Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-08-21
NEW S SUMMARY

miles north OF P1qua, Ohio.
Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangel-
list, died at his home in Brooklyn ca
August IA, at the age Of 6S.
Mistaking his wife, who mad got up |
to close window, for burglar, Geo.
Parker, of Harper, Kans., shot her
dead.
BY the capsizing of a pleasure |
launch on the Wisconsin river near |
Kilbern, Wis, four Chicago people |
were drowned.
The Canadian Pacific railway is fill |
ing the vacant places in the shops at |
Toronto and In West Toronto with |
strike breakers.
Three women were burned to death
when a gas explosion wrecked the
dry goods store of J. v. Gavin at
Wheeling, w. Va.
John Anderson shot and killed J. r.
Leighton and wounded ]. R. Brown at
Vernon, B. c., following dispute over
an irrigation ditch.
A semi-official statement is pub
lished in Athens asserting that the
Bulgarians have commenced their
campaigns of violence in Macedonia.
| Six persons were killed and eigh-
! teen injured in gun explosion
aboard the French gunnery schoolship
Couronnet, off Les Salines d'Hyeres.
The death toll by Alpine climbers
this year is a record one. In the
month OF July alone fourteen persons
were killed and two seriously injured.
English is destined to become the
universal language of the world, in
the opinion of A. G. Meyer, member OF
the lower house of the Danish parlia-
nent.
Thomas Robinson, counsel for the
Winnipeg grain exchange, while in a
delirium, jumped from q train near
Montreal He was found dying beside
the tracks.
The Paris newspapers announce
that King Alfonso will visit the
French capital in September, on his
way to the Isle Of Wight, to join
Queen Victoria.
Thomas A. Edison is reported to
have accumulated $25,O00,00O. Now he
proposes to devote his time to science,
pure and simple, with no regard for
: financial productiveness.
AS the result of an explosion of fire
damp in the Dudwell mine, near Saer-
seufken, Germany, fifteen persons
were killed and six are in hospitals
suffering from serious injuries.
The officers of the American Allan
tic feet entertained 1000 New Zea-
landers aboard the battleship Louis
lana on August 10. Among the throng
were many handsomely gowned wo
men.
The bank of Alton, Oklahoma
which was closed last week pending
!. an investigation Of its affairs, has
been reopened, the investigation
showing there was no shortage what
. ever.
Delegates to the convention of the
!. independence party met at Dallas
Texas, on August II, and nominated
ID. w. Kirkpatrick, president Of tbs
+ Texas Farmers congress, for gov
ernor.
I Michael T. Maroney, aged rs, o
: Meriden, Conn.,, Is dead as a result 0
Q injuries received in baseball game
l. He collided with another player Will
running bases, and was injured in tn
@ abdomen.
3 A messengers pouch containing
!" United States government pay check
a for nearly $4,000 was early last weel
:. stolen, in front of the building oecu
e pied by the department of commerc
and labor.
y The Methodist Episcopal churc
e, has begun an active crusade for tn
% election Of a speaker Of the house c
N representatives who will allow col
d gress to vote on the interstate liquo
Is shipment bill"
George Wilcox, negro, formerl
ID employed as janitor in the Nations
Il Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, ha
" confessed to the theft of packag
n containing $500 from the bank 0
lg April 25, 1907.
The Luther League of Americ
with a membership of 10000 and re
se resenting 100000 members Of tf
u Lutheran church in the United State
re held it's eighth biennial convention
n, Chicago last week, with 1900 del
II gates present.
u Dispatches from Baku say that
decree has been issued at Teheran 1
Ill definitely deferring the convocation
o. the Persian parliament and that tt
NJ shah has summoned five hundred a
OF herents of the old regime to form
ne council of state.
al The Peruvian congress voted una
imously to protest against the insu
er offered the republic, when Preside
OF Padre was pushed off the sidewalk I
a street in Lima by former polite
to prisoner named Pierola. The Dem
as cratic members of the house were q
at sent.
DR.. Robert Koch, the distinguish,
ed German scientist, the discoverer
a the tuberculosis bacillus and of t
,st cholera germ, will attend the intern