The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30

of Japan is now said'to he one of the
most terrible starvation emergencies Of
modern times, involving from 800, 200
to 1000 900 persons.
The body of William Mariner, son Of
Ephraim Mariner, one of the richest
men in Milwaukee, was found in his
room with a bullet hole in his head
an undoubted case of suicide, but from
what cause is unknown.
Robert Spriggs, the negro keeper Of
a white slave" pen In New York city,
was found guilty of the offense of alb
duction by a jury, and was remanded
for sentence.
Secretary Of the Navy Bonaparte
wants to keep pace with Great Britain
and Japan, and advocates the construc-
ton Of a 49, OO-ton battleship, to carry
ten 12-inch guns.
Ed. Jasper, a w~ell-known race track
official. who, with Mrs. Jasper, left Los
Angeles, Cal, for Cincinnati, to attend
the funeral Of Mrs. Jasper's father, de-
veloped n virulent case of smallpox by
the time he reached Chicago. He and
Mrs. Jasper are in the isolation hospital.
V. Gordon Gray, a former Chicago
newspaper writer, who was married a
few weeks ago to Trixie Shapcott, at
Marshalltown, Ia. was sentenced at the
latter place to 20 years Imprisonment
or his plea Of guilty to three counts for
forgery.
President Roosevelt is credited with
having suggested to the Algeciras con-
ference a mixed police force at all
ports, including Casablanca, but France
is not likely to accept it on account of
the likelihood of petty personal rival
ries among the officers, which Morocco
would he Hure to foster.
District Attorney Samuel H. Cady at
Green Bay Wis, has applied to the
county board for a special assistant to
aid him in prosecuting 26 alleged fell
onies growing out Of municipal graft
ing.
The president has vetoed the bill for
the creation of a new division of the
western judicial district of Texas.
1t is now generally admitted that be-
tween 40 and so persons lost their lives
in the Rio Grande collision near Adobe,
Col.
Fifty-seven case of smallpox are re-
ported in the farming districts Of
Linman and Bridge, in Uinta county,
Wyoming. The southern part Of the
county has been ~Quarantined.
A brewery agent at Kansas City, Kas.,
testified in the custer proceedings
against County Attorney James S. Glib
son that for many months he paid Glib
son SO a month for each Joint" owned
by the brewery for immunity from pros
ecution.
BY an explosion of gas in the Cen
fury Coal Co.'S mine at Century, w. Va,
over 100 miners were entombed, some
of whom were rescued in a horrible
condition. The loss of life is estimated
at upwards of rs, from a hurried can
vass of the miners quarters.
Judge Humphreys, in the federal
court, in Chicago, upheld the plea of
immunity from prosecution so far as
individual packers or their employees
We're concerned, but not as to the cor
porations.
AS an illustration Of how seriously
the Russian workmen take the national
assembly, in M case they nominated
a pet dog, on the score of economy"
and in another the factory chimney, as
that wouldn't be hurt by machine gun
fire.
The Texas law assessing a special
two per cent. tax on the gross earnings
of all railroads has been declared I'M
constitutional by the court of civil ap-
peals.
1t is estimated hat the Georgia
peach growers have suffered a loss of
at least 81, 900 by the recent cold
spell.
Mrs. H. E. Huntington, wife of the
principal heir of the. late Coils P
Huntington, has sued for divorce in
San Francisco.
Judge Vandevanter, of the United
States circuit court of appeals, denied
the application for a writ of habeas
corpus for Leonard Imboden and James
A. Hill, convicted in Denver of con-
spiracy to wreck the Denver savings
bank.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has finally de-
clined to pardon A. R. Ireland, a Ia
Dor organizer, serving a six months
jail sentence for %aSsaulting a railway
detective, Notwithstanding he admits
that the Jail at Winfield it not q fit
place for a man to live in.
The house judiciary committee con-
cludes that there is no constitutional
authority for federal control of insur-
ance or other state corporations other
than railroads.
The March grand jury at Peoria. ILL.,,
could find no evidence of value to sup
port the charge of bribery made
against the agents of the sanitary dis
trict of Chicago in the recent $55, 900
damage suit.
John r. Gubbins, the well-known
English horse owner, is dead. He had
owned some noted cup and stake win
ners.
Secretary and Mrs. Taft were the
guests at a banquet given at the New