The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-10

mander of the United States Asiatic
fleet, died at Chefoo, China, August 4,
of uraemia.
AS a result, primarily, of I'M man
failing TO pay his union dues, between
5000 and 1000 men employed by the
Boston & Montana company, at Butte,
in the mines, the smeltermen at the
Great Falls smelling plant and the
train crews engaged in hauling all are
idle.
From 1881 TO 1905, inclusive. 4,425
miners and 2,452 mine laborers were
killed in Pennsylvania, due largely
to their own negligence, carelessness,
wrecklessness and ignorance.
Battling Nelson and Joe Cans are
expected to contest for a 8 10000 purse
at Goldfeld, New, Labor day.
Maiden. A. w. Greeley has been
ordered to st. Louis to take com
mand of the Northern division of the
army, succeeding Maj.-Gen. Henry c.
Corbin.
Brig. -Gen. Albert L. Mills, comman-
dant of the military academy at West
Point, has received orders to proceed
to the Philippines and relieve Brig
Gen. Winfield S. Edgerly, in command
of Fort William Mckinley, who is or
dered to San Francisco.
Ed. Misener, accompanied by his
wife and son, has just completed a
trip from Chicago to Red Wing, Mimi,
via the Chicago. drainage canal, the
Illinois and Mississippi rivers, in an
1S-foot launch, without a mishap on
the trip.
Z. A. Gage, son of former Secretary
of the Treasury Lyman j. Gage, shot
himself through the heart at the Tour
list totel in Seattle, Wash. Acquaint.
ances said he had been acting strange.
ly for some time.
The federal department of justice
has taken up the case of the alleged
burning of rebate evidence by the Bur-
lington Railroad Co., when two cars,
loaded with documents, were burned at
Belfast siding in Greeley county, Neb.
James B. Postlethwait, employed In
the clerical department of the Michi-
gan Central Railway Co., at Detroit,
tasted 40 days for the benefit OF his
health and then died of exhaustion.
Mrs. Grace Hutchinson was acquit.
ted of the charge of murder in the
killing OF Mrs. Mary Bode at Salida.
Col, last June, after her husband had
confessed intimacy with Mrs. Bode
An investigation of alleged irregu.
larities in the Philippine islands is be-
ing conducted by Col. Wood, inspector
general, under the direction of Maj
| Gen. Leonard Wood.
Floyd Carmichael, a negro, was shot
to death at Lakewood, a suburb OF
Atlanta, Ca, after he hid been iden-
tiied by Miss Annie Poole, aged Is,
as her assailant.
The United States government has
paid Germany the award of $4,000 IN
the Samoan case. Great Britain paid
her damages in the spring, and the
matter Is therefore settled.
Baron Komura, the recently APP
pointed Japanese ambassador to Great
4 Britain, arrived at Victoria, B. G, en-
route to London via Quebec. He sx-
pressed regret at his inability, at this
time, to visit the United States and
renew former pleasant acq%uaintances'
The number of people receiving re-
lief in San Francisco has been re-
duced from $4,000 during the first
week after the fire to less than 1900
at the present time.
The battleships Alabama and Hi
nois were in collision, during a fog,
southeast of Brenton's Reef lightship
and several of the forward plates OF
the Alabama were dinted. Seaman
Corbett of the Illinois was severely
injured by the fall of a lifeboat davitt
and it was found necessary to ampu'
tate n of his legs.
Terrible heat conditions are report
ed from the Myo county california;
gold fields and adjacent desert, and
mining prospectors are said to be dy
ing daily from the heat.
u The state of Illinois has secures
judgment against former State Treas
urer Henry Wulff and Floyd X. Whit
temore, his bondsman, for $6,532.5
before Judge Creighton, in the Sanga
mon circuit court, being the amount O
fees retained by the former treasurer
Emil Lesser, president of the Gel
, man immigration Society Of Alabama
: reports, after u personal investigator
l at Lockhardt, that no trace of peor
age exists in the camps of the Jacl
son Lumber Co.
: The Spanish generals who were col
cerned in the surrender of Santiago
Cuba, will reply to attacks in the pres
by issuing a manifesto laying tn
blame for the surrender upon tn
politicians.
A movement is under way in Sa
Francisco to fix a charge of Grimm;
conspiracy on the insurance broker
who have compelled policy holders
accept less than was due them on the
losses in the great con~lagration.
Gen. Oku, the victor at Nansha
and Telling in the R~usso-Japane!
r war, and whose command sueceedt
in isolating Port Arthur, has bee
y appointed chief of the general sta
of the Japanese army, vice Bare