The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

propriatcd $500 which he had collect
ed for the complainant.
One hundred printers have been let
out from the government printing Of
fee in Washington on account of lack
of work.
Nfty-fve persons were known to be
killed and fully 100 injured, some dam
%gerously, by the collapse Of the Hotel
Zum Hirsch, at Nogolg, in Little Black
Forest, Germany, that was under re-
pair, while about 200 workmen and
townspeople were engaged, as guests
of the keeper, in a merrymaking in the
banquet hall.
Upwards Of 200 delegates, represent
ing IS countries, assembled in Rome to
participate in the universal postal con-
gress, which was formally inaIgurated
by King Victor Emmanuel.
Gov. Davos of Arkansas has appoint
ed w. T. Scoggins prosecuting attor-
ney at Hot Springs, and the latter has
notified all gamblers that they must
cease operations and that the para
phernalia of any gambling house found
open will be seized and burned &C.
cording to law.
Mrs. Edith Cooper, of Philadelphia,
who with Emo Bardeleben, of New
York, took a room in the Palmer House,
Chicago, registering IS mar and wife,
committed suicide by shooting while
temporarily left alone.
An anti-Jewish proclamation was Is
sued from the official printing Office in
Orel, Russia, with an inscription show
ing that it had been passed by the CEN
sor.
Chancellor Prince Won Buelow Of
Germany was seized with a fainting
spell while addressing the reichstag on
the Algeciras conference, and 1t was
rumored that he had been stricken with
paralysis. He recovered, however, in
a few hours.
The National Association of Mail
Carriers have in contemplation the
erection of a national home for con
sumptive members of the association
at Colorado Springs, Col, where 160
acres of land has been donated for the
purpose.
Patrick Dolan, former president of
the Pittsburg district Of the United
Mine Workers, and Uriah B~ellingham,
former ~vice-president, have been eX-
PEELED from the organization for violat-
ing instructions.
White cappers at Cripple Creek, Col,
are threatening to deport Judge ". p.
Seeds, of the district court, for his ac-
ton in dealing severely with violators
0f tho C,nloxr aIpcinp nrJit,onon
The Illinois primary law, passed by
the last legislature, has been declared
unconstitutional by the state supreme
court, and a special session of the leg
islature has been called to pass a new
law in conformity with the decision.
Secretary of State Root, after attend
ing the international conference at Rio
| de Janeiro, will extend his trip SO Is to
circumnavigate the southern continent,
visiting Buenos Ayres, Montevideo,
Santiago de Chile and Lima, coming up
the west coast to Panama and crossing
the isthmus at that point.
Mrs. John A. Dowie, at a meeting OF
the overseers of Zion, related her hus-
bands alleged efforts to convert her
to the idea of plural marriage. 1t was
to further his plans for polygamy, she
declared, that he developed the Para
disc Plantation" project to be carried
out in Mexico.
The body of Paul Nocquet, a French
sculptor of note and an enthusiastic
amateur aerorsut, rho started from
New York, hoping to reach Philadel-
| phia, was found On the edge Of Bass
| creek, a small stream winding through
| the meadows of Long Island. There
was evidence of his having made a des-
perate struggle for life after his bal
loon descended.
]. Burdett, president of the Eufaula
Il. To national bank, merchant and
one of the most prominent and wealthy
men in the Creek nation, was shot and
killed at the real of his home by an
unknown assassin. Mr.. Burdett carried
a quarter of a million life insurance.
In the district court at Vermillion,
S. D., Elmer johnson and Richard
Brueschveiler pleaded guilty to having
fired three old buildings, last summer,
ito improve the appearance Of the
town." and were each sentenced to
five years imprisonment.
Jap" Smith, who was charged with
m~anslaughter In connection with the
wreck at Chiilic0the, ILL.,. on the Santa
Fe, was acquitted at Peoria, ILL.,, on the
instruction Of the court that Conductor
Weatherwax's negligence was subse-
auent to that of Smiths and was the
The grand july at Fond du Lac. Wis,
returned an indictment against Frank
A. Bartlett, former president of the
board Of trustees of the county insane
asylum. for the alleged embezzlement
Of $l,485 of public funds.
A dispatch from Lokoja, Nigeria, says
that the leader Of the rebels who boast
ed that he had killed two French OFF,
GERS in February Of this year, was ex-
ecuted, after trial by the sultan Of So
koto and a native court.
Oficers Of the American Civic asso-
citation and Merchants association OF
New York have filed q protest against