The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-12-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


Hosting engineers In coal mines In
the Illinois district were granted an
advance Of SO pcr month In their pay.
on tho ID. This. In substance. was de.
cidod 10y the arbitration board that
heard evidence. In Chicago. on the de-.
mands OF the engineers. who had
asked for IN increase Of Si5.
The snloon Of Thomas M. at HEX.
noll. Ind, was demolished with stones.
on the I'd. by Mrs. Thomas Dant. wife
OF n coal miner. who said she was do.
tcrmincd Ia stop drunkenness In her
home II she had Ia smash every saloon
TINT sold her relatives nquor.
Twenty-Five hundred mon were laid
on. on the ID. when they reported for
work at the Iicllairc (OD plant of the
National steel Co The works were
closed down for an lndcnultc period
ON orders from Pittsburg. No o%xplana.
tlon was given for the order.
Typhoid fever claimed itE thirty.
fourth victim. nj nutlcr, Pa, on the
ID. In the person of Father Daniel
Walsh. pastor Of 81 Paul's Catholic
church.
Mrs. Sarah Fills. Of Bronough, Mo.
on the I'D, started u IRE with kerosene
oil 10 prepare breakfast. Her cloth.
ing became n mass Of flame. aud she
wns so badly burned that she died
In n Few hours.
Frederick nrcW, superintendent ~
III" Chicago n Great iRkos Dredging
4 Dock co, was struck by a Chicago
suburban train. on the "a. aud In.
stantly Killed.
An improvement was noted. ON tho
I'd, In the case uf Miss Mabel Mckinley.
who was M nt Greensboro, Ky. II was
thought that she would he able to leave
her room within u week.
Representative burgers. of Texas. In
PRODUCED II hill In congress, on tue It'll,
Ia lcssen the damage OF the cotton boil
woeyil. directing tho secretary OF ngri-
culture 10 appoint u commission In his
department. to include residents Of the
states Of Texas and Louisiana. To study
the problem.
Mrs. Mary u. Boswell, the woman
who wrote letters to senator NJ A..
Hanna and u. L. White. n Columbus
TO- merchant. demanding hush money
on pain Of some terrible exposure, was
fined 5000 and costs, on the 9TH. by
United States Judge Thompson. on a
plea OF guilty.
The safe In the temporary Office Of
Mayors Asphalt Co, Of GAINESVILLE, O.,
which wns completing paving contracts
at Lima. o., a found with it's doors
open. on the morning of the lth. and
1926 was missing, The robbery occurred
within half a block of the police sta
ton.
The funeral OF Joseph Driscoll, the
Chicago detective who was killed in
the fight with the bandits. was held
on the ith. Assistant Chief of Police
Sclucttler. together with others high
In the police department. marched in
the funeral procession.
Tim Mccarthy, associate walking del
egate Of San Parks, who was found
guilty of the charge of extortiag $500 |
from Lobel- Andrews Co. in New York
city, was sentenced. on the itii TO "
months In the New York p%enitcntiary,
In the destruction OF the home OF
George Wright, OF Whatcom. Wash. by
IRE, on the 18th, his eight-year-old son,
i,euben, was burned to death. In try
TO save the boys life, his sister.
Maggie, aged II. was terribly burned.
A dispatch. on the 4th, announced
that the condition Of Herbert Spencer.
the famous writer. who had been hi
2@Qndon for some Tina wss Gsaslsr4t
great anxiety.
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