The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-27

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Reid, $1G,500 was subscribed for the
relief of the California earthquake and
fire sufferers. Mr.. Reid subscribed
$4,000.
The sub-treasury building at San
Francisco was among the buildings de-
stroyed by fire. The funds in the vaults
remained intact, and a military guard
was placed around the site.
Clarence II. Mackay will give 800, 900
toward the erection of new buildings
for the University of California.
Reports from San Jose, Cal, show
that ten persons were killed as the re-
suit of the earthquake there. All the
main buildings are badly damaged. The
Lick observatory and its valuable in
struments escaped injury.
r. A. Cole, q well-known horseman,
speaking of the San Francisco horror,
said: my God! l never "a anything
like it, and l have seen things, too; /
was in the ST. Louis cyclone and the
Baltimore fire. They were nothing.
Man, you can't imagine it; it's indie
~scribable. | saw all San Francisco
staggering and rocking and then in
flames. / wanted to rush down and
jump in the bay and shut out the awful
sights"
The citizens of Los Angeles, worked
up to high nervous tension by the ter
rible events at San Francisco, had a mo-
mentary scare in the shape of a slight
earthquake shock, and though it was
not hard enough to cause a pendulum
to swing, it sent thousands scurrying
into the streets.
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation calling upon cities, towns,
boards of trade, chambers of commerce,
relief committees and individuals to
come to the aid Of the sufferers by the
terrible calamity at San Francisco, and
has named the National Red Cross as
the nations almoner to receive and dis
pense the public offerings.
The Franklin celebration in Paris,
including the unwilling of the Frank
lin statue, has been indefinitely post
poned.
An earthquake shock, which was
felt distinctly throughout Hancock
Mich, and which was most pronounced
in the Quincy mine, killed n man and
injured four others while working
mile below the earth's surface.
President Roosevelt has received
many cablegrams expressive of the
sympathy with this country of foreign
rulers and foreign countries on account
of the appalling disaster at San Fran
cisco.
State Senator F. M. McDavid, OF
Springfield, Mo-, is doubtful as to con-
| ~victions being secured against members
| of the mob engaged in the recent lynch.
ings.
Pope McKenna, Of Louisville, KY,
known as Lucky" McKenna, a Louis
vile & Nashville engineer, is 60 years
of age and has never been in a wreck,
On two occasions when substitutes have
taken his run they have been killed.
Kalamazoo, Mich, has an ordinance
just gone into effect, that provides fol
a fine n Jail term for any city en-
ploye who accepts a free pass to thea
ter, baseball game, traction line or com
plimentary tickets of any kind.
Father Gapon, the Russian labor
leader, is reported to have mysteriously
disappeared from st. Petersburg. The
police insist that he has not been ar
rested, and his wife fears that he ha!
fallen a victim at the hands of persona
enemies.
A new worlds record was made il
the New York billiard tournament whel
George Sutton defeated Willie Hoppe a
1872 balk line, making his 500 points
in five innings, his highest run being
234, unfinished. Sutton was In sucl
splendid form that he was simply in
yincible
Col. James H. Lewis, corporation
counsel of Chicago, purged himself O
contempt in the United States distric
court at Springfield, Ill., and Judg'
Humphrey RENTED the sentence Of g.
days in Jail imposed on Col. Lewis TO
violating the courts order.
The United States supreme court ha
rendered a decision-fye to four-tha
a state court can not sever a marriag'
bond unless it has jurisdiction of bot
parties to the contract. Thousands o
divorces are thus nullified and thou
sands of marriages, following one-side'
divorces, are thus rendered PRACTICAL,
bigamous.
Two thieves entered the jewelr
store of ]. @. Hatch, in the Chronicl
building, San Francisco, knocked
clerk senseless with a blow from tn
butt of a revolver and made off with
tray containing several thousand dol
lers' worth of diamonds.
Joseph M. Drinkwater, OF Chicago
who eloped with his sister-in-law, MR.
Dora Drinkwater, was arrested, wit
the woman, in San Francisco, on com
plant of the latter's husband, VIII
charged that they carried off $4,000 @
his money.
Voliya and his followers at Zio
City made a proposition to Dowie t
place all of the property of the Chri.
tian Catholic church in the hands G