Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-06-05
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storm.
As the result of suspension of work !
In the shops of the Santa Fe railway |
at Topeka and Newton, Kan, over |
j ,0a0 men have been thrown out OF |
!. w. G. Smith, former president of the |
National Exchange bank, of Lexing
ton, KY, committed suicide last week,
by shooting, while respondent. He
was wealthy.
1t is reported that 700 well armed
Afghans have made an incursion into
Persian territory, and have occupied
Regan, a town about $50 miles couth
east Of Herman.
There will be an automobile race
for the Vanderbilt cup somewhere In
the vicinity of New York City this
year. The date and place have not
yet been announced.
Two Americans and one Englishman
were attacked by bandits and killed
near Coachinia, one of the mining
camps Of the Green Copper company
near Dolores, Chihuahua.
A special from Port Arthur, Ont,
says the Civic dam, on Current river,
burst, causing a disastrous food.
Three lives were lost, while the none
tary loss will reach 100000.
Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, u. s.
N, retired, died at his home in Phil
adelphia on May 81, at the age of 70,
a. ~ hni
the hardening of the tissues of the
body.
Henry Farman, the British aeronaut,
began a series of experiments at
Client last week with his aeroplane.
He has accomplished for the first time
q number of flights in the teeth of
strong wind.
President Roosevelt was one of the
guests at the wedding Of Elizabeth
Shaw oliver, eldest daughter of the
assistant secretary of war, and Francis
K. Stevens, at the oliver residence in
Washington on the Goth.
A terrific wind storm of almost the
proportions of a tornado, which
passed over the southern part of
Lowell county, Kansas, killed one man
and injured twenty-five persons, seven
OF them probably fatally.
Thomas and James Wycliff, the ia
nous Oklahoma outlaws, who have
been hunted by the government au-
thorities of Oklahoma for thirteen
years, surrendered to the state authori-
ties at Taleuuah last week.
A convict in the Chester, ILL.,, pen
itentiary has written the sheriff at
Laporte, Ind, that the home of Mrs.
Guinness, accused of a number of
murders, was a fence for a gang of
Chicago cut threats and robbers.
AS the result of several conferences
between President Roosevelt, Secre-
tary Taft and General Bell, chief of
staff of the army, it has been decided
not to withdraw any of the United
States troops from Cuba at present.
Reports from Maryville, Oregon,
Tarkio, and other northwest Missouri
towns, are to the effect that thousands
ed. Most of this land had been plant
ed to corn, and the damage is heavy.
By the sudden sinking of the Cana
dian Pacific roadbed at a point 100
miles east of Winnipeg, Man, an ex-
press train was derai1ed, several pas
sengers being slightly injured. Reg
istered mail worth at least $4,000
was destroyed.
A dozen children were seriously
hurt at Lorberry, Pa, when two rail
road trucks on which they were riding
down the grade crashed into each
other The accident was due to sky
1arking, the children getting on the
trucks for a ride
Tornadoes that swept over the coun-
ty adjacent to Hennessey, forty miles
northwest of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and
Cashion, fourteen miles southwest,
brought great damage to crops and
farm property. It is believed no lives
have been lost, although details are
meager.
Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, who was
one of the principal witnesses to the
alleged identity of the Duke of Port
land with T. G. bruce, has been sen.
fenced to eighteen months penal seryi
tude for perjury, her appeal having
been disallowed. Mrs. Hamilton is 70
years old.
Mae G. Wood, the Omaha woman
who sued Senator Thomas G. Plat
| for divorce, alleging that she was So
cretly married to the aged senator in
1901, and who was arrested at the con.
| clusion of the trial on a charge of per-
jury. has been released from prison on
| $4,000 bail.
The United States circuit court of
appeals has affirmed the conviction
and fines imposed upon the Omaha
railroad and its general freight agent,
H. H. Pearce, in the grain rebate
cases, tried last year in Minneapolis.
| The road was fined $4,000 and Mr..
Pearce $4,000.
Fred j. Trumper. young civil en-
gineer of Cleveland, o., was acquitted
of charge of murder at the Clinic,
| B. c., assizes. Trumper killed James
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