The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-08-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma.
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.


81 Idaho. sixty miles. will be 100000
Il There will be 80 tunnels on this piece
81 of road.
The total amount OF Confederate
81 tensions due claimants in Arkansas
as reported by the state pension
81 board, is S691 $50. The amount to the
Il credit of the pension fund in the
q state treasury will fall short 100000
n of enough to pay the pension claims
Il In full. and they will have to be paid
n on a percentage basis.
d Denying that she is a leper, the
q widow of Gen. Wardwell announced
Il that she will bring action to recover
4 her freedom. Mrs Wardwellts con
II tention is backed up by the opinion of
II several physicians She is now more
II rational than she has been for
Il months.
u Lightning struck and killed two
4 miners and injured third so badly
q that he will probably die while the
Il trio We're working $50 feet beneath
Il the earth's surface in one of the mines
4 of the P. and II. Coal and Iron Co
at Ranch Gap, near Tower City, Pa
Il President Roosevelt approves of dis
missal of two West Point cadets and
suspension of six others found guilty
1 of hazing and order will be issued by
Il Secretary of War Wright
New York dete lives, after covering
four cities, arrest gang of safe.blow.
i ers and later discover eounterfeiting
plant at their headquarters.
Citizens of Brookhaven. Miss. are
aroused over the reported replacing of
white postal clerks BY negroes. and a
mass meeting resulted in warning the
negroes to stay away.
Messages received from the Yose-
mite park, Cal, say that forest fires
there se the worst in the history of
the state. Under the direction of
Maj Benson all the United States
troops and all the park rangers are
Z fighting desperately to control the
& flames, which have burned the homes
and cattle of many settlers in the
z vicinity
No Newport gayeties for Hetty
4 Green this summer The worlds rich
est woman is In the old family resi-
dence at Bellows Falls. Vt, where
she will follow the simple life far
from aristocrats. When Mrs. Green
4 left New York she went to the de-
pot ON street car and her few nee
-, in
imitation alligator bag.
In the belief that widespread rev.
dictionary plot is brewing in Portugal.
government officials have taken steps
to redouble the repressiye measures,
which are now even more rigorous
than those preceding the assassina-
ton OF King Carlos and Crown Prince
LUZ,
The German war office believes that
it has obtained the exclusive use of
the most powerful explosive known to
science, the invention of Munich me-
chanic. Less than half a pound of
the new death dealer melted hum
dred-pound block ofelead by its explo-
n sion and a block of stone of three
Il cubic meters was crumbled to bits
II with three pounds of it The compo-
a sition of the new explosive is careful
4 " guarded
The United States will not inter
81 fere with the Dutch demonstration
II against Venezuela provided the Meth
j erlands do not attempt permanently to
hold any Venezuelan territory. This
was the gist of a communication
made to the Dutch government by the
American minister Arthur Beaupre.
Walker Duncan of Shelby county,
Ky,iEwh killed Newton Hazlett. an
4 alleged night rider several weeks ago,
4 received a letter from Gov. Wilson
4 announcing that he would grant him
q pardon for killing Hazlett, if he pre-
n ferred this to vindication in court.
/ The government said he had looked
q into the circumstances and was salts
4 fed Duncan acted in defense of his
s. home.
Mrs. James Brenton, wife of the
former mayor of Des Moines, Ia, has
divorce. In her answer filed Tues
Il day. she charges he deserted her TO
Il make his home with an affinity,
Thelma Delay whom he installed as
housekeeper She also charges that
when she went to see her husband the
Delay woman chased her off the prem
I Uses with a shotgun.
A charge of dynamite exploded on
the drillboat belonging TO the Sullivan
Dredging Co. of Buffalo. while work
was being done in the Detroit river
and six men We're fatally injured. Ten
others were hurt. The boat was
blown to pieces.
Cordoning the entire Braga district
with troops, the Portuguese govern
i ment is rigidly maintaining quaran
8 tine against the cholera epidemic
s. which has been raging for weeks, bui
Il on account of the strict censorship
81 this has become almost unknown tt
Al the rest of the country.
Because he carved mis- initials ant
81 the name OF his tutor, w. d. Parker
81 on the back of his fathers pew, Ar
81 chic Roosevelt is in disgrace witt
81 President Roosevelt and in trouble
81 with the sexton of Christ Episcopa
~ Church, which the President attends