Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-26
NEWS SUMMARY.

for distribution this week.
In one ward in Brooklyn there is q
population of $4,000 and not single
Protestant church or mission.
There are more non-Christians in
New York city than in the entire
Western half Of the country.
United States Senator John Ii. Gear
was formally elected last week by the
Iowa legislature to succeed himself in
the United States senate.
A negro named Anderson Ganss was
found hanging to the limb of tree
near Tengin, Tenn, Sunday. 1t 10
supposed that he was lynched.
Mrs. s. NJ. f. Henry, for twenty-five
years national evangelist OF the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, 10
dead at Graysville, Tenn, of pnenmo-
mia.
Passengers from Skaguay on the
steamer Danube report the blockade
raised on the White Pass &c Ukon
railway, and travelling from Dawson
very good.
The board Of Rapid Transit commits
sioners of New York have let the con-
tract for the building of the under
ground railway in New York City for
Sal, 900, 900.
A Mexican who arrived at San Diego
overland from Ensenada reports that
the gasoline schooner Anita had blown
up and that six persons, all on board,
had perished.
Northwestern broom manufacturers,
after a conference, have decided to
advance prices from rs to so cents per
dozen. This is the second advance in
three months.
Mrs. Roswell P. Flower has presented
$500, 900 to Flower hospital, New York
and Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, daugh-
ter of Roswell r. Flower, also gave the
institution 100000.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany has advanced the wages Of its em-
ployees in the iron mines at Crown
Point, Essex county, N. Y, 10 per cent
to take effect at once.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Patterson the only child
of President Andrew jackson, Is
critically i'll at her home in Greenville,
Tenn, and is not expected to live. She
is over 80 years of age.
The cotton cloth trade of the United
States with China shows an increase Of
about So, 1000, 600 for the first eleven
months of last year, as compared
with the same period of 1898.
Secretary Long and Rear Admiral
Bradford appeared last week before
! the senate committee on naval affairs
| IN advocacy of the construction of d.
Pacific cable by she government.
Henry Hughes hero oil the old navy
has been admitted into the Chester (Pa.l }
county almhouse at the age of95 years.
He was on the Kearsarge when Dewey
was Lieutenat on the same ship.
Both Great Britain and Germany, it
is said have formally served motto that
they will protest against fertilization
of the Nicaragua canal if that waterway
be constructed by the American Govern
ment
1t is feared that F. a. Clayson aud d
man named Olson, Dominion tele-
graph linemen, have been murdered
on the trail. They left Dawson on the
18th of December with 81, 900 and have
not been heard of since.
Owing to the rapid rise in the price
of wool, manufacturers of mems and
women's hats, by agreement, advanced
the prices of wool hats rs cents per
dozen on cheap grades and higher
qualities in proportion.
The customs committee Of the French
chamber Of deputies resolved before
examining and deciding in regard to
the Frapco-American commercial treaty
to hear the delegates from the industrial
and agricultural chambers and societies.
In Columbus, Ga, Captain J. w.
Murphy, cashier of the Third National
bank, shot and killed Teller p. l..
Sohultze, and then committed suicide.
This occurred while the bank was full
Of customers and the full corps of
clerks. Murphy is believed to have
been insane.
Among the bills introduced In the
senate is one by Mr.. Mason to prevent
the adulteration OF goods and drugs.
It creates bureau of chemistry in the
agricultural department and provides
for food inspection by that department.,
Col. WI. Bryan and President Arthur
T. Hadley of Yale have been interview
ed in regard to the latters proposal to
ostracise trust magnates. Both agree
ON the idea that social recognition
should be denied to any man engaged
in trust or other business enterprise
inimical to the public welfare.
The election Of j. C. s. Blackburn az