The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-02-09

49, 'hN'S''otS q tieohttS stiN app
l., all efforts at adjustment with thu
operators having failed.
Thomas Winchell, who was postmas
ter at La Crescent, Mimi, for 40 consec
utive years--1S59 to 1~S99-died at Ii
Cross, Wis, aged 81 years. He hell
the record for long and continuous
service.
Mrs. W. E. Corey, wife of the stee.
magnate, has purchased a home a
Reno, New, and will reside there perm
anently.
A treaty of peace has been arranged
between the rival tongs in Chinatown
New York city, which, it is hoped, will
put an end to the reign of terror that
has prevailed there for a long time.
At the sale of the Henry G. Denny
library in Boston a set of the first four
folios of Shakespeare, containing the
history, tragedies and comedies, print
ed in London between 1923 and 1886.
was bought by Fred w. Morris, of New
York, for $3.50.
Peter McArdel, Of Dover, N. H., a civ
il engineer and general railroad con-
tractor, known all over the United
States, died at Kansas City, Mo-, OF
pneumonia, aged 46 years.
William Clark, charged with the MUIR
der of Leroy Sumner, vas acquitted at
Dubuque, Ia.
The monthly statement OF government
receipts and expenditures shows that
the deficit of a year ago Of over $685.
500, 900 has been reduced to So, 400, 900,
with the prospect of the entire amount
/ beng wiped out within the next 80
days.
Maj.-Gen. Henry c. Corbin is en- route
home from the Philippines, and will
succeed Gen. Bates in the rank of lieu
tenant general. He will assume COM
mand of the northern division of the
army, with headquarters in st. Louis.
Three men lost their lives and So
were more or less seriously injured
principally by suffocation-as the result
of a fire on board the transport Meade,
at San Francisco, on the v of sailing
for Manila with troops and stores
Nearly all of the injured were members
of the San Francisco fire department.
The property loss was nominal.
A resolution is reported to have
been ~inaugurated in the province of
Antioquita, Colombia, under the lead
ership of Gen. Gonzales Valencia, for
mel vice president of the republic.
A formal motion has been filed in
the case of Albert T. Patrick, con-
victed of the murder of William Marsh
Rice, with the district attorney in New
York, on the ground of newly discov-
cred evidence. The motion is made
returnable February 8.
The supreme court of Missouri has
affirmed the sentence of death passed
upon F.. Seymour harrington, convicted
of the murder of James P. Mccain,
his friend and benefactor, and has
named March Is as the day of execu
cution at Clayton.
The Carnegie Hero Fund commits
sion has awarded medals and substan-
tial cash honorariums to Capt. Mark
Casio and his crew of the fishing
schooner Alberta in consideration of
their gallant rescue of the passengers
and crew of the steamer Cherokee,
stranded on Brigantine shoals, near
Atlantic City, N. J..
Justice Gildersleeve, of the New
York supreme court has decided that
II. H. Rogers need not answer the
questions propounded by Attorney Gen.
eral Hadley of Missouri while the
legality of the action of Attorney Gen
eral Hadley against the Standard Oil
Co. is an open question in the Missouri
supreme court.
President Palma of Cuba has COM
missioned the Cuban minister in Paris
to purchase and forward the wedding
present for Miss Roosevelt, for which
congress appropriated $25.O 900.
Paul Dresser, who wrote ION the
Banks Of the Wabash" and "the Blue
and the Gray" died at the home of his
sister in New York. He was born in
Terre Haute, Ind, AZ years ago.
A movement has been started in New
York to enlist the support of the clergy
OF all denominations throughout the
country in an effort for the
sion of child labor.
Inc national Live Stock association
and the American Stock Growers asso-
citation have got together again and
have formed the American National
Live Stock association, with Murdo
Mackenzie. of Trinidad, Col, at its
head.
John J. Bowes, an Englishman, who
carries three honorable discharges from
the United States seryice-once as a
regular, once as a volunteer and once
as a jackie, was denied admission at the
port of Boston on his return from a trip
to England because he was suffering
from rheumatism and a bullet wound re-
ceived in the Philippines. He has new
er been formally naturalized.
Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, aged 80, the
widow of a month, with a fortune Of
81. 500,0 0U, and Wilson Miner, aged 20,
son of a former United States minister
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