Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-09-18
NEW s SUMMARY

She was beached in time to enable
all oHpsboard to escape.
Congressman George L. Lilly was
nominated for governor of Connecti-
cut by the Republican state conven'
ton, receiving 402 votes out of SIT.
Business was entirely suspended at
Strawn, Texas, one day last week
because of the heat, the thermometer |
registering 112 degrees, with a hot
wind blowing from the south.
Two women, one grieving over the
death of her favorite son, and the
other respondent because of illness,
leaped to death from windows In
their homes in New York CITY,
The schooner Phillis Gray went
down and her crew of nineteen men
were lost OF Devonshire in terrific
storm that swept the English chan
mel and coast on the 9th.
While the parents were away from
home the residence of ]. c. Burdette,
near New Brighton. Mimi, burned
and five children, ranging from to
10 years old, met death by suffoca-
ton.
An official statement of the cholera
situation in st. Petersburg shows
that on the 18th there were fifty-eight
new cases and eight deaths from the
disease; and there. are 107 patients in
hospitals with it.
Since the killing Of white man
by a negro at Kansas City last week.
there has been a growing alarm OF
race war among the colored popula,
ton and the police have learned that
many of them are purchasing fire
arms.
Mrs Sallie Ruthford died at To
peka, Kan, on the 9th, at the age OF
11S years. She was born in Middle
ton. KY, in 1895 and had never seen
a weeks sickness in her life. Mrs.
Ruthford came to Topeka forty-three
years ago.
Paris Fletcher. member of we'll
known real estate firm of st. Paul,
and prominent socially, was instantly
killed and Mrs. Fletcher was severely
injured by the overturning of their
automobile at Minnesota, near Wa
basha, Mimi.
M. Albert, who recently retired
| from his post of minister of justice
at Copenhagen, has surrendered to
the police and confessed to a series
of frauds against the Bondestandans
Sparkasse, a savings bank of which
he was president.
The celebration throughout Russia
in honor of the eightieth birthday Of
| Count Tolstoi passed off quietly. No
arrests were made anywhere. On the
contrary the authorities at the last
moment relaxed the severity of their
orders prohibiting the celebrations.
Alexander Berkman, who shot
Henry C. Prick during the Homestead
steel strike in Pennsylvania, was
convicted upon the charge of making
disturbance at meeting OF the
unemployed in Cooper Union, New
York City, and sent to the workhouse
The Democratic party of the island
of Porto Rico has nominated Jacintc
Texidor, a lawyer of San Juan, as Its
candidate for the post of resident
commissioner at Washington. This
is the first time the Democratic party
has participated in the island cleo
tions.
During a fit of temporary insanity
Pearson Talley, of Wilmington, Del.
so years of age, attacked his wife
his adopted daughter, Edith Johan
sen, and her husband, Andrew Johan
sen, and inflicted such serious wounds
with an ak that the victims are no
expected to live.
Mile. Marie Lablache, one of tbs
performers at the Toronto exhibition
was probably fatally injured las
week. Her act was to slide down
wire, stretched from a high pole t
the ground, hanging by her teeth
The pole became loose, and she fell
her spine being broken.
A pilot steamer In the North SCI
picked up a balloon containing tw'
British aeronauts named Tennetl AM
Short. The balloon assembled at Bat
tersea, a district of London, at i
O'Clock at night and was blown out Z
set. When discovered the balloon
was close to the water.
The shrunken and bleached nod
OF a woman, with evidences OF II
having been covered with quicklime
has been found on the West Virgin
shore Of the Ohio river, near Well
VILE. o. The authorities believe tn
woman was murdered and an attemT
made to destroy the body.
James Bellows McGregor, the oil
est Mason in the country, believed
be the oldest white man In the Uni
ed States, celebrated his 107th brit
day at Mount Sunapee, N. M, on tn
9Th. Mr.. McGregor can read ord
nary print with the aid OF readin
glass and is hale and hearty.
After experimenting two year
with concrete ties, the Burlingto
railroad has abandoned them K
wood. The officials believe that th
old material, treated with creosote.
more satisfactory. A creosoting plal
for ties and bridge timbers, costir
S070 mo is to be constructed.