The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-05-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Willie Hoppe broke the Worlds rec
ord at 1872 balk line billiards in q
game with Jake Schaefer in the Chi
cago tournament when he made a run
of 307. The former record, 25o, was
held by Louis Cure.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Smith of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Co., declares the stories of dam
age to Yellowstone park by earth
quake to be without foundation. The
park, he says, is not within the zone
of seismic action and conditions there
are absolutely normal.
A dispatch from Appleton, Wis,
says that the General Paper Co. will
%reorganize on entirely new lines.
There not being sufficient evidence
forthcoming, the charge of bribery
and corruption made by the state
against James S. Gibson, county at
torney, at Kansas City, Kas., will be
withdrawn.
Sidi Mohammed, hey of Tunis, is
dead. His cousin, Mohammed Ell Nasr,
succeeds him.
San Francisco is, for the present,
absolutely a dry town, and Mayor
Schmitz says it will remain so for a
while longer, as he ascribes the excel
lent order that has been maintained
In the city since the disaster to the
absence of intoxicants.
There is every indication in the
condition of John A. Dowie that the
end of the first apostle" of the Chris
tian Catholic church is not far off.
There is probability of a trial for
heresy in the Presbyterian fold, with
Rev. DR.. Samuel S. Carter as the de-
PENDANT. He wants the Westminster
Confession revised, declaring that
there never was, there is not now,
and there never will be such a God as
the God of the Westminster Confess
sion.'
Students of the Missouri state uni
versity, at Columbia, provoked a
quarrel with the attaches of a circus
by refusing to pay for remaining to
the after concert, and in the fracas
that followed got decidedly the worst
of it. Stakes, knives, razors and p.s-
tolls figured in the melee, and some of
the "rubes" got theirs.
Rt. Rev. James H. Blenk, bishop of
Porto Rico, has been named as arch
bishop of New Orleans, to fill the va
cancy created by the death of Arch
bishop Chapelle.
In the course of the Standard Oil
Co. hearing before the interstate CON-
merce commission in Chicago, testi.
mony was adduced to show that the
Iron Mountain Railroad Co. acted as
agent for the Standard Oil Co. in small
towns of southern Missouri, local
agents receiving a commission Of n
cent a gallon on sales.
Vice-President Fairbanks celebrated
his fi%fty-fourth birthday anniversary
by presiding over n of the busiest
days of the senate's present session.
He received many congratulations.
Gov. j.. W. c. Beckham of Kentucky
has issued a proclamation summoning
all who possess "the priceless heritage
OF having a drop of Kentucky blood in
their veins" to assemble in Louisville
for Homecoming week." June 10 to
II.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the Southern C~onfederacy,
Is suffering from a bad attack of the
grip at her apartments in New York.
Russia has been somewhat startled
by the PRONUNCIATION of the draft of
the fundamental law of the empire
which was supposed to have persisted
with the White regime, and it is feared
that the work Of the constitutional
democratic leaders in the cause OF
moderation will be brought to naught.
The policy holders association Of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co., at a meet
ms in Washington, decided to incorpo-
rate under the Laws Of the District Of
Columbia. The membership extends to
every state and territory, to eve Ca
madam provinces and to several foreign
countries