The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-26

Gen. Luke e. Wright, of Tennessee,
having resigned the governor general
ship Of the Philippines, has beer
chosen as first United States ambassa.
dor to the court of Japan.
Henry c. lde, at present acting gov.
ernor of the Philippines, will succeed
Gen. Luke E. Wright in hat Office and
will, in turn, be succeeded by James +
Smith, Of California. June / next.
The Dominican government hal
granted general amnesty to the revo
lutionists.
Marion Turner and Otto Freshwater
OF Emporia, Kas., claim to have found
buried treasure at or near Phoenix
Mound, southwest Of Emporia, to the
value of 500, 900, said to have been
buried by three men on their way east
from California, when surrounded by
Indians. in 1S4S.
Ex-Gov. Peabody and the m0mbers Of
his family have recovered from their
experience with poison. Their illness
is now attributed to ptomaine poison
ing.
Chicago is dealing out some hot
handed justice. An octogenarian was
given a 99-yesr sentence for attacking
a ten-year-old girl and three youths
under 20 years of age were given life
sentences for a series of robberies
brought home by them.
The Christian home for orphans at
Council Bluffs, Ia, has just received
$45, 900 in cash, as the proceeds of a be-
quest made several years ago by Mrs.
Mary e. Robinson, of S%heboygan, Wis.
Kid Goog, a prize fighter, was
killed in the second round of a bout in
Geo. McFadden's place in New York.
kid" Sis, his opponent, escaped for
the time.
Charles Murray, who is said to be
known also as Col. c. P. Colmey, was
held in $4,000 bail in New York, in
connection with the forged Norfolk &
Western railroad bonds.
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi, who
charged the legislature to investigate
the state convict system, Is to be in
vestigated by a committee appointed for
having personally kicked and beaten a
convict.
Ivan Palencsuk, 1O3 years of age.
was released from prison. at Agram,
Hungary, after 50 yeafy eenfnement,
in spite of his protest. He Immediate
ly committed an offense in order to be
~reimprisoned. g.
Col. George W. Robbins, who com
manded the Eighth Wisconsin Live
Eagle" regiment in the civil war, died
suddenly at his home in Avon, Mass,
aged CT years.
McReynolds & Co., one Of the best
known grain firms in Chicago, has
closed it's elevators there and in st.
Louis and will go out Of business. 1t is
said this course was decided upon for
the full protection of creditors.
A flutter Of excitement was caused
among the diplomatists assembled for
the Moroccan conference at Algeciras,
Spain, by tho news that smallpox ex-
listed there. Rear-Admiral Sigsbee, who
learned of the fact at Gibraltar,
promptly forbade anyone from his
squadron going ashore at Algeciras.
By a terrific explosion in one Of the
mines of the Detroit & Kanawha Coal
Co., at Detroit, W. Va, on Paint creek,
Is men were killed. The majority of
the miners had come out to eat their
monday lunch, and so escaped the fate
of their comrades.
1t transpires that Mrs. HOLSTER who
was recently murdered in Chicago, was
held a prisoner in a vacant house by a
gang of young toughs and abused before
she was taken to the place where she
was murdered.
George Bolton was found guilty Of
murder in the first degree at Muskogee,
l. T., and his punishment fixed at life
Imprisonment. Bolton and his brother,
Robinson Bolton, killed their two
cousins at Weir four years ago.
In an effort to stop the wave of crime
in Chicago an addition of 500 patrol
men is to be made to the police force.
At the suggestion Of Maj-Gen. Bates,
chief Of staff, the president and secre-
tary of war are considering a plan of
having as many of the troops of the
army as possible take practice marches
during the coming summer.
Seven persons, all members of the
family of Charles Ayers, are supposed
to have persisted in a fire which de-
stroyed Ayers farmhouse near Penn
broke, N. H. Ayers was found in the
road dying from a self-inficted bullet
wound.
The Carnegie Hero Fund commission
has awarded Miss Maude A. Titus, Of
Newark, N. j., who saved Miss Laura
V. Reifsnyder from drowning. 81, 500 to
complete her education. Miss Titus IA
ther died October 20 last.
Philadelphia fttingly concentrated
the two hundedth anniversary Of the
birth of Benjamin Franklin. The
churches. public schools and various
societies participated, and at night the
great municipal building was beautiful
ly illuminated.
Fire broke out in the basement Of the