The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1905-05-05

The total of the alleged pe~culations
of ex-Tax Collector Smith Of San Fran
cisco continues to grow. Al last ac-
counts II had reached nearly 800, 900.
A police census Of the District OF Co.
lumbia. Just completed. shows a popu.
lation OF 322. AS. being an increase Of
1921 over the federal censu Of 1900.
or this population. 227.sO7 Is white.
Experts working on the books Of ex.
Tax Collector Smith. Of San Francisco.
say that the entire shortage will reach
n total Of at least scs.000. Smith Is said
TO have been accompanied by n woman
when he left the city.
Bankers throughout the country are
staggered a. the full story Of the liza
bilitics Of cx-President Bigeiow Of the
First national bank Of Milwaukee T.
revealed. There are ramihcatlons cx.
tending over several states. and the 10.
tai ut last accounts was placed at s3.'
277.ooc.
business President Roosevelt has con.
clud.d To curtall his hunting trip. and
will break camp May $. stopping only
at Denver and Chicago on his way
east. The %proRfanimos AZ these points
will be advanced to meet the changed
plans.
I number uf miners narrowly 90.
carsi death ~ the result Of a fire that
broke u In the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Co.'S mines n, Picton, Col. Several
were overcome by smoke. but were res
cued.
W. n. Wilder, Of Kansas City. Mo.
IL alleged to have shot his wife fatal
~ and blown out his own brains in a
rooming house at Hot Springs, Ark.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000
O00 In steel stocks to provide a fund
from which %annuitlcs are to be paid col
lcgc professors who become unable TO
continue In active service.
Victor ~ Yon,. a graduate OF the
University Of Nebraska. employed In
the test department OF the General
Electric Co. at Schenectady. Il. Y, was
e~lcctrocutcd by coming In contact with
u transformer carrying 5000 volts.
The Illinois house OF representative
%concurfed In the sena,c joint resolu-
ton pctltlonlng the national congress
TO appropriate S.0oo.ooo for the cree
tlon Of a Lincoln memorial monument
In Washington.
In the Interest Of harmony with oar
South and Central American neighbors
n change IL contemplated. In the near
future. In the American ministers In
AF.u.HNEtU Panama ~lfnlnnHlla un1
chile.
According to the present plans OF
Gov. 1loch of Kansas the state bonds
for the Kansas state oil refinery will
not be placed on the market for sale.
but will be turned into the permanent
school find. which ha, more than
on1uph on hand 10 take up the bonds.
j. - Cameron. OF Joplin. Mo-, has
secured an option on a tract ooinprls'
ing u quarter II a million acres. near
the Ciy of Mexico. for the colonization
VI farmers from Texas and Missouri.
A. the exercises In Gal"na, W" IN
commcmoratiug the c%iph,y'third ami
VET ary of the birth ~ Gen. u 3.
q ant. William J. Bryan made the prin-
ripal address.
\ mob Of % men. with picks and
slcdres. broke Into the jail At Homer,
La. and shot Dick Cralghead charged
with the murder OF MIR. Ike Mckee,
the wife Of hls half-hrothcr, aud her
little sun. craighead Will probably die.
States Attorney John j. Healy. Of
Chicago has issued a notice that no
betting will he permitted on race tracks
In Cook county during his terra Of Of
nee. Bookmakers and beltors alike
will be- prosecuted.
Charles NJ Schwab. the American
steel magnnte. has succeeded In his
negotiations with the RUSSIAN admiral
I ~. In arranging for the construction
Of n number of battleshlpH of n type
which probably will startlc the world.
As one OF tho trophies OF his hunt
the president will carry home II OF
the finest brown bear skins Eve seen In
Newcastle. Col. The president put a
imllct through Bruins hart
Ten miners wCrc crushed to an I'M
recognizable mas by the fall OF the
cage In which they were ~descendinl
the Cunningham shaft at wilkcsbarre,
Pa. a distance of 100 feri, caused by tn.
calle parting.
Democratic leaders Of Illinois. repre-
sentlng all elemon ts Of the party. were
the guests OF the democratic members
of the legislature al n banquet at the
81, Nicholas hotel in Springfield. on
the nirht Of the 26th inst. Judge l.. d,
S'ringcr was the principal speaker.
Al u meeting of bench and bar In
Kansas City. Mo. resolutions eulogistic
Of the late Amos ". Thayer. judge Of
the tui,ed States circuit court OF ap-
peals. were adopted.
Judge J. G. Beamon says there will
be no raised wages OF the men EN-
ployed at the Pueblo (Col) steel
works.
A negro has been arrested at Miles
City, Mont, who Is believed TO he the
murderer OF a young girl al Little
Falls. MIN.
In the trial Of Nna Patterson In New
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