Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-11-13
NEW S SUMMARY


vote that surpasses the 100000 bal
lots deposited four years ago, making
new high record for Ohio voters.
The bodies of seventy-eIght victims
Of the wreck of the small steamer
which occurred near Tungan on No
yember 5, have been taken to Annoy
China.
The state bank commissioner last
week took control Of the Central
Trust company Of Providence, R. l.,
and applied for appointment Of re
ceiver.
Two motormen were killed and
twenty passengers injured in a col
lision of two cars in the interurban
service between Vancouver and West
minister. B. G.
The strike at the mill of the Inter.
national Paper company at Palmer
Falls. N. Y, has been settled. The
employees voted to accept the terms
of the company
Business was suspended at Santi-
ago, Cuba, on November 8, and the
entire populace participated in the
| funeral of Tomas Estrada Palma. for
mer president of Cuba.
The town of Pembroke, Ont. was
devastated by fire last week. Sixty
buildings were destroyed LOSS esti-
mated at 100000. Pembroke is a
town OF $500 inhabitants.
President Charles w. Eliot, for forty
L -, - A.. k1a.a TIo~xxo ~ ,,nfvaroftu
rendered his resignation October rs,
to take effect May 10, 1909. The res
| ignation has been accepted.
Judge Frank H. Dunno. who has
tried many Of the bribery and graft
cases in San Francisco, was re-elect-
ed Judge Cook, against whom the
/ graft prosecution made fight, was
| defeated.
Three persons were asphyxiated by
gas fumes from kitchen stove in
| Washington. The dead are Mrs. Hebe
Cults Bremerman, Mrs. Bremerman,
! her mother-in-law, and Cults Bremen
man, aged is months.
Phil Short, one of the best known
| newspaper men in South Dakota, was
shot and killed by Clayton Yeakins
while they were haunting deer in Nc
Kenzie county. Short was taken for
deer by his companion.
While speeding with his automobile,
J. ]. Radel, an undertaken of Cincin-
natl, caused the death of Albert Alt
| feldt, butcher, and the probable ia
| tai injury of Radel and William Re
gan, the latter chauffeur.
AS the result of fuedal war at
Campon Junction, KY, Islow Allen,
aged 20, was killed, Alvin Grover seri-
| ously injured, and Clarence Sherman,
who did the shooting, was shot in the
head, but managed to escape to the
mountains
1t is reported that the resignation
of the Austria cabinet ID imminent
as the outcome of the dissension
among the German and Czech minis
tiers arising from the recent racial
conflicts in Prague and other Bohe-
| milan towns.
Herman Knause and William Wa
derse, pioneer farmers, were run
down by a passenger trai nat Buff
faIo, Mimi, while on their way to the
polls and killed Emil Krause, a son
of one of the dead men, was probably
fatally injured.
In his annual report for the last ifs
cal year Commissioner Fred Bennett
of the general land Office recommends
the withdrawal from entry of all pub
lie lands which may be irrigated
which are not now capable of being
Utilized for homes.
The election of Taft has produced
general satisfaction in Italy. The
general opinion Is that Mr.. Taft's
election will mean a continuance Of
stability and a revival of business. In
view of this belief many thousand
Italian laborers expect to emigrate tc
America.
Pensions for retired missionaries
were provided for in the closing ses
sion of the woman's Foreign Mission
cry society of the Methodist Episco
pal church at Cincinnati This is In
the shape of retirement fund for this
benefit of superannuated and invalit
missionaries.
Edwin Vandyck former ink expert
Of the bureau Of engraving and print
ing, indicated In January last. charged
with conspiracy to defraud the United
States in connection with ink con
tracts. last week withdrew plea o
not guilty and entered plea of guilt,
to two counts.
d. B. Cook, constable from Null
key, and J. A. Shines. farmer o
Provence, were shot and killed OF
cast Main street in Ardmore, Okla
homa, by John Braziel. a local char
scter, and James Billings, farmer ant
companion of the dead men, was Sc
riously wounded.
Four acres OF wood land on Harbe
kill, Roslyn. L. l.. the magnificen
estate Of Clarence Mackay. head o
the Postal Telegraph company, wer'
swept by fire on October 5, in spit