The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-02

in session at Springfield, unanimousl,
Endorsed the action of the national con
v%ention at Indianapolis in demanding a,
increase of 1917 per cent. over the pres
ert scale.
Fire at Taira, Japan. 60 miles south
east of Fukushima, destroyed GOO house.
and caused the death of 81 persons.
The SIS, 000,0 900 estate of the late Johr
b. Stetson, the hat manufacturer, Is
divided, by his will, among members o.
his family.
Charles H. Turner, former president
OF the st. Louis & Suburban street rail.
way system in st. Louis, died at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York city of
intestinal hemorrhage.
Adjutant-General Nickel of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans authorizes the
statement that there has been no
change made in the dates for the an
nual reunion at New O~rleans-April
25-27.
The Mexican War Veterans held the
thirty-third annual reunion of the ma
tional association in Washington.
Among other things they did was to go
in a body to the White House and call
upon the president.
Memorial services in honor of the
ate Gen. Joseph Wheeler will be held
in Atlanta, Ga, March 26. A commit
tee has been named to invite President
Roosevelt to be present and deliver an
address.
The Ohio house of representatives.
by a vote of 81 to 16, passed a bill pro-
viding for local option by petition in
stead of by election. This, it is claimed,
will enable the people to drive saloons
from residence districts of the cities.
A few hours before he was to have
been married to a daughter of the duke
OF Corigliano, in Naples, Prince Pigna-
tell %Strongali. aged 10 years, commit
Ted suicide. The affair caused a great
sensation.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to murder Con. Green, foreman of the
Homestake mine at Lead, S. D., by
blowing him up with dynamite. The
front of his house was wrecked.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
a cordial welcome on their ar
rival in Havana, Cuba, on their honey
moon trip. They expected to remain a
week.
Augustus Fl. Maze, for 20 years SUI
Of mails in New York
city. died from a stroke of paralysis at
Denver, Col, whittier he had gone for
the benefit of his health.
Goschen Jim, famous as the best ice
in the world, dropped dead at
Mimi, shortly before he
was to have started in the second heat
OF a race. He was valued at 81, 1000.
Fire completely Quilted the central
of the San Francisco Gas G.
Electric Co., destroying all the valuable
machinery and causing a loss of $780,
300 to $1,000, 900. For several hours
The city was without power or gas.
In response to a letter demanding an
apology for the treatment his wife re-
,eived at the White House offices in
Washington, the president instructed
Secretary Loeb to say to DR.. Minor
Norris that the kindest act to Mrs. |
and her kinsfolk was to refrain
rom giving the case additional publici- |
y"
Mrs. Joseph L. Loomis, a prominent
.hlcago woman, was held up, choked
md robbed of her purse and two dia-
nond rings, within half a block of her
ZONE.
James Meehan, Abraham Catlin, John
~Hilgendorf, P. r. Stiles and Henry
roth, Of Triumph, Mimi, were ar
before United States Commits
Toner Eberhart, at Mankato, Mimi, on
charge OF having made false affida-
ITS to final proofs in homestead en-
RES. They were held for trial in the
ederal court at Sioux Falls.
Representative Blackburn, of North
'arolina, denies in toto the charges
obtained in the indictments returned
gainst him at Asheville, N. c., alleging
nat he practiced before the treasury
apartment and received fees for such
A man supposed to have been Chas.
V. Beers, of Philadelphia, committed
uicide by shooting in his room in a
t. Louis hotel. He had been dead sew
hours when discovered.
Sarah Bernhardt's managers have
urchased a new, fully equipped circus
capable of seating 1850 people, to
e used in those cities of Texas and
in which first class theaters
not be obtained. The tent is 23O
set long and 1870 feet wide. A full
rev of trained canvas men has been
King Oscar of Sweden has gone on a
to Germany.
Chaplain in Chief Rev John F. Leary,
the Grand Army of the Republic,
led at Chapman, Kas., of Bright's dis
Use and pneumonia.
Representative George A. Castor, of
lie Third district of Pennsylvania, died
his home in Philadelphia, after a
illness. aged 81 years.
Joseph Arthur, the well-known play
author Of Blue Jeans" THE
Ill Alarm" and "The Cherry Pickers,"
ed in New York, aged 81 years.
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