Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-08-22
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

sides.
Two cadets at West Point were dis
charged by order Of the secretary OF
war for hazing.
The Times Office at Butte was burned
the 10th. The paper was anita. p. A,
and incendiarism is alleged
Deaths caused by heat in the central
and eastern states the past two weeks
will approximate thousand.
1t is announced Bryan will speak in
New York within two weeks in answer
TO Burke Cockran's criticisms.
A cyclone in the interior of Alabama
on Sunday killed ten negroes and three
white men. Many were injured.
Colorado democrats arc endorsing
Teller and pledging legislative nomi-
nees to re-elect him to the senate.
The latest consignment of Californ ia
fruit. consisting of 10000 half cases, ar
rived in London in fine condition
BY the bursting of a balloon zoo feet
in the air, at Quincy, Ill, Z. Frank
Jacobs, travelling aeronant, was killed.
Four young men, aged from I8 TO p,
robbed a train thirteen miles from
Drtroit the 18th. All were captured
later.
a Boston naturalists, with a tuning
fork, has discovered that crickets chirp
in unison, and that their note is f nat
ural.
Governor Stone of Missouri will be
chairman of the national democratic
committee If German declines, which is
probable.
The silver men in the First Nebraska
district have pooled issr - and nomin-
ated ]. H. Brady ior congress. This is
Mr.. Bryan's old district
The American line steamer St Paul,
Captain Jameson. made the trip from
Southampton to New York in 8 days
and 81 minutes.
Spreading rails caused BY expansion
by heal, wrecked Denver & Rio Grande
passenger near Pueblo, causing the
death of the fireman and engineer.
Fire in the factory Of the Green Bay
Planning Mill company destroyed the
plant, involving loss of $4,000, on
which there is an insurance of $4,000
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
the order of Nichau-I-Chafakat of the
second class upon Miss Clara Barton,
president of the American Red Cross
society.
Mena, Ark, is only thirty days old
and has a population of 5000. 1t is
located in rich valley, and prospects of
a railroad have built the town, which is
substantial.
The official cholera statistics show
that during the past week there we're
1901 deaths from the disease in Egypt.
The total number of deaths since the
outbreak of the scourge is r4755.
Union Pacific employees at Omaha
have appealed to the courts to have their
wages raised, claiming the receivers
reduced them below what the court
formerly decreed they should be-
Secretary Hoke Smith has writ
ten that he can't attend the Bryan rati-
ication meeting at Atlanta, where he
was advertised to speak. It is alleged
strained relations with the president is
the cause.
The protest on the single scull race
between Hanlon and Rogers has been
Withdrawn, and the race given to Rog.
ers. Hanlon now offers to row any man
in America from one to five miles for
$1,000 upwards.
Revenue officers descended on the
house of John Rewallskei. resident of
Beatrice, Neb., for many years, and al
rested him on the charge operating a
still. In the basement of the house
was found remnats of a distilling plant.
nn aeronaut was kilfed at Dallas,
Texas, in strange manner. When des-
cending and but forty feet from the
ground his parachute struck a wire and
he was thrown into a tree His head
lodged in fork but ten feet from the
ground, dislocating his neck.
The bodies of the sixty victims of the
Twin shaft disaster will never again be
seen, as it has been announced that
work will be stopped in the Inflated
mine. as ii is considered further excava-
ton is unnecessary and extremely dan.
gerous.
A body of Christian insurgents at
tackled a number Of marauding Mussul-
mans at Katoyatia, near CANDIDA II is
stated that the Mussulmans were nearly
annihilated. A body of troops were
sent to attack the Christians, but they
were defeated
Forest fires are raging in the vicinity
of Clarendon, Ark. The long continued
drought has dried up vegetation SO
much thai that once set ON fire it is hard
10 control. Farmers in several places
have fought fires day and night to pre-.
vent the burning of their fences and
outbulldi1gs. Timber is dying from its
severe effects.
President Stillwell of the Kansas City.
Pittsburg 81 Gulf railway gave all the
employees of the road who could Del