The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12

Charles Christador, q st. Paul CMlnn.)
capitalist, shot and probably fatally
wounded himself in his Office in the
German-American building in that city,
whether by accident or with suicidal
intent had not been. determined.
The large dry kilns of the William
Ritter Lumber Co., at Panther, w. Va,
containing 1000, 900 feet of dressed oak
and poplar lumber, were totally de-
stroyed by fire; loss, 100000.
Ralph voorhees,, of Clinton, N. j.,
has just given a second 500, 900 to Car
roll college, Waukesha, Wis.,, to be used
for the erection of additional buildings.
John Peabody, who lives just over
the Orange mountains from Montclair,
N. j.. was arrested by secret service
officers on a charge of annoying Presi-
dent Roosevelt with letters attacking
him for his position on the Panama
canal and other political questions. He
was released on promising to cease his
annoyance.
In a shooting ARRAY on the public
road near Akridge, Ca, William Drew
and Newton Threlkeld, prominent and
wealthy farmers, were fatally wounded,
Herbert, the 1S-year-old son of Drew,
took a prominent part in the %fracas, it
being alleged that he fired the shots
that laid Threikeld out. '
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
have announced hat the marriage Of
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati,
will take place at the White House Feb
ruary II, at noo
After kissing her husband good-by,
Mrs. Sallie B,ancagniel Pollard, member
of a prominent Louisville (Ky.) family,
shot and fatally wounded her, three
year-old son and then shot herself in
the head, inficting a probably fatal
wound.
Lawrence E. Van Wrinkle, a young
San Franciscan, who was recently sued
for SIS, 900 damages for alternating the
affections Of the wife of Charles N.
Watson, a ranchman, committed sui
eide by shooting in Golden Gate park.
Ex-Gov, Bailey, of Kansas, has
turned into the state treasury $1,000 Of
money decided by the state supreme
court to have been improperly used for
household purposes out of the executive
mansion maintenance fund.
j. G. Harrington, head of an alleged
fraudulent matrimonial agency in New
Orleans, was arrested in New York city,
preparatory to being returned to New
Orleans. HeEwasstndttefzkkzEe for ad-
vertising the niatrimonias bfer Of an
alleged rich creole widow and foping in
suckers at SIS each. Z nt M:
DR.. J.. c. Howes, Of Onsha,, Meb., who
was arrested at staS6ssspM, Ao., for
sending improper letters through the
mails to his young WHe-his Axth--at
Maysville, Mo-, attemptea. suicide with
morphine. He will recoysr.
Charles A.. Edwards, e. NeW York,
aged about 60 years, was found dying in
bed with a bullet in his brain and no
weapon anywhere around, at the home
Of his brother-in-law, Charles A. Hill
Ter, in New Haven, Conn, where he had
gone to attend a birthday party in hon
or of his sister, Mrs. Samuel Harris.
He died without throwing any light on
the tragedy.
Gov. Carter of Hawaii has pardoned
Stephen Mahaulu, who was convicted
Of embezzlement of land Office funds
while chief clerk for Land Commission
er f. S. Boyd, who is serving ten years
for ENLIGHTENMENT.
Aug. W. Schroeder placed ten sticks
of dynamite under the kitchen stove to
thaw them out at Menominee, Mich. His
two-year-old daughter is dead, he and
his wife injured and his home
wrecked.
The designations of James w. Alex.
ander and James Hazen Hyde from the
directory of the Fidelity Trust Co. and
Union national bank of Newark, N. j.,
have been accepted.
Ten persons were poisoned at the new
Y. M. G. A. cafe at Sioux City, Ia, by
%partaking of breakfast food impregnat.
ed with what is supposed to have been
arsenic.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York, con.
vinced that he will be retired at the
close of his present term, has determ.
ined to give New York, for the next
four years, a strictly business admins
t~ration, regardless of politics.
Two lives were lost and a large
amount of property damaged as the re-
suit of a hurricane striking Albany,
Ga. A number of persons were in
jured by flying debris.
First Lieut.. Roy I. Taylor, coast ar
tillery, was reduced IL numbers, by YER
dict of a court-martial, for snobbery in
causing. a sergeant of his own COM
pany to vacate a seat in his vicinity
in a theater in New London, Conn.
Judge Thomas H. Paynter was nomi-
mated by the joint democratic caucus
Of the Kentucky Legislature for United
States senator to succeed j. c. s.
Blackburn. The nomination is equiva-
lent to election.
President Roosevelt will personally
prncaut IN Copt Ch,,rab t. ~,