The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-05-04

compaD1ed by her son, Gladstone Dowte,
but the latter did not see his father.
The purpose Of the visit has not trans
PRED.
It %transpires that on the day Of the
in California ID men were
killed at Iona Preta. ten miles from
Santa Cruz, Cal, by the crushing of a
sawmille by a landslide following the
quake. The court house at Santa Cruz
was so badly shaken that 1t will have
to be razed.
Mrs, Abbie Adams, national president
Of the Woman's RELIEF corps, has is
sued q circular letter to all departments
in the United States, calling upon them
to adopt measures for the speedy relief
Of San Francisco veterans and their
families.
The $75, 900 rendered by the empress
dowager of China and $4O,0 900 raised by
charity in Hong Kong for the San
sufferers, has been courteous
ly declined by the state department at
Washington, and may be sent direct to
the Chinese in San Francisco.
King Peter Of Servia was thrown
from his horse, injuring his ankle.
The battleship Missouri won first
prize for the best all-round shooting in
the recent target practice by the At
lantic fleet.
The British steamer Havana was
sunk in Halifax IN. 81 harbor by the
steamer Strathcona. The captain and
seven men on the Havana were saved.
The Suez canal authorities are pre-
Dewey can ley up nights during her
passage through the canal, SO as not to
entirely obs.ruct the passage of other
shipping during the six days necessary
to traverse the canal.
The town of Bellevue, Tex, is re-
to have been entirely destroyed
by a tornado, and at last account fire
was consuming the wreckage. Bellevue
was a town of 1900 inhabitants. The
towns of S%toneburg, Hamilton and Hico
also suffered severely. The loss of life
was quite heavy.
A bill has been introduced in con
gresS to apply 1000, 900 of the Chi
indemnity fund to the purchase
Of ground wherein to erect buildings
for II consular offices in China, Korea
and Japan.
The mikado Of Japan has donated
5000, 900 for the relief of the San Fran.
cisco sufferers, and the leading business
of Toxic and Osaka have contrib
uted a like sum.
The distribution Of food in the city
of San Francisco has been formally
turned over to the United States army,
which will do the work along systemat.
ic lines.
Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury, paid his promised visit to st.
Louis and received a cordial welcome
He addressed a large audience in Music
hall on the tariff question and political
conditions in Missouri.
The next annual reunion of the Unit
ed Confederate veterans will be held in
Richmond, Va.
About 10000 men who wore the gray
assembled at New Orleans and partici.
pated in the sixteenth annual reunion OF
the United Confederate Veterans.
Lieut.-G e Stephen D. Lee, the COM
mander-in-chief, was given a great ova
ton. Gen. J. B. CAN'T, OF Missouri, was
generals report shows the organization
to be in good condition.
On the afternoon of the 25th inst, In
other earthquake shock, of nearly Q
minutes duration, was experienced al
San Francisco. Many walls of burned
buildings were thrown down and frail
structures badly shaken up. The actual
damage is slight. One death is known
to have resulted.
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco ON
plains that some of the young national
guardsmen on duty there are altogether
too quick on the trigger.
Now that the citizens of San Fran
cisco have thoroughly organized,
President Roosevelt has modified his
previous proclamation, and advises that
relief contribution be forwarded to the
finance committees headed by former
Mayor James D. Phelan, of San Fran
cisco, instead of to the American Red
Cross. The latter organization will CO.
operate with the San Francisco com.
mittee in relief work.
Involuntary proceedings in bank.
ruptcy have been started in the federal
court, in Chicago, against John Alex
ander Dowie, which promise to present
some knotty legal points for untangle
ment.
William A. Harris, Of Lindon, for
governor, and a full state ticket was
nominated by the democrats of Kansas
in convention at Topeka. Harris, who
vas a confederate soldier in the civil
war, was formerly United States SEN
ator.
Twenty-cne antitrust suits have been
filed in the twenty-sixth district court
of Texas by the state, as a result of re-
cent investigation, involving penalties
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