The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-05-11
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

SS.ldlt.
The house completed and passed the
agricultural appropriation bill. 1t car
cies SI,4S1,4 40, including the usual APP
preparation for free seed distribution.
The house passed the military acad-
envy appropriation bill, carrying $l,oo3'-
lis.
The house adopted a resolution OF
thanks, on behalf of the people of the
United States to Gen. Horace Porter, late
ambassador to France, for his untiring
efforts to discover and disinter the BODY
OF Admiral Paul Jones; also that his
speech, delivered at Annapolis on the
occasion of the refinement of the body
be printed in the Congressional Record.
GENERAL NEWS TEENS.
Superior Judge Murasky, at San
Francisco has passed on the sanity OF
upwards of eighty persons whose
minds have been more or less de-
ranged by fright consequent upon the
great disaster.
The savings banks of San Francis
20 have reopened for business and
all the commercial banks report bust
ness lively and Withdrawals practic-
ally discontinued.
Mrs. Serena Lang, of st. Joseph,
Mo-, aged &C, died as the result of in
iuries received by being thrown down
stairs by Ruth Mayes, a woman she
had befriended.
newspaper correspondents and repre-
sentatives of leading daily newspa-
pers met the president at the execu-
tive offices and listened to his views
On railroad rate legislation.
AS the result of a collision with a
GOV and calf a Texas Pacific passen-
ger train was wrecked at Sodus, La.
The engineer and firemen were killed
two passengers seriously and several
others slightly hurt.
Former President Cleveland was
the guest Of honor at a dinner given in
connection with the annual jaunt of
of. the Periodical Publishers Associ.
alton of America at Atlantic City, N.
]. There was a distinguished com
pany of authors, artists and publish.
ers present.
A report that a revolutionary out.
break had occurred in eastern Cuba,
under the leadership of Leal, a former
agitator, is denied from Havana.
A big charity fete in aid of the San
Francisco sufferers was held at
Friendship" the beautiful country
home of John R. Mclean near Wash
ington, D. G..
Owen Harris, the negro who was
arrested in St. Louis on suspicion of
being the murderer of Mrs. Elizabeth
Mize, in Chicago established a clear
alibi.
Upwards of $4,000 was realized
from an all-day benefit performance
in the Metropolitan opera house in
New York in aid of the San Francisco
sufferers.
AS the result of a shooting ARRAY
at Birmingham, Ala, Thomas G. Hew'
lit is dead, John T. Shupart was ex
pected to die AMI Frank Lee and Leon
ard Potts, b%ystanders slightly
wounded.
France, Italy and Russia are siding
with Great Gritain in the Tabah dis
pute with Turkey.
Ten persons were reported killed
as the result of a head-on collision
heal Williamsburg, Pa, on the Penn
sylvania railroad.
The official canvass of the result OF
the Cuban presidential election has
been made and Tomas Estrada Palma
and Mendez Capote declared elected
president and vice-president respec
lively.
1t is announced that Mr. and Mrs
Nicholas Longworth will be among the
guests. at the coronation of King Haa-
kon and Queen Maud of Norway.
The federal grand jury in New York
has returned seven Indictments against
railroad companies and sugar refining
concerns for violation of the Elkins
antitrust law, in the alleged sugar re-
batting case.
During the disturbed period in Rus
sia fugitives are said to have deposited
S1S7, 900 in German banks.
Sir Mortimer Durand, the British
ambassador in Washington, has gone
home for a months visit.
In an unfortunate collision between
state ~constabLlary and a mob made III
mostly Of foreigners, at Mount Carmel
Pa, several men were wounded, three
probably fatally, by the c~onstabulary
who fred into the mob after submitting
to being pelted with rocks until for
bearance ceased to be q virtue.
After a conference at the White
House, President Roosevelt ordered
that the cavalry escort sent by Brig
Gen. Duvall. commanding the depart
ment OF the Gulf, with Father Tom
Sherman on bis trip over the route Of
his fathers famous march, be recalled
after reaching Resaca, Ga.