The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-05-31

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slaughter in the killing Of her hus'
band, Joseph Neil, a blacksmith and
pugilist.
Women at work in the United
States Is the subject of a report is.
sued by the census bureau based on
the returns in 1900. Exclusive Of Alas.
ka, Hawaii and other outlying posses.
sions, the women 16 years old mum.
bered 23,4S5, $50. Those at work mum.
bered 14,S33,630.
After being out more than "a hours,
the jury which has been trying Mrs.
Laura Cramer, charged with ordering
her son, a mere boy, to shoot and kill
her husband, Fred Cramer, at Page,
N. D., Feb. IA last, disagreed.
Five hundred postal officials of New
York attended a dinner given to Geo.
B. Cortelyou, now secretary of the
treasury, but formerly postmaster
general, at the Hotel Astor.
The recommendation Of the COM
mittee IN laws of the supreme coun-
Gil of the Royal Arcanum at Boston,
compelling new members to start with
pl,oOV uSdth uChSil, was
Milton d. Purdy, of Washington, as
sistant attorney general of the United
States arrived in st. Paul to assist in
the prosecution for the government Of
the case against the Standard Oil Co.
A case of yellow fever was discov-
cred in Havana, being the second ase
this year. The patient had recently
come to the capital from the interior.
The largest most representative and
most harmonious convention which
ever assembled in Ireland repudiated
the plan for a limited council, which
was all the liberal government had to
offer in fulfillment of it's campaign
promises.
Thirty persons were injured, some
seriously, in a collision between a
three-car electric train bound for New
York from Coney Island and a trolley
car of the Thirty-ninth street line at
Bay Nineteenth and Eighty-siXth
streets, Bath Beach.
Bids were opened by the purchasing
agency of the Panama canal here for
5000 tons of steel rails for railroad
construction on the isthmus. Only two
bids were received, n making the
price $15S, $50 for the rails delivered at
Colon and the other $162,250.
Frank w. Berkshire, who has been
work in the New York city and Malone
IN. " districts, was appointed in
spector and chairman on general i'm
migration on the Mexican border at
81, 900 per annum
At Southwest City, a small town in
Mcdonald County, Mo-, A. A. McGhee
shot and killed Geo. Oyler, aged 81
son of a prominent merchant. Ovler
had been keeping company with Nc
Ghee's daughter against the fathers
wishes.
Ships of the Pacific squadron have
the highest honors of the United
States navy for every class Of which
it contains a vessel.
The announcement is made that
Lieut.. Gen. Joseline Heneage Wode-
house has been appointed governor of
Bermuda, in succession to Sir Robert
McGregor Stewart, recently resigned.
1t is predicted that the first
witness testifying to circumstances
connected with the crime in the Steun-
enberg murder case will take the
stand one week hence.
Former Judge William Lumpkin, a
lawyer and wealthy citizen of Eldon,
Mo-, was arranged before United
States Commissioner Giesberg on a
charge of sending obscene matter
through the mails.
At the biennial convention of the
Switchmen's Union of America 1t is
probable that a proposal to make a
contribution for the defense of Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone, at Boise,
Ida, will be brought up.
The secretary of the interior ap-
proved the selection of 122,348 acres
of land selected by the State of Col
orado in lieu of school lands other
wise disposed of.
The French cruiser Chanzy is ashore
on one of the Saddle islands in the
Chusan group. Her position is danger
GUS. Assistance is being sent from
Shanghai.
The executive committee of the
National Hardware association, in ses-
sion in Philadelphia, decided with the
jobbers. A plan to do away with the
jobbers has been under consideration
for some time.
Refusing to work with material from
mills operating with non-union wood
workers, nearly 1000 carpenters en-
ployed by building contractors in
Denver went on strike.
Henry Becker, of Manhattan, N. Y,
was arrested on suspicion of having
murdered Amelia, the 15-year-old
daughter of William Staffeldt, a farm
err of Elmhurst, l.. I.
A British torpedo boat destroyer
the name of which was not known,
grounded or Diarber sands, six miles
north of Great Yarmouth.
Haskell B. Talley, a young lawyer
md no1iticiap IF Tulsa m cbnt u