Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-12-25
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New Zealand is about to prevent the
importation of consumptive or vitality
diseased persons.
Anonymous doners have Just sent
GIo,ooo and two sums of $500 each to
the bishop of Wakefield England, for
ecclesiastical purposes in the diocese.
A notice has been placed at the en-
trance to the long walk at Windsor
park, in London, prohibiting motor cars
from passing either up or down the
royal avenue.
A well-known London horse dealer
not long ago died from worry caused by
bad debts. There is a likelihood of
something like GI4 ,ooo-out of the GI7,-
600 owing-being paid to the widow.
The baroness de Hirsch has signified
her intention to erect and endow a
home for Jewish consumptives. She
has, with that object, placed under the
control of her relative, Mrs. Bischoff-
scheim, Sir Edward Sasson and Frank
Lucas, a sum between 100000 and eso,-
600,
The Office OF librarian at the English
house of lords will become vacant In a
few weeks by the retirement of Mr.
Pullman, who has held this post for 35
years. The salary is ESQ year, with
an excellent official residence The post
is in the gift of the lord chancellor
At Bloomsbury comfy court in En-
land, before his honor Judge Bacon,
there were two plaintiffs in an action
husband and wife. When they G
the box it was found that the wife could
not talk and the husband was deaf
Judge Bacon's only comment was,
"Dear me-"
Mrs. Irving of Shield Burnfoot, near
Langholm, England, visited that town
on Monday to discharge some business.
She had just left the shop OF. a cabinet
maker, when varicose vein in her leg
burst, and, though medical aid was at
once sent for, she bled to death in a
few minutes
The west Australian gold fields show
little difference from the Victorian fields
of the SOS in their extravaganza and
prodigality. At the banquet recently
given in Kalgoorie to celebrate the
opening of the railway, champagne
flowed in miniature torrents, !" 600 bot.
ties being consumed.
The duke of Connaught has Issued an
order that all military bands shall cease
playing while passing reetive horses on
public roads. This is in consequence of
recent accident near Aldershot, Eng
lane, when man was knocked down and
killed by runway animal which had
been frightened by band.
In a police court case recently tried in
Melbourne. some strange revelations
were made about matrimonial agencies.
1t .ranspired that one of these agencies
kept on its staff clergyman, who
undertook for IS shillings a week to
marry all properly sualifed clients of
the agency who presented themselves.
The guardians of Cardiff, England,
resolved by a majority Of two votes
that the inmates of the workhouse
should not be allowed beer at the Christ.
mas dinner although 1t has always been
sent as gift from local brewer and
only glass allowed to those who pre-
ferred It to tea or coffee. No case of
intoxication has ever been reported.
Mrs. Matilda Alers- Hankey, 70 years
old, the widow Of a merchant, lately
residing at II Russell road, Kensington,
died of blood poisoning. She had been
in the habit of using In bed hot water
bottle, which one night burned one OF
her toes and raised blister AS II did
not heal DR. Glospar was called in, but
gangrene set In and she died from col.
lapse.
Lord Windsor, lord lieutenant of Ola
morganshire, who is ground landlord OF
Penarth, has generously determined To
hand over the handsome and delight.
fully situated Windsor gardens and
cliff promenade at Penarth as a gift to
the town, subject to reasonable condi-
tions as to maintenance. It is under.
stood the property will be taken posses.
sion of by the district council at an
early date.