The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-16

| Edward J. Beard, principal assistant
engineer Of the Rock Island system,
has accepted the appointment as en-
| gineer of the steam railways in the
| Philippines, under the contract award
| ed to j. G.. White & Co., Of New York.
Robert S. Farmer, manager of the
Springs hotel at Sour Lake, Tex, shot
and killed w. p. Murphy, his brother
in-law, who had sent him word that he
was coming from Beaumont TO kill
him. Farmer got there first.
L.. Stuckey, editor of the Peoples
Demands, at Colfax. La, was shot and
killed by A. M. Goodwin, editor of the
Colfax Chronicle, whose character had
been assailed by Stuckey in the col
INNS of his paper.
The postmaster general has reaf-
firmed his position that rural free de-
livery carriers can not be used as the
medium for taking subscriptions for
newspaper.
w. A. Brothers, government disburs-
ing agent for the Pathfinder reservoir
project, with headquarters at Casper,
| Wyo., has been arrested, charged with
embezzling 5000 of government funds.
The 500 Railroad Co. will eXpend
$4,000, 900 for Improvement and equip
ment this year, including the building
of $50 miles of new track in North Da-
kota.
The memorial to Gen. Jos. Wheeler,
at Atlanta, Ca, March 81, promises to
bring together the greatest %outpouring
of veterans of both sides in the civil
war seen since its close.
George E. Green, a former state SEN
ator of New York, charged with con-
spring to defraud the government in
clocks to the post Office department,
was acquitted in the District of Column
bia supreme court.
With all the honors due his exalted
military rank the remains of Lieut.
Gen. John NJ. Schofield were escorted,
after impressive funeral services in st.
Johns church, Washington, to the spot
selected by himself in Arlington ceme-
terry and lowered into the grave to the
booming of cannon and the sounding
of taps
President Roosevelt has removed
from office Horace Speed, United States
district attorney for Oklahoma, follow
ing IN investigation of charges pre-
ferred against Speed of improper con-
duct in office.
The Illinois Coal Operators associa-
ton, at a meeting held in Chicago, de-
clared fatty that they would face a
ctrilp Anril 1 nathan than nrart +ha
demands of the miners.
Fire destroyed the coaling station of
the Chicago & Alton railroad at Twen-
ty-eishth street and California ven
Chicago. AS a result engines had to be
coaled by hand, pending the erection Of
temporary chutes.
A rear-end collision on the Delaware
& Hudson railroad at Saratoga, N. Y,
resulted in the death of Miss Esmond,
aged Is, and we're injuries to several
passengers on the Lake George special,
two of whom died later.
John R. Mclean, owner of the Wash
ington Post, told the house committee
on post Offices that a recent editorial
concerning violations of the franking
privilege by members of congress was
not to be taken seriously.
The Ohio senate, by a vote Of % to
Is, adopted a resolution providing for
the submission to the people of a con-
stitutional amendment permitting the,
people to initiate and to vote on legis-
lation.
The three men who, on February 10,
attempted to ~assassinate Gen. Reyes,
president Of the Republic of Colombia,
were shot on the spot where the attack
took place.
One of the first acts of Thomas l..
Hicks, the new director of public works
OF Philadelphia, was to annul five con
tracts held in the name of Daniel J. M
Nichol for construction of parts of the
city's filtration system, on the ground
of "%collusion, irregularity and fraud"
The executive committee of the
American Federation of Labor has been
called to meet in Washington, March
10. SO as to be in touch with the mine
workers convention in Indianapolis at
that time.
Gen. Linevitch received but a cool
reception on his return to st. Peters.
burg.
A section of the concrete roof just
completed over the huge new round
house of the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road at Pueblo, Col, collapsed, killing
n man instantly and injuring three
others, n fatally.
The Russian imperial manifesto and
laws relative to the national assembly
and ~reorganiZed council indicates the
purpose of the government to hold a
firm check on legislation and to exclude
certain subjects from consideration by
the peoples representatives.
Charles Moran and Thomas Weir,
members of the structural iron work
ers' union. have been arrested follow
ing an indictment by the grand jury, in
New York, charged with being con-
cerned in a plot to dynamite a building
under construction by non-union men.
Corporation Counsel Lewis of Chica-
on hoe nphaJd the nitu health doro,<-