Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
NEWS SUMMARY

age is estimated at 100000.
A bomb exploded in the central
market place at Barcelona, Spain, on
Sunday, severely injuring woman
Another bomb was found near by.
At the first automobile race held in
Egypt, at Heliopolis, on March !,
policeman and two spectators were
killed and fourteen persons were in
jured.
John Hays Hammond, the mining
engineer who has been Ill In San
Francisco for several months and
whose sickness finally resulted in an
operation, has fully recovered.
Fifteen hundred operatives were.
affected by the closing at New Or
leans Of the Lane Maginniss cotton
mills. A poor demand for cotton
goods was given as the cause.
John l.. Smithmeyer, the architect
who designed and superintendent the
construction of the Congressional IL
brary, died in Washington on March
IL. aged rs years. He was born in
Austria
A special dispatch to the Daily Mail
from Berlin says that the emperor
sent warm personal congratulations
to President Roosevelt on the ARRIVAL
of the fleet at Magdalena bay, ahead
of schedule time.
Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who
attempted to shooot Attorney 3. r.
Hamin during the trial of John t.
Walsh, at Chicago, has been commit
ted to the general hospital for the IN
sane by a commission.
The senate has ratified two more
: of the Hague treaties, They relate
to certain restrictions with regard TO
the exercise TO right to capture in ma
val war and prohibit the discharge
OF project from balloons.
Instructing them to vote for any
proposition favorable to the candidacy
az William II. Taft for the presidency,
the Oklahoma Republican state con-
yention elected four delegates at large
to the Chicago convention.
Charles ]. Glidden, of Boston, and
Mrs. GIidden arrived in Jerusalem on
March 13 in motor car from Hana'
SYRIA. 1t was the first motor car ever
seen In Jerusalem and created sen
sation among the populace
\ John Browns Anticipated wagon, IN
which he made many pilgrimages
y during his crusade against slavery,
was destroyed by fire at Iowa CITY,
Iowa. last week The wagon was left
there by Brown forty-eight years ago.
President Roosevelt has directed
! Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau
of corporations to investigate the
!, methods of stock trading, with view
Of furnishing the basis of possible fu-
r ture legislation regulating such prac-
tees.
n The Jury In the trial at jackson,
KY, of John Abner, charged with
9 aiding in the murder of Town Marshal
James CockriIl during the Hargis-
Q Cockrill feud in 1902. reported a hope
less disagreement, and have been dis
ID charged.
N. T. Anders, president OF the Com
I, mercial bank of Jackson, Miss, and
former director of the Central Bank OF
a. Mississippi, has been indicted by the
Hines county grand jury on the charge
IT of embezzlement of $4,000 from the
latter bank.
~ The Supreme court of the Distric'
of Columbia has dismissed the pro
= ceedings Instituted some months ase
nv George w. Austin of New forl
:" to compel Secretary Cortelyou to Is
:. sue to him $4,000, 900 worth OF Pana
ma canal bonds.
m News has been received from ltai
ian Somiland to the effect that Q ioca
ed tribe. helped by soldiers OF the M0i
lah. attacked another tribe under tn
yn protection of Italy and killed tniF1
Of their opponents. They then droy
off a number of cattle.
The spectators at the cycle races o
the Galleries des Machines, PaTlss eI
ragged over the decision OF the un
hires. wrecked and set fire to ID
grandstand. Police reserves to Tn
number of 800 had to be called on
before order was restored.
1 The revenue cutter Thetis has bee
ordered to proceed to Unimak lsial'
one of the Aleutian group, to resen
the survivors of the American senool
or John +. Miller. which was wreeke
IN a severe storm at Boar Harbo
4 near Cape Pankoff on January 3.
Il Application for new trial Tor J.
n Walsh. ex-presldent of the Chicas
q National bank, convicted OF illegal vi
y of its funds, has been made. One MI
u dred and fourteen reasons for u
IN granting of a new trial were preseI
il ed by the attorneys for Mr.. WALSH
II An unknown young woman. We
II dressed, jumped into the Monongahe
4 river at Pittsburg and was sWe
L away by the swollen river. Nothil
In Is known concerning the woman, a.
il is probable her body will not be
covered until the high water subsid'
William Adix, mining inspect
from Nome, Alaska, who was SAID
have been addicted to the use
a. .1damaIL