The Monticellonian., 1908-03-19

l fell out into the roadway and was discovered by school children.
 erarations have already begun for the reception and entertainment of the officers and crews of the Ameri= can bettleship fleet at Manila The | formation of large reception commit tee made up of Americans and Fili- | pines will be undertaken immediately. | Two persons were killed. one fatal 1y hurt, seven more or less injured, and scores of lives were imperiled when St. Louis & San Francisco pas sengar train No. 40S, northbound, was wrecked on high trestle across Spring Creek, eight miles west Of l Bristow, Okla.
 | All over Eastern Oklahoma in the counties formerly Indian Territory, there is a distinct and growing dispo. sition on the part of white citizens to force the full-blood Indian children out of the schools.
 Anniversary of wedding of king and they are oldest married couple among the crowned heads of Europe.
 Proposed local option plan is op- 1 posed in Indiana as brewers scheme to nHilify the remonstrance law and wipe out dry districts.
 Kansas people resent literature sent ont ai the distilling and brewing in- telests intending to show that prohibit ti9n restricts the growth of states.
 Giuseppe A1io. condemned murderer of Father Leo Heinrichs, makes a des l peIats dash to escape from the county 1 jail in Denver, slashes the throat of a trusty. but is finally overpowered,
 ltey j. NJ. Cooke. who eloped last yea with Floretta Whaley, says he has learned the bitter lesson, that the world is hard to buck"
 The death of Vernon Bidwell. Il years old. at Urbana. Ill. has been declared to have resulted from lock 1 jaw, following vaccination. This declaration has caused renewed oppo- sition to the order of the state boar! of health. that all school children be vaccinated, and litigation is likely 10 follow
 Three men on horseback rode into Tyro. Kas.. and while one stood guard the others entered the only bank in the town. held up three men and Sc cured g. 300 in cash.
 A copy of the cipher used in con fdential correspondence between | Washington and the various legations | of ha theft is attributed to French eIn- | ploye at the legation now in Constan- tinople.
 Evidence is being collected on which suits against police officials can be instituted on behalf of Olga Averbueh and Rose Stern, whom the police ar rested after Lazarus Averbuch was killed by Chief Shippy The suits, it | is planned, will be for damages for false Imprisonment and for the treat ment received by the women when un- der arrest
 Governor Folk has announced that in case the supreme court should hold the new Missouri primary election law to be unconstitutional, he will con vene the legislature in extra session to enact another law
 Secretary Metcalf announced that the battleship fleet will leave San Francisco July to continue its jour ney around the world via the Sue canal. The first stop will be mad at Honolulu, thence the fleet will pro ceed to Samoa and Australia, then to Manila, where the fleet will engage in fall target practice. On the home voyage via Suez. stops will be made at Colombo, Alden, Port Said and Gibraltar
 Reports from Premier Sir Henry Campbell ll-Bannerman's sick room are that the invalid finally confesses that he has reached the end of his strength and must lay down the leadership, both of the cabinet and of his party in the house of commons.
 Denial Is made that President Roese- yelt is planning a message to con gress favoring increase of freight rates
 Machine guns operated by the gov ernment forces Of Chile in a conflict with strikers at the nitrate beds and in the City of Iquique laid 2,500 men low, most of them being killed, ac- cording to advices received by the Norwegian steamer Christian Bors ar irving direct from that South Ameri- can republic.
 Otto Fehringer. druggist of Colo rado Springs. Col, died as the result of a gunshot wound received at the hands of an unknown highwayman, who assaulted and robbed him Feb. 9.
 By vote of 21 10 19. constitutional prohibition was defeated in Mississip- pi The defeat of the measure was not surprise.
 The Atlantic feet will arrive a. San Francisco May ,: the Pacific feet will arrive there May 6, and the grand review of both fleets. under command of Rear Admiral Evans. will be made by Secretary of the Navy Metealf on May 6, according to an an nouncement made by the navy depart ment.
 Leo Grubb. aged 24. shot and killed his wife. aged r. attempted to kill their 6-month-old infant sleeping in baby cab, and then ended his own life on a crowded street corner at Oska- ioosa. The tragedy caused panic.