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

1t appears that the original general
memorandum of Lord Nelson to his
captains, on the eve of the battle of Ira
falgar, which was recently sold at auc-
ton for SIS, 200, was the property of
a London omnibus driver, given to
him by his father, and he had no idea
of its value until recently.
Several hundred Pennsylvanians,
headed by Gov. Pennypacker, visited
Vicksburg, Miss, to dedicate the
monumen and markers erected in the
national park in memory of the Penn
~sylvania troops who took part in the
siege.
On account of the expected strike of
coal miners, all repair work in the
shops of the Erie railroad system has
been suspended, throwing 5000 men
out Of work.
Walter Potee, aged IS years, while
insane, opened fire with a revolver on
q funeral party in his brothers house
in Brooklyn, Nd. drove all out, set
fire to the house and hen committed
suicide. Nine persons were wounded,
two probably fatally.
Mrs. Miguel Ahumada, wife of the
governor of J~alisco, Mexico, died at
Chihuahua.
The death list Resulting from the
explosion in the Century CIV. Va
mine, after a thorough anvass of the
district, is placed at %, with upwards
of a score injured
Several thousand native Kentuck-
ians, residing in other states, are tx
pected to be present during home-com-
ing week, in Louisville, June 10 to II,
preparations for which are under way.
Hon. Henry Watterson will deliver
the address of welcome and former
Gov. Francis, of Missouri, the response.
In anticipation of a miners strike,
coal in the Pittsburg district is adj
vancing rapidly, and large orders are
being received from manufacturers as
far west as Chicago.
The development of another case of
yellow fever at Panama has set the
sanitary authorities at work in eff
forts to avert an epidemic.
Acknowledgement .Hadley of Mis-
souri, was the guest of honor at the
annual banquet of'the Missouri society
of New York city, and delivered an
address on Present Day Evils"
Rev. William Rees Goodwin, D. D.,
a former professor in Illinois Yves
leyan university, at Bloomington, and
who filled pastorates in several of the
larger Illinois cities, and in San Fran
cisco, died in Los Angeles, Cal.
Frank e. Moores, mayor of Omaha,
Neb., is dead after a long illness with
throat trouble and a general breaking
down. He was &C years of age and
was serving his third term.
Japanese employees of the Edison
Electric Co., at Kernville, Cal, were
driven out of town by a mob of tran
sient laborers under threats of being
dynamited.
S. E. Peate, testified, at Kansas City,
Kas., that by paying $40 to the col
lector for the county attorneys Office
he was permitted to pull off a prize
fight and a chicken fight.
Several master printers Of Boston
have filed a petition for a mandamus
to prevent the use of the union label by
the municipal printing plant.
Criminal and civil proceedings are
forecasted against certain men and firms
in Philadelphia who performed work on
municipal improvements.
A fast ~east-bound Burlington train
was partially wrecked at Lockridge, Ia.
One man was killed and about a dozen
persons seriously injured.
The authorities of Kansas City, Mo-,
are on the trail of and expect to expose
ia widespread plan Of illegal registra-
ton.
George Wells, aged IA years, who was
bitten by a rabid dog at Owingsville,
Ky. six years ago, has just died there
OF b~ydrophobia.
A second unsuccessful attempt was
made. 10 cap the burning gas well near
caney, Kas. The flow OF gas is greater
than ever.