Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-08-27
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

,oir, Reb.
Leslie Waggener, late president OF the
state university at Manitou Springs,
Colo, is dead.
An effort is being made to hold the
projected mill between Corbett and
Sharkey at West Baden Springs, Ind
Mr.. Preston, director of the mint. is
endeavoring to increase the monthly
coinage of gold and silver at all mints
The Hay-Market Produce bank of
Chicago made an assignment with assets
Of $I6o,ooo and liabilities about the
same.
The German transatlantic steamship
companies will reduce their storage
rates to $50 marks, beginning in Sep
TENDER.
Hunting Johnson, of Portland, Or,
has been appointed to the United States
naval academy, with d. c. Bard of Port
land as alternate.
The firm of r. j. Allen g. Sons of
Philadelphia, wholesale dealers in glass
and chinaware. made an assignment.
The liabilities will reach $4,000.
Fred Graef, saloonkeeper at 1882
Central avenue, Cincinnati, o., while In
a fit of insanity shot his wife and then
sent bullet through his own brain.
The bank clearings for Salt Lake city
for the week ending August IL, amount
ed to $I,o1o,o6s, decrease of 1856, as
compared with the same week in 1895.
It Is announced that arrangements
have been perfected for William ].
Bryan to address the labor assemblies
of Chicago on Labor day, September
7th.
A cIoudburst swep. away twenty.six
houses and business places at Silver
City, N. M, causing loss Of property
of fully $4,000. Two men are reported
drowned.
The Peruvian Congress has author
tied the government to appoint COM
mittee to draft bill for the purpose of
restraining drunkenness throughout the
republic.
The American line steamer st Paul,
Captain Jameson, made the trip from
Southampton to New York in 6 days
and 81 minutes.
The Leadville Miners union, 1000
strong, passed resolutions refusing to
accept the old scale of wages until sill
yer reached the average quotation of
rs cents per ounce.
The silver men in the First Nebraska
district have pooled issues and nomin-
ated ]. H. Brady for congress. This is
Mr.. Bryan's old district.
Senior Estehehe, minister of war in
1873 under the Spanish republic, has
been placed In prison. This action is
supposed to be the result of the recent
political troubles throughout Spain.
Prof Andree has arrived at Tromsoe
from Danes island, on the "Virgo,'
having apparently abandoned for this
year the attempt to cross the Arctic
regions in a balloon.
P. l. Aldrich, vice.consul of the L. A
w. for Colorado, received telegram
from President Elliott denying that he
had declared for the gold standard in
the name of the league.
Tommy Ryan, champion weller,
weight OF America, bested Dick Moore
of Minneapolis at Buffalo, in twent
rounds of hard, clean fighting before the
Empire Athletic club at the Lyceum
theater.
Ben T1llet, the English labor agitator
has arrived in Antwerp In connection
with the new international federation oil
waterside laborers. He was at once ar.
rested and the chances are that he will
be deported
ActihgCommissionerof Indian Affairs
Smith has awarded the contracts for
erecting school building at the Rosebud
and Pine Ridge agencies to Owen &
Hill of Minneapolis, MINI, at $46,52s
for Rosebud and $44,766 for Pine Ridge
The president has appointed Levi I
Griffin, of Detroit, pension agent at De.
troit, vice Harrison II. Wheeler, de.
ceased. Mr.. Griffin was a member of the
Fifty-third congress and was at one
time law partner of Don M. Dickinson
James Slack, the I4-year.old son o.
John Slack, of Pittsburg was shot in tht
head and Instantly killed by Halse,
Williams, jr., while out hunting black
birds with two other boys. The shoot
Ing was the result of an accident.
The National Council repres entative,
Of the 1000 Daughters of America
In session at Portland, Ind, elected tn,
following officers Councillor, William
p. Shourds, New Jersey; secretary, Ju
Tia Upton, Ohio; treasurer, c. w. Nor
fis, Ohio.
NJ. Leopold Bracany, the noted sculp
: tpr of Paris, now sojourning in Chi
cago, Is at Canton, modelling life sized
bust of Major Mckinley. 1t is though
probable that Major Mckinley will pub
fish his formal letter of acceptanc,
about August 2sth.
Destructive prairie fires In the Chick
asaw Nation destroyed dwellings, fence
and large quantities of hay. The creel