The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-07-27
THE WEEKS NEWS
TERSELY OUTLINED
An Bpitome of the Most lmpor-
tant Events at Home and
Abroad the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully DigesteI and Condensed
Compilation Of Current Ne~o Nems,
Both Domestic and Foreign, For
People Who Want the Best.
GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS.

the general Sunday closing law OF Mis-
souri, applies to cities of the second
class. Notice of appeal was given.
The London Standard says that the
death of Lady Curzon is made sadder
by the fact, known only to a few, that
Lord Curzon is himself threatened
with a fatal disease.
Syrian, Russia, according to a Sa-
mara dispatch, is a heap of ruins from
the recent fire. Hundreds of persons
lost their lives and several men sus-
pected of incendiarism were sum
marily dispatched. Four thousand
houses were burned.
The opening of the bids for the
$780, 900, 900 Panama canal bonds indl-
Gated that the entire issue had been
subscribed for many times over at an
average Of 103.94.
The will of the late Alfred Belt, the
South African Croesus, leaves millions
TO various public benefactions, largely
in South Africa, 5000, 900 in n lump
being devised to aid in furthering
methods of communication n trans
portation In that part of the world.
Large sums are left to relatives,
friends and servants, his brother Otto
Belt, being made residuary legatee alb
solutely.
A treaty of peace between Guate-
mala and Salvador and Honduras was
signed on board the United States
cruiser Marblehead, at sea, July ~,
thus ending a war that threatened to
involve several other Central Ameri-
can republic besides those concerned
in its beginning. The United States
has added another plume to its cap
OF peace.
A decree appears in the Official
journal in Paris nominating Maj. AL
fred Dreyfus to the Legion OF Honor.
Brig.-G Gen. Edmund Rice, retired.
died at his home in Wakefield, Mass,
after a brief illness of heart disease,
aged GA years.
Japanese public sentiment is. mex
pressibly shocked at the finding of
the Russian court of inquiry, which
recommends that Gen. Stoessel be
shot. All say the verdict is at variance
Will luc ldClS i lHC SdoC.
In a fire at Yokohama, Japan, 1000
houses were destroyed.
: In honor of Colombian independence
day, the government released all po-
litical prisoners.
Andrew D. White, former president
of Cornell university, in an address
before the Cornell summer school, de-
clared the time had come when techni-
cal appeals in criminal cases should
no longer be allowed by the courts.
Ground has been broken on the
jamestown (Va.) exposition for Penn.
sylvania's state building, which will
be a replica of Independence hall,
Philadelphia, and which will be pre-.
scented to the state of Virginia.
A portrait of the late Secretary OF
State John Hay, three-quarters life
size, the work Of Miss Ellen Emmett
of Salisbury, Conn, has been placed
in the diplomatic reception room IL
the state department in Washington.
DR.. w. d. McAfee, known in G. A. R
Ing marcher at national encampments
died at his home in Rockford, ILL.,, aft
er a lingering illness.
Rev. b. Royal Cheny, pastor of the
Second Congregational church at Be
lott, Wis, was killed in an elevator &C
oident at Florence, Italy.
BY the burning OF the big bonded
warehouse of James Watson & Co, a
Dundee, Scotland, a loss of $1,250,00t
mo ,,atatnA1 VI ef,AAfa IN fhn vi
cinity Of the fire literally ran will
burning whisky.
Practically all the large cottoI
mills of New England have v~oluntaril,
announced increases of five to sever
per cent. in wages to begin August l.
Massachusetts, will turn over $500,
900 of its san Francisco relief fund
held back owing to lack of confidence
in the San Francisco committee, Il
the rehabilitation company.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Wholesale Grocers' association
at a meeting in Chicago, adopted a res
olution indorsing the new pure fooC
law with a determination to obey 1t,
mandates to the letter.
When the announcement was made
in. Denver that Philadelphia had beef
chosen for the next Elks' convention
a band from the Quaker City ap
peared and started playing "ThercN b.
a hot time in the old town tonight.
The vote stood: Philadelphia. 495
Baltimore, 265.
A band Of robbers at Rostov-on
Don relieved two government banl
clerks Of $4,000 which they were
carrying form the post office to thu
bank. The pursuit of the robbers
however. was SO hot that they aban
donec 100000 of their booty and es
Caped with the rest.