The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-08
OF THE Week
LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
RTH. EAST, SOUTH, WEST
kion Lands, Throughout the Ma
lion. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

Great Southwest.
rick I Shea. vice-president of
Amalgamated Association OF
e and Electric Railway Employees
mcricA President ". Y Lock
of the Chester (Pa) union, and L
sers of the Chester Traction Com
l. we're indicted by a grand jury
alleged conspiracy and dynamiung
lars of the company.
hio is going after the saloons with
engeance. Already IL counties
held elections under the Rose
/ option law, and all the 16 eoun-
have gone dry" driving several
dred saloons out of business.
he fireman killed and four injured,
seriously, with a property loss of
ween $4,000 and 100000, was
result of a fire which ragged iii
las, Tex.
he American pattleship fleet,
CHI passed Perth, Australia, last
Dix. is due off Manila Friday or Sat
ay. Because of the cholera out
ak in Manila all arrangements for
reception and entertainment OF
officers and men except the water
tade upon the fleets arrival. have
In postponed. The fleet will in
he in target practice as previously
anged and then depart for Japan
rhe st. Petersburg correspondent OF
London Times says that Russia
Great Britain have demanded
arer reply from the shah to their
presentations on the subject OF the
ections.
The proceedings of the opening ses.
On of the Sixteenth National lrriga-
In Congress which met in conven-
s ION hall at Albuquerque, y. NJ, Tues
31ny, were impressive. and the specta-
tors who crowded the galleries were
noved to repeated demonstrations OF
approval. Two letters and a telegram
were read to the congress from Presi.
dent Roosevelt.
Conducting one days campaign in
0outh Dakota Monday William }.
bryan poured volleys of criticism into
the Republican platform. Mr.. Taft and
President Roosevelt. He covered a
good deal of ground in the state and
Monday night stopped i'll Sioux City,
iowa, and left Tuesday morning for
1Dck Island, III.
There were fourteen new cases and
ethree deaths reported for the twenty
four hours ending at clock Monday
morning in Manila Practically the
nitro STATS of the bureau of sciences
I'D the local schools have been draft
~ into the service to fight the dis
Gzrase. The STATS of medical schools
- acting as nurses and attendants
ri the various hospitals, for cholera
|atients.
kThat the suit for civil damages
1bich Gov. Charles y. Haskell prom
es to bring against President Roose.
olt In connection with the Hearst
karges against Haskell. that the
Resident took up as his own, may
May Roosevelt's proposed hunting
h Immediately upon his retirement
chief executive, is the declaration
de TUESDAY by several of Haskell s
ends.
With characteristic aggressiveness
Resident Roosevelt made reply Sun
n night to William } Bryan recent
tier and speech, in which he main
he'd the Democratic party and plat
I'm were not getting a square deal
d he campaign The president sets
Eth in detail what has been accom-
shed by the Republican party since
h compares it with the work accom-
shed under Democratic rule. The
esident says that under the last
|mocratic administration not
1gle indictment was returned
ainst shippers for receiving secret
bates. Under Republican manage
ent forty-nine indictments have been
burned for secret rebates, with
khteen convictions. In only four
Ises have the indictments failed. The
rsstwenty- seven cases are still
hiding.
Reports to the Washington Weather
lreau from the West indicate that
e drouth is broken in practically all
rritory lying east of the Mississippi
liver Forest fires are extinguished
BID streams which had reached low
( ater mark heretofore unknown will
bon be at normal The sudden drop
temperature will do no damage to
Tops.
a Three Americans and two Italians
Z 1ere blown to pieces in an explosion
80 dynamite while working at Cross
|7&eys cut on the Delaware, Lacka-
q kanna & Western railroad near Toby
ANNA, Pa.
kM The British ship Loeb Finlas, from
Pert Prize, South Australia for Caflao
Jas wrecked off Foster Island, Tas.
hania, at daylight Sunday morning
nd twenty of the crew of twentyfour
& Pere drowned. The other four men
e Fere picked up by passing steamer
Unknown parties, supposed to be
light riders, posted notices on several
ms in Texas, instrucung owners not
D gin any more cotton until further
otice. The notices informed the gin.
ers that If they operated their plants
hey would have to suffer the conse-
uences.
Suit has been entered against Gov.
laskell of Oklahoma and his wife,
lillian, to recover taxes due on two
lty lots in Lima, o. Foreclosure also
asked. The lots were obtained by
askell when he built the Lima Nor