Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-07-24
NEWS SUMMAR z

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The Elks' reunion Of 1908, held at
Dallas, Texas, came to close on
July II. The next reunion will be
held in Los Angeles.
The town of Baltic, Ohio, contain
Ing 500 people, was practically wiped
cut by a fire which ragged all night
starting in flour mill.
President Roosevelt has refused an
offer to make speeches into the re-
ceiver of a talking machine for the
purpose of making records for public
use.
Mrs. Walter Teage, wife OF the
Standard Oil Official, who shot herself
at her home in Los Angeles died
without having regained conscious
ness.
Helde, the last surviving sister of the
poet, Walt Whitman, died at her home
in Burlington, VT, on July IS, aged 81
years.
Five men were burned, two per-
haps fatally, by an overflow of molten
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the Wisconsin Steel mills in South
Chicago.
In compliance with orders just re-
ceived at the Mare Island navy yard,
the work of overhauling the cruiser
Raleigh, at a cost of nearly 100000,
will begin as soon as the Pacific feet
sails in August.
That Hazel Drew came to her death
as a result of an accident instead of
being a victim of a foul and deliber-
ate murder is one of the theories put
forth as a possible solution of the
Teal Pond, N. Y, mystery.
The cost of the Pacific coast exten,
sion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st
Paul railway, which 1t is expected
will be open for traffic on July 1, 1909.
will be about $5,000,000 more than
the company originally reckoned.
Twenty-Five hundred children'a
Jacket makers who went on strike in
New York five weeks ago against a
reduction in wages have won their
strike in all but few shops ond re
turned to work at the former pay.
In view of the unsettled condition
at Porto Cortez, Honduras, and the
revolutionary movement there, the
navy department has ordered the gun
boat Marietta, now at Port Antonio
Jamaica, to proceed there without de
lay.
Illegal transactions, shady business
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charged against the supreme lodge o
/ the A. o. U. W. by the grand lodge
| of Wisconsin, in a lawsuit involving
half a million dollars, filed at De-
Moines, Ia.
Commander Robert E. Peary sailed
from Sydney, N. S., on June II on tn
steamer Roosevelt in another attemp
to reach the north pole. His last re
mark as he went over the ships sid
was that he expected to accomplish
his purpose.
Robert Gardner, deputy marshal
was fatally wounded and at least
dozen miners were more OF less SER
ously shot as the result of an attacl
on train bearing strike breakers t
take the places of striking union mir
ers at jefferson, Ala.
The Georgia railroad commission
has ruled that the newspapers of tn
state may accept transportation i
exchange for advertisements. Thi
, decision is of particular interest Il
view of the ruling of Federal Judg
Kohlsaat of Chicago.
Comprising the greatest militar
pageant ever witnessed In Honolulu
$500 men of the Atlantic battleshi
fleet paraded on the morning of Jun
II, arousing enthusiastic cheers fror
the dense crowds which lined the wa
: along which they passed.
According to the Czech newspapers
Narodny Lysty, the Princess Ameh
; Louise of Furstenberg, and Gusta
Kozian, an employee of an automt
bile firm, with whom she eloped las
May, were married last week In tn
castle chapel at Kammerburg.
Contrary to the rumors that Mr.!
: Frank .. Gould has been reconcile
, to her husband, and that their di
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Q Mrs. Gould's suit for divorce is o
; the motion calendar ard will b
a brought to trial within the next fe'
weeks.
r When the auxiliary cruiser Buffal
e sails on August Is from San Fral
2 cisco with supplies for the Atlanti
0 battleship fleet, her cargo will Il
i clude, among other eatables, 10000
n pounds of -four, 100000 pounds of p
q tatoes, canned meats and dessicate
vegetables.
S William Campbell, a New Yor
a bricklayer. who on June 8 killed n
i wife Carrie with bread-knife, stoo
x like a man unconscious of what wa
/ about him when the judge sentence
I him to twenty years Imprisonment
!. Campbell was intoxicated when tt
crime was committed.
t John W. Tomlinson, the Alabam
a member of the national Democrat
r committee, announces that volunteel