Montpelier examiner., 1908-08-14
NEWS SUMMARY

The Shevlin-Mathiu Lumber COM
panys sawmill at Beaudette, Wis,
caught fire and burned to the ground,
causing loss of approximately $780,
900.
The Hearst Independence party II
planning to put a full state ticket in |
the field in Kansas by means OF |
petition containing the names OF $500 |
voters.
The new Finnish diet was formally |
opened at the palace at Helsingfors |
on August 5, by GovernorGeneral
Boeckman, with the customary cere-
rnonials.
Formal ratifcations of the new
trademark and copyright treaty be-
tween the Japanese government and
the United States were exchanged on
August 6.
In an encounter between the police
and band of brigands, who have
long terrorized the suburbs of Tifiis,
i've of the latter were killed and the
others captured.
John Zett, farmer living ON the
Bolton road near Vernon, Conn, killed
his wife and granddaughter and tried
to kill his son, using sledge ham
mer and knife.
William e. English, private in
company 115, coast artillery, awaiting
trial for desertion, was shot and
killed at the Preside, San Francisco,
while trying to escape.
Three children, aged 1, 2 and 4
years, respectively, were burned to
death at Minneapolis. The mother,
! Mrs. Frank Lindberg, locked the chill
dren in room and went shopping.
A number of persons were burned
to death and 100 houses we're de-
stroyed by fire at Donauschingen, Ger
many. Fortunately heavy rain fell
and stopped the progress of the con-
flagration.
China has formally accepted the
date, January l, next, and the selec-
tion of the city of Shanghai, as the
time and place for holding the meet
ing of the international opium com
mission
The people of Constantine, Algeria,
earthquake shocks Of few days
ago, fearing a repetition, and there is,
in consequence, a steady exodus to
the country.
The Orthodox Missionary congress,
which is now in session at Kiev, has
taken backward and unpopular step
in petitioning the government TO again
make obligatory in Poland the use OF
, the Russian calendar.
William F. Downing, member OF
I the old Stiles Alvord band of outlaws,
/ who ten years ago operated in south
,ern Arizona, was killed in his saloon
at Wilcox, Ariz., by Ranger William
Speed, while resisting arrest.
The First National bank of Bel
Plaine, Mimi, has been closed by or
Ger of the comptroller of the cur
l rency. The bank was reported insol
> vent, followed by the suicide Of the
: president of the bank, J. G. Lunde.
5 Official estimates of the fire losses
3 to the insurance companies as the re
= suit of the forest fires in British Co
: Iumbia have been prepared by the
special representatives and adjusters
y They place the amount at $2,S50,OOO
Members of the United Brother
! hood of Tailors of New York City arr
again threatening a general strike
. which, II called, will involve $4,000
!, coat makers and helpers. AT presen
the men are working from ten t.
eleven hours.
: Bronson Howard, the dean of Amer
: ican playwrights, died August A, a
!, Auon-by-the-Sea. He was born in De
. troit, in 1912. Like most men of hi
V profession he began his career IN
IS newspaper office, being reporter o.
the Detroit Free Press.
p Miss Elizabeth Barnett, recentl
e acquitted of the murder of Oscar Pc
N erson, a bachelor farmer, and re-al
t. rested on charge of forgery, escape
q. from Sheriff Hartley to the brush-eo'
"A cred sand ridges on the shore of Sag
h nav bay, ten miles northwest OF Ba
City, Mich.
n. Scott Pound and Ray G. Baird, tw
d Seattle youths, about Is years of ag'
10 were surprised at work robbing 81
10 loon in San Francisco. into whie
n they had forced an entrance, and !
8 trying to escape Pounds was shot an
at killed by policeman after a chas
of two blocks.
IA While clearing away the -u1ns {
Il. the explosion in the Rikovsky min
L which resulted in the death of abol
an two hundred men, the authOritie
al found a set of counterfeiting too
w. and a quantity of spurious money.
u. is believed the counterfeiters cause
the explosion.
nj The record run from Denver
ed Cheyenne in an automobile was mao
.r last week by J. w. Barker, presidel
M of the Northern Colorado Power cor
he pany, and party. They left Deny'
ng at 2:26 p. M, and at $3.50 p. m. sto
Mt ped at Cheyenne. Mr.. Barker's Sc
was at the wheel.
a Giving of lands for Fairgrounds