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

Secretary Carlisle contemplates an.
other trip 10 the lighthouse tender
"Maple." u will start about Friday
and will be gone about ten days. 1t Is
more than probable that Postmaster
General Wilson will be a member Of the
party.
Due to recent heavy rains, rivers at
Dies Moinea have risen from four to
seven feet. The Des Moines is going
over its banks, destroying many fields
Parts of the Keokuk s. Western railroad
bridge over he Raccoon have been car
ried away
The greaA St Louis Auditorium in
which the republicans and porulists
held their national conventions will be
turned into Madison Square garden for
horse shows, bicycle meets and other in
door sporting enterprises the coming
fall and winter.
Lucas johnson and his wife, colored,
while on the public road near Augusta,
Ark, we're fired upon from ambush, The
woman being instantly killed and the
man fatally wounded. Another negro
with whom Johnson had had trouble
has been arrested on suspicion.
President Cleveland, In an interview,
said that there was no truth in the state
ment which II is alleged he made to a
New York financier regarding a bond
issue in December, or at least before the
close of his administration. Beyond
making the denial the president had
nothing to say.
| At the Massachusetts Athletic associa-
ton meet ON the Charles River Park
track, Nat and Tom Butler broke the
worlds record of 2:o3 for the unpaced
tandem mite, made on the San Jose
track, by doing it in 1853 2.6. A high
wind was blowing.
The rowboat Fox" containing two
Swedish sailors, Frank Harbo and
George Samuelson, who started from
New York June 9th, with the intention
Of rowing tp Havre, France. has arrived
at the Sicily Islands. Both occupants
of the small craft were in good health.
Hon. "A. 8. Mcclure. republican nom
inee for congress in the Seventeenth
Ohio district. says in a letter to his con
stituents that he is in favor of the free
coinage of silver and does not propose
to obtain single vote by evasion or du.
plicity on the money question.
Judge Lacombe of the United States
circuit court OF New York signed an
order confirming Special Master Alfrec
Carey's report of the foreclosure sale o.
the property of the Northern Pacific
railroad In accordance with the result Of
the suit brought by the farmers Loar
and Trust company.
Angelina Poopel, typewriter anc
Bert Fish, a clerk in the Nickle Plate
; railroad office, were arrested at Chicago
Miss People is alleged to be the woman
bicyclist who ran into William K Link
which resulted in his death. Fish I,
said to have been with Miss People al
the time OF the accident.
The Turkish Legation at Washington
has received the following Telegram
from the Sublime Porte under yester,
days date "Some malevolent people
havi 6 proPagated the false news that
the Turkish government had the inten.
ton of introducing paper currency
please contradict same"
The Standard Diggers' News of 10.
. hannesber4, publishes an interview with
President Kruger in which he stated
he had declined to interfere in behalf
of DIR. Jameson The President point.
ed out that the British Government had
!. still to decide who were the ngIeaders
in the Jameson raid.