain in concise
form such information as is likely to
be required by speakers and writer's
and Other campaign workers.
Leon s. Ehrenberg. one of Little
Rocks bestknown young business
men. was shot and killed by Charles
b. Parsell There were no eye
witnesses 70 the killing and Parsell re-.
fuses 10 talk, merely stating that hc
Killed EhFenberg in self-defense. The
men were former partners in the
plumbing business. and were believed
to be on friendly terms.
John X. Early, the leper. signed his
pension certificate without touching it.
except with the point of the pen and
without seeing it The paper Was
covered when IL was handed to Early,
little spaces just large enough fer the
signature being exposed. In these
spaces Early wrote his name. and the
covering was then removed by The
health authorities and burned
n IL M ~
the wife OF Captain Peter c. Hams Jr.,
who. with his brother T. Jenkins
Hams is prisoner in Long Island
Prison. charged with numbering vii.
liam Z. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht
club be called on to testify al her
husbands trial. but it is expected thai
the mother of the brothers will take
the stand in their behalf.
The city authorities at Springfield.
H.. have agreed to make good the re.
cent losses by fire. cue to the riots in
that town. for which the companies
were not liable On account of the riot
clauses in their policies. It is under
stood That an agreement has been
made to have the city pay 70 per cent
| Of the ,otai damages and the owners
will have to lose the remainder.
The state saloon OF liquor dIspen-
sary system in Oklahoma, as a salary
| producer and money maker, is not
| proving the success anticipated. The
| Rev J. J. Thompson, who left the pas.
| torate of a Presbyterian church to ae-
! cept a position ar district dispensary
inspector, has reported that the county
| dispensaries in his district are not do
| ing thriving business.
Fire in Sumner, Miss, a town OF
2h00 inhabitants, wiped out the busi-
ness section and a part of the resi-
deace section. causing q loss OF S100.
900. A. NJ. Phipps. a newspaper man,
who was asleep in the office of the
Sumner News, with which he was con
nected was burned to crisp before
aid reached him.
The old Secoy cabin in Oklahoma. in
which Jesse James passed several
weeks. has been destroyed by fire. IN
1873 James assisted in the capture CT
desperate in the cabin. The cabin
stood in . dense wood some distance
from road
Chester S. Jordan, accused OF ti7
murder of his wife and the attempt to
throw her dismembered body into the
ocean. stoioally answered the quts
tons of Judge Wentworth la the
Somerville station. when he wa
brought in for his preliminary hearing.
Going in direct opposition TO His
Majesty King Edward, who had eX.
pressed the hope that she might we'd
a member of royalty he had picked
out for her, Mrs Marshall Field JF.. Of
Chicago, became the wife of Baldwin
| A. Drummond second son of the lat
Edgar A. Drummond, at the Reg
| Office.
That Helen Maloney, daughter Of
Martin Maloney, is preparing to cutter
| a convent as the solution of the ma'ri-
| monial complications into which she
has plunged herself, is now virtually
assured as the result of recent deyei-
opments at the Maloney summer home
at Spring Lake. N. j.
A negro who had attacked Mrs
Foster, residing near Wesson, Tom,
was sho1 and killed by the husband nj
| the woman Foster was al work in u
| field when he was attracted to the
house by hearing his wife screaming.
Capt. c. A. Merriam. United States
| navy commandant of the Portsmouth
! navy yard died following an operation
| for appendicitis. He was IS years OF
| age. He commanded the battleship
Missouri on the recent cruise OF the
battleship feet from Hampton Roads
| to San Francisco,
The sunken hunks of the japanese
ba,tleship Yashima and the Russian
warship Sebastopol, which went down
| in an engagement during the recent
war, have been found by japanese
| salvage vessel.
! The initial work on the Union Pa
cilie new sf.000.000 extension from
Seattle TO Black River Junction has
begun. Further extensions, which will
be pushed at once, will cost the road
several times this omunt
concerted movement b. the rail
road employees of the middle west to
| hack Judge Taft was started in Cri.
caeo when the Railway Mems lude-
pendent Taft club was organized \
hoard of directors. consisting Of >
members, was chosen to direct the
! efforts of the club.
on the ground that mere was no in
| Il. ~ Na+iona1 fs,cs