The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-09

at Leclaire, Ia. where she had lived
since 1897, aged 81 years.
The Wheeler elevator, on Buffalo riv-
er, at Buffalo, N. Y, was burned; loss.
s175, 1000.
], w. w. White, a wealthy farmer
near Sparks, Okla, was shot and killed
by James Crane, ar employee whom he
had accused of stealing.
Sifted down to actual facts it appears
that the recent trouble at Nanchan, Chi
ma. was not a Boxer outbreak at all,
but a purely local affair, the rioting
and killings being the result Of objec-
ton to French Catholic priests assum-
ing to exercise civil functions.
A prairie fire swept 80 square miles Of
the richest farming lands in Rice coun-
ty, Kansas, resulting in damage -esti-
mated at $780, 900.
Miss Katherine O'Brien, daughter Of
the American minister, Thomas il
O'Brien, at Copenhagen, and Henry
G. Chiffon, secretary of the British le-
cation there. are to be married April 81.
Bishop Potter, of New York, and his
daughter are spending a month in
Rome.
In opening the Newfoundland legis-
lature, Gov. Sir William MacGregor, re-
ferred glowingly to the colony's unex-
ampled prosperity.
Mrs. j. l.. Brock, the wife of a far
mer, was awarded $1,000 damages in
the district court at independence,
Kas., against George Francis, one of
the wealthiest men in Kansas, for in
juries received in a runaway caused by
an automobile driven by Francis.
Walter Scott, the Death Valley miner,
and his brother, Warner Scott, were
fired upon from ambush at Windy Gap,
1873 miles from Barstow, Cal, and War
ner Scott was dangerously wounded. He
Is o in a hospital at Los Angeles.
Judge Worthington, in the circuit
court at Peoria, ILL.,, has ordered the
eight school inspectors of Peoria who
have a year yet to serve, to appear in
court, March ~, and show cause why
they should not be elected from Office
on the ground of illegal election.
Constable Joseph Fleis was shot and
instantly killed by Mrs. Lawrence Ba-
{ Ia SulCdSO, WhllC attempting W
levy upon some property in Mrs. Ba-
ker's home without having shown his
authority.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
February %, the total debt, less cash
in the treasury, was 1918, 521 ,555, a de-
crease for the month Of $4,003, 041,
principally accounted for by a large in
crease in the amount Of cash on hand.
DR., William Hill, a well-known Illi-
nois politician, died at his home in
Bloomington, aged n years. He was
present, in an official capacity, when
William j. Bryan was born.
At last accounts the mob still held
partial sway in Springfield, O., SEEM
ingly bent on driving the negroes out
Of town. The presence of several COM
panies of state troops was the only
thing that deferred them, and they
didn't seem to be very much afraid Of
them as the military was handled very
~elngeEly.
A. w. Moerki, postmaster of Column
bia, Isle of Pines, has been taken into
custody because he refused to pay the
storekeeper's tax, on the ground that
the Isle of Pines is not under Cuba's
jurisdiction.
Under Sheriff John E. Sealy was shot
and killed at Hurley, Wis.,, by George
Greenwood. a Wisconsin Central op-
orator, who mistook Sealy for a burg
lar. Sealy likewise mistook Green
wood for a burglar who had taken ref
uge in the station.
The terrible drought which for years
has paralyZed the industries of Aus
tralia has been broken, and record
breaking crops and plentiful pasturage
marks the return of normal conditions.
Having been unable to obtain an in
definite leave Of absence, Maj. Cassius
E. Gillette, Il of the best-known c4-
gireers in the United States army, has
appointed by Mayor Weaver of Phila-
delphia chief engineer of the bureau of
filtration, a position paying $4,000 a
year.
The native population Of Nanchang,
China, where the recent murders Of
missionaries were committed, is fee
ing, dreading the arrival Of armed forces
from European and American gunboats.
Samuel J.. HUMPHREYS, Douglass E.
Smith, Charles Augustus Seton and
Charles T. c. P. Coimey, indicted in
connection with Norfolk & Western
81, 300. 900 bond forgery, were arraigned
before Recorder Golf, in New York, and
all pleaded guilty but Colmey. They
were remanded n month for sentence.
A BIZ has been introduced in the
lower house of the New York legisla-
ture making it a felony to advocate or
teach the duty, necessity or propriety of
shortening the lives of incurably dis
eased or imbeciles.
A Shanghai dispatch reports the
death Of Rev. H. G. Kingham's eldest
daughter, from the effects of injuries
inflicted upon her by the Chinese mob
that killed her parents at Nanchang.
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