Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-12-18
NEWS SUMMARY

The Dill prepared Oy the poSSdi "
vision commission will probably be
presented to congress during the
week.
The Rose county option law wan
declared constitutional by Judge
Duncan of the common pleas court at
Finlay. Ohio.
The constitutionality of Pennsyl-
vania's two-cent fare law is again at
tackled In an equity suit filed in the
common pleas court of Pittsburg.
A New York chauffeur convicted for
the third time of violation or the au
tomobile speed laws, was sentenced |
to pay fine of $3.50 and spend thirty i
days in jail.
Triplets were born last week tc !,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose e. Calhoun of
Columbus, Ga. This couple now has
twenty-five children. The father is
So years old.
John Solomon and Frank BabinsKv
were killed by an explosion vi dust
following a windy shot in the Spring
field Colliery company's mine at
Springfield, Ill.
Speaker Cannon has made known
his unalterable opposition to the pro
position of financing waterways i'm
improvements by the issuance OF
government bonds.
Charges OF criminal libel preferred
against Omar X. Benedict, manager
| of the Oklahoma City Times, by
Governor Charles N. Haskell of Ok
| lahoma, have been dismissed.
Licking county. Ohio, last week
voted dry by 700, doing away with
eighty-four saloons. Harding county
/ was carried by the "drys" by 1900
| Twenty-one saloons are affected.
The town Of Pine Bluff. Ark, is
again endangered by food waters OF
the Arkansas river, and unless some
plan is conceived to check the wa
tiers there will be heavy property
loss.
James Gordon Bennett has present
ed to the French Aero club an inter
national aviation cup, valued at
$500, as well as three sums Of $4,000
TO be added as prizes in the first
three annual competitions.
A concurrent resolution provid
iEg for the appointment of three sen
a.ors and three representatives tc
make the necessary arrangements
for the Inauguration of President
Taft has been adopted by the senate
In a speech to the delegates in at
tendance upon the Southern Com
nercial Congress, held in Washing
ton. James Bryce, the British embas
sador, expressed the conviction tina
great future is about to dawn upoI
the south
Appropriations aggregating $685.,
300 were made at the annual meeting
of the board of trustees of the Car
negie institution of Washington
This amount Is to be used in 1870
merely to continue projects hereto
fore Initiated.
It develops that some one stole
pocketbook containing $500 belong
ing to Senior Don Juan Barrios, minis
ter of foreign affairs Of Guatemals
cs he was lying unconscious by tn
! roadside after an automobile acciden
' near washington.
d The eoroners jury in the inques
]. at Trinchera, Colo, into the KILN
u /
dict that the five persons had bee
murdered by Francisco MARITIME
who then committed suicide by blow
ID ing out his brains.
President Roosevelt and Presiden
3 elect Taft publicly put themselves 9
record last week in advocacy of I'll
issuance of government bonds for II
construction of permanent public IL
provements to conserve the natur
resources of the nation.
The long overdue British shi
Hadden Hall, over whose safe
much anxiety was caused, arrived
Seattle, 245 days from Liverpool V
Montevideo. The ship had a mo
tempestuous voyage. during whi'
many of her crew were injured
Governor Hughes of New York
c1ares that he does not deem It 9
yisable to at this time appoint co
mission of citizens to investigate t
conditions surrounding the fife
surance companies of New Yol
state, and report to the legislature
Sixty-five years is the age limit
members of the University of M
= nesota faculty The board of regel
e decided that contracts with membi
Of the faculty should expire WI
they reached that age. The rule Y
:. he applied beginning with this we
Becoming suddenly insane, Hir
!. Radger of Wakefield. Mass, xii
= his two daughters, then ran ami
through the town, shooting at I
= sons he met and into the store y
dows. A grocer's clerk received
wound in the leg. Badger was fins
IS captured.
sA Advocates of the establishment
- an Appalachian and White mount
20 national forest reserve, headed
..S governors from all sections OF