The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-20

been crushed and there was a bullet
hole in the mans forehead.
At least seven tornadoes were oh.
served east and north Of Great Bend,
Kas., in one day. Considerable damage
is reported, including the demolition Of
a school house and a threshing outfit.
James Korousch and Frank Anderson
were killed by lightning during an
electric storm at Mahaska, Kas., n q
livery barn was destroyed.
Maj. Richard Sylvester, of Washing
ton, d. c., was reelected president of
the International Association Of Chiefs
of Police, in session at Hot Springs,
Ark. Harvey o. Carr, of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, is secretary-treasurer.
George B. Hubbard, a %wellknown
marine, lawyer, died at his home in
Buffalo, N. Y, aged so years.
The war department has taken steps
be necessary to protect the Indian
agent, Maj. o. C. Edwards, on the Una
tilla agency in Oregon, the Indians hav-
ing threatened to do him bodily harm. q.
Several persons were injured and
seven houses completely destroyed by a
tornado at Stafford, Kas.
From the conflicting stories in re-
gard to Dowie and Zion City, it is diff
ficult to determine what is really being
or going to be done. Dowie, at last ac-
counts, was at the Auditorium Annex,
in Chicago, and the insurgents held pos
session of Zion.
The Washington Auditorium Co. is
seeking to obtain a charter and conces-
sions to erect an immense a%mpitheater
at the national capital, using the steel
frame of the government building at
the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
The national headquarters of the
Woman's Suffrage association at
Warren, o., has received a complete his
tory of woman suffrage b~equeathed by
the late Susan B. Anthony. There are
nearly 1000 volumes.
The armored cruiser Washington,
built by the New York S~hipbuilGing
Co., successful y completed her official
speed trial, making an average speed of
2.272 knots an hour on a four-hour en-
durance run.
The costly furnishings of Ben Nc
Dhui, John Alexander Dowie's beauti.
full summer home at White Lake, Mich,
valued at about $4,000, were sold under
the hammer for So, 500.
]. H. Van Dyke, Jr., president of the
Milwaukee Trust Co., and a director in
the First national bank of Milwaukee,
died following an operation for the re-
moval of gall stones, aged 4S years.
Benjamin d. Greene and John +.
Gaynor, charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the government, and who for
years fought ~extradition from Canada,
were found guilty in the, federal court at
Savannah, Ga, after a trial lasting IA
weeks, and sentenced to pay a collective
fine of $575, $40 and each be imprisoned
for a term of four years.
Despite the order of the supreme
court of Kansas, which ousted Mayor
Rose OF Kansas City, Kas., and which
ruled that he could not serve in that
Office until the present term had ex.
pired, in 1907, the democratic execu-
tive committee of that city have nom
mated him for mayor.
James A. Bailey, the "circus king"
well known in connection with the
Barnum and Bailey show, died at his
home in Mount Vernon, N. Y, of cry
sipelas, aged SO years.
The National Republican league will
meet in biennial convention and, Incl.
dentally, celebrate the golden jubilee
of the formation of the party, in Phila-
delphia, June 1919.
The typhoid fever situation in Pitts
burg, Pa. daily becomes more alarm
ing. In addition to a large number OF
new cases reported, about 1000 of the
public school pupils are absent because
OF illness.
Ex-Liout. Sidney S. Burbank, con.
victed by court-martial in the Philip
pines of embezzling company funds and
Of conduct u~nbecoming a gentleman,
has arrived at the federal prison in Fort
Leavenworth, Kas., to serve his Is
months sentence.
Vice-Admiral Cervera, who COM
manded the Inflated Spanish fleet de-
stroyed off Santiago, Cuba, in 1898, has
been appointed naval commander at the
port Of Ferrol. Spain.
A Tien Tsin (China) dispatch Of tine
18th inst. said that the e%mbarkation Of
German troops from Pekin had begun
Harrison Clark, colored, who fatally
shot Conductor FURY during an at
tempted hold-up of a street car in Oma.
ha, Neb., was convicted of murder in
the first degree, with the death pen.
atty.
Maxim Gorky. the Russian writer
arrived in New York on the steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. He will,
make a tour of the United States. He
declares the condition of Russia more
serious now than it aver was before.
Mrs. Frank X. Raymond, wife of 9
government employee in Washington
and her 14-year-old son were found
asphyxiated in bed in their. room al
Hollywood, a suburb Of Los Angeles
Cal. 1t is intimated that the mother
was responsible for the deed.
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