The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
THE WEEKS NEWS
TERSELY OUTLINED
An Epitome Of the Most Important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.
A Glimpse Mt What Congress IL Do
ina Together With n Carefully
Dieested and Condensed Compila-
tion of Current News Items, Both
Domestic and Foreign.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

~ o NoIC Va AVS W ~, Nv -
passed the national quarantine bill,
which places the control of all quaran-
tine stations, grounds and anchorages
under the secretary of the treasury,
and carries an appropriation OF $5oo,ooo
to carry the law into effect.
The house, with but little opposition,
passed the employers liability bill,
which makes the railroad companies
engaged in interstate commerce liable
for the injury or death of an employe.
The conference report on the anti
hazing bill was agreed to. The prin-
cipal feature of the measure is the
graduating of the penalties for hazing
at the naval academy.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The belief is prevalent among the
church officials of Zion that Dowie
was plucked for about s1,200,000 by
Wall street sharks in stock deals.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius,
overlooking the Bay of Naples, is Gre
ating CONSERVATION among the viii
layers, whose homes are threatened
by the steadily advancing streams of
lava. The scenes are described as of
mingled grandeur and horror, espe-
cially at night.
Fire destroyed the upper story of
the Chamber of Commerce building
in Portland, Ore, causing a loss of
100000, and, indirectly, the death of
Homer H. Hallock, a prominent rail
road man, who in a frenzy of fear
jumped down the light well and was
instantly killed. There were some
spectacular rescues by the firemen.
Att'y-Gen. Hadley of Missouri is re-
covering very slowly from his recent
attack of pleurisy.
The business portion OF the town of
Butler, Ga, was destroyed by fire;
loss, sos, 900.
Typhoid fever is almost epidemic
in P%ittsburg, Pa, due, it is said, to the
swollen condition Of the rivers.
The secretary of the navy has ac-
cepted the resignation of Midshipman
John c. Campbell, fourth class, at the
naval academy, on account of defec-
tive eyesight. He halls from Mis-
souri,.
D. G. Smith, president; Conrad
Luppe, cashier; D. C. Smith, Jr, book
keeper; Habbe Velde, Henry Block
and E. F. INLAND, partners in the
Ties-Smith bank at Pekin, ILL.,, which
failed April 2, have been arrested on
charges of embezzlement, on com
plant of depositors.
Gen. Russell A. Alger has ar
nounced his determination, on ac-
count of failing health, to not again
be a candidate for the United States
senatorship for Michigan.
The steamer Burrsfield is detained
at quarantine at Philadelphia with
cases of suspected bubonic plague on
board. A psychological examination
will be made.
DIR. Charles A. Snpdgrass, health
commissioner of St Louis, died OF
pneumonia.
Ex-United States Senator John R
Henderson, who has been critically III
In the Pennsylvania sanitarium, Phil
delphia, is recnperating-
Clarence NJ. Stark, the Louisiana
(Mo.) nurseryman, has been declared
insane by the probate court at San
Antonio, Tex, and his wife will take
him to a sanitarium ut Waukesha,
Wis.
Benjamin F. Ellis, of Peoria, I'LL,
and Mrs. Louisa ]. Pratt, of Sharon
ILL.,, have been declared the joint heirl
to the $3.50, 900 estate of Miss Susan
Murdoch, of Carver, Mass, deceased.
There were about eighty claimants.
Jennie Rogers. a st. Lonis panel
worker, told the board of police com
m%issioners that in two houses she
operated during the Worlds fair an
average OF about $500 daily was taken
from "suckers," and that she paid
three policemen IS a week regular
and a percentage of the spoils.
John Norcross. who was arrested In
northern Mexico In connection with
the recent hold-up Of the Dolores mine
treasure train, has confessed and
named his alleged accomplices.
The license of the Metropolitan Goa
Co., Of Boston, has been revoked by
the secretary of state because of ex
tortionate prices fixed for coal since
the strike movement was inaugurated
Capt. Curtis w. Benton, First Kan
sas infantry In the civil war, died q
his home in Leavenworth, aged 50
years.
With the consent of the war depart
ment. Geronimo the aged Apache a
rior, has Joined a Wild West show for
the season.
Col. Gilbcrto Escobar, governor OF
Jinotega. Nicaragua, was assassjnated
on the street. The assassin was cap
tured.
Earl and Lady Grey and other nasm-
bers Of the Canadian vice-regal party,
while in Washington, paid : visit TO the
tomb Of Washington at Mount Vernon.