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

600, 900 for the relief of suffering in
San Francisco was adopted by both
houses of congress and was promptly
signed by the president.
Within the space of 20 minutes the
house passed 572 private pension bills.
175 of which were senate bills.
The house passed the bill permit
ting the withdrawal from bond, tax
free, of domestic alcohol when rem
dered unfit for beverage or liquid
medicinal uses by mixture with suit
able denaturing materials.
The house passed a bill to increase
the limit of loans by national banks
by allowing the banks to loan ten per
of their capital and ten per cent. of
their surplus to any person, firm or
corporation.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Reports from San Francisco on the
night of the goth said that a stiff
northwest wind was blowing, carry
ing the fire towards the water front
and seriously threatening the ferry
docks, thus menacing the only outlet
from the stricken city.
-hI. anu MIS-. NlClUldS Lung AOlli
have decided to sail for England June
2, returning the latter part of August.
John Babe, aged GA years, a painter,
fell from the roof of a house in st.
Louis and was impaled on a picket
fence, causing almost instant death.
In the murder case of Mrs. Wilson,
accused OF killing Lee Prunty at Ere
donia, Kas., February II, the jury dis
agreed, being out "A hours, and was
discharged.
Mrs. Anna Short, aged GO, widely
known for 80 years as an evangelist
and home missionary in Illinois for
the Christian church, was found dead
in bed at Bloomington.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Co. was fined $4,000 and two
officials of the company $4,000 each
in the federal court at Chicago, having
been found guilty of rebating.
John Lawrence Brady, the St. Louis
stabber, was found guilty Of felonious
assault upon Mrs. Martha Young, and
was sentenced to six months in the
workhouse.
The United States Steel corpora
ton, the Standard Oil Co., Andrew
Carnegie and William Waldorf Astor
each gave $500, 600 for the California
relief fund.
Labor and fraternal organizations
throughout the country have started
vigorous movements for the relief of
their fellows in San Francisco. The
Fraternal Order of Eagles has levied
a per capita tax Of 25 cents, which will
amount to 90,000.
The Canadian government voted
$4,000 for the earthquake and fire
sufferers in San Francisco.
Fire swept the towns of Mariquina
and Pasil, in Luzon, Philippine islands
In the former 1000 houses were
burned and in the latter 200. Thou.
sands of people are homeless, and the
government is sending assistance.
M. Gnggenheim's Sons, in New
York, have issued orders to proceed,
as sol as practicable, with the con
struction of their $4,000, 900 smelling
plant in San Francisco.
The wiping out of Chinatown in San
Francisco has revealed secrets . the
police never dreamed of. The wood
en- structures were simply a veneel
for a vast system of burrows in the
ground, some 100 feet deep, where
things occurred that the outside world
Newer saw.
Eleven postal clerks were taken
alive from the debris of the San Fran
cisco post office, after having been fol
three days without food or water. AL
the mail was saved.
The resources of every city in Cali
fcrnia are being taxed to prepare sup
plies OF food to be forwarded to Sar
Francisco, where at least 800, 600 per
SONS are dependant upon outside as
sistanee.
An Oakland (Cal.) dispatch says
thaS1a men who attempted to enter
the United States mint building in Sar
Francisco, whose vaults contain 5000,
10000 i'm coin ssd bullion, we're shot
down by United States regulars.
The Pacific cable to China has beer
completed, and President Roosevelt has
exchanged direct messages with the
empress dowager.
Dowie has spurned the arbitration
proposition rendered by the Voliva par,
ty at Zion City, refusing to recognize
Voliva az authorized to speak for the
Christian Catholic church, and negotia,
tions a . broken of. 1t locks now as II
Zicn's affairs would be aired In the
courts.
A brilliant gathering OF persons dis
tinguished in arts. science, literature
and in many branches Of education, as
ssmbled in Witherspoon hall, Philadel-
phts. and formally ~inaugurated the four
days celebration In honor M the tyO
hundrsath anniversary Of the birth Of
benjamin. franklin.