Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-05-01
NEWS SUMMARY

The forty-sixth annual convention
OF the National Educational associa-
ton will be held in Cleveland, Ohio,
June 20.
The churches of Burlington, N j.,
have proposed bar on the Merry
Widow" hats in the congregation dur
ing the service.
K BY the discovery Of two more bod
les last week, the number OF lives
lost In the fire at Chelsea, Mass, Is
brought up to fifteen.
The Russian government has order
ed five new warships, each one to be
larger than the Dreadnaught, from
firm Of Clyde ship-builders.
A federal grand jury is about to
begin an investigation OF several OF
the largest manufacturers of manila
wrapping paper in the state Of New
York.
A serious fire which for a time
threatened to wipe out all the prop
erty at Cape May Point, N. j., de-
stroyed dozen buildings before it
was gotten under control.
William N. Cleveland, nephew OF
ex-President Grover Cleveland, has
been sentenced, as a bridge trust
agent, to pay fine of $500 and serve
five days in the Toledo, Ohio, jail.
Ex-President Cleveland is i'll at
Lakewood, N. j., but the latest bulle-
tins issued would indicate that there
is no cause for alarm, and that his
recovery is only matter of time.
Count Szechenyi and the countess,
| formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, had a
narrow escape from drowning al
| Vienna, when their boat capsized,
they being forced to swim to the
shore.
| Two prominent business men of
Milan, Mich, were instnaly killed
when their automobile was struck by
passenger train while they were at
tempting to cross the track near
| Dearborn.
Frank Schneck, on trial at Ottawa,
Kans., for the murder of his wife and
Two children, at their home at Cen
tropolis on February 8, 1907, was
4 guilty VI AuldCl Al IAO Ia ~ ~
gree by the jury.
The town of Cairo, ILL.,, at the cleo,
ton last week, decided against clos
ing the saloons. At Thebes, where
the prohibitionists were victorious
there are six saloons which will be
compelled to close their doors.
David Wetherbee, aged rs, his wife
| aged IS, and their daughter were ere
mated, and Albert Lemm, the daugh
ters husband, was probably fatally
burned in a fire that destroyed TIN
Wetherbee home at Centerville, Pa
1t has been definitely decided tha
the American feet of battleships viii
not call at any European port on its
way home, with the exception Of Ger
tain points in the Mediterranean
where 1t will be necessary to stop fol
coal.
Harry Thaw is to have a chance tt
prove his sanity, and will be takeI
into court in the near future and ex
amined by experts. II the court de
cides that he is sane, the chances Q
his release in the near future ar
very bright.
A dispatch from Winnipeg an
nounces that while on their way t
the Peach river country. Emil Card
nal, wife and child. were drowned Il
the Athabasca river. They were tray
cling on the ice with dog train an
fell through.
fAccnd hU a hnU StrIIn
Mrs. Catherine Murray of New Yor
over the heart, death resulting fey
hours later An autopsy disclose
the fact that Mrs. Murray's heart ha
swollen to an abnormal size as n
suit of the blow
The Northern Pacific Railway con
pany hzs posted a bulletin offering
reward of $500 for the arrest an
conviction of the bandits who a
tempted to hold up the North Coas
Limited near Homestake, fiftee
. miles east of Butte.
Bernard, the 2-year-old son
Bailey B. Nagal, president of tn
Pennsylvania boiler works, and gran
son of T. M. Nagal, a multi-milliol
aire, died at Erie, Pa, on April 2
, as the result of taking medicine pr
scribed for his mother, believing
to be candy.
Four men were killed. three sci
| ously injured and 100 others had
marrow escape from death when 6
explosion occurred in Mine No.
the Ellsworth Golfers company
Ellsworth, Pa. The dead are foreig
ers. Their bodies were mangled al
badly burned
Flores Ontaneda, a noted Ecuad
rean chemist, is dead Guayqu
Ecuador, from bubonic plague, whit
he contracted at the municipal labc
atory while preparing Haffkine's pr
phylactic. Twenty new cases and MI
/ deaths have occurred at Guayquil
the past week.
Experts of the water pollution CO.
mittee of the New York Merchant
association declare that 1850 deaf
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