Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-04-03
NEW S SUMMARY


dlevilIe, Mich. has been wiped out by
fire, the loss being $4,000.
Ten members of pleasure party |
were drowned by the upsetting of a |
motor ferry boat on the lake near Luz
beck, Germany.
The Oklahoma legislature has |
passed law making it crime, pun |
ishable by a fine of from SIS to $25, to
smoke cigarettes.
Conventions between Japan and
the United States and Japan and
Great Britain covering trade marks
and patents will be signed shortly.
Favorable health conditions con-
tinue on the zone, according to the
latest report OF Colonel Gorgas, chief
sanitary officer of the Isthmian Canal
commission.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer. formerly
tax collector of the Third district of
New Orleans, who disappeared about
year ago, being short in his accounts
about $4,000. has been captured.
Over a score of persons were in
jured when an interurban car on the
Ann Arbor branch of the Detroit
United railway bound for Detroit
from Jackson, Mich, was derailed by
defective rails.
Drury Lane theatre, one of the
most famous in London, was practical
~ destroyed by fire on March rs. The
whole interior of the theatre was de-
stroyed and the outside walls were
badly damaged.
The Fifth Avenue hotel, a land
mark of New York, and for half
century the gathering place of Repub-
lican politicians, will close April 4.
The hotel will be torn down to make
room for a skyscraper.
A coroner's jury has declared Chief
of Police Shippy, of Chicago, and ].
e. Foley, his driver, to have been
justified in killing Averbuch the
young Russian Jew who attacked the
chief in his home recently.
There is a movement on foot
among the Japanese to erect monu-
ment to Durham w. Stevens, the
American advisor to the Korean coun-
Gil of state, who was assassinated by
a Korean in San Francisco.
The government is preparing to
send 1000 workmen to the Philippines
for work on the Notifications of the
island of Corrigidor, at the entrance
| of Manila bay. This will make 1900
| to be sent within month.
w. H. KEENAN, of Mexico, Mo-, for
mer adjutant general of Missouri,
committed suicide at Pennington, Mo-,
by hanging, in his quarters in the
state hospital for the insane. He was
| formerly a member of the legislature.
i
| ton of 10 per cent, to take effect on
/ April 6, were posted at the cotton
mills of the Boston Manufacturing
company at Waltham, Mass, last
week. The company employs 1000
men.
/ /. Wang Chaeng and Ming Wun
Chun, the Korean patriots who elect
ed to kill Durham W. Stevens of San
Francisco for what they considered
his treachery to the Hermit kingdom,
are behind the bars and will be tried
for murder.
Seven men arrested in Pekin re-
GENTLY charged with trafficking in
governmental secrets, have been
found guilty and sentenced to long
serms of imprisonment. This punish
ment is generally considered to be
worse than death.
The statistical bureau of the Union
Pacific passenger department has Is
sued statement compiled from gov
eminent reports. showing the value of
farm products in seventeen states
, west of the Mississippi In 1907 to
have been $1,091 100000.
Rev. f. z. Nesbit, pastor OF the
Presbyterian church at Coa1inga, Cal,
and a speaker at the incorporation
celebration of that town, dropped
dead Immediately after he had con-
cluded his address, and in the pres.
ence of crowd of 1000 people.
Jim Lee and Lee El1erick have been
arrested at McLoud, Oklahoma, on
the charge OF robbing the Hoffman
bank at Hoffman, Okla A blank
book was dropped near the bank con.
tanning the names of two young men
and on this clue they were located
near McLoud.
The last of the clearing house
certificates issued In New York City
during the financial stringency begin
ming in October last, were retired
last week when the National Bank
OF North America paid off balance
of $250.000 which it owed to the
clearing house.
The jury in the case of A. H Sniff
editor of the Missouri Valley News
on trial at Logan, Iowa, for the muir
der of M. e. Brundige, returned a yer
dict of not guilty. Sniff shot and
killed Brundige in 1906 and acquitta
was on a plea of self-defense. 1t was
his second trial.
Tncensed because their chief, Pau
Biganami, the so-called king of the
J San Francisco anarchist colony, was
| taken into custody by DeteetiYe Inhr