The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-07-27

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several persons we're killed. Particu
lars, however, we're lacking.
AS the result Of an explosion In the
Dixon mine at Huger, w. Va, foui
miners were killed and two fatally In
jured.
The Cologne Gazette's st. Peters
burg correspondent says that the Rus
sian government has agreed In prin
ciple t. dissolve parliament and order
new elections on the basis of universal
and direct suffrage.
BIspite previous reports of victories
by the S~alvadoreans at Platana and
Metapam, just before the armistics
was proclaimed, it is now learned
that the Guatemalans were successful
in both battles. =
In the Elks' parade at Denver, Col.
the marchers were showered with
flowers End snowballs, several car.
loads of snow having been brought
from the Continental divide. The tenn.
perature on the street during the snow
balling was about IS.
Att'y.-Gen. Coleman of Kansas has
filed a second contempt case against
Mayor w. w. Rose, and he has been
again ordered to show cause why he
should not be adjudged in contempt
for holding the office of mayor after
having been ousted by the supreme
court.
Rev. DR.. l. Lewis, of Greenfield, Ind,
and George McNeenus, his assistant,
were killed by the explosion of a
tank of carbide, in a tent, while get
ting ready to give a ste%reopticon eX'
hibition of the San Francisco disaster
at Glenwood, Ind. Harry E. Lewis,
a son of Rev. Lewis, was seriously in
jured.
Armed men attacked a cashier on
board a train between R~osto-von-Don,
Russia, and Voronezh, and robbed him
of $12, 500. They made their escape.
The Russian commission that in.
quired into the surrender of Port Ar
thur recommends that Gen. Stoessel
be sentenced to death, and that Lieut.
Gen. Fock, who commanded the
Fourth East Siberian division at Port
Arthur, be condemned to 20 years in
the galleys.
The discovery of black rust in the
wheat fields of Minnesota and the Da-
kotas has caused a sharp advance In
the price of wheat in the Chicago
market.
Harry X. Thaw appears to be at
outs with his mother, who wants the
insanity plea advanced in the defense
OF her son. Thaw, however, insists
that he is sane and wants his case to
go to trial in the regular way, and let
the world hear the story.
Archbishop John Ireland, of ST. Paul,
who is a member of Acker Post No. l,
Department Of Minnesota, Grand Army
of the Republic, has accepted an ap-
pointment as ~aide-de-camp on the staff
of Commander-in-Chie Tanner, and
will ride with him in the parade at
Minneapolis, August Is.
Appraisal of the property owned by
the late Marshal Field in New York
schedules $5,540,405 in personal prop
erty and $2,46S, $50 in real estate.
According to reports from San Fran
cisco, the refugees who left immedi'
ately following the fire, are gradually
returning.
Charles A. Justus, aged 80, and three
children of his sister, Mrs. Samuel
Moudy, were burned to death when
the family homestead was destroyed
four miles east of Middletown, Idaho.
In view of the fact that the late
Alfred Belt took out insurance policies
some years ago in an American com
pany in favor of my intended wife,
Elizabeth Bennett Belt" the question
has naturally arisen was he a bache'
lor, as reported, or a benedict?
Miss Grace Howe Mckinley, niece
Of the late President Mckinley and
Capt. Grayson V. Heidi, Eleventh
United States cavalry, were married
at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Will
liam Mckinley sent a mahogany chest
of silver as a wedding president.
The London papers dwell on the in
tellectual force, beauty, grace and tao
of the late Lady Curzon of Kedleston
and attributes much of Lord Curzon':
success in India, where she worked
with heart and head for the welfare
of the people," to her.
The assassin of the Russian Genera
Kozloff. who was mistaken for Gen
Trepoff, has been identified as a mem
Der of an organization which has sever
al others IN its list.
A slaughterhouse near Wellington
Kas., was found to be in such a filth!
condition that DR.. Crumbine, secre
tary of the state board of health, de
clared that nothing but destruction b.
fire would restore its location to
healthful condition.
w. Bourke Cochran, who is tourin
California, insists that Presiden
Roosevelt will be forced to run agai
for president. He is not so sur
about Bryan, Notwithstanding tn