The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23


building.
A railroad accident, only exceeded
by that at Eden, in August, 1904, &C.
CURED on the Denver & Rio Grande
four miles east of Florence, Col, by
which probably 35 persons were killed
and 20 injured. The wreckage took
fire and many of the victims were In.
cinerated in the burning cars.
The dowager empress of China has
subscribed $4,000 to the Japanese fam
inc fund.
The body of a man, identified by
young Antonio Bozaf1, who was recently
kidnapped and escaped, as the man who
acted as his keeper up to the time of his
escape, was found in the Morris canal at
Newark, N. Y. He had been murdered.
The international executive board Of
the United Mine Workers of America,
at its session in Indianapolis, approved
the finding of President Mitchell in the
matter of the ousting of Patrick Dolan
from the presidency of District No. 5.
The alleged plot, in New York, to as
sassinate Rev. DR.. Charles Parkhurst,
according to the man who made the con-
%fession, is now declared to have been q
hoax, and he has been held to the grand
jury on a charge of perjury.
Prof. Andrew G. Mclaughlin, head
of the American history department Of
the University of Michigan, has been
called to the chair of history at the
University of Chicago.
Arthur l.. Currey, a special national
bank examiner, has been appointed ap-
praiser of the estate of the late Marshall
Field, to ascertain the value of the es-
tate for inheritance tax assessment.
Rev. William D.. Shea, one of the old
est and best-known ministers Of the
Methodist church, south, died at Allan
Ia, Ga, aged n years. He attended the
wedding of President Roosevelt's moth
er.
The Illinois republican state conven-
ton is to be held at Springfield, May IA,
to nominate candidates for state offices.
Colorado has had the worst snow of
the season, and traffic through the state
has been badly hampered by long
stretches of railroad tracks being buried
under immense snowslides from the adj
jacent mountain sides.
The British punitive expedition has
crushed the Sokoto revolt in northern
Nigeria, almost annihilating the rebel
forces.
John Ingraham Dunn, for years finan-
cial editor of the New York Press, died
of typhoid fever at his home in Ridge
wood, N, j., aged 40 years.
In the six-round bout in Philadelphia
between Terry McGovern and Battling
Nelson the latter had the better of the
argument, having his opponent almost
gone at the end of the sixth round, I'm
der the local law, however, there was
no decision rendered. The fight was
not a clean one, there being too much
c~linching.
The Leyland line steamer Bostonian
arrived at Boston, bringing a portion of
the crew of the Phoenix liner British
King, which %foundered during a fierce
Atlantic storm to the southwark of Sa.
BILE island. Eleven others were rescued
by the German tank steamer Mann
helm, and 27 went down with the ship.
Capt. James O'Hagan of the British
King died on board the Bostonian of in |
juries received.
At a banquet given in Washington
by the trustees and alumni of the
George Washington university, in be-
half of the forward movement Of that
institution, $50 persons sat down, many
of them prominent in public life.
Robert L. Gregory, a prominent
wholesale grocer, is the democratic
nominee for mayor of Kansas City, Mo. |
The platform advocates municipal own |
ership.
Many eminent educators assembled
in San Francisco in attendance on the
annual conference of the Association OF
American Universities.
The New York grand jury investi-
eating insurance matters submitted by
District Attorney Jerome is at sea on
the question as to whether a political
assessment by a director Of a corpora
ton constitutes the crime of larceny.
The original draft, in Lord Nelson's
handwriting, of the historical general
memorandum to his captains at the
battle of Trafalgar, was sold at auction
in London for $18,O 900.
Inc mining companies operating In
the Lake Superior region have volun-
tarily agreed to readjust wages, MAX
ing a material increase.
While nine men were sitting around
a stove in a little grocery store in
jamestown. Ind, discussing the pos
sibility of the collapse of Odd Fellows
hall, adjoining, which was undergoing
repairs, the latter building fell, crush
ing the grocery like an eggshell, kill
ing three of the party and injuring five
others.
The story of an alleged plot to assas-
sinate Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst,
with a police official in the role of chief
conspirator, is under investigation in
New York.
Corporal" Tanner, commander-ip-
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, has written a letter to Representa-
tive Tawney, Of Minnesota, chairman
of the house committee on %appropria-
lions, vigorously protesting against the