Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-12-25
NEWS SUMMARY

FnySlCdI Jesus once IN TWO years tOt
marine corps officers are prescribed
in an executive order just issued.
Separate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico is provided for In two
bills introduced by Senator Foraker.
Frank Hannum of Laporte, Ind, is
dead at Seattle, Wash, of injuries re.
oeived in a football game. He was
26 years old.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
First National bank at Eufaula, Okla,
and escaped with a sum said to be
about $4,000.
Indications multiply that the liquor
question will be burning one before
the legislature which meets in Nash
vile, Tenn, in January.
The house has passed bill placing |
an annual tax of 800 on all dealers
in cigarettes and cigarette papers In
| the District of Columbia.
James Curren, IS years old, was
| killed in boxing bout with Benjamin
Barnet, IL years old, at the Broadway
| Athletic club Philadelphia.
| Two colored men lost their lives in
a fire which destroyed the home OF
"Auntie" Matte Crosby, an old col
ored woman in Columbus, Ohio.
Ten persons were instantly killed
when two passenger trains ran to-
gether between Pouche and Limoges,
France. Many others were hurt.
An unknown man was instantly
killed and Marshal G. F. Woods OF
Greenwich, Ohio, was seriously
wounded in an encounter with five
men in the railroad yards of that vii
lage.
Four men were instantly killed and
four others seriously injured by a
portion of a concrete pier of the new
bridge being erected over the Poto
mac river at Williamsport, Md, cpl
, lapsing.
A Northern Pacific coast train was
damaged by fire to the extent of $40.
, | 900. while at the station at st. Cloud,
, Mimi. A lighted match dropped by q
passenger on a window curtain start.
= ed the fire.
. The report of the state tobacco mo-
Y nopoly filed last week shows that the
! French nation last year consumed
/ 100000 900 worth of tobacco upon
$ which the government made profit
: OF $75,0000OO.
BY the arrest of nine of the most
. important Bengal leaders and in their
n deportation to a secret destination, 1t
L il believed the authorities have sue
n cessfully put down the seditious move
ment at Calcutta.
Miners and operators on Paint
Creek, Kanawha county, Pennsyiv
ania, where 1900 miners have quit
- work following a reduction of wages
posted by operators, are considering
" compromise proposition.
r Senator Bourne has introduced
:. bill providing for an increase IN the
Z salary of the president of the United
a States from $4,000 to 100000, ant
= in the salary of the vice-presiden
a from $4,000 to $4,000.
Ne The Lisbon correspondent of the %
r, logne Gazette says in dispatch tina
N he is authorized to deny the stor
g from Paris that Germany is about t
n acquire the Bergelen islands, on POI
p tugal, for coaling station.
y DR.. Thomas Birdson. slayer OF Dl
a. A. b. Pitts, prominent physician Q
ID Hazelhurst, Miss, last week entered
lg plea of guilty and, in accordance VII
it. an agreement between counsel, wa
given a life sentence in the penitel
tiary.
Rv unanimous vote the house ha
~ adopted a resolution presented by Tn
vi. special committee of five calling o
IT. the president for proof of his chare
j. that members were fearful of an L
e. vestigation by the secret seryit
~ agents.
- The s.months-old child of Mr. an
llv Mrs Fred Spomer of Fesno, Cal die
by while It's parents slept. It mad nee
'er sick from brain fever while teetnln
lot and at an inquest the parents q
clared they had cured 1t by means
VIZ prayer
Statutes fixing the official status
Prince Chun, the regent, were pu
Bshed in Pekin last week. The prin
us Is given an annual salary of $1O5,O
-, and is made commander-in-chlef
,ot- ooeh sne
vow empire.
ent The w, C. T. U. of Delaware h
MS. passed a resolution requesting &C
en- ernor-elect Pennewell to provide,
aya possible, the substitution of water
ngs wine at the naming of the new bait
but shin Delaware at Newport News
~, ne February.
not General Tasker H. Bliss. in co
mand of the forces of the Philippln
las reported the death OF eleven
ate listed men of the Eighteenth re
Of ment, stationed at Camp Keith
~. Mindanao, from methyl poisoning,
W sulting from drinking Columbian 81
a. its.