The Monticellonian., 1908-11-26

Hawkins and Sudbury streets Boston caused the less of $1O0.000 The blaze started in the furniture establishment of Stearns & Henderson company. The | Union Paint and Varnish company, the Boston Mirror company and Tut tie X Bailey were also burned out.
 Speeding along at the rate of 40 miles an hour, Earl Wheeler, 13 years old, escaped from reform school of ficer by plunging through a window of a car at Janesville, Wis. The lad was uninjured.
 Franklin E. Eddy. former cashier at the postoffice of Grand Rapids, Mich. who was convicted of embedding $500 from the government last May. was sentenced to the Detroit house of correction for mine months.
 In commenting upon the financial ruin of Tom L. Johnson, mayor of | Cleveland, P A. B. Widener. the trac. tion magnate of Philadelphia. said . "The fate that has befallen Tom Johnson awaits any other man that tries 10 do the same as he has done. He is gone and any other man who emulates him will go the same way
 Bitter charges flew thick and fast between President Gompers and the Socialist delegates at the American | Federation of Labor convention in | Denver. Neither side minced words and the yeraeity and good faith of each side was freely questioned.
 Capt. N E. Niles, U. s. N. has been appointed governor of the naval home in Philadelphia to succeed the late Rear Admiral James w Miller Capt. s. W. Delhi succeeds Capt. Niles in command of the Hancock, now at the New York navy yard.
 | Congressman Robert c. Davey, re- presenting the second Louisiana con gressional district in congress, to which he had just been reelected, is | dying at Hotel Dieu in New Orleans. Mr. Davey was stricken with apoplexy last week.
 Heavy loss by floods and tremen- dous property damage are reported in dispatches from Barcelona and Tar ragna. cores of houses have collaps- ed and miles of railway track washed away. Most of the telegraph wires out of these districts are down.
 A man supposed to be F. B. Cush- man of Steubenyille, Ill., committed suicide in a room at the Leland hotel in Chicago, by shooting himself through the heart with revolver.
 The House of Commons decided that Lord Fairfax. an American member of the famous Fairfax family of Virginia, had established his claim to a seat among the peers. Although Albert Kirby Fairfax fought for and won his right to the title of Lord Fairfax. he, l nevertheless, remains an American and is Wall street broker in New | York
 | The White House dinner to labor leaders and others, invitations to which were declined by several of the | vice presidents of the American Fed eration of Labor because President Gompers was not among the invited, was held Tuesday night.
 On the strength of her own story, a coroners jury exonerated Miss Cor inno Mecowan, the 18year-old girl who shot and killed Norvell Powell, a negro, in Kansas City. A verdict of self-defense was returned.
 Elihu Root Monday announced that he will accept the New York senator ship if elected. The announcement was made after the conference be- tween President Roosevelt, Prsident- elect Taft and Secretary Root.
 A bomb exploded in the government l school of France for the manufacture of high explosives, killing three of those in attendance and wounding several.
 Applauded by hundreds of admiring spectators, Wilbur Wright piloted his aeroplane through four successful l flights, carrying passengers. Each trip l covered period of 30 minutes. Friends of the Duke of Abruzzi were | greatly surprised on receipt Of the | news that Senator Elkins had posit- 1 iveiy denied the engagement Of his
  duke refused absolutely to comment on the statement.
 The S1, ,053,000 damage suit institut- ed against the White Rock Mineral Spring company and E. A. Weleh, it's former president at Milwaukee was discontinued on an order of Judge , Tarrant upon motion of plainstiff
 Armed with a revolver, Miss Joseph inc Loman, 20 years old, attempted to kill James Norris in Chicago to avenge her sister Jeanette. They struggled for possession of the revolver but MOTHS finally succeeded in disarming her.
 Thomas Taggart, Democratic nation al committeeman from Indiana, an nounces that he is not candidate for Tinted States senator to succeed Hemenway.
 Robert Thomas, 2601 Pine street, St. Louis, was sentenced in the United States court Monday to two years inn nrisonment for writing an improper Ietter to Mrs. o. C. Rains, wife of pbysician at 3221 Lucas avenue. 1 The petltlon ol AioSil '''i t' inc New York lawyer who is serving a life sentence at Sing Sing, for writ of habeas corpus, was denied Monday by the supreme court of the United States.
 Fortv-fve persons in Terre Haute, | Ind. are believed to be suffering from hvdrophobia. and more than half oi them have been sent to Chicago to