Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-16
NEW S SUMMARY


mine at Cananea, Mexico, six Next
can miners were killed.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, who
was ambassador to Spain in 1S9S-1900,
lied at Brighton, England, October
IL.
Fire in the White House stables
was discovered in time to prevent
serious confiagration, but small dam
age being done.
Harry Augustus Garfield, son of
President Garfield, and brother of the
secretary of the interior, was last
week indicted into Office as president
II Williams college.
For the three days of registration
Iast week the corrected figures show
Tor Greater New York a registration
of 540095, as compared with 573,623
four years ago-a loss of 23,42Sq
Mrs. Robert Cummings and her two
grandchildren, Harry, aged years,
and James, aged 10, were burned to
death in fire which destroyed Mrs.
Cummings cottage at Yonkers, N. \.
A mob took Ben Price, a negro,
from Jail at Granfioram, Texas, and
hanged him to a tree in the city
park. The man was charged with
having criminally assaulted his
daughter.
The Journal of the American Med
ical association, published at Chi
cago, has just completed its returns
80. A. ,,oo,,. ErO,,rfb of TrIv noIa-
brations It shows that there were
16S deaths and as many more in
jured.
A London dispatch says the Mar
quis of Ripon, lord Of the privy seal,
has resigned, owing to his advanced
age. The Earl Of Crewe succeeds to
the office, and in addition will retain
| the portfolio of secretary Of state OF
| the colonies.
Two masked men entered the pool
room of J. Strasle at Darcy, N. D.,
and lined the twenty-odd occupants
of the place against the wall. The
robbers then took the watches and
jewelry and about $40 in cash from
| their victims.
| Henry Mcbride, supposed to be a
| New York fireman, was killed from
falling from an electric light pole
from which he was trying to get a
view of the ball game for the cham
pionship between the New York and
Chicago teams.
After rescuing an aged woman
from burning house, Policeman
Nicholas Nestor of Jersey City, N
j., plunged again into the blazing
building and met death by suffoca
ton. Firemen found his body four
hours afterward.
There is great rejoicing among
the Christians in Japan because the
| authorities have decided to eliminate
dancing girls and liquor from the re
ceptions planned for the American
sailors with the battleship feet when
it reaches Yokohama.
John w. Richardson, young far
mer living near Norfolk, Va, believ
ing that his wife's relatives were re
sponsible for the young couple being
separated, shot and killed his sister
| lH-ldW anu HIS dSSu CIV
then committed suicide.
At the regular annual meeting Of
the stockholders of the Lake Erie &
Western Railroad company, held al
Peoria, Ill, w. ]. Vanderbilt and ]
F. Morgan were reelected as direct
ors, and William Rockefeller was
elected to the directorate.
George H. ellison, of Chicago, sho
and porbably fatally wounded hi'
wife, attempted to kill Miss Jennie
Barnes, then turned the weapon upor
himself and committed suicide. GIL
son and his wife recently separated
His rash act is attributed to jealousy
United States Senator La Follett'
has announced his intention to pro
coed at once with the regular publ
cation of weekly magazine, deyotet
to the public interest upon line
broad enough to appeal to the pre-
gressive people of the entire coun
try"
In a collision between an eastboun
Rock Island passenger train and
freight train at Yukon, Oklahoma
seven coaches of the passenger tralr
] which was loaded with state fair Wis
J itors. were derailed. Twenty-fiv
persons were injured, only one ser
ously.
Upon the representation Of Charlie
] Page Bryan, the American ministe
to Portugal, the minister Of war
> Portugal has telegraphed to the go
: ernor of Angola, Portuguese Yves
r Africa, demanding an explanation fe
. the recent expulsion of an America
missionary.
! Henry Baker, aged AZ years, once
a noted heavyweight pugilist, was ru
9 over and killed by train at Kansf
: City. Baker fought Jim Jeffries to
; standstill for eight rounds May /
+ 1907, in San Francisco. In the mint
t round, however, Jeffries knocke
Baker out.