The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-07-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


German Consul Bopp. at San Fran
cisco says the German insurance COM
panies having risks in a Francisco
will pay their losses dollar for dollar
and will not be classed with the six
bit" concerns which are endeavoring
to shave their losses. A hint from
Emperor William is sal dto have had
something to do with determining
them.
The making permanent of an in
junction against railroad ticket scalp
ers by Judge Marshall, in the federal
court at Salt Lake, Utah, has the eff
feet of prohibiting the scalping of
railroad tickets anywhere in Utah.
The casualties due to the Fourth of
July celebration had reached, up to
latest accounts 81 dead ami 1851 in
jurei.
The jury in the federal court in Chi
cago, in the Chicago & Alton rebate
case. in which John n. Faithorn and
Fred A. Wann, former officials of the
road were jointly indicted, returned a
verdict of guilty on the first eight
counts of the Indictment.
The Kansas supreme court handed
down a decision holding Mayor w. w.
Rose of Kansas City, Kas, in on
tempt for having assumed the office
of mayor after the court had ousted
him. The court ordered him to relin-
quish the office and fined him $1,000
for contempt.
Former Judge A. B. Tanner, OF Port
land, Ore, who perjured himself in
order to shield his former law part
ner, the late United States Senator
Mitchell, charged with land fraud, has
been pardoned by the president.
Bradstreets says the bright pros
poets for business continue unim-
paired and that crop conditions, on
the whole are favorable.
The United States transport Thorn
as is ashore on a coral reef off the
island of Guam, with little prospect
of getting off. Gen. Wood cabled from
Manila for authority to send the
transport Meale to take off the pas
sengers and cargo. The Thomas car
ried no troops.
Aeronaut James X. Allen, who made
an ascension at Providence, R. l., on
the Fourth of July, was rescued by
fishermen II miles out at sea off Chat.
ham, Mass, the following morning,
about II miles from his starting point,
and after he had drifted around about
good shape.
Secretary of State Walter L. Hauser
of Wisconsin was acquitted in the
Dane county municipal court at Madi-
son of the charge Of attempting to
bride the state commissioner of in
surance
Surgeons testified in the court.
martial at Cronstadt that Admira,
Rojestvensky, by reason of his
wounds, was in an irresponsible con
dition at the time the gunboat Be-
dow was surrendered to the Japanese
In the battle of the Sea of Japan.
Judge w. D. Robinson of the Indi.
n appellate court, sitting as special
Judge, decided against Mayor Bida-
man of Terre Haute, holding that the
action Of the city council in o~usting
him was legal.
Former United States Marshal ].
H. Woolman, Grant Christian and
Frank d. Cooper pleaded guilty
in the federal court at Helena, Mont,
to Illegal fencing of government lands,
and were each fined $500 and sent to
Jail for "a hours.
Reports from various parts of the
country show that independence day
exacted it's usual toll In the way of &C.
cidents from tho careless handling of
pyrotechnics, ETC., the majority, of
course, being children. Thirty-seven
dead and 2,7S9 injured had been re.
ported up TO the morning after.
The supreme court of Missouri has
granted F. Seymour harrington, the
condemned murderer Of James p. Nc
Cam, a writ of error on which to take
his case to the supreme court OF the
United States, to discoye II there is
anything he is entitled TO in a legal
way and hasn't had.