Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-19
NEWS SUMMARY.

Senator Cullom.
The Kansas supreme court has de-
clared unconstitutional the law of 1897
taxing judgments.
The gold yield for Victoria colony,
Australia, in 1899, was 1884, 500 ounces,
an increase Of 1922 ounces.
The plan of having mail registered
by carriers when collected will be put
in practical operation January IS in
sixty cities.
Representative Shaforth Of Colorado,
has introduced a resolution presenting
woman suffrage amendment to the
constitution.
In Philadelphia it is reported that
the British government has purchased
several shiploads of oats for the use of
the army in South Africa.
The rebellion in central China has
become formidable, and advices from
Chang Sha state that the instruction
In Hengshand district is spreading
rapidly.
William w. Gage, cousin of the
secretary of the treasury, penniless and
depending upon charity for medical at
tendance is dying at boarding house
in Toledo, O.
Senator Allen has introduced a bill
In the senate granting pension of $40
month to every soldier and sailor who
Sarvad In
months or more.
Representative Levy of New York
has introduced in the house bill to
pay interest on all internal revenue
receipts now on deposit or hereafter to
De deposited in national banks.
The McGinnis bank at owensville,
Ind, was entered last week and the
safe blown open, the explosion com
pletely wrecking the building. Fifteen
thousand dollars was obtained.
Elizabeth Gladstone, aged 63 years,
has secured Judgment in the superior
court, San Francisco, against Joseph
Boardman, aged 73 years. for breach
of promise of marriage. She sued for
S5oO,Oo
The state of anarchy in south China
and more particularly in the province
OF Kwang Tung, is causing no little
anxiety to the British authorities and
to all having an interest in the integ-
rity Of the Chinese empire.
The three delegations recently ap-
pointed to lay before the government
au Washington the special needs of
Porto Rico, have sailed from San Juan
for the United States by the steamer
Philadelphia
Special Plenipotentiary Kasson, foi
the United States, and Senior Duarte,
for Portugal, have signed a protocol
intended to make operative the reci-
procity arrangement entered into last
spring between the two countries.
II Secretary Long, according to a
Washington special, approves the rec
ommendation of the board officers en-
gagged in revising the naval regulations,
Admiral Dewey will continue to be
available for sea duty.
First Lieutenant Daniel t. Bowman
OF the Thirty-seventh infantry. while
temporarily deranged, committed sui
eide in Manila by shooting himself
He served as private in the First Mon
tana volunteer infantry in the Philip
pines from July, 1898, until July, 1899,
when he was appointed first lieuten-
ant.
The TransVaal government has in
formed the United States that w
Stanley Hollis, American consul at
Pretoria, will not lie permitted to rep
resent British interests in the republic
during the war.
Alfred Morrison, who shot and killed
one of his wives with whom he was
living in Mt. Vernon, N. Y, is under
arrest, charged with murder. He
claimed to have shot her while dream
ing of burglars 1t has been discorered
that he is bigamist,
a big fleet Of pelagic sealers Is off
the Pacific coast, and in a very short
time there promises to be at least fortv
vessels engaged in the traffic. The
entire feet is composed of British
sehooners, manned by Indian hunters.
Speaking of Senator Beveridze's
speech on the Philippine question,
Senator Gear of Iowa SAYS: ut is a
great speech and just such one as |
expected he would make. AS to the
substance of the speech 1 agree with
him. His point as to the Importance
OF the Asiatic trade was not overdrawn.
At Victoria, B. O., indefinite CHARGES
OF pro-Boer sympathy have resulted in
the boycotting and serious embarrass-
ment to large number of Belgian and
Swedish Boer citizens, who vigorously
repudiate any reasonable connec-
ton.
The statement of the gross postal re-
ceipts for December. 1890 az camnaraa