The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-05-17
AN EplTOME OF THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
a Carefully Dlgested end Con-
densed Compilation OF Cur
rent News Domestic
and Foreign.

startled by the sensational declara-
ton by DR.. s. A. Knopff before the
tuberculosis congress in Washington,
advising the killing of consumptives
with poison to hasten their end.
John Grier Hibben, in a communi-
cation from the Princeton Alumni
committee of so, announces the gift
of 81. zoo, 900 to Princeton university.
For the first time this spring, there
was no frost reported from any wealth
er bureau station in Nebraska for
Wednesday night.
The giant steamship Baltic of the
White Star line, which grounded on a
mud bank five miles northeast OF
Sandy Hook, in Gedney channel, while
outward bound for Europe, was sue
cessfully floated at high tide.
Miss Matte Watterson, aged &c
years, said to be a niece of Rear Ad-
miral Robley n. Evans and a member
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, was found dead in her
room at Ell Paso, Tex.
S. Marshall Williams, Of Pittsburg,
resigned as secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania board OF trade. Williams testi-
fed before the capitol investigation
commission two weeks ago..
A special from Fernie, B. c., says:
The striking miners at Michael re-
turned to work, thus marking the con-
clusion of the strike in the Crow
Nests Pass fields.
There has been serious rioting in
the Cossack village of Kavkazskaia,
in which 81 persons lost their lives.
Troops have been sent.
Coroner w. H. Null, of Christian
county, ILL.,, dropped dead as he was
about to administer the oath to a
jury summoned to conduct an inquest
over the body of Martin Autonivich,
who was killed by a train.
The American Locomotive Co. has
completed at its Allegheny plant the
largest and heaviest locomotive in
the world. 1t will be used for drag
ging the Pennsylvania 16-hour Chica-
go express across the mountains.
Sheriff George S. Mathews of Ira
Wis county, Texas, is speeding toward
St. Louis, as fast as express trains
can bring him, to take into custody
Millionaire H. Clay Pierce, chairman
of the board of directors of the
Waters-Pierce, Oil Co.
The state senate, of Massachusetts,
without dissenting, passed the bill pro-
hibiting "bucket-shops" in Massachu-
sets.
Madrid is celebrating the birth of an
heir to the Spanish throne. The stork
came to the palace of King Alfonso
and Queen Victoria shortly after noon
Friday, bearing the infant whose IT,
tie is the Prince of the Austrias.
In consequence of the great increase
in immigration, the Hungarian manu-
facturers' union will begin May 10 an
inquiry in the hope of finding some
means of keeping the people at home.
All American records for quick div
ing for a submarine boat were brok-
en-, when the submarine Octopue went
through a series of extraordinary tests
in Coddington cove.
With much enthusiasm, New York's
Spanish colony celebrated the birth
of the heir to the Spanish throne
The hotels and cafes were Spaniards
congregated were crowded to over
flowing.
Prints of hands, feet and knees in
the soft mud for half a mile along
the Mississippi river bank south Of
Cape Girardeau show the desperate
but futile struggle of a man to craw
to help and warmth after a plunge II
the river.
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With a letter in his pocket contain
ing what purports to be a written con
fession of crimes, George Bennington
a valet, was arrested in New York
charged with stealing money and jew
.elry valued at several thousand dol
lars from Sydney Smith, his employ
e..
E. H. Benson, of the Prairie Phos
plate Co., at Tampa, Fla, was con
victed of peonage in the United State
court.
A statement regarding the admins
tration of morphine to c%onsumptiv
patients which was made by DR..
A. Knopf of this city at the recen
meeting of the National Associatio
for the Study and Prevention of TT
OtlCulOpic III Wdohih6boh was OhtiiC
misunderstood by the general public
according to DR.. Knopf. g.
Kansas Attorney General wins frs
fight in effort to enforce prohibition
liquor laws. st. Louis brewery
quit state.
Irish home-rule bill confers but Ii
tie self-government upon people. Plea
es no party. Grown to have appoin
ing powers.
Andrew Carnegie, accompanied b
his wife and daughter Margaret, sale
on the White Star Baltic for Europ'
where the ironmaster will seek
recover from his recent illness.
The attorney general has fixe
Wednesday. May 10, for 9 hearing Q
fhs Question of labels for whisky