The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-05-31
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rent News Domestic
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III AN
nrer of a New Britain, Conn, bank,
was, it has been learned, a passenger
on the steamship Doric in her last
voyage to the orient. He is reported
to have landed at a Chinese port and
thence disappeared.
The social democrats of Great Brit
ain welcomed their Russian comrades
who have come to London for the
purpose of holding a congress free
from official interference at the Hol-
born town hall.
Lieut.. Col. Thomas Vallee, Maj.
Severe lorenzo and Lieut. Manuel
Portala of the Argentina army arrived
at Fort Leavenworth on an official
visit of inspection.
A man 80 years old, supposed from
letters found in his pockets to be
Henry Dalka of Hutchinson, Kas.,
died on an Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe train on the way to Chicago.
Bank Commissioner Smock was no.
titled of the failure OF the State Bank
of Manitou, Okla, which collapsed for
$4,000. A request is made for a
bank examiner to take charge.
Lewis Lamkin, editor of the Lees
Summit, (Mo) Journal, died, aged 20
years. He had been in the newspaper
business in Missouri continuously for
"a years.
Brig. Gen. Constant Williams, re-
Gently stationed at Denver, Col, in
command of the department of Colo
RADIO, will be placed on the retired
list of the army by operation of the
law on account of age.
The Russian steamship Korea was
towed into port two tugs, with $500
passengers kneeling on her decks in
a prayer of thanks for deliverance
from perils of the sea that had beset
them for almost a month.
George w. Harper, who for nearly
ten years has been treasurer of the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co.,
was elected vice president of that
! company.
Brig. Gen. H. s. Turrill, U. S. A.,
retired, of New Milford, Conn, died
suddenly of heart disease.
The watch at the bedside of Mrs.
Mckinley, widow of the martyr presi-
dent, has resolved itself into a sor-
rowful waiting for the end, which all
realize must come, possibly a few days
hence, or even a few weeks away.
The president has received from a
little girl named Mary Wagner a let
ter pleading for the pardon of her
stepfather, John Allison, who was con-
victed in Michigan a number of years
ago of bank robbery, and had served
six year of a long sentence in the
p~enitentiary when he escaped. Since
then he is said to have been living
an exemplary life.
The body Of E.. T. Dunning,a prom
inent attorney, was found in the wa
ter at Port Los Angeles, Cal. He
left his home in Los Angeles a few
days ago and wrote a letter to his
wife telling her that he intended to
drown himself.
Secretary Shepard has announced
that the Los Angeles committee hav-
ing charge of the preparations for the
convention of the National Education
al association July 8-12 proposes to
make the musical features especially
prominent.
According to the Vorsische Zeitung,
the Prussian government intends in
1908 to begin the electrification of sew
eral of the state railroads of western
Germany, where the freight traffic is
heavy.
The president, it is said at the
White House, will not make more
than one stop in any n state on his
way down the Mississippi river after
he leaves Canton on the 30th of Sep.
TENDER.
A ~nitroglycerin factory located
three miles southwest of Martinsville,
ILL.,, which supplied the explosive to
the Clark county oil fields, took fire
and exploded.
The United States Inland Water
way Commission completed its trip
by boat from st. Louis to New Orleans
An immense amount of data, some of
It bearing on the lakes-to-the-gulf deep
waterway project, was gathered en-
route.
Mckinley Traction System plans
through electric line from st. Louis
to Indianapolis. Many interurban lines
building.
Myer Coin, whose letters show that
ne came from Harrisburg, Pa, com.
mitted suicide in Vancouver, B. G.
After first searching their lodgings,
the police Of Berlin took into custody
ten Russian students. The search
revealed discriminating anarchistic
pamphlets. n
William H. Mills, head of the land
department of the Southern Pacific.
died Friday.
H. G. Prick denied the published
report that he vas to erect at Pitts
burg at a cost Of $780, 900 q building to
be known as the Pittsburg academy Of
hne arts.