The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-05-25

Marathon, Wis, had a big lumber
fire that destroyed about 100000
feet, and owing to the extreme dry
ness and surrounding forest fires the
town was placed in imminent peril
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Boone
(Ia.) Cereal Co., owned by Fred Fear
& Co., of New York city. The loss is
| placed at sos 900; insurance. $43,25O.
Dan Weston, an employe, was injured.
Six steel rail-producing corporations
in the Pittsburg district have booked,
within two weeks, orders for 1000, 900
tons of rails for delivery in 1907.
A, ]. Cassatt, president of the Penn
~sylvania Railroad Co., on his arrival in
London. declined to discuss the report
cabled from Philadelphia that he was
considering retiring from his position.
The general assembly Of the South
ern Presbyterian church is in session at
Greenville, S. c., with 210 commission
ers, representing every one of the SO
prestyteries of the south, In attend
ance.
George w. Jiminez, the New York
| DOllNtuNdH viz wen W ailoiid w ~
organize the police department of that
republic, has given up the job, declar-
ing that political considerations render
the task impossible.
The last imperial garrison in Cana
da, that Of Esquimalt, has been re-
placed by Canadian troops and the Brit
ish troops have started for home.
United States Marshal Darrough Is
confident that it is only a question of
a short time now until the three Wick
life brothers, the Cherokee outlaws, are
either killed or captured.
Fourteen men were injured, three ia
tally in the National tube works at
Benwood, w. Va, by the collapse of q
scaffold, on which they were at work,
under tie weight of a huge casting.
Miss Harlan Child, granddaughter of
Associate Justice Harlan, of the SUI
preme court of the United States, and
Erastus Corning, Jr., of Albany, N. Y,
we're married in Washington, D. c.
Business was practically suspended in
the interior department for half the
day on the occasion of the funeral Of
Carl Schurz, former secretary Of the in
terror.
Prof. Paul S. Reinsch, of Madison,
Wis, has been appointed one Of the
American delegates to the Pan Ameri-
can conference at Rio Janeiro, in place
of James S.. Harlan, who has been
obliged to decline, owing to an accident.
President Roosevelt, speaking to a
,J01apnksan nf thu ATorohonf Morinn
league who called upon him at the
White House, expressed himself as
heartily in favor of the ship subsidy
bill now pending in congress.
President Castro of Venezuela, it Is
said, will resume the reins of govern
ment May rs.
Rev. DR.. Hunter Corbett, a distin-
guished missionary to China for many
years, was chosen moderator Of the
Presbyterian general assembly at Des
Moines, Ia, after a spirited contest, on
the third ballot.
1t Is expected that every necessary
building of the Leland Stanford uni
versity at Palo Alto, CAL, necessary
for the welfare of the college will be in
perfect condition by September next.
Rev. DR.. ]. ]. Tigert, secretary Of the
general conference; Rev. DR.. Seth
| Ward, of Texas, and Rev. DR.. Joseph
Atkins, Su~nday-school editor, were
elected bishops by the general confer
ence Of the Methodist Episcopal church
south at Birmingham, Ala.
Two men, belonging to a construc-
ton gang, were killed and five others
injured, n fatally, by a premature
explosion of dynamite neal Blooming
ton. Ind, on the line of the Indianap-
oils Southern railroad.
Michael Davitt, the well-known Irish
nationalist, has had to submit to a sec
ond operation for blood poisoning, and
though in a very enfeebled condition
may have to submit to a third, to save
his life
The Standard Oil Co. has issued a
statement to it's shareholders in which
it denies positively the charges that
the company benefited by secret rates
for the transportation of it's products,
and declaring that whatever of pros.
perity 1t has enjoyed has been due to
its elaborate economical and Industrial
organization.
The National Society of Daughters OF
Founders and Patriots held it's eighth
annual meeting in Washington, D. C
Mrs. Henry ". Boynton was elected
president and Mrs. Lucy M. o. Marsh
secretary.
The worlds conference of the YOUNG
Women's Christian association held q
weeks session in Paris, France. A
large American delegation, including
three national secretaries, was present.
Ben Hungry and Ned C~arselute, al
legged assomplices of the Wickliffe
brothers, the Cherokee outlaws, were
captured in the Spavinaw hills. Hun
CRY is said to have confessed being with
the Wickliffes when Deputy Gilstrap
was killed.
The Illinois legislature, in special
session, has finally passed a primary
election bill, by a close margin. Lieut.
Gov. Sherman, in announcing the final